Free Bleeding - another fad?

Stop being so unpleasant notanan.
It’s obvious to most people that women use sanitary protection, or take hormones to regulate their cycle, for their own convenience, not to avoid giving imaginary offence to others.

And you still haven't answered why its okay, admirable even, to finish a race (or a match, or a fight, or insert any other high injury sport) with a bleeding knee but if its menstrual blood escaping down a leg the runner should immediately drop out and skulk off out of sight?

And good god a pool does not "fill with blood" just because someone who is menstruating dares risk a swim!

(Pools are full of worse anyway IMO.)

Why should an athlete seriously disrupt their hormones right before an event just to not unsettle the likes of you?

If one is taking part in a marathon or other event, it is possible to take tablets to stop or manage periods, surely this is better for the runner , rather than having to cope with possible period pains & insufficient sanitary products.

how do gymnastics cope,? my word can you imagine on the beams etc, or ballerinas, swimmers ( a pool full of blood ! )
Not to mention the insult to past generations (& those still now who do not have a Choice in the matter)
Should we not be relieved that we have the necessaries to make our lives simple & comfortable, & Active !

(you might also want to avoid rugby, football, boxing etc. Sports types aren't known for stopping and running off home as soon as skin is broken ......unless its not actually the fact that its blood that bothers you, but the fact that its menstrual blood?)

Or is that kind of blood okay with you?

If you find it too unpleasant to witness blood on legs then the London Marathon is not the spectator event for you. Or at least anywhere beyond the start line. There are some spectacularly busted knees carrying on towards the finish!

& London Marathon runners are usually wet through with rain or sweat anyway. I've never known the weather on Marathon day to be "just right". It is always horribly hot or raining. So you're wet either way.

So not sure that her bleeding made much of a difference to her at that point re wetness/dryness. That just sounds like faux concern on her behalf when really the issue you're having is with your own constitution.

Bleeding from an INJURY has to be far more uncomfortable than bleeding menstrually.

Nobody tells the injury bleeders that they are impolite or inconsiderate.

There's many a blood soaked sock by the end line.

Running a marathon isn't comfortable.

When men finish races and other sports competitions with actively bleeding injuries they are universally cheered for having the grit to carry on.

I saw plenty of injuries finish the London Marathon, she wasn't the only one bleeding from somewhere . NOBODY finishes "comfortable".

So you're saying she should have forfeited the race once it became apparent she was bleeding just because it displeases the likes of you to be aware of it?

Notanan that’s picking holes it’s totally immaterial if she started out running like it or it happened half way through it’s the total discomfort of running or walking with wet thighs I m not nit picking about hygiene or being ashamed or any of those things just saying walking around with wet knickers is a horrible feeling and you only need a teaspoon of fluid to feel wet and miserable
I have no problem with anyone doing what they see fit in their own homes but in the public it’s out of order

I don't think there is much danger of passing on virus's from menstruating women with no special protection.
It could make a lot of damage to your clothes

However if you have a culture which forces you to spend each period in isolation because you are then "unclean". (It will affects women and their schooling or work. ) A number of cultures think so, including some very orthodox Jewish woman.

Apart from this to just let your menstrual fluids drip every where is bad manners and unpleasant for anyone around you. To knowingly leave such a mess around is extremely bad manners to the comfort of others.

(My comments on this exludes those women suffer from very heavy periods and sometimes have accidents. )
As for

Bluebelle is having a 'Frozen' moment.

She didnt start running with blood running down her legs. But when it happened she carried on.

P.s. google "elimination communication" BlueBell

How anyone can run with blood running down their thighs and not get chaffed red raw I cannot understand (and I don’t have big thighs) I was quite proud of having periods it made me a woman but by gum I was happy to keep them soaked up and not have them bothering me or anyone else I could shove my tampon in and forget about them for a few hours so I m glad I wasn’t in anyone else fave with my flow and I m glad I was contained and dry
I too find this totally bizarre
I suppose next we ll have babies in no nappies let it flow, let it flow, let it flow or no that’s snow and that’s white whoops lost the subject

Well, I've painted myself into a bit of a corner here.
I don't feel half as scathing as I did when I started the thread.

I don't think suggesting the money you would spend could in fact be given to charity to help others who do not want to do the same as you is in the least bizarre

Do you apply the same logic to post menopausal or hysterectomy women? After all they spend the least of all on periods. So you tell them to donate more than me on period charities I assume?

I don't think suggesting the money you would spend could in fact be given to charity to help others who do not want to do the same as you is in the least bizarre

What does freebleeding or not have to do with it ?

Can't anyone donate? Regardless of what san pro they do or do not use?

Do you tell mooncup users that they should donate more money than disposable pad users because they spend less on their periods.?

And we're NOT all quietly getting on fine with our discrete periods. So many girls and women DONT know what is an isnt normal.

For example I did not know that I wasnt unusual because I passed clots until I discussed it with my midwives after my first born! Only then did I find out that it was common, and what size is normal and what size should be alarming etc.

What a bizarre post!
I don't think suggesting the money you would spend could in fact be given to charity to help others who do not want to do the same as you is in the least bizarre

I'll leave you to your bizarre notions notanan

Miss Adventure I dont think the marathon runner planned to leak. I think she planned to free bleed because rubbing your thighs against a pad for 26 miles would HURT but then ended up overflowing and took an admirable "so what?" attitude in response to the situation when it occurred.

The transman who freebled staged a photoshoot that included blood. Thats all. Where traditionally period blood is denoted by clinical blue tinted water (which behaves nothing like blood or the way periods "flow") it is interesting to see bleeding photoshoots that show it as it is and ask "why does this disgust you?"

I found tampons too drying when I had a light flow, and I've never been a fan of pads, so going without seemed the best thing to do, when I could.