miss_s_b: (feminist heroes: oracle)miss_s_b ([personal profile] miss_s_b) wrote,
@ 2012-01-07 11:24 pm UTC
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My name is Jennie, and I use a mooncup. Like One Hot Crumpet, I am somewhat incredulous at the Clarkson-esque review that's been posted on amazon and linked around the internet. So, apparently, this lady had difficulty using a mooncup and decided to post a great long tl;dr full of hyperbole about how she couldn't get it in or out, and decided that because she couldn't do it anyone who said they could must be lying hippy earth mother types who want to make everyone else suffer.

Well, no.

Aside from the environmental and financial benefits, like OHC, I find it a lot less gross to have a mooncup than pads which stick to your pubes and stink or tampons which are uncomfortably drying and might give you toxic shock syndrome.

And, you know, the geek in me likes to examine consistency and volume of output. It's amazing the variation... Sorry, that was TMI, wasn't it?

Seriously though, why would anyone want to broadcast their incompetence with their own genitals so smugly?

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[personal profile] lizw
2012-01-08 09:20 am UTC (link)
Seriously though, why would anyone want to broadcast their incompetence with their own genitals so smugly?

Loudly blaming the cup rather than herself helps her to repress the thought that it might in fact be her fault. Classic cognitive dissonance response. If anything, the fact that it's about something so intimate makes that reaction more likely - the dissonance is harder to bear when it's about something so personal, so the response has to be more extreme.

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[personal profile] sevenhelz
2012-01-10 11:30 am UTC (link)
Oh piss off. Some of us are smaller than others. She never said everybody would have the same problem, and if you actually read the review, she decided to keep going with the damn thing. That's more than I can say. Are you going to tell me I'm incompetent or uncomfortable with my genitals? Then you can piss off. You haven't a clue.

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[personal profile] miss_s_b
2012-01-10 09:09 pm UTC (link)
I don't mind people having disagreements. I DO mind when disagreement starts to get uncivil. Just, you know, saying.

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