DM reporting on a man who has solved 'period poverty'

feminist me too! I don’t know how 35ml can be average for whole period when I’ll easily fill the cup overnight and probably twice more on the heaviest day!
What a twunt that guy is

Hey if you are reading this...........i dont do tampons but am perfectly willing to come visit you for a few days next time im on armed with only seven sanitary towels. Of course during my usual heavy bleed i will be sitting on your sofa your bed your dining chairs Up for it?

I’ve always wondered about the egg cup analogy. Not having sat on an egg cup for a week I have no idea if it is true. Any comers?

So man tries to mansplain periods and shows:

1. Can’t do math;
2. Can’t read a calendar;
3. Knows zip about TSS;
4. Believes we essentially bleed nice blue easily absorbable liquid (I mean, uterine lining could not include anything else, right?)
5. Thinks we all bleed in nice intervals of 5 ml for a convenient total of 35 ml
6. That all tampons are alike and work as well as each other (no, some are just shitty at absorbing or preventing leaks or both).

When I had heavier periods (teens, with IUD) I easily soaked a super plus tampon every 2-3 hours for 2-3 days, plus another 3-4 days of changing regulars every 4-6 hours. Then liners for a few days. And yes, I was on iron pills because I was otherwise anemic.

Even now, there is 1 day out of every of my 4-5 day periods that if I don’t empty my 35ml menstrual cup every 2-3 hours I will have a scene like the elevator in the Shining literally on my hands.

LOL. Also sad that with 9 1/2 months to go (enough for those 9 periods for all those women who just put their uterus into hibernation over winter) I am sure there will be more contestants to come.

Reminds me of a few years ago when two lovely men were complaining on radio about mothers day that it centred mums.

Up there with the bloke who thought women should “just hold their period in until they go to the loo”

Well I suppose men should be told they can save on condoms by holding on until they go for a pee.

Looking forward to the 'why do we have to centre women on international women's day' comments tomorrow.

Along with the usual 'why isn't there an International Men's Day' (Tuesday, 19 November, to preempt that)

The menstrual cycle is covered in Biology.

Separating boys and girls for sex ed is not the cause of this.

Doesn't surprise me, my teenage DSs were separated into boys and girls and given different sex education talks.

Fortunately I have fully appraised them of the massive gaping holes in those lessons. They also know the door is always open for any more information they need.

In fact the other week I had horrendous stomach and my 14 year old DS came up with a hot water bottle for me. He was the one who pointed out it may well be period pains, in my defence I have a lot going on

Jesus Christ. Male or female, it’s better not to talk about stuff you don’t know anything about on a public forum!

I don’t get periods so happy to give my allotted tampons to someone who needs them

It should be covered in biology, it's on current syllabus and presumably would have been on previous ones too.

At my school the boys and girls were separated when learning about periods, which could explain why they’re clueless, doesn’t explain why the don’t want to understand though.

When we did sex education at primary school, the boys and girls were separated for the part where we learnt about periods (no idea what the boys talked about) This maybe explains why so many men are so clueless. I remember one boy who assumed it was painful when you were on your period because you had to push and strain to expel 'the bloody shit' from your vagina. He thought periods were a solid mass and it was over and done with as soon as you 'pushed it out'

I once knew a man that was astonished when I explained to him that, no, we don’t simply have one period when that’s it. No more, for the rest of our lives. This was about 30yrs ago and I actually thought things had changed. No fucking wonder men think they can simply call themselves a woman and hey presto!

Are we all meant to get Toxic shock?

Don’t go giving the TRAs ideas! 😲🤣

I noticed the 9 periods per year, wonder which calendar he used in his “research”? The one I use has 12 months 🤷‍♀️

And there was women working so hard not to bleed over everything. Silly us!

Some men really do hate women.

How does he work out nine periods a year?

Even if your cycle is bang on regular that would work out at 12 - 13 periods per calendar year.

SwearyG unless you are one of the fortunate special women who only get 9 periods a year ( I’m not sure how you qualify for the 3 month period free club, it may be invitation only), I fear your allocation will actually be only 4.84* tampons since you’ll have to spread out your annual allowance over 13 periods given the average cycle is 28 days.

*Disclaimer: please treat those figures with caution, I am NOT a man so I may have done the calculator wrong because I am a woman and therefore shouldn’t really be bothering my pretty little head with number. I’ll be sure to have DH double-check when he wakes up of course

In the meantime, I don’t want to say this man is wrong, because, well, he’s a man so he can’t be, but I think he might have been thinking about many many other very important things at the same time and maybe some woman interrupted him while he was working this out. I’m sure he’ll be along presently to explain it in terms we women can understand.

There was an MP in the 80s who apparently said "if women don't like the cost of sanitary products they can use soap instead". I can remember people at school being outraged at the time but I have not been able to find out who this was. I wanted to know what you were expected to do with the soap

If 2 day periods, 9 times a year are an option, sign me up.

Even if you could keep it in for the max recommended time of 8 hours, which I'm assuming most don't, that's a 2 and a bit days of period. I don't think many have 2 day periods.