Could not agree with you more. Tho, I must warn you that the last time I championed applicators on this site I was hit with a shitstorm of WHY DO YOU HATE THE PLANET and STOP BEING SUCH A PRUDE YOUR VAGINA IS BEAUTIFUL YOU SHOULD WANT TO STUFF YOUR FINGERS IN THERE DURING YOUR PERIOD. rabble rabble rabble.

Exactly. My contortionism attempts and painful fingers thank the catholics for the helpful applicators. Also, I can live without bloody fingers and trying to put my pants on without touching anything before getting to wash my hands. Picky me.

I prefer applicators. When I went to Egypt in 2006, I had a hard time finding any tampons that weren't just your standard OB things you jam up there with a finger. I never mastered the art, it just felt weird and uncomfortable. Thank goodness for applicators!

Honestly, as a woman who's had a baby and therefore has enormous flow periods due to a change in uterus surface area, I have to say that I don't care why they came up with applicators. I don't want blood all over my hands while I'm trying to pull up my pants.

There you have it, it was a tampon tantrum, and it resulted in things being worse for women.

Huh. I haven't used an applicator-free tampon since I was an inexperienced, fumbling adolescent, but at the time, I found that they were incredibly difficult for me to insert and actually made using a tampon extremely painful (on account of not being able to get it placed properly). Applicators were what actually made…

I only used a few tampons with cardboard applicators when I was a teenager before the Menstrual gods ( probably goddesses, actually) introduced plastic. Tampax Compak Pearl, I can't imagine life without you.

My short fingers and small hands thank the Catholics for making it possible to get a tampon into the proper spot in my vagina so as to be comfortably worn. I just can't reach with an OB.

Winter is strumming.

Don't get me wrong, loved this.. but still..

Maybe I'm missing the point, or maybe its because I always envied my twin sister (who got ALL the boobs), but isn't part of the school's objective helping to teach her what is considered appropriate to wear? Imagine if she showed up to a job interview thinking that much cleavage was ok? What we wear sends a message to…

If the school already has a dress code about showing too much skin and then they have every right to reprimand her. Simple as that. Are we just supposed to disregard that? Anyway, she was able to come back provided she wears a shawl. And really, she is showing too much for her age. She could have chosen a dress…

This is ridiculous. I don't have a problem with high schools asking girls to not show their boobs. The "curvature of the breast" comment, as you very well know, referred to side-boob. I am fine with not allowing a 15-year-old to show side-boob. I am fine with "no cleavage" as well. They are not penalizing girls…

And this is, I guess, the thirty-something-mother-of-three's guide to going to the ER/ My Morning:

Wow, when I went to the hospital for stitches after slicing up my hand, I walked in, registered with the triage nurse, and proceeded to wait 4 HOURS with a towel clutched to my gaping, bloody hand in the waiting room before seeing a doctor and getting 15 stitches. Fuck Kaiser Permanente.

It does not bother me at all what Beyonce or anyone else chooses to wear. Even if it did bother me it's still not something I can imagine investing a lot of mental energy in. However, it is funny to imagine what it would be like if male rock/pop/hip hop stars dressed and posed like their female counterparts. Like,…

Not all weddings are like this one...

Ever seen worms crawl out of a vagina? That will fuck with your shit. Luckily I was on surgery. The motherfuckers took one look, closed the curtain, stepped back and wrote "refer to gynae" as their management plan.