Bethany Black (@BethanyBlack@mastodon.social)
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After all these years I’m rarely surprised by medical misogyny, but finding out that the research from the first ever tests on period products using blood instead of water were published LAST WEEK is one of those surprises.

Archive link to story here: https://archive.ph/HVNLH

Posted here because there is no community for Absolutely Infuriating (that I know of).

  • Tangent5280@lemmy.worldEnglish
    202·
    11 months ago

    It sounds like nobody actually wanted to test with actual blood - not that there were technical or logistical difficulties, because if this was any other industrial problem, solutions would have been found the second time the problem showed up.

    I don’t understand what the concerns against using real blood were. Was it expensive? Government regulated? It could have atleast had animals blood testing or something, or are we suddenly balking at all the butchering in the food industries now too?

    I don’t agree with testing with real women though. That’s pretty much the same as saying skincare should be tested on real people, right? It should be TESTED elsewhere, and USED by women.

    • bane_killgrind@kbin.social
      21·
      11 months ago

      My take is blood is a biohazard unless it’s quality is regulated, and therefore it’s a biohazard unless it’s expensive. I’ll go read the article in a bit maybe I’m wrong.

      • idiomaddict@feddit.deEnglish
        81·
        11 months ago

        It is a biohazard, but that’s not a good reason not to use it, just use appropriate ppe and disposal

    • JoBo@feddit.ukOPEnglish
      16·
      11 months ago

      Every drug you take is tested on real people. They are asked to give informed consent, of course. But we don’t just decide that something looks like it might work and start prescribing it. Testing period products is a trivial ask compared to something like chemotherapy. Bless every single person who consents to participate, we’d be fucked without them.

    • flicker@kbin.social
      14·
      11 months ago

      Anecdotally, when I was a child and an ad for maxi pads came on TV showing that blue liquid, I had to listen to my father removed about how there shouldn’t be ads for menstrual products because they’re “disgusting.” And he shouldn’t “have to think of that.”

      …so it’s anecdotal only but I may have a theory about why…