Bethany BlackAfter 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.
Renée@BethanyBlack wait wtf
LisPi@reneestephen @BethanyBlack Yeah. That's one of hell of a wtf moment.
How did anyone think that was a good idea?
@lispi314 my guess... squeamishness, internalized misogyny, and no incentive to focus on menstrual health issues -- marketing says stuff about capacity, sure, but what reason to do rigorous testing? why bother with that cost -- and new product development is just more of the same right?
Also, ew, blood.
@reneestephen @BethanyBlack Even beyond the ethical issues that are themselves pretty blatant, one would expect them to at least have enough integrity to not make themselves party to fraud and false-advertisement.