Today, I'm writing about women's hygiene products, and why menstruation is a "weird" topic to talk about. So, firstly, period products. I have multiple points about this. First, why are they so hard to get for free? Like, some women and girls don't have enough money to be spending it on these expensive pads and tampons, they should be cheaper. Even in those metal things in public bathrooms that have them, they usually cost like 25 cents. Why though? Pads and tampons should be free for women in places like that. Toilet paper's free, and that's a pretty close comparison to pads or tampons. You can't wipe your ass with your hands, so you need toilet paper. You can't hygienically keep yourself clean with period blood with just your clothes, so you need tampons/pads. People get grossed out if you bleed through, but sometimes you can't do anything to stop that, because period products are just some unrealistic standard for who knows what reason? Also, even if the things for pads and tampons in bathrooms were free, most public spaces don't constantly restock their machines. Especially in middle schools and high schools, they never restock on their period products, and girls usually would have to go to their school nurse to get period products. They'd have to walk all the way to the nurse before using the bathroom, and by then they could've bled through. Period products being so hard to come by is just another addition to the sexist world we live in, where men are favored over women, and we try to look over it, say sexism rarely happens anymore, but that's not true. Let's face it, if men didn't have to wipe their asses, toilet paper would cost money too. Women are overlooked and ignored in this time, and it's completely horrible. Moving on, the second thing I said I'd talk about was why periods and menstruation are un-normalized topics. So, if you start talking about tampons, pads, your flow, how many pads you use in a day, or anything similar to a friend, she'd probably get uncomfortable, but why is that? Women need someone to talk to about this stuff that understands them, and that someone should be comfortable with the topic. Men too, if you even mentioned a period to them, they'd be disgusted. More people need to care about periods and women hygiene, because almost half of the population (49.7%) is women, so periods are a pretty normal thing. Almost half of the people on this planet get them, and including trans men since they still get their periods, so likely more than half of the population gets periods, yet there's still this weird, uncomfortable aura around menstruation. That's all, love you!
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-The Avacado
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