A Woman Got Her Period the Night Before a Marathon and Decided to Bleed Freely

"It's not something we need to protect children from. It's not something that hurts people's feelings. It's something that women biologically go through as a human race. It's something that we should honor, enable, allow. We should have language around it that makes people comfortable. The fact that women go through something that is completely natural but don't have a set of vocabulary to speak about it that doesn't make people uncomfortable is oppressive."