I don't know about you, but I've just about had it with men trying to act like they understand women's bodies. Just when I thought we were making some progress when it comes to periods with states even getting rid of the tampon tax, an idiotic man comes out with his "solution" to dealing with heavy periods. Get this: Apparently this dude thinks the way to make your periods better is to glue your labia shut instead of using pads, tampons, or menstrual cups. Yup, this is a real thing.
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Chiropractor Daniel Dopps, who clearly knows absolutely nothing about vaginas or period, developed Mensez, a "feminine lipstick" that functions as a glue. How does it work? It's simple really. You literally use it the way you would a glue stick to stick your labia minora together so that period blood doesn't leak out of you. This moron is literally suggesting that we just hold our blood inside our vagina because god forbid we let "nasty" period blood come out of us.
I straight up almost passed out just writing that and immediately opened up my legs real wide at my desk. Did I mention that the glue seal breaks every time you pee, requiring you to reapply throughout the day? I'm going to give you a few seconds to process all that.
Everything about this is upsetting, from the fact that a real life doctor thinks the way to deal with period blood is to not let it flow out, to really believing that a labial glue could actually exist. Dude, there's no such thing as a skin sealant that can withstand blood and sweat but not urine. And even if it did, how could that actually be good for the labia minora? And how could holding your period blood inside your vagina be healthy? I'm going to take a wild guess here and just assume that this man has never seen an actual vagina up close in his entire life. I'm also going to guess he has absolutely no effing idea how the menstrual cycle works.
"I see the issues that women deal with, and I'm not a gynecologist, but I just think it could be a better answer than absorbent products," Dopps told Elle.com. "A toddler wearing a diaper, life can be so much better if they're potty trained. I know that's an offensive way to say this but I don't know else to say it. I just think there's a better way." And a better way is to seal shut a vagina? Someone please take this man's medical license away!
Here's an actual promotion from their Facebook page (which, by the way, was hacked "and temporarily disactivated," according to the product's website):
Dopps apparently believes that periods cripple and confuse the heck out of women. He even went as far as equating a woman on her period to the 4th quarter of a football game, a man spending a week every month with diarrhea, or a runny nose.
It's really sad to know that there are men out there that really and truly believe that a woman's menstrual cycle is like a runny nose, wearing a diaper, or having diarrhea every single month. Dopp, do us a favor and just stay the hell away from vaginas or just anything that has to do with women and our menstrual cycles forever!
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