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).

  • ThrowawayEnglish
    0•2 years ago

    I imagine that its extremely hard to get the mass quantities of blood you need for actual testing.

    • @Mouselemming@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      1•2 years ago

      I’m still not satisfied because menstrual blood is much chunkier than a donated pint from your arm. Until they’re using mucus blood we’re still in the dark ages.

    • @JoBo@feddit.ukOPEnglish
      1•2 years ago

      Maybe, maybe not. Blood stocks are precious but they do go out of date and blood banks would jump at the chance to do something useful with the wastage. It would also be perfectly possible to do RCTs with actual women. At the very least, it would be possible to produce a liquid with the right sort of viscosity instead of using water or saline. It’s just so ridiculously shit.