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Original poster

To not get the attitude to periods

182 replies

mytartanscarf · 06/02/2015 22:17

Some people seem to think there really is something horrible about them. People always urge sanitary protection to be given in food bank parcels. Someone leaving a sanitary towel out is treated with horror.

I don't get it. I've occasionally found myself in a position where I don't have sanitary towels in. I don't think a used sanitary towel is necessarily any worse than anything used for bodily fluids! I think there are more prevalent things on the minds of homeless women than periods.

Aibu? Not being an arse: I don't get it!

OP posts:
ghostyslovesheep · 06/02/2015 22:19

are you drunk?

Original poster
mytartanscarf · 06/02/2015 22:20

No, of course not. Why do you ask if I am drunk? My typing is coherent enough.

OP posts:
scarletforya · 06/02/2015 22:20

What?

wanttosqueezeyou · 06/02/2015 22:21

or on glue?

AnythingNotEverything · 06/02/2015 22:21

I think adequate sanitary protection is vital for dignity and hygiene. These are important things.

I think you're crackers. YABU.

Ijustworemytrenchcoat · 06/02/2015 22:21

Seriously? I can't imagine anything worse than being on my period and not having or being able to afford sanitary protection. Why shouldn't they be in with parcels from the food bank along with nappies, shampoo, toilet rolls etc.

Loletta · 06/02/2015 22:22

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ghostyslovesheep · 06/02/2015 22:23

okay:

  1. you post is not about 'attitudes to periods' it's about sanitary protection
  2. Homeless women???? people using food banks aren't necessarily homeless
  3. your post is rambling and makes no sense

hth

SauvignonBlanche · 06/02/2015 22:23

WTF are you on, OP? Hmm

BreconBeBuggered · 06/02/2015 22:24

I'm not quite sure what your argument is. Homeless women don't need unused sanitary protection; is that it?

AnyFucker · 06/02/2015 22:24

I can't imagine having the periods I have without regular access to clean, plentiful, available, private and affordable sanitary products and toilet facilities

What a really stupid OP. I assume you have a couple of days of painless light flow. And if you don't, you are stupider than I thought.

Original poster
mytartanscarf · 06/02/2015 22:24

I'm certainly not saying that thy shouldn't be there :) but I can think of a hundred worse things than being on my period and not having sanitary protection.

Perhaps I am "crackers" but I do have manners!

I suppose I'm wondering why - what is it that's so undignified about periods that means we 'need' protection? Obviously it's better to have it than not but I've just come on a period; I don't have any sanitary towels in and I don't feel undignified or distressed by it in any way. Mild curse of my lack of organisation though!

OP posts:
DropYourSword · 06/02/2015 22:24

....I don't even understand your question!

itiswhatitiswhatitis · 06/02/2015 22:25

Your post makes no sense at all!!

I don't want to see a use sanitary towel anymore than I want to see loo roll after it's wipes someone's backside.

MrsTawdry · 06/02/2015 22:25

OP...people are being rude because your post is odd. You ask what's wrong with sanitary towels and then seem to think it weird that people might include them in foodbank shopping! Why wouldn't they include them? Or more pertinently...why would someone adding them to their foodbank shop indicate that they thought they were gross??

Mintyy · 06/02/2015 22:25

Actually your typing is not at all coherent. Or at least your message isn't.

LeSaor · 06/02/2015 22:26

Huffing glue or not real post

MrsTawdry · 06/02/2015 22:26

WE don't need protection...our knickers do!!

OP you might not mind not having sanitary towels but imagine walking round all day with loo roll in your knickers!? Not nice or comfy!

mixedpeel · 06/02/2015 22:26

Today I've had to change super plus tampons every two hours. So glad I've got more in the box.

If I had little enough money for food, I wouldn't want to be flooding my clothes with blood. Defo vote for sanitary protection to be available at food banks.

phlebasconsidered · 06/02/2015 22:26

DropyourSword: perhaps the question you need is :
Did you kill my father?

(If you are no a PB fan, sorry....)

Original poster
mytartanscarf · 06/02/2015 22:27

I always just thought I had a normal period AF. I'm sorry you feel me/my post is "stupid" but I assume there are women like me just as there are women with heavier flows.

I am not saying protection shouldn't be provided. I'm genuinely wondering why there's this horror surrounding it - why is going without a sanitary towel worse than going without loo roll or soap or washed clothes? I'm not saying anybody should have to go through any of the above: I just don't think one is better or worse than the others.

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Loletta · 06/02/2015 22:27

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NiceCupOfTeaAndALittleSitDown · 06/02/2015 22:27

Christ, you're lucky if you've come on and don't need sanitary protection. I bleed through my clothes WITH sanitary protection and I can't begin to imagine how awful - not to mention messy - it would be not having towels. What an odd post.

DropYourSword · 06/02/2015 22:27

X post with your latest update.

I suppose we don't need protection any more than we need toilet roll. It's equivalent to me.

Notrevealingmyidentity · 06/02/2015 22:27

Between this and the dinosaur people I'm getting a headache.