blood toilet

Fuck you to hell and back, Brooke Thomas. Yes, let's shame 14 year old girls for not having learned how to properly contain the blood that frequently spills over and out of the bodies of roughly half of the human population. And fuck you too, Daniel Kuan, for thinking it's more likely or acceptable to leave traces of nose-blood in the bathroom than menstrual blood. Let's be realistic here: the hormones of a significant percentage of your students are not making their noses bleed on a semi-regular basis. Even if the blood was only in the sink, I still think it would be far more likely to be menstruation.

I hope that student grows up to enjoy the way her blood spills on the bathroom floor and learns to resent all the various ways that the patriarchy demands that female bodies be contained.

blood toilet,

sunne-burn'd braine. blood toilet:

1. the stringlets of blood that linger in the bottom of the toilet bowl after I've dumped a keeper-ful of #menstruation in it and flushed once

2. the digital bidet in the women's bathroom at Seoul Electronics High School which is used by my co-workers exclusively when they are #menstruating. I don't think it's against the rules to flush toilet paper down it, but I'm pretty sure you're not supposed to poop in it. There's a different toilet for that. There's also a different toilet for when you just have to pee and you're not on your period, but the digital bidet has a seat that senses movement and prepares to WARM YOUR BUTTOCKS THE MINUTE YOU ENTER THE STALL.

3. the airport bathroom en route Johannesburg --> BsAs, sink full of rusty swirls of maybe-blood, the lower slant of the floor halfway to flooded. The sink clearly clogged - did someone know that the sink was clogged but was so desperate to get the #menstruation off their hands that they rinsed in the sink anyway and then left the bloody water there, because what else can you do when you're #menstruating in an airport bathroom with a flooded floor and a clogged sink?

Maybe the rusty swirly color was something other than #menstruation, but I really hope not.