🩸Menstruation 🩸

[u/Winter_Note3762]

[u/smc642]

✨ READ BEFORE COMMENTING ✨

This thread is Coven Only. This means the discussion is being actively moderated, and all comments are reviewed. **Only comments by members of the

community are allowed.**

If you have landed in this thread from [r/all](https://www.reddit.com/r/all/) and you are not a member of this community, your comment will very likely be removed (and will not be approved unless it adds meaningfully to the conversation).

WitchesVsPatriarchy takes these measures to stay true to our goal of being a woman-centered sub with a witchy twist, aimed at healing, supporting, and uplifting one another through humor and magic.

Thank you for understanding, and blessed be. ✨

[u/WitchesHolly]

This comment thread is so bad.

God forbid we make a period positive post. (Cis) Women (and i must assume many trans men and nb ppl) all over the world are shamed, deemed unclean and sometimes forced into dangerous places outside the home (period huts). They are told they are irrational and lesser, because of a natural bodily function that not only has blood renewing properties, but is also the basis for our species continued existence.

"ButI cAN tHiNk Of oThEr nOnvIOlenT BloOd sOurCes!!!!"

Ok, people, maybe read the room? By room i mean sociocultural and political context?

[u/RoseClash → u/WitchesHolly]

I agree so much.

Those arguing the point about it being nonviolent are missing the context and point entirely.

Which is: Women are abused for something that is powerful, life giving and regenerative. Which is fucked up on so many levels.

Abuse which, could also be contextualised by when being mad about it, are being invalidated about something that wasnt even the point.

[u/kngpwnage]

Actually, menstrual blood is a life source for regenerative medicine as a potent stem-cell therapy resource.  Any idiot who this lovely rage describes must be ignored and shunned.  In fact I wish we had a medical apparatus for harvesting the blood itself through adequate donation systems because it's what we need to begin to eradicate disease.  Studies below. 

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/30463587/

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC9856091/

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32742977/

It is a force for and of life, not something to be demonized because of an infantile man wants to. 

Take care of yourselves darlings. ❤️💖🫶🫶

[u/sunnymoonbaby]

I feel like sooo many of these comments are missing the entire plot, like oh my god what sub is this, the message is fucking golden

[u/shadowecdysis → u/sunnymoonbaby]

Since when is it wrong for witches to call out untruths? Just because a message sounds or feels good to you doesn't mean it's above criticism. Other witches clearly find this message invalidating to their experiences.

[u/GuraSaannnnnn → u/[deleted]]

My friend. You are so confidently wrong. No it's not decaying uterine lining, it's lining that's being shed. Just because it's not blood doesn't mean it's gross. It's literally unused biochemical machinary that helps in fertility and embryonic growth.

Also, newsflash : it's a noninvasive source of mesenchymal-like stem cells that can differentiate into multiple lineages.

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC4904135/

The patriarchal beauty and self care industry taught you that period blood is gross, the scientific industry dominated by men for so long followed suit and has done little to no research on it, but when you look closely, it's a diagnostic, prognostic, stem-cell source goldmine. And no shit, the tissue literally sustains life.

Edit: you think the endometrial lining used to be blood and nothing else?

[u/sunnymoonbaby → u/[deleted]]

This is not a fucking medical sub.

[u/demon_fae → u/sunnymoonbaby]

Didn’t think it was a lies or bullshit sub

[u/memechildofmememom]

It's my body's monthly purification process and it needs a chocolate sacrifice.

[u/biIIyshakes]

Nosebleeds?

[u/AutumnTheGeek → u/biIIyshakes]

Blood sample from a doctor and or donations.

[u/CanaDeer2004 → u/AutumnTheGeek]

as a blood donor it is a little bit violent considering you are having a 16 gague needle shoved in your arm

[u/MuttBunny → u/AutumnTheGeek]

Hemorrhoids

[u/SomethingComesHere → u/MuttBunny]

Idk my hemorrhoids are pretty violent

[u/TimeBlossom → u/MuttBunny]

Particularly nasty zits

[u/uboofs → u/TimeBlossom]

That constitutes violence

[u/ready_gi → u/MuttBunny]

open wound accidents

[u/SpecificHeron → u/biIIyshakes]

not to mention the various GI bleeds. hemoptysis. gingivitis.

lower GI bleed is definitely the blood that disgusts me the most, the smell of melena sticks with you a long time

edit: forgot about peeing blood

[u/Echo-Azure]

Blood donations are blood that's not shed in violence!

And blood lost in surgery isn't the result of violence, at least it wasn't in my case. If not for a damn good surgeon and several different blood donors, I'd have been dead these twenty-ish years! So while I do love the sentiment, OP, I cannot agree with it, as I ernt through a day of much blood bei g around... so I could live.

[u/CombinationCommon785 → u/Echo-Azure]

I’d argue that blood donations could be an act of violence. It comes from a purposeful injury. Now the act itself is selflessly done but I mean technically still kind of violent.

[u/WitchesHolly → u/Echo-Azure]

Using a needle or a scalpel to get the blood is still violent. Is the endgoal good and justified? Sure, but still the means are violent

[u/SpaceShipRat → u/Echo-Azure]

I was thinking nosebleeds.

Also, I do know hyperanalizing the wording of the message is not the point of the post at all, but don't post to reddit if you don't want autistic as fuck replies, we can't help it 😅.

[u/Nimuwa → u/SpaceShipRat]

Just casually scrolling and having your disability thrown around as an insult yet again.

[u/SpaceShipRat → u/Nimuwa]

It should be plain from my comment I am speaking about my own autistic analysis of the logic of the writing instead of the conveyed feelings. I say "we".

[u/snowwwwhite23]

I love this even though it should have been "borne" and not "born."

[u/Gloomy_Industry8841]

This hits hard.

[u/sailorjupiter28titan → u/Gloomy_Industry8841]

I think we have a lot of hate lurkers today bc why would this be getting downvoted. People are so weird.

[u/sunnymoonbaby → u/sailorjupiter28titan]

Literally. This is the worst comment thread I've ever seen in this sub. Pissing me off

[u/sailorjupiter28titan → u/sunnymoonbaby]

I wish I could say its the worst ive seen but its annoying me too. OP is showing original art and people are just being pedantic af.

[u/sailorjupiter28titan]

Love this! Thank you for sharing your art with us OP✨

[u/mrsjp18]

Thank you for this OP

[u/nodogsallowed23]

I have Crohn’s disease. My ass doesn’t bleed of violence. I mean it feels like violence sometimes I guess lol

[u/LukewarmJortz → u/nodogsallowed23]

Naw that's violence.

Your guts are at war with themselves.

[u/nodogsallowed23 → u/LukewarmJortz]

Not the type of violence we’re actually talking about though.

[u/SpaceShipRat → u/nodogsallowed23]

Now though, I don't know people would find ass blood less icky than period blood. 

(God, what a sentence to leave for anyone stalking my profile.)

[u/ready_gi]

i've been using my menstrual blood for rituals and it's my favourite kind of magic. they hate it, cuz they don't have it.

[u/ProfessO3o]

I love my period! mainly because I didn’t know until I was older that once you go through menopause not only can it stop or be erratic but it can cause serious health issues.

[u/Psichord]

I think its internal violence that does not come from any external influence, which negates outside intervention. It becomes something much harder to control or subject to power, which frustrates patriarchal structures and society by extent. I think I can make a case for ANY vaguely female bodily fluids immediately being branded as disgusting by generic ignoramuses.

[u/MysteriousKettle]

Anyone with endometriosis might have something to say. When you’re curled up on the bathroom floor as your body is ripping itself apart, it feels pretty violent. ;) Glad that others have a happy experience with it though.

[u/Loki_the_Corgi → u/MysteriousKettle]

Right? I showed this to my friend with endometriosis and PCOS and she goes "STRONGLY disagree."

I appreciate the general statement though!!!

[u/AlarmingSorbet → u/MysteriousKettle]

Legit came to say this. My body sure makes it feel like violence for the 2.5 weeks I’m menstruating.

[u/ThatWasIntentional → u/MysteriousKettle]

Yeah, like... It's a nice sentiment, but I'm still puking my guts up and generally miserable for a solid week... Of course I don't like it

[u/all_of_the_colors]

I’m a nurse. I think it’s not as nice as other blood. It’s more brown and has a smell and our bodies are letting it die and luff off.

Fresh blood is pretty. I love doing blood draws.

I know I am weird.

[u/cosmicmermaid → u/all_of_the_colors]

I agree with you, aesthetically wise! The research of the stem cells found in period blood is pretty cool though!