In the last few weeks I feel like there’s been a spotlight on homeless women in the US and the huge challenges they face when menstruating. The grass isn’t really green on either side, is it?

The first three chapters in The Second Sex by Simone de Beauvoir talk about this. If you can get over her colonial view-points of ‘backwards’ cultures it’s an interesting history lesson. But you’ll need to take it with A LOT of salt.

You didn’t even read the piece....It is not about destroying culture, it is about providing safe and effective health care for women. Its about them being able to access sanitary pads instead of using scraps of material left on a factory floor. And there was also a lengthy part in the piece where members of the…