An Important Announcement

[miss_s_b]

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?

Comments

[neohippie.livejournal.com]

Like missdiane, I am not really into the inserting-into-vagina method of menstrual flow containment.

So I use Gladrags! I suggest missdiane, and anyone else using pads, look into those. They're reusable cotton cloth pads. They have snaps that hold them in your panties, and they are soft and comfy. When soiled, you rinse and/or soak them a bit to get most of the fluid out, then they go in the laundry. I usually soak them in a little hydrogen peroxide before laundering, and they come out clean and fresh.

I understand that this is all Personal Preference, and I'm sure Mooncups are awesome too if you are ok with stuffing things up your hooha. Just saying that, if you are not, then there are other opitions besides filling up landfills with even more plastic.

I'm also glad to have a partner that is ok with what he calls my "special devices". My boyfriend before him was totally disgusted by the whole concept of any sort of reusable feminine hygene device, saying it's like having "reusable toilet paper." Thankfully, current partner has his priorities in order and thinks it's great to be "green", and when I asked, "You don't think it's gross to reuse them?" he just said "But you wash them first, right?"

That said, I think the Amazon review was kinda funny. Comical Amazon reviews seem to be a genre in their own right, so I do wonder if this is even real, you know?

[missdiane]

I'd consider the reuseables if I didn't work in cubeland with a good deal of catty women where we have bathrooms with multiple stalls. It's embarrassing enough on days where my lack of a gallbladder causes upset stomach and people make snarky commentary.

Additionally, for other reasons besides concern for landfills, I'm hoping in several months to be allowed to go off medication that forces me to go through monthly dysmenorrhea hell as it is and shut down the works. So hopefully I'm in the homestretch as it is. LOL

[neohippie.livejournal.com]

Ugh, yeah, I've never had to deal with coworkers who are nosey enough to make any sort of snarky commentary about things that happen in the bathroom!That sounds awful.

Though, the Gladrags come with this discrete bag you can put the used ones in before you get a chance to get home and wash them. It's not like I stand around rinsing my "special devices" in the public restroom's sinks.

Though I admit that I'm lucky enough to have a prety light flow, so I usually don't have to change my pads at all during the day. A fresh one before I leave for work just about always lasts me the whole day until I can get home and change it. This is probably because I'm on the pill, which give me the desirable side effects of my periods being super light and super predictable.

If I'm traveling and will be away from home longer than a day while it's that time of the month, I admit that then I usually go for the disposable ones, so I won't have to be lugging dirty pads around for long. I still have the same package of disposables from way back when I first got the G-rags and still haven't used them all up yet.

So, you know, you do what you can in your own unique circumstances.