The expenses of being female;it costs more than being a man!

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I've got a menstrual cup, too. And it works for me way better than tampons, even though I haven't had any major problems with them.
It's true they're more hands on and you have to be comfortable with your body and like the general idea of the cups. Nonetheless, I don't complain. I usually need to empty it only every 12 hours, except for the first day. I just pour it into the sink and wash. As for insertion, it has to be folded and when they're in, it's essential to make sure it got unfolded and holds firmly in place. Removal might be more difficult, but it'll get better with practice.

Do you have to push them as far up as tampons?
It makes me feel all squicky. >.<

^ It's individual, but in general they are worn lower than tampons, e.g. bottom of the cup could be as far as 1 cm from the vaginal opening.

It's mostly in your mind.

Many women feel the obligation to wear things and put things onto their skin.
The same way many men feel obligation to own things, more expesive things. In my area I notice that young mens expetations what they must own are higher than womens expectations. And I don't live in patriarchal society,

But as I am trying to give up the mountain of things in our consumer life, I do not feel that I would be losing my femaleness with it, or the liking signals from men.

Okay I am quite androgynous and high heel shoes don't make me feel better about myself but actually the opposite. I understand that to many it is important. And yes you should feel good about yourself even if it takes the heels and this seasons fashion.

But many things in the list of the opening post are such which we are made to believe that we need by stupid commercials and maybe something else stupid. Most of the cosmetics meant to improve your skin or hair are plain useless but expensive. And need for a bra is totally dependent on the body type and personal comfort preference and is not dependent on any expetations from surrounding people - when you have more than one layer of clothing, they can't tell. And how many of them you really need? Some things in that list are often needed, but you have choice between options - like menstrual stuff and birth control. In developed countries these things do not cost so much that you should be complaining, compare with cost of food.

I want to say, that as a woman I can downsize - buy just mascara and replace all the rest of the cosmetics with soap and oil, buy secondhand clothing, few pairs of footwear and one not fancy bra and cut my own hair and take my boxed lunch to work. And feel just great and shiny. But I imagine that a man who would not own some tech-gadgets and can't afford eating out would more easily lose his good feeling about himself. I guess I discriminate here, in my opinion women are more flexible and often stronger than men. But also women are allowed to be poor and weird more than men are. Not wearing something as a woman is not so condemned as not owning something expensive as a man. I think so.