C.K. Burch's Blog, page 96
November 19, 2015
naamahdarling:
johanirae:
profeminist:
gehayi:
profeminist:
...
I was inspired by several articles about the Tampon Tax recently and some of the protests against the categorization of tampons as “luxury items,” so I made this up. It’s funny because it’s true.
Tampons are a “luxury item”
Once I worked as an intern in the state capital. One of the representatives I worked for was this middle-aged guy. And he hated the tampon and napkin machines in the women’s bathrooms. Hated them. He insisted that they weren’t necessary.
I found out why after I’d been working there, oh, about a month. My period started suddenly, as it sometimes does, and I asked to excuse myself to go to the ladies’ room. He wanted to know why. I told him.
He started ranting about how lazy women were. How we wasted time. How we were so careless and unhygenic, and that there was no call for that. He finished by telling me that I certainly was NOT going to the ladies’ room and that I was just going to sit there and work. He finished this off with a decisive nod, as if I’d just be told and there could be no possible argument.
“If I don’t go,” I said in an overly patient tone, “the blood is going to soak through my pants, stain my new skirt that I just bought, and possibly get on this chair I’m sitting in. I need something to soak up the blood. That’s why I need to go to the bathroom.”
His face turned oatmeal-gray; an expression of pure horror spread across his face. He leaned forward and whispered, “Wait, you mean that if you don’t go, you’ll just keep on bleeding? I thought that women could turn it off any time that they wanted!”
I thought, You have got to be kidding.
Several horrified whispers later, I learned that he wasn’t. He actually thought a) that women could shut down the menstrual cycle at will, b) that we essentially picked a week per month to spend more time in the bathroom, i.e. to goof off, and c) that napkins and tampons were sex toys paid for by Health and Human Services. I didn’t know the term then, but he believed that tampons were dildos. Which was why he and a good number of his friends considered them luxuries.
And that’s how, at twenty, I had to give a talk on menstruation to a middle-aged married state representative who was one of my bosses. American politics, ladies and gentlemen.
OH GOOD GRIEF!
YOU WERE WARNED -
Am not actually very surprised, I am 33, my own sex education consisted of PREGNANCY IS VERY SCARY SO DO NOT SEX, and not much else. Am not surprised at all middle aged men don’t know shit about women’s periods
This is so sickening and scary.
Honestly, it makes me wish I *could* menstruate at will.
PROJECTILE menstruation.
November 18, 2015
brianmichaelbendis:
Mad Max: Fury Road*, illustrated by Jae Lee...
Mad Max: Fury Road*, illustrated by Jae Lee with colors by June Chung as a private commission.
rejectedprincesses:
rejectedprincesses:
Zenobia: Syria’s Rebel...
Zenobia: Syria’s Rebel Queen
This is an abbreviated version. For the information-seekers (and pedants) out there, I put more information on the main site right here.
I may try and do more entries in this format, but I can’t guarantee every one will be like this. I just wanted to mix things up. Curious what y’all think!
Argh. Sorry, overreached with the image sizes on this one, and it’s getting eaten up a bit by Tumblr’s compression. Did what I could to make it better, but I hit hard limits for Tumblr. For better resolution, check it out on the main site here.
Fuck yes history lesson
ojiisanholic:
facingthewaves:
“I want to speak to a manager,” the middle-aged woman said in her...
facingthewaves:
“I want to speak to a manager,” the middle-aged woman said in her...
