Oh my god.

Has anyone ever taken a pad or tampon out into the light of day only to have boys and grown men back five feet away? This shit is tip of the stigma iceberg that women experience for simply menstruating. How many of those products in the image can cause toxic shock or infections? How expensive are those products? How often do they need to be bought/replaced? These are real issues that affect our health, finances, and social/internalized perceptions of ourselves. Men absolutely REFUSE to acknowledge us for our biology when it’s not sexually appealing to them. They refuse to consider our mental and physiological health, and mock and silence us when we try to talk about it. 

Not to mention the own stigma women have against it. My own mother dropped a tampon in a parking lot and nearly had a panic attack because she was worried someone had seen it. My mom, who has been married 20 years, raised me to be a feminist, escaped an abusive relationship and a life of drugs, who has raised two children while working a full time job, is embarrassed about having a period. If that isn’t fucked up then I don’t know what is. Men have literally made women hate themselves because of something so amazing. Our bodies are incredible and just because men don’t find it sexually attractive, means that it must be scorned. Never be embarrassed about your period because it only proves their ignorance.

me in group photos