“The only time m
was a luxury w
that night I took
keyboard player f
awful band home
and the condom
jokes) but I’m about to get very “take back the
night” here.
Please. Someone find me a woman who thinks
her period is a luxury. A rite of passage? Maybe.
The beautiful expression that one is of childbearing years? Possibly. But a luxury? Nope. The
only time my period was a luxury was after that
night I took that dirty keyboard player from some
awful band home with me and the condom broke.
That particular period was a luxury, but only
because I didn’t see us settling down and raising
a dirty, keyboard-playing baby together.
To consider tampons and pads luxury items is
as absurd as considering a man’s … well, a man’s
… you know what? I cannot think of a hygiene
item that men need but women do not. There
exists no such equivalent.
Reading news coverage on the Utah vote is
disheartening, but scrolling down and taking
a look at the “comments” sections weakened
my faith in humanity. It’s the Internet, so it’s
easy to get sucked into a misogynistic abyss.