Normalizing period stains?

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I guess I wouldn’t want my children walking around in blood stained clothes, regardless of their gender, the location of the stain, or the cause. Would you let your son go out in public in a blood stained shirt from a nosebleed?

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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.

I can guarantee you that boys are walking around in boxers that have had semen on them and sheets that have had semen on them. You wash them.

No, my boy does not have visible shit stains on his pants. Get real.

Do boys get semen on pants often? Not sure. Do boys get semen on boxers often? Yes, absolutely. You just wash them like normal. I'm not sure why you're talking about shit stains on pants, but that's not what my post was about. Have a nice day.

Because that's what OP is trying to normalize. Did you even read her OP?

Nowhere in the OP do they mention shit stains on pants. You must be confused.

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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.

I can guarantee you that boys are walking around in boxers that have had semen on them and sheets that have had semen on them. You wash them.

No, my boy does not have visible shit stains on his pants. Get real.

You should try reading.

No, you should. We've been talking about pants since OP posted on the first page.

PP was speaking to semen and comparing undies to undies. You are so angry at everyone here.

No, just can't stand when people try to move the goalposts and make it something that it's clearly not.

You are unhinged. There are no goalposts being moved by people responding to other posts.

Please learn how to read before you call me unhinged.

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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.

I can guarantee you that boys are walking around in boxers that have had semen on them and sheets that have had semen on them. You wash them.

No, my boy does not have visible shit stains on his pants. Get real.

Do boys get semen on pants often? Not sure. Do boys get semen on boxers often? Yes, absolutely. You just wash them like normal. I'm not sure why you're talking about shit stains on pants, but that's not what my post was about. Have a nice day.

Because that's what OP is trying to normalize. Did you even read her OP?

Nowhere in the OP do they mention shit stains on pants. You must be confused.

"DD aware of walking around the house in stained pants"

Just like I wouldn't let my boy walk around with stains on his pants, I do not find it acceptable for my daughter to do so either. You're the confused one.

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Anonymous wrote:I have two DDs, both 17. They’d be mortified by having visible period stains, but they’re otherwise very nonchalant about menstruation-related things. In middle school, one of my DDs used to carry her pads openly and would even have one out on her desk. The other was asked, in front of her entire class, if she was on her period when she got a bathroom pass while holding a tiny purse, on the first day she went to school during her very first cycle. She didn’t die of embarrassment and treated it like a badge of honor.

"and would even have one out on her desk."
WHY?

What's wrong with that?

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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.

I can guarantee you that boys are walking around in boxers that have had semen on them and sheets that have had semen on them. You wash them.

No, my boy does not have visible shit stains on his pants. Get real.

Do boys get semen on pants often? Not sure. Do boys get semen on boxers often? Yes, absolutely. You just wash them like normal. I'm not sure why you're talking about shit stains on pants, but that's not what my post was about. Have a nice day.

Because that's what OP is trying to normalize. Did you even read her OP?

Nowhere in the OP do they mention shit stains on pants. You must be confused.

"DD aware of walking around the house in stained pants"

Just like I wouldn't let my boy walk around with stains on his pants, I do not find it acceptable for my daughter to do so either. You're the confused one.

"Nowhere in the OP do they mention shit stains on pants. You must be confused."
You are the one that brought up shit stains. Not OP.

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Anonymous wrote:Totally normal. Adjacent to the free bleed movement. It's totally mainstream Brooks Nader period stained skirt at Wimbeldon was all over the place

Many girls and women choose free bleeding as a way to reclaim their bodies and challenge the stigma surrounding menstruation. It serves as a protest against the high costs of menstrual products and the "tampon tax," which adds extra financial burden on those people who menstruate.

Environmentally, free bleeding is seen as a more sustainable option, reducing waste in the environment from disposable menstrual products.

I'm not part of the free bleed movement (I've an IUD and no longer get a period), but it is SO CRAZY how much we have to spend just because of stupid biology. I just googled it, and apparently women spend $18k on period products over a lifetime. I'd actually wager it is more. Just because we have to rid this lining! Ugh.

Given the absolute multitude of reusable menstrual products that exist now, there is. I need to spend much money at all on menstrual products. I have probably spent $200 on menstrual products in the last twenty years. It’s like using disposable dishes and cups for all your meals. I don’t really get why anyone still uses disposable menstrual products. I don’t know many that do anymore. Almost everyone I know has switched to reusable. So much cheaper and environmentally friendlier.

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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.

I completely support normalizing it. Which woman wouldn't? However, for hygiene reasons, get them more efficient pads, tampons, period panties etc. and change of sheets plus a pad for the bed. Make it easier to maintain hygiene without stigmatizing period stains.

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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.

I can guarantee you that boys are walking around in boxers that have had semen on them and sheets that have had semen on them. You wash them.

No, my boy does not have visible shit stains on his pants. Get real.

Do boys get semen on pants often? Not sure. Do boys get semen on boxers often? Yes, absolutely. You just wash them like normal. I'm not sure why you're talking about shit stains on pants, but that's not what my post was about. Have a nice day.

Because that's what OP is trying to normalize. Did you even read her OP?

Nowhere in the OP do they mention shit stains on pants. You must be confused.

"DD aware of walking around the house in stained pants"

Just like I wouldn't let my boy walk around with stains on his pants, I do not find it acceptable for my daughter to do so either. You're the confused one.

What does that even have to do with the post? Semen boxers and semen sheets. I just wash them. I'm not talking about shit.

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Anonymous wrote:Totally normal. Adjacent to the free bleed movement. It's totally mainstream Brooks Nader period stained skirt at Wimbeldon was all over the place

Many girls and women choose free bleeding as a way to reclaim their bodies and challenge the stigma surrounding menstruation. It serves as a protest against the high costs of menstrual products and the "tampon tax," which adds extra financial burden on those people who menstruate.

Environmentally, free bleeding is seen as a more sustainable option, reducing waste in the environment from disposable menstrual products.

I'm not part of the free bleed movement (I've an IUD and no longer get a period), but it is SO CRAZY how much we have to spend just because of stupid biology. I just googled it, and apparently women spend $18k on period products over a lifetime. I'd actually wager it is more. Just because we have to rid this lining! Ugh.

The pink tax on women is real!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I guess I wouldn’t want my children walking around in blood stained clothes, regardless of their gender, the location of the stain, or the cause. Would you let your son go out in public in a blood stained shirt from a nosebleed?

I mean, none of the people in question are out in public. Would I let my son wear a blood stained shirt from a nosebleed while he's at home? Sure, why not.

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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.

I can guarantee you that boys are walking around in boxers that have had semen on them and sheets that have had semen on them. You wash them.

No, my boy does not have visible shit stains on his pants. Get real.

Do boys get semen on pants often? Not sure. Do boys get semen on boxers often? Yes, absolutely. You just wash them like normal. I'm not sure why you're talking about shit stains on pants, but that's not what my post was about. Have a nice day.

Because that's what OP is trying to normalize. Did you even read her OP?

Nowhere in the OP do they mention shit stains on pants. You must be confused.

"DD aware of walking around the house in stained pants"

Just like I wouldn't let my boy walk around with stains on his pants, I do not find it acceptable for my daughter to do so either. You're the confused one.

"Nowhere in the OP do they mention shit stains on pants. You must be confused."
You are the one that brought up shit stains. Not OP.

OK for the 100th time, this is being touted as some kind of feminist issue that women as all of a sudden free from oppression and can walk around freely with period stains on their pants. To illustrate how ridiculous that sounds, some of us brought up that boys would never be allowed to walk around with stains on their clothing and that it is not the feminist issue you're trying to make it out to be, but rather just laziness. No one should be walking around with stains from bodily fluids.

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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.

I can guarantee you that boys are walking around in boxers that have had semen on them and sheets that have had semen on them. You wash them.

No, my boy does not have visible shit stains on his pants. Get real.

Do boys get semen on pants often? Not sure. Do boys get semen on boxers often? Yes, absolutely. You just wash them like normal. I'm not sure why you're talking about shit stains on pants, but that's not what my post was about. Have a nice day.

Because that's what OP is trying to normalize. Did you even read her OP?

Nowhere in the OP do they mention shit stains on pants. You must be confused.

"DD aware of walking around the house in stained pants"

Just like I wouldn't let my boy walk around with stains on his pants, I do not find it acceptable for my daughter to do so either. You're the confused one.

"Nowhere in the OP do they mention shit stains on pants. You must be confused."
You are the one that brought up shit stains. Not OP.

OK for the 100th time, this is being touted as some kind of feminist issue that women as all of a sudden free from oppression and can walk around freely with period stains on their pants. To illustrate how ridiculous that sounds, some of us brought up that boys would never be allowed to walk around with stains on their clothing and that it is not the feminist issue you're trying to make it out to be, but rather just laziness. No one should be walking around with stains from bodily fluids.

In your opinion.

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Anonymous wrote:I’m glad discussion of menstruation is much less stigmatized now. I’m glad my son learned all about in health along side his female classmates.

My daughter hasn’t worn anything stained that I know of around the house but I wouldn’t care as long as it was washed. All of this is a non issue to me.

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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.

Wait until you find out that some women try to normalize their daughters not shaving their legs or pits, and not showering at least once a day.

There are some lazy and gross people out there.

Does your son shave his legs and pits? If not, you can stfu

This.

Wearing stained clothing at home is something a lot of people do. Wouldn't wear it out of the house, but at home? Sure.

I mean, I specifically "Save" stained clothes to be my "house clothes". Why would I stain the deck or garden in a nice shiny new outfit? No way, I'll grab the old holey t-shirt and stained shorts to do that lol. I'm so confused why some people think this is some sort of crime.

Yeah I do not see the issue with this at all.