For a long time, I've been highly annoyed by the term "sanitary napkin." And tampon (which is a French word meaning "plug") is even worse. They sound gross. And as someone who's been bleeding regularly for 17 years, I've decided on a new approach.


Why pretend any longer that things to bleed on are sanitary? Or that bleeding itself is somehow a disgusting thing that should be hidden, scented, or ignored entirely? If one half of the human population bleeds every month for a good part of their lives, why do we persist in treating it like a disease?

</rant>

Oh, and what lead me to this conversation in the first place: I went to the store to buy some things to bleed on. I discovered soon thereafter that the little paper you peel off the sticky part (on the 'wings') had this written on it: