Lybrel Nonsense

[ms_interpret]

In all the controversy (?) surrounding the new birth control pill Lybrel (wtf? seriously.), I read this,
My one worry is that a sort of stigma might become attached to women who choose to go on bleeding. Kind of like women who choose unmedicated, unhospitalized childbirth??
Bwuh? Choosing unmedicated unhospitalized childbirth is stigmatized? Where

Comments

[mtl_mama]

Ahhh! I needed this! :)

[j3nny3lf]

I used to have a t-shirt that said:

I am a woman. I can bleed for days and not die.

That would make a kick ass feminist icon, methinks.

Hard to imagine getting one's period as being stigmatized. Or giving birth naturally.

[ms_interpret]

I can see the getting one's period being stigmatized if it interfered with something. You'd get the, "Well, you don't have to have it! It's your fault" shit.

[hitchhiker]

not to mention, what's wrong with blurring gender boundaries anyway

[ms_interpret]

Well sure, but that's clearly not happening in this case. It's just dumb.

[hitchhiker]

yeah, i know :) it was just the undotted i nagging at me.