I rarely spend longer than a few minutes on the social network, and by a few minutes, I mean a few minutes because I learned years ago that the social network is a time-sink that draws me in to absorb irrelevant news when I don’t set limits.  All that to say imagine my surprise when during those allotted minutes yesterday I saw a ‘friend’s status about free-bleeding.  Questioning my eyesight I cleaned my glasses and reread, free-bleeding.  I hoped this wasn’t what I thought it might be, but it was and I’m thankful that there wasn’t an excessive number of comments supporting this.  For a second I asked out loud, “Are you kidding me?  Have I somehow surfed a time-warp that took me back 100 years?  How did I miss this?”  See the above answer to first appear in bold font in paragraph number one – why I do not spend excessive hours on the social network,  The internet is an invaluable resource of true, but sometimes false information, therefore, I did a lot of research.  About a year ago, apparently ‘this’ is when ‘this’ became a ‘this’ and there were definitely those who support(ed) the free-bleeding phenomenon and up to the last few months, there were also a great many comments on blogs from those who questioned the idea that perhaps this was a joke.  There were also those who concluded that this ‘free-bleeding’ thing might take females backward, which is a correct assessment.  Because it would take us backward to where we would have a surplus of blood-borne pathogens related to menstruating females who put everyone at risk because wearing a pad or tampon is too much of a hardship for their underdeveloped sensibilities.

Now, I realize that radical groups believe they are progressive in their idea of free-bleeding, but for a moment, let us utilize those critical thinking skills.  In 2015, when we have the ‘technology,’ if you will, to make our monthly a private event, which no one, but the bleeder must be aware, doesn’t that equal forward thinking?  But rather than going forward, it appears that some feminists want us to regress and treat this as something, a ‘right,’ to handle publicly, all because there were some males behind the development of pads and tampons.  In the midst of this research I read that some feminists believe tampons ‘rape’ us.  Now that’s a bit extreme, don’t you think?  I guess I’m modest and I love the fact that as a female, I don’t have to make it public knowledge or write a PSA with commonly excused and irrational PMS induced behavior when the monthly arrives.  Life goes on, up to, during and after the event because we have the appropriate ‘equipment’ to manage the event.  Free-bleeders take your radicalism, your mess and your stink back out to the barn or back to the jungle because in 2015, ‘this’ should not even be a thing.  If it is. But then, perhaps the whole thing was a marketing ploy to sell feminine products, which might be considered genius…  What do you think?

~Jenn