I am totally ok with this, period shaming is awful and what’s worse is being embarrassed by something that is natural and happens to pretty much every woman. It’s a fucking period, people need to get over it. You see some woman with a pad or tampon, noyb. You see one with period blood leakage, politely and without…

I want to just put it out there that for many of us, having ANYTHING—tampon, menstrual cup, penis, kegel ball—in our vaginas during our periods is extremely uncomfortable or downright painful. Pads are the only option that’s remotely comfortable for me. If I had to run a marathon while menstruating, I’d just let it…

Runnign with tampons can suck if you are cramping, and if you don’t use tampons, running with a pad is really, really shitty. Chafing, bunching, and she would likely have had to stop and change it because of all those things. it was her first marathon, she had likely traines stupid hard for it, and didn’t want to miss…

I don’t disagree, but she decided not to run with one. I personally don’t have this issue, not menstruating, and when I did tampons were fine. But I know some women don’t prefer them and in a marathon you want to be comfortable in clothes, period accessories, etc, given that you’re going to suffer in other ways. I…

Well folks, it is a marathon. Dudes bleed from chafed from nipples, scrapes, people run with skid marks and some have puke on their shirts. I’ve run enough marathons to consider this “par for the course” Chill out.

Good for her, and this isn’t any grosser than normal marathoning. I’ve run two marathons and failed at 22mi on a third. Nobody runs a marathon without being gross as fuck afterward. I’ve puked twice and been disgusting after all three. Any finisher is covered in salt and smells like an ass that died. A little bit of…

I’m pretty sure smelling bad is the least of your concerns while running a marathon

I feel like it is time for me to share an embarrassing story. My period tends to be very heavy, but I react very badly to every oral contraceptive that I try, so I just deal with it. One time I had a trail race that lasted for a couple hours. My period had hit hard and fast, and I went from nothing to bleeding like I…

Some period blood? That’s nothing. My brother, who has run a few marathons (including Boston) has seen pee and liquid poop coming out of runners' backends. Hey, it happens.

So shitting yourself while running marathon, that’s just something that happens. But a period, OH NOES!! Pixelate! Pixelate! Will no one think of the children!

Tampons just don't work or feel right for some people. I personally never feel comfortable using them, and usually stick to pads. I can't imagine running 26 miles with a pad. Even when I have tried tampons in the past, there's no way there's one huge enough to last that 26 mile run on the first/second period day for…

“Uterus of Suffering” makes it sound like a magic item from D&D.

Thousands of 11 year old girls just wrote a note to themselves: If DEFCON 1 nightmare situation happens in gym, pretend it was a political statement.

So.....they censored out something that happens to over half of the world’s population?

Why do so many people think this is unhygienic? As if having it flow into a pad that stays up against your skin for up to eight hours is a better idea?

I love her badassery

I irony is you can still see the period stain! Period blood will not be pixilated.

There are other photos out there where it shows it was heavier, and she did an interview where she talks about how painful her periods actually are...so this wasn’t something she took lightly. She knew too those pants would be ruined, and explained she had her outfit already picked out, and felt comfortable running in…

Most marathoners have a very IDGAF attitude about bodily functions (seriously, we talk about poop SO MUCH in my training group), but this badass lady took it to a new level. I ran my first marathon while I was on my period. My #1 goal was to not stop running (except to drink water - I’m not that coordinated), so I…

It’d be one thing, I guess, if they pixelated out all blood. But they have completely unpixelated, fairly graphic pictures from UFC bouts, including Robbie Lawler’s really (disturbingly) busted lip from a recent event. So, blood resulting from violence in sports is okay, but not non-violent blood in a non-violent…