Tired of "mooncups," ladies? Try "free-bleeding"

Let Your Love Flow!

Gahhh

September 2015, in the Michigan woods. A hunter examines the ground.

"Looks like an animal was wounded here," he tells his hunting companion.

"Naw," the companion replies, "they had that Michfest thing here last month."

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The smell of period juice makes me want to puke.

This is women abusing other women. Marketing a shitty product that fails.

Think of the children! Think of public decorum! Think of the stank!

I am surprised womyn haven't made a fuss to go back to bleeding huts. "Private womyn's spaces" in towns and cities where womyn can "free bleed" and gross each other out. Wouldn't womyn just love that?

Gahhhh!

This could not have been invented by a woman.

I swear 4chan invented this to see if feminists would pick it up.

Wtf is up with all these rag time threads these days! Enough

No women is going to wreck her fancy underwear, fancy pants or skirt, and fancy shoes. Let alone the sofa, area rug, car seat, bus seat, office chair, carpet...

As far as moon huts go, the floor would have to be vinyl. Pretty much anything else would get wrecked. Women care about stuff getting wrecked or dirtied because they're the ones cleaning it up. No guy is picking that up. On the plus side, I'd take off a week per month to lie in bed and browse the Internet. Preferably with servants to bring food since otherwise I'd drip all over the kitchen too.

Some guy made this up.

I read about underwear like this in the context of getting hygienic supplies to girls and women in Africa who have no access to pads or tampons. Their periods force them to stay home and miss school, so cheap reusable supplies help them stay in school. Many can't use the cup because they have very limited access to water and soap for washing it out.

"Free bleeding" started out as a fabricated meme started by the homophobic misogynist basement dwellers at 4Chan as a joke to see how far it would spread so they could mock any woman who was stupid enough to take it seriously, whether she agreed with it or not. Seriously.

GAHHHH!!!!

Sea Urchins are a natural tampon.

Pine cones become quite pliable and absorbent once inserted and provide a fresh outdoorsy scent. They are truly nature's tampon.

Lol r17

Gay dude bro here, wondering who exactly started this thread and who are all the people responding to it.

Free bleeders, I stab at thee, for hate's sake I spit my last breath at thee.

Ar MichFest, we use birchbark to staunch Mother Luna's flow.

Squat and bleed in Mother Earth.

I started my period unexpectedly while hiking a 20 mile trail through Yellowstone. I had to stuff shedded bison hair between my legs.

I have a heavy flow. There is no way in hell I could go without pads/tampons. I prefer to use pads and I have to use night pads during the day because of my heavy flow. Yeah.. I know.. TMI but whatever.

I can't believe were talking about this on Data lounge! All the boys are probably freaking out. On another note I just got my diva cup today! I couldn't wait to stick it up my twat! But I'm having a little trouble with it.

How did you ever come across this article, OP?

If anyone read the comments, it's apparent the author ignored the instructions that came with the panties. Apparently, they're supposed to be used in conjunction with other sanitary products. Which makes this all the more gross.

Who did women deal with it in the olden days, before the mass-produced paraphernalia?

Dykes have periods?

During WWI, Army nurses started using gauze pads. After the war, a company started selling them commercially as sanitary napkins. I think it was Kotex.

Before that, they used to make pads out of cotton rags, wash them and re-use them. There's a company now that makes them, Gladrags.

They're made out of flannel and terry cloth, basically cloth covers that you can insert several pads inside. I bet they're really bulky. And leaky.

I can't even imagine using them on the heaviest days, or carrying used ones around at school or work. They have an oilcloth pouch to carry them in, but they would smell, particularly in the heat. God forbid a dog smells your purse. I think the whole thing would smell horrific, and be like wearing a wet diaper. But great for the staying home in the moon hut.

At least she's not a liar like some female celebritites

I'm so glad I'm going through perimenopause- periods are indeed a curse. 35 years of bleeding- buh bye.

I went back and read OP's original article. The writer claims sanitary napkins usually fall out of his/her/its underwear.

Women know that would never happen, because these days all but the very lightest panty liners come with "wings," which are flaps that wrap around and underneath the sides of the crotch of your underwear with heavy adhesive. You have to peel it off, it's not just falling off. It's actually wrapped most of the way around, or sometimes entirely around. That sucker's not going anywhere.

Then the writer claims they bought "period underwear," which are basically regular underwear with a little liner in them to prevent leaks, and wore no sanitary products at all. Nobody would even try such a thing unless they did it at home, alone. Blood clots would run down your pant legs and end up on the floor. You would end up leaving a trail like a snail. Maybe people can do this in the African bush, but not at Goldman Sachs.

I'm guessing it was written by an MTF who thinks they're a "real woman now."

Suuuuure, women are thinking of doing this. Maybe the male troglodyte who wants to defecate freely came up with the idea.

It's just another example of a shitty freelance writer seeing something online and immediately thinking, "How can I turn this into attention for myself, even if it's bad and embarrassing attention?"

I love the internet but it's responsible for a lot of cultural crap, you have to admit.

It's happened to me r33.

This is a disgusting public health hazard. If you want to go base Victorian, you can hide away in your house for the entire time and not see visitors. Don't pick and choose what parts of "authentic" you're willing to follow.

Victorian women wore washable cloth pads. They weren't going around dripping everywhere.

[quote]Who did women deal with it in the olden days, before the mass-produced paraphernalia?

My mother said that they used flannel rags fastened to their underwear with safety pins. This was back in the old country where her rural family didn't have indoor plumbing, so they had to wash them out either at the hand pump in front of the house or in a nearby river if it was warm enough. It's how they washed all their clothes even in freezing temperatures. This was back in the 1940s

When I had my first period, I was staying with an elderly woman who only had old pads. They were like gauze pads with a long gauze tail front and back. These were fastened with safety pins or a belt. I'm guessing they were circa 1950's-60s.

If your body can have a period then get the fuck off the DL!!!

[quote]I started my period unexpectedly while hiking a 20 mile trail through Yellowstone. I had to stuff shedded bison hair between my legs.

This sounds so awesome.

You won't catch this proud Nubian princess free-bleeding over her freshly laundered Michfest kanga. Uh uh. No fucking way sistahs.

I have to ask - did shredded bison hair work?

The trend continues to spread!

[bold]A Woman Ran A Marathon Without A Tampon To Take A Stand Against Period-Shaming[/bold]

[quote]“To me, period-shaming is when you – as someone who is experiencing the bleeding – have to make somebody else comfortable before yourself,” she told BuzzFeed News.

Photos of her bloody V encased in Lycra running pants at the link.

"I'm not clicking on this link...I'm not clicking on this link...."

I'll just scan it....it's obviously a parody site...AHHHHHHH!!!! Massive TMI Alert!! And it's real!!

Mother of God!!! Why do I do this to myself?

Tired of hearing about PERIODS.

Cmon menopause, cmon already.

Women are gross.

Women don't have any choice in the matter when it comes to having periods, R47.

This free bleeding stuff though is pointless. It can't be comfortable or hygienic, and didn't last generation's feminists already deal with the sexism regarding periods?

Off to google "moon cups" . . . I can't even imagine what that is

R49 Check out the numerous MichFest threads, where they are frequently mentioned.

I tried it once..after taking a huge cock. It's not all it's cracked up to be.

Modern women are so lazy.

This is an odd subject for a gay male site!