These chicks are nuts!!-----The Free Bleeders Clearly Have Not Thought About What Happens to All That Blood

The Free Bleeders Clearly Have Not Thought About What Happens to All That Blood | Parenting: "I’ve had many of the links for this post for over a year.
Unfortunately, I was sure the issue would come around again.
It did.
Last week, Kiran Gandhi ran the London Marathon while letting her period flow freely. 
Yes, free bleeding is about women refusing to use sanitary products during their periods.
(And no, it isn’t a hoax. I will address that claim in a minute.)
These women argue that sanitary products are expensive and that women are forced by patriarchy pressure and shame tactics to use them.
While I agree that women should not be ashamed or embarrassed about periods, shame isn’t why women started to wear sanitary products.
As any woman who has done her own laundry can attest, blood stains.
Tampons might be more expensive than some think they should be, but they are certainly cheaper than rapidly replacing clothes that are stained or worn from scrubbing.
Furthermore, which creates more environmental waste, trashing some compressed cotton bullets or a monthly assortment of spent clothing?
Furniture presents a problem, too.
Under the free bleeding plan, women will need to spend at least five days a month avoiding sitting on un-wipeable surfaces (or they’ll have to add scrubbing upholstery and linens to their already overbooked days).
Then, we have the sanitary concerns, which should be evident in the name of the products.
Blood carries all sorts of biological hazards.
...And so, onto all of the other nonsense that is free bleeding, free bleeders might add a perfect example of how trendy western feminism only serves elite, progressive, usually white women."