After all these years I’m rarely surprised by medical misogyny, but finding out that the research from the first ever tests on period products using blood instead of water were published LAST WEEK is one of those surprises.
@betty_ford in the UK at least that was because you weren’t allowed to show blood in advertising, it was one of the weird unintended consequences of the video nasty act, posters advertising movies weren’t allowed to show blood because James Ferman of the BBFC thought it would scare lone women in train stations at night (genuinely)