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Woman Runs London Marathon Without a Tampon, Bleeds Freely to Raise Awareness

This woman is a Harvard Business graduate, former drummer for M.I.A., and she ran a damn marathon without a tampon in. Fuck everyone, this is badass.

No, it’s disgusting.

A guy in an action film runs around getting shit done covered in blood and it’s badass, but if a woman does so and it happens to be menstrual blood, it’s ‘disgusting’?

If it wasn’t for menstruation, you wouldn’t exist.

These two situations aren’t remotely comparable. It’s not like the dude in an action movie chooses to be covered with blood, whereas your marathon runner is.

The above is like running a marathon as an incontinent person wearing only spandex because they want to demonstrate “empowering” independence from adult diapers, in the process shitting all over themselves.

Period blood is bodily waste. Blood is unsanitary in any context.

Fuck’s sake. It’s period blood. It’s waste that should be disposed of, not glorified.

Oh my god that would be so uncomfortable and sticky and smelly ohhhh no why would you choose to do this

Period blood actually has the worst smell. If I get a cut on my finger the blood isn’t nasty like menstrual blood. Soooo not the same thing

“A guy in an action film runs around getting shit done covered in blood and it’s badass, but if a woman does so and it happens to be menstrual blood, it’s ‘disgusting’?”

Uh yeah that’s because he’s getting shit done while being shot at and sometimes unwillingly putting himself in harms way while saving the day. 

This women on the other hand is just doing something that every other female on the planet does while running a race she volunteered to run. 

Menstrual ‘blood’ also isn’t actually blood.

It’s the uterine lining and it has a composition very similar to blood, but it isn’t.

It is quite literally just garbage cells that your body needs to get rid of in order to refresh the interior so that a fetus is able to survive if you get pregnant during your next cycle.

It is literally human waste, as is feces and excrement. Whereas blood is vital to survival and loss of it in an action movie is usually incidental.

Come the fuck on Tumblr, you’re all “Oh man people don’t get good sex ed classes good thing I did” but don’t know shit.

Can I also just say, the reason she didn’t want to use a tampon was because it would be ‘too uncomfortable’. It’s as if they’ve never heard of a pad before.

But more importantly, this is how you get TSS, or Toxic Shock Syndrome. TSS is an infection and is associated with periods and tampon use. Although not understood completely, it is believed that the bacteria builds up in the blood soaked tampon, allowing it to cause infection (which is why you change your sanitary products). TSS is very rare, only about 40 people a year get it in the UK, but it is VERY DANGEROUS. There is a very good reason you wear and change your sanitary products. Do you know why? Apart from getting not TSS and having hygiene, it’s that TSS can actually FUCKING KILL YOU.

Her message doesn’t matter, what she’s doing is very dangerous and THIS is why you wear tampons, pads and moon cups.

Ewwwwwwwwwwwwwwww