Running The London Marathon At That Time Of Month

[icyfroth]

Spoiler

Woman runs whole London Marathon without tampon to fight the 'stigma of periods' - Health & Families - Life and Style - The Independent

“The marathon for me was about family and feminism,” she said – the latter being because she “ran the whole marathon with period blood running down [her] legs”.

Gandhi explained that her period began the night before the big race, but that she decided she didn’t want to have to wear a tampon while running 26.2 miles.

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She wrote: “I thought, if there’s one person society won’t f*** with, it’s a marathon runner. If there’s one way to transcend oppression, it’s to run a marathon in whatever way you want.

“On the marathon course, sexism can be beaten. Where the stigma of a woman’s period is irrelevant, and we can re-write the rules as we choose. Where a woman’s comfort supersedes that of the observer.

“I ran with blood dripping down my legs for sisters who don’t have access to tampons and sisters who, despite cramping and pain, hide it away and pretend like it doesn’t exist. I ran to say, it does exist, and we overcome it every day. The marathon was radical and absurd and bloody in ways I couldn’t have imagined until the day of the race.”

FGS what's liberating about running a marathon without using an adequate hygiene product?

[icyfroth]

I can't imagine running with a tampon for 5 hours would be more uncomfortable than running with 5 hours with fluid running down your legs. Surely that would chafe as well?

Anyway, I think it's gross.

[icyfroth]

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@icyfroth wrote:

I can't imagine running with a tampon for 5 hours would be more uncomfortable than running with 5 hours with fluid running down your legs. Surely that would chafe as well?

Anyway, I think it's gross.

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A bit like that woman on Current Affair last Thursday, that goes to her 6yo daughter's school at lunchtime to breastfeed her.

Which I don't think gross, but absolutely ridiculous.

[tulip*place]

If she wants to run a marathon, go on a bus ride or whatever and it's her time of month, no need to broadcast it.

She's university educated.  Women have dealt with this time of month for centuries and she has to take centre stage to show the world that she's menstrating (sp).  Pleasssssse.

[watta*drama*queen]

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@icyfroth wrote:

Anyway, I think it's gross.

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Agree totally !

Let those who want to make a statement such as this manage without modern sanitary products in their everyday lives instread of just talking about it on forums .

Talk is cheap .

[*pepe]

she is just an attention seeking guttersnipe.

[lionrose.7]

Pepe I hate that word Guttersnipe and it is not the right word for this women.

I may not agree with what she is doing BUT no need for that sort of language in this case.

It is a horrible word

[kilroy_is_here]

Selfish , narsasitic , self centred and diagusting are words that spring to mind

[*pepe]

i really don't care if you like the word or not, as far as I'm concerned it fits her actions quite well.

[bluecat*dancing]

I liked this definition of "guttersnipe" from the Urban Dictionary - "A dirty, hairy homeless man who lives in alleys and survives on cats, banana peels and puddle water. " lol.

The only problem that I have with the marathon runner's actions is that, unless the blood collected in her shoes, other runners would have come in contact with it, one way or another.

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[punch*drunk]

You can take medication to stop your period which is what I'm sure many sportswomen do. No real need to make a pointless statement, sems like attention seeking behaviour to me.