also i think her point, her protest if you will, was to bring attention to the fact that in poor countries with no access to tampons/pads, they are basically forced to “free bleed” - stay home, miss weeks of school, and fall behind because they have no choice.

but runners just shit all over themselves (google it) and literally have it running down their legs, possibly spraying it on others near them - that is something to outraged over more than a patch of period blood.

To put it another way, censorship is basically letting someone else decide for you rather than you doing it for yourself. I’d rather have the choice to see/read it or chose not to rather than have the media filter it through their lenses further. We don’t need more media minders to dumb it down and baby us any more…

*regurgitate

Why do you need to have it censored so badly, since you already know what it is...the logic goes both ways. Difference is, I’m not offended by it. I chose to click and read about it. If it bothered me, as it seems to bother you, why do you click and read it? That defies logic. It’s a choice. We are all adults we are…

Daily Mail goes out of their way to be gross on a regular basis - this is not shocking. They are basically a tabloid. Then Gawker and Jez regurgiate it for us.

I just don’t get all the pearl clutching about this. The headlines clearly state what you are going to be seeing before you click: Marathon Runner’s Period Blood Stains - if you clicked after that to then be disgusted by the image after the fact, I don’t know what else to tell you.

i think if you run 26 miles, being smelly and uncomfortable is par for the course.

i can see her point that people in other poor countries that don’t have access to them suffer - like they have to stay home all week with bloody clothes cause they don’t have tampons/pads. girls can’t go to school and end up missing lots of school because of their periods because they can’t or don’t want to go to…

even if they didn’t cover it, you know what it is, so what is the point of covering it - it’s just not necessary to hide it (we all shit and half of us have periods). intentional shit, blood or not, we all know what we are seeing. but if you ask me, seeing someone with shit running down the legs is grosser, but more…

I don’t think society is asking too much for all of us to keep our fluids to ourselves.

or pixelating it...

yes, runners shit themselves on the reg.

i say after a sweaty 26 mile run, just toss the marathon spandex, period blood or not. plenty of seasoned marathon runners regularly shit themselves during these runs and no seems to bat an eye at that.