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menstrual cups and feminism

I've started using a menstrual cup recently (yes I know that I am years late to the "trend") and naturally, before trying it, I watched a ton of YouTube videos prepare, see how it worked and how to use it. The openness in those videos was so refreshing and the people who talked about using a cup seemed so confident and comfortable in their bodies.It made me think about how little menstruation is talked about, even though about half the population menstruates, and how little I myself knew about my own body. 

I think a big part of why cups were intimidating to me is because I was (and probably still am) not entierly comfortable with my body. There is a such stigma surounding mensturation and if cis men menstruated, the conversation would be totally different. The cup community felt like a safe space in a world full of euphamisms for the word "period" and blue liquids in advertisments.

And no, I don't advocate for the buzzfeed-paint-with-used-tampons type of feminism lol. It's more about knowing your own body (the cervix moves?? How did we not learn that in school?) and being comfortable with it. And I feel like talking about things like menstruation should be more normalised. 

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