"It’s downright bizarre that what’s called “discussion” about this most complex yet universal of processes has become one almost completely moderated by business and medicine. We’ve been taught our talking points by people who are frankly far more concerned with their bottom line than with any of those pesky questions we might have. Hey, look-we’re not saying that the pharmaceutical companies and femcare manufacturers are evil per se, or that their decisions are necessarily driven by some deep-seated misogyny or sexism. But business is business, and as of 2001, the so-called feminine hygiene business was a cool $2 billion industry-and that’s just for the products themselves, not including related drugs or advertising. Whether we’re aware of it or not, our relationship to menstruation is one that has been brokered not in our own homes, but at the supermarket, the pharmacy, and the doctor’s office. The conversation about menstruation (if you can call it that) is strictly one-sided and has been smoothly co-opted by big business, with a little help from religion, history, and society…and boy oh boy, do they have a lot to say."
Quote Details
Added by wikiquote-import-bot
Unverified quote
0 likes
Original Language: English
Available Languages (1)
Sources
pp.15-16
https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Menstruation
Revision History
No revisions have been submitted for this quote.
Categories
Menstruation
54 quotes on TrueQuotesView all quotes by Menstruation →
Related Quotes
"Why have eunuchs sore and ulcerated legs? Is it because this is also characteristic of women, and eunuchs are effemin…"
"Only a handful of countries in the developing world permit midwives to perform aspiration abortion (Cambodia (Long 20…"
"[I]t's hard to find a society, a religion or a part of the world that does not find some way to make women feel dirty…"
"In societies where women might have their period only every two years or so because of frequent pregnancies and long …"
"In both developed and developing regions of the world, properly trained midwives, public health nurses, and comparabl…"
"Then he started his period. one week in bed. two doctors in. three painkillers four times a day.And later a letter to…"
"To Strassmann and others in the field of evolutionary medicine, this shift from a hundred to four hundred lifetime me…"
"As more companies bought into the idea, the week of placebo pills was here to stay. Doctors liked that they made expl…"
"Plato was aware that divination is something inferior that pertains to the non-rational soul. The main point is that …"
"When the menstrual purgations appear in the wives, their husbands should not approach them, out of regard to the chil…"