Normalizing period stains?

[Anonymous]

THIS IS HORRIBLE!!!

OP you must build a red tent in your backyard and put your daughter there when she bleeds like the evil unclean thing she is, keep your menfolk safe from her filthy ways!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It is also normal to pee and poop - basic human unctions but I have no desire to see that on people’s clothes or beds or furniture. Same is true with period blood. Bodily fluids should be cleaned up. Additionally blood should be rinsed out when fresh to keep from staining.

This. Why not have semen stains on pants and bedsheets? This is gross and uncouth. There are products available that remove blood stains from clothes - use them. No excuses.

[Anonymous]

Why do you allow this OP?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My DD14 and at least some of her friends seem to be extremely nonchalant about period stains. DD aware of walking around the house in stained pants with her brother and a friend there, without a care in the world. At another friend’s house (girls and moms are friends) and the daughter’s bed has stains and they just carry on like normal. These are all “normal” girls who are well liked, play sports, all the normal stuff.

When I was growing up this would be mortifying. I thought it was something you just knew to avoid and not walk around with stained pants. is this just an effect of body positivity? Anyone else noticing a difference in today’s teen girls how they view these things or are my DD and friends outliers? We are UMC in DCUMland.

It is disgusting. No, I do not see this in my own DD, my nieces, my neighbor's daughters or any young ladies that we know. They have a lot of self-respect and dignity for their self.

[Anonymous]

Outliers. I have girls and no they don't walk around with stained pants or sleep on stained sheets. That is just weird.

[Anonymous]

So, throw away your bed sheets every time your pad leaks?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:In your world, being female is such a burden. In theirs, it’s not.

Do you know what boys leave in their pants? Anything to say about that?

I have a son and daughter. We have clean stains, and no stains on outer clothes where people can see. But other than that, I have never wished for my children to feel shame over normal development. My very uptight parents never made me feel shame when I stained anything.

You should feel some mortification over how you think about this, OP.

So is it a case of anything goes now? If you went to a meeting and your lawyer turned up in pyjama pants with blood stains, is that okay? How about if your kids’ male math teacher walked around the class with semen stains on his trousers?

There’s a big difference between normalising and accepting bodily functions and not maintaining basic standards of presentation.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:So, throw away your bed sheets every time your pad leaks?

Use a towel, or an extra blanket. Or wash them. You’re not the first to stain a sheet but everyone doesn’t have stained sheets.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:So, throw away your bed sheets every time your pad leaks?

If you wash them when it first happens, there are no stains. It’s leaving it and sleeping on dried blood that is going to leave a stain.

[Anonymous]

DD doesn’t leave any stains on sheets or clothes because her generation has access to period underwear to wear over her regular underwear and pads or tampons. I wish they existed when I was her age!

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Anonymous wrote:I’m so proud of them tbh.

Same here. I love this new generation. Wish it was like that when I was growing up.

[Anonymous]

It's not mortifying so much as unhygienic and gross.

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Anonymous wrote:I’m so proud of them tbh.

Same here. I love this new generation. Wish it was like that when I was growing up.

Why? Why are you wishful about walking around with dried bodily fluids on your clothes? What is it about having urine or feces or vaginal blood or seminal fluids visible on your clothes or on others that you wish you could have had as well?

[Anonymous]

At home, sure, why not?

At school etc? This is why you don't buy light bottoms until you go through menopause.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:So, throw away your bed sheets every time your pad leaks?

Period stains come out with the right stain removal product. The quicker you remove the stains the better the outcome. I don’t want my girls walking around in stained clothes I don’t care what caused the stains.