A small southern California company which produces “earth-friendly” feminine hygiene products has released the first tampon for post-op transgender women.
Yes, I too was puzzled at first.
“Our product is designed to give post-op transgender women the full-spectrum experience of menstruation. You don’t have to be deprived of the beautiful and womanly occurrence of menstruation merely because you were born without a uterus. The Fem-Flo’s cotton core contains a small, vegetable-based capsule which upon reaching body temperature releases the ‘menses’ contained within.”
Still waiting on those lunar bases and flying cars, though.
Wow! What a breakthrough this also will be for post-menopausal women! The market for this is enormous! Can't wait to see the reaction when I send this to the in-laws!
Posted by: wtp | July 08, 2015 at 17:24
the beautiful and womanly occurrence of menstruation
Yeah, right. What's the number for Advertising Standards...?
Posted by: Joan | July 08, 2015 at 17:33
Next: a pill to give you swollen ankles and a craving for pickles.
Posted by: sH2 | July 08, 2015 at 17:45
I think it’s quite ingenious. I mean, I wouldn’t have thought of it.
Posted by: David | July 08, 2015 at 17:48
Wait a minute...for years we've been hearing how unfair it is for women to have to go through menstruation (and I'm sure it's now considered a sort of male oppression). Now they're selling the experience?
Posted by: the wolf | July 08, 2015 at 17:49
You do realise that unitedmediapublishing is another satirical site like The Onion, I trust. Though these days, it's hard to tell satire from reality.
Posted by: The Sage | July 08, 2015 at 17:52
@the wolf - sure, what's the point of oppression if you can't make a buck off it?
Posted by: NielsR | July 08, 2015 at 17:55
Well, I know where they can shove THAT!
Posted by: JuliaM | July 08, 2015 at 17:58
Will it attract Wolves and Bears, just like the real thing?
Posted by: Jon Powers | July 08, 2015 at 18:24
Though these days, it’s hard to tell satire from reality.
Couldn’t resist.
Posted by: David | July 08, 2015 at 18:33
I wonder, are there package warnings about the risks of the product, er, left in place? Because nothing speaks to the joys of authenticity quite like a bout of Toxic Shock Syndrome, you know ... real or imagined.
Posted by: Megaera | July 08, 2015 at 18:39
I fear I’ve opened Pandora’s, um, box.
Posted by: David | July 08, 2015 at 18:41
It wouldn't be very surprising if something like this really did hit the market. Satire, reality, as was already mentioned. It's been done before. On South Park, Mr. / Mrs. Garrison believes he / she is pregnant because she missed her period.
Posted by: Dom | July 08, 2015 at 18:50
It wouldn’t be very surprising if something like this really did hit the market.
That’s the thing. It would, I grant you, be a niche product and, yes, a tad peculiar; but at the same time it seems so oddly plausible.
Posted by: David | July 08, 2015 at 18:52
" diminish body dysmorphia triggers altogether"
Bit late for that! Thinking your a woman with a man's body is probably the worst one. Cutting the bits off is like "treating" anorexia by prescribing diet shakes.
Posted by: ac1 | July 08, 2015 at 18:56
Is this a parody? I don't think so.
http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/advocacy-group-distributes-sexual-consent-contracts-to-college-students/article/2567726
Posted by: Dom | July 08, 2015 at 19:29
Couldn’t resist.
BREAKING: Yellowstone Evacuated Amid Fears Of Super Volcano Eruption
and
BREAKING – Charles Manson Found Dead In His Prison Cell . . . .
Posted by: Hal | July 08, 2015 at 21:16
How can one tell the satire from the real when stuff like this goes on?
Posted by: Darleen | July 09, 2015 at 01:54
Those capsules could prove useful. I must buy several boxes.
Posted by: mojo | July 09, 2015 at 05:29
Hey, some professor said her menstrual cramps were caused by white microaggression, so, you know. Really, if any transwoman wanted to experience the beauty of menses, she'd need to also have the stomach flu at the same time, to undergo cramps and nausea.
I just want my flying car, why can't I have it?
Posted by: Quint&Jessel, Sea of Azof, Bly, UK | July 09, 2015 at 05:48
Today, satire. Tomorrow, reality.
Just watch.
Posted by: Spiny Norman | July 09, 2015 at 06:08
Meanwhile, in the real world, where real science is done:
The nations of Earth will be stunned by this discovery.
Posted by: David | July 09, 2015 at 06:56
Also in the real world, where only the really clever people go to Harvard and get hired as professional journalists, Laurie Penny offers her thoughtful, nuanced view on the latest budget.
Apparently, “It’s a clear signal that policymakers seek to punish women for having sexual and reproductive agency.”
Posted by: David | July 09, 2015 at 07:24
I think the soundness of a policy could be fairly accurately gauged by the amount of angst it caused Penny Dreadful. In fact if you could somehow build her into a sort of portable meter you could go round pointing it at things and assess their worth by the pitch, frequency and volume of the right-on squeaking emanating from the device. It could be like Peter Simple's racism meter, which was calibrated in prejudons, the international unit of racial prejudice.
Posted by: David Gillies | July 09, 2015 at 09:02
I think the soundness of a policy could be fairly accurately gauged by the amount of angst it caused Penny Dreadful.
What’s extraordinary, even by her standards, is that she’s raging about the fact the policy makes provision for situations involving rape and other “exceptional circumstances.” In her mind, that’s bad. And of course we’re supposed to think it’s an outrage that there should be a limit, any limit at all, on how much of other people’s earnings a persistently feckless person can claim. The idea that wherever possible one should only have the number of children that one can afford to support is, says Laurie, “vile.” It’s an attempt “to punish women for having sexual and reproductive agency.”
Posted by: David | July 09, 2015 at 09:17
Apparently, “It’s a clear signal that policymakers seek to punish women for having sexual and reproductive agency.”
"Literally the budget 2015"... Thank God for that Harvard education.
Posted by: Jen | July 09, 2015 at 12:24
Thank God for that Harvard education.
And yet despite being described by Harvard as an up-and-coming “leader in journalism,” Laurie doesn’t operate on anything as humdrum as logic, facts or being consistent. In order to appear angry and radical, which is ultimately what matters, she has to be oppositional. And so there has to be a display of outrage, however slim or absurd the pretext. I don’t recall Laurie ever offering a practical alternative to whatever it is she’s seething about on any given day. There’s no attempt to sketch an alternative course of action that takes into account finite resources and finite public goodwill. In her mind, remember, businesses don’t have to be competitive and an infinite amount of money can be extracted from those she deems “the rich.”
And so it’s hard to imagine any policy that even a centrist, rather woolly Conservative government might ever devise that Laurie wouldn’t denounce as spiteful, or misogynist, or driven by some imagined hatred of the poor.
Posted by: David | July 09, 2015 at 12:40
Says Laurie "I'm critiquing the government's vile policy on rape and benefit cuts".
That reminds me of the time when Viz ran a spoof ad for "Jimmy Hill's Big Book Of Cricket And Motorbikes".
Posted by: Lancastrian Oik | July 09, 2015 at 13:01
"Couldn’t resist."
Just trying to keep us on our toes, Tricksy?
Posted by: Theophrastus | July 09, 2015 at 15:35
Hmmm. Anyone fancy joining me in marketing a birth control pill for transgender women?
Posted by: Jonathan | July 09, 2015 at 17:00
policymakers seek to
punish womenmake women accountable for having sexual and reproductive agency.Fixed that for her.
Posted by: Jonathan | July 09, 2015 at 17:07
Balance your checkbook lately, Miss Dreadful?
Posted by: mojo | July 09, 2015 at 20:18
I notice there is a patent (US5782779 A) for vibrating tampons, although it only has two more years to run. Perhaps these two ideas could hook up.
Posted by: rabbit | July 09, 2015 at 21:39
What would happen if several of the pads was missing the "mense" capsule? Wouldn't MS POTW think she was pregnant?
Posted by: Flynpigranch | July 09, 2015 at 22:48
The yuck factor is off the scale.
Posted by: Andrew Duffin | July 10, 2015 at 13:01