Reply #276: I'm providing balance... four points

[cgrindley]

First. Honestly, if you don't think that menstrual fluid is disgusting, then you ARE glorifying it.

Second. Out of all of the many ways to fight consumerism and the corporate state, this is probably the most dimwitted, petty and inconvenient way. Modern feminine protection is a god send for women. To suggest turning back the clock to the dark ages--for what now?

You cannot even prove that the resources required to continuously wash and sanitize these admittedly biohazardous bits of cloth doesn't represent a larger environmental impact than using wholly disposable products. Can you prove that your non-disposable system does anything other than increase the sanctimony and smug levels of America while inconveniencing women? Why not simply recommend organic, non-bleached tampons or other green options?

Third. There are a zillion other way more important ways to combat consumer culture than suggest this approach. Why not cancel X-mas? We did. I bet that the trash your family produces on that one day is ten times more than a year's worth of disposable maxipads.

Four. Yes, I do have teenaged daughters, and by god, yes, they should think that menstrual blood is disgusting. And yes, springing a leak is repulsive. Yes, I would tell them that the blood is gross. And I'm pretty sure that they'd agree with me.


PS I'm getting fan mail from women who are too afraid to post in this forum for fear of being dogpiled by a vocal minority of people who have some sort of unknowable political axe to grind. Does that make you feel good, that women are actually afraid to voice their opinion on this matter?