Activists say the research marks a growing awareness connecting everyday life to the toxic contamination of the planet and ongoing harm to the climate. More research is examining how women are disproportionately impacted.
Sweet holy jesus! I can’t tell if you’re being a passive aggressive tunt or trying to actually be helpful @_@!
I see what you’re trying to do. I am just going to walk over here, and chill out. Things are always safe until they’re not. Look, I am no doctor and I am a bunk ass scientist. All I am trying to say is that most people who identify as women tend to menstruate anywhere from like 7-50 years old. And that if they used tampons consistently for every month up until then, because it can dissolve in water, and your sniz-snatch tends to be moist that your body probably absorbs the particles directly. And since it’s not through your digestive system, I am not sure if it gets processed in the way it would if we say…ate a bunch of dried fruits. Which were shown to be higher in lead quantities. Because I am not sure if it ever passes through the kidneys. But what I am saying is all speculation, because I very openly say - as I am saying here - I don’t know. You can link a study - and I will absolutely read it. I don’t need to be handed something with all sorts of craziness and zero explanation as to why you (specifically) are passing me it. And yes, I know most things have lead in them. But like I said, lead can be dissolved in water (I had a nightmare lead situation at one point in my life moving and I had to learn this stuff the hard way). I know it can be in tea, because I know it’s in pretty much all crops. I would be a fool to think that it could not be in clothing made from said crops. But at the same time, a piece of clothing makes its way to me and it’s probably pre-washed several times over. A tampon? I don’t know because I haven’t looked into the manufacturing process. Clearly you have to prep cotton before it can even be utilized. But I can’t imagine it would be as washed. Because it doesn’t have to go through a mutli-formation process to become a tampon like a shirt does or a pair of jeans. And on top of that, I wash my clothes too. I mean that’s at least three washes before my body gets it. And it’s external, it’s not a moist pocket. I mean, you can sweat. All lead exposure isn’t ideal. But it’s really different when we’re talking vaginal health - which already gets the short end of the stick. Likewise, I wasn’t panicking. In fact, I have a very “is what it is” kinda vibe to it, because I literally could not give a shit outside of the fact that I do not like things that hurt women’s health.
And in expressing it on a personal level, I think if you think about it - it’s just another series of pollutants that are added to our lives (cause women do a lot of cleaning and women do a lot of grooming and all of that stuff can be caustic as well). But in the grand scheme of things I have absolutely zero - no - control over whether anything has lead. Is used. Etc. I just know that women tend to bleed (not all women) and that there will be a set of women who will insert tampons into their vaginas for a extended period of time. And it’s a stressor that most men will never have to face. Even if we lined people up and made them all eat the same things, wear the same things - if the person who could menstruate added regular tampon use to the list it just adds extra exposure. That’s all I was saying. People can have different lifestyles and their lifestyles can expose them to all sorts of stuff but having a period outside of some situations or forms of control are pretty standard affair for most vagina holders. Is all.
Jesus freakin’ christ. Jesus.
EVERYTHING I SAY IS PURELY OPINION AND I LITERALLY NEVER KNOW WHAT I AM SAYING. I’M JUST GOING WITH THE JAZZ IN MY HEAD AND HAVING A GOOD TIME TRYING TO CHILL WITH STRANGERS ON THE NET <<<<<
If you allow this baseless accusation on tampons to become an urban suburban and rural myth, you end up promoting these assholes’ ideologies. They can use this “fact” about lead in tampons to deny relevant healthcare or to prevent stuff like: https://www.freethetampons.org/ by claiming that it harms girls. It’s important to prevent the noxious disinformation of tomorrow just like it’s important to prevent heavy metal bioaccumulation.
Sweet holy jesus! I can’t tell if you’re being a passive aggressive tunt or trying to actually be helpful @_@!
I see what you’re trying to do. I am just going to walk over here, and chill out. Things are always safe until they’re not. Look, I am no doctor and I am a bunk ass scientist. All I am trying to say is that most people who identify as women tend to menstruate anywhere from like 7-50 years old. And that if they used tampons consistently for every month up until then, because it can dissolve in water, and your sniz-snatch tends to be moist that your body probably absorbs the particles directly. And since it’s not through your digestive system, I am not sure if it gets processed in the way it would if we say…ate a bunch of dried fruits. Which were shown to be higher in lead quantities. Because I am not sure if it ever passes through the kidneys. But what I am saying is all speculation, because I very openly say - as I am saying here - I don’t know. You can link a study - and I will absolutely read it. I don’t need to be handed something with all sorts of craziness and zero explanation as to why you (specifically) are passing me it. And yes, I know most things have lead in them. But like I said, lead can be dissolved in water (I had a nightmare lead situation at one point in my life moving and I had to learn this stuff the hard way). I know it can be in tea, because I know it’s in pretty much all crops. I would be a fool to think that it could not be in clothing made from said crops. But at the same time, a piece of clothing makes its way to me and it’s probably pre-washed several times over. A tampon? I don’t know because I haven’t looked into the manufacturing process. Clearly you have to prep cotton before it can even be utilized. But I can’t imagine it would be as washed. Because it doesn’t have to go through a mutli-formation process to become a tampon like a shirt does or a pair of jeans. And on top of that, I wash my clothes too. I mean that’s at least three washes before my body gets it. And it’s external, it’s not a moist pocket. I mean, you can sweat. All lead exposure isn’t ideal. But it’s really different when we’re talking vaginal health - which already gets the short end of the stick. Likewise, I wasn’t panicking. In fact, I have a very “is what it is” kinda vibe to it, because I literally could not give a shit outside of the fact that I do not like things that hurt women’s health.
And in expressing it on a personal level, I think if you think about it - it’s just another series of pollutants that are added to our lives (cause women do a lot of cleaning and women do a lot of grooming and all of that stuff can be caustic as well). But in the grand scheme of things I have absolutely zero - no - control over whether anything has lead. Is used. Etc. I just know that women tend to bleed (not all women) and that there will be a set of women who will insert tampons into their vaginas for a extended period of time. And it’s a stressor that most men will never have to face. Even if we lined people up and made them all eat the same things, wear the same things - if the person who could menstruate added regular tampon use to the list it just adds extra exposure. That’s all I was saying. People can have different lifestyles and their lifestyles can expose them to all sorts of stuff but having a period outside of some situations or forms of control are pretty standard affair for most vagina holders. Is all.
Jesus freakin’ christ. Jesus.
EVERYTHING I SAY IS PURELY OPINION AND I LITERALLY NEVER KNOW WHAT I AM SAYING. I’M JUST GOING WITH THE JAZZ IN MY HEAD AND HAVING A GOOD TIME TRYING TO CHILL WITH STRANGERS ON THE NET <<<<<
Yo, you broke me homes.
I wasn’t referring to you, but to the post itself.
While it’s not as unnerving as the exposure from tampons,
Some condom and lubricant brands contain alarming levels of PFAS – study | PFAS | The Guardian
Yeah, his fanclub is part of the problem.
Bloody Hell: Does Religion Punish Women for Menstruating?
There’s a term: “period poverty”. Look it up.
If you allow this baseless accusation on tampons to become an
urbansuburban and rural myth, you end up promoting these assholes’ ideologies. They can use this “fact” about lead in tampons to deny relevant healthcare or to prevent stuff like: https://www.freethetampons.org/ by claiming that it harms girls. It’s important to prevent the noxious disinformation of tomorrow just like it’s important to prevent heavy metal bioaccumulation.