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If you’re using pads and tampons, you’re not only spending a lot of money every month on single-use products, you’re polluting the environment.
Menstrual cups, they argued, are more sustainable. For your wallet. For the world. Sure, one cup is expensive, but it’s going to last you years and years.
You’re just going to have to dig into your vagine and get your fingers bloody multiple times a day, 7-10 days a month.
Do I …… want that? Because that doesn’t sound like fun.
And no matter how many money or sustainability arguments Twitter made, sorry, @environment, my pads are fine.
Or were they?
My son was a karate kid, and his “Can I try this for the summer?” quickly turned into advanced kata lessons and training 6 days a week.
He loved it, and I loved being a stage mom.
What I didn’t love was staining the dojo seats three days in a row omygod Ate Elena I’m so sorry!
The embarrassment and apologies and… well, walking around in stained jeans? No matter how I positioned the pads or doubled them up or angled my butt when I sat?
I then remembered I read somewhere that menstrual cups didn’t leak.
I bought a cup that evening.
I wasn’t thinking of the environment when I was wiping down blood from the dojo bench again. I was thinking, I HATE HAVING PERIODS WHO INVENTED THEM WHAT THE FUCK FOR.
