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Morning Sickness: Period Pains

By Mac Hackett

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Some boss in Norway is being a dick, ordering female employees to wear red bracelets if they're on their periods so they have an excuse for using the toilet more often. Predictably enough, the scheme has been condemned. Rather than using a photograph of an overworked, menstrually-harangued Norwegian factory woman to illustrate their story, the Mail have typed "red bracelet" into their celebrity archives and turned up a picture of a Kabbalah string. Turns out it's not Madonna or Rihanna, just some less famous woman off American TV, though her Botox-ravaged lips, millionaire husband and imminent menopause don't exactly scream "solidarity with the cause" to me.