Period, menstruation, cycle: Who dares to talk about it very nonchalantly? The world menstrual day to help to overcome embarrassment and shame. We talk openly about the rules in the world.
The other day I laughed at a Tweet. It contains two female sex organs make a woman funny, which was all too sure that her menstrual period is over. She afterwards sent an unexpected surge, and caused a mishap.
To retweet the Dialog, I don’t have the guts. That was embarrassing for me. Why?
The female cycle is a natural thing and part of the human species, and yet a taboo subject. But now women are starting to deal with their bleeding. The social networks of the theme from the shame-corner, get about with the tag #period positivity network, Instagram, or the Blog “The menstrual officer”. For the Younger ones, the-Year-old to 35-are especially involved.
Enlightenment inhibitions
“We’ve all seen a thousand Times naked body and Breasts, we can look at everywhere porn. But Menstruation is totally denied,” says Eva Wish. It is one of the two authors of the book “the ebb and blood,” which “promises to be all about the tide times of the female cycle”. Have written the two 24 and 25 years old women to learn more.
For a shame-free approach: A Collage of Luisa Stömer and eve make a Wish
Co-author Luisa Stömer, the advertising of feminine hygiene products is a good example of shame and taboos in the society. “It will always be shown to women in white dresses by the scene-hopping, as you would have because of the period, no problems. This is completely in line with reality.” And if days blood was portrayed in advertising, then as a blue liquid, although it is actually red to brown. Stömer says: “How uptight is that?”
Public Bleed
Two counter-examples: The drummer Kiran Gandhi caught in 2015 caused a stir when she took part in the London Marathon, while she had her Menstruation and Tampons or pads renounced. The Free Bleeding, the Running of the blood, as Activists call it, dyed her pants, of course, in the step dark.
Kiran Gandhi (left) reaped hostility and recognition
Gandhi wanted to direct the attention “to my sisters, who do not have access to Tampons and cramps and pain to hide”. Women had not been taught to observe, to complain, and to conceal problems with Menstruation – from the outside could see no one what was going on inside.
At the Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro in 2016, the swimmer Fu Yuanhui missed with the Chinese season just a medal. Responded to her pain-distorted face, she told then, without further ADO, that you have cramps belly, because she had her period and got a lot of Echo in the social networks.
Women bleed in all countries
The Problem, on the Kiran Gandhi wanted to point out, there are in many countries: no running water, no clean toilets, no hygiene products – and no way to talk about it. In some places girls do not go during their days at school. Also, the world wants to create periods the day of a consciousness.
Uganda, for example, has as pent-up demand. Last year, President Yoweri Museveni promised in the election campaign to provide schools in the future free of charge sanitary napkins. The money was missing after the election. The feminist Stella Nyanzi has launched a campaign to raise money for bandages and criticized the leaders, including the President’s wife, who is also education Minister. Now, because of President insult before the court.
In Kenya, however, is now spoken in a much more open over the period. Television and advertising have lowered the threshold, says Bruce Amani is the Kiswahili editorial Department of Deutsche Welle. As the 33-Year-old grew up in the country in the West of Kenya, had told his sister of the mother, but still, you have “visitors”. “As a small Boy, I wondered, what were for visitors.”
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In school, Bruce Amani learned in the classroom more – for example, that his classmates with scraps of fabric and improvised, because of Tie lack of goods goods. “But that was not so effective. Sometimes you looked at the girls bloody stains.” If he had a daughter, he would be with her today Tampons or pads to go shopping. “For your well-being, I would take even the most expensive.”
Cooking ban on bloody days
In India, Menstruation is associated, especially in religious families with taboos. The 32-year-old Ritika Pandey from the Hindi Department of Deutsche Welle, says: “When you have your period, you can’t cook, as a woman, or certain foods to touch, such as Pickle, a kind of pickled fruit or vegetable. Otherwise, the food is supposed to be bad.”
In Germany there was until a few decades ago, similar rules of conduct. Until the beginning of the seventies, many women should be able to handle during the bleeding, no milk or food canning.
The young Generation in India to remove the taboos of Menstruation. So, for example, as the end of 2015, a high level of Spiritual check wanted whether women have their period, to honor them, then the access to the temple Manager – he built on another common taboo. The 20-year-old Nikita Azad, launched subsequently to the public, the campaign “Happy to bleed” (to menstruate Glad).
In the South of India, a non-profit centre for women provides tie
Ritika Pandey recalls that Activists have spread even sanitary napkins in public places. “Clean, of course! That was enough to shock people, because no one expected that a binder sticks to the wall or the bus stop.”
If Ritika Pandey will feel during your period bad, she says, the openly – even among colleagues. “I don’t want to pretend to have a stomach – or headache.” And she wants to be a role model: “If an Intern or a new colleague in the Team starts, it may encourage the. Someone needs to just start to make this a normal topic.” Meanwhile, she even speaks with her father about it.
Menstruation is how to delete an E-Mail
The digital media that promote the removal of taboos – in India, the urban population can be reached, however, primarily. An example is the video series “Sex Chat with Pappu & Papa”, a father explains to his young son’s sexuality (with German subtitles). The Menstruation of the father with an E-Mail mailbox compares. Once a month, mother nature sends a message with the question, whether the woman wants to become pregnant. If you do not respond, delete the E-Mail. In this Phase, the woman is bleeding. The Video has so far more than 3.2 million views.
The son finds that it is quite unfair to send the women up to 40 years of E-Mails that you want to perhaps only a couple of Times with “Yes” answers. Of these Spam E-Mails, so be conclusion, should sign out women.