Free Bleeding - another fad?

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.?

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?

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.

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

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

P.s. google "elimination communication" BlueBell

Bluebelle is having a 'Frozen' moment.

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

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

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?

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".

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

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

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

& 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.

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!

Or is that kind of blood okay with you?

(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?)

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 !

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

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.)

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?

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.

Well of course one person in a pool wouldn’t be soo bad perhaps , but maybe several could cause a problem.

BUT , let’s just have a reality check here, living in the real world , working , travelling , sitting, dancing. Sleeping etc where at any given time there would be a high percentage of woman all in the Same places at the same time , it is just not practical & as I have already said an insult to our female ancestors who did their damdeess to improve the lives of females, and now to have it reverted to adhere to a very skewed ideology of being a woman, pathetic .

Artificial hormones are not at all "convenient" for vast numbers of women. And in fact when hormonal contraceptives were trailed for men they were discontinued due to having "unacceptable side effects" when actually it just had some but not all of the side effects of female contraception.

It works well for some women but for others you cannot deny that side effect heavy hormones taken before an event to prevent bleeding are taken out of FEAR of bleeding/leaking/flooding, and not because it is easy & convenient.

Bridgeit women faught for choice and freedom. CHOICE.

And no Bridgeit, even several menstruating women in a pool will not turn it read or whatever apocolyptic catastrophe you are imagining.

You know that incontinent people use swimming pools too? And its FINE. Because its heavily diluted and public pools are chlorinated. (Nevermind the people that clear their nostrils)

People bathing without washing off lotions and make up is actually the biggest issue affecting pool chemistry and chlorine sensors, not a bit of leaked body fluid which is to be expected.