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James Delingpole

The feminists who fell for a bleeding hoax

13 August 2015

1:00 PM

13 August 2015

1:00 PM

Did you know that tampons were just another brutal expression of the oppressive patriarchy? I must confess that I didn’t either, until the story broke this week about an unfortunate woman who decided to run the London marathon during her time of the month without any panty pads, in ostentatious protest against the alleged male practice of ‘period-shaming’.

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