Yes. I used a menstrual cup when I was in India without access to Western style facilities. I had zero problems.

I don't think its a case of "envy" so much as "eew gross girl cooties!"

Oh, the enemabag who said its wrong to call it MUTILATION and claimed that some girls actually want their genitals sliced up with rocks and stitched together with thorns?

India isn't the only place where menstruation is considered icky and evil and a carrier of scary magic. It's just one of the biggest. In Judaism just sitting on the same bench as a menstruating women makes a man unclean, and sex during shark week destroys the soul and removes your place in the afterlife. It's…

Can't flim flam the Zim Zam!

No fun and *definitely* no Riding Horses on the Beach in White Pants(tm).

That said, I have a story about Indian women coming to my rescue regarding this.

I used to have egregious periods. Horrifying. We're talking "The Shining" levels of floods of blood, usually coming quite unexpectedly. I was working for Major…

"men's raging uterus envy" is insanely awesome

ITT:

I go to India regularly. The biggest problem is that there are no public washrooms available, and if there are, there are no garbage cans or decent places to dispose of feminine products. I had a nervous breakdown the last time I was there because after looking for a washroom for 2 hours (no exaggeration) I found a…

Also, any words for vagina in English that aren't a profanity? Pussy, box, cunt, cumsocket, fucksock, etc., are also pretty profane.

It never ceases to amaze me to find another instance of how the world has been shaped by men's raging uterus envy. It's not enough that we fill the world with bullshit like war and capitalism to create a fiction that anything we do with our lives could be as important to the survival of the species as motherhood; we…

Me, too! Until YouTube, I was only able to watch it for the brief period of time in the late 90s when I had BBC America.

Aw man, I love Goodness Gracious Me! Sometimes I watch clips of it and still can't believe it was ever ACTUALLY on TV.

I'm an NRI, so I didn't grow up in India, but the word for vagina in Sanskrit (and I'm pretty sure in Hindi) "yoni." I can't really say if it's a profanity or not, but I've certainly never heard it used in everyday conversation. When it comes to medical circumstances in a hospital or doctor's office, I've heard…

Can anyone that speaks Hindi or is more familiar with the culture clarify this:

This post made me think this old Goodness Gracious Me clip. I haven't thought of that show in a long time. But I do often refer to tampons as "that thing for that thing." Nobody gets it.

Erm, someone didn't read to the end, did they?

Here's the thing: Most men don't actually buy into this. Any man comfortable with himself doesn't give a shit about how going to yoga is perceived. That's not going to stop them from going to yoga. What will stop them from going to yoga are the same things that stop everyone from going to yoga (a fear of farting in…

bright pink hardhats. i'm not saying i wouldn't rock the shit out of one should the need occur, but it's just another example of men as regular and women as exceptional. i was in mark's (previously known as mark's work warehouse) and the hardhats where all neutral - white, grey, toronto maple leafs logo (which is…

Pink toolboxes. Seriously. I've seen them in Home Depot, Sears (the Original Pink Box! That's what it's called!), and Lowes. They're right next to the regular toolboxes.