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.
@BethanyBlack explains all those weird commercials in the 80's and 90's
@BethanyBlack why is it blue?
@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)