Two things that do not go well together

[foxfirefey]

lamentables has discovered two things that have a TMI but amusing noncompatability:

I am a dedicated user of the Mooncup. I am also a dedicated user of fresh chillies.

These two things are not wholly compatible.

Comments

[noracharles]

"Just nonspecific enough" to not offend. Because menstruation is offensive.

I don't think "alternative feminine hygiene" is a slur. I think the idea that menstruation is embarrassing and shameful, that buying menstruation products is a horrifying ordeal, that it's a great insult to ask a man who's going to the story anyway to pick up some for you, that you have to lie about using the products by hiding them away in closed cupboards, not having a pail in your bathroom, carrying your whole purse or jacket with you into a bathroom because you can't just take your product out of the purse/pocket and carry it in your hand, etc. etc. is offensive.

I don't think snot, earwax or skin oil are appropriate topics for dinner conversation either, but people don't freak out about ads for kleenex, q-tips and neutrogena. I guess it's not a shameful and tabooified bodily excretion when men are doing it.

If lamentables had been changing their contact lens instead of their cup, foxfirefey probably would not have felt the need to hide the text behind a cut that said "mention of ocular device". However, there are rules about the use of computers in certain places that could get people in trouble if they read anything about vaginas, so on reflection, I think foxfirefey found a good compromise.