Women are a situation, not a gender. The sentence
was once again deeply confirmed in the "high-speed rail sanitary napkin" incident a few days ago.
Menstrual period, as an existence that will bring half a lifetime of inconvenience to women, because this incident was once again involved in the public opinion field.
is actually a very small thing.
A woman suddenly needs to buy sanitary napkins because of her menstrual period when she was taking the high-speed rail. However, there are no sanitary napkins on the high-speed rail, which makes her feel that it is not very convenient.
So she posted this incident online, hoping that the relevant departments of the high-speed rail could improve this situation.
Results High-speed rail department responded: sanitary napkins are personal items and cannot be sold. If you want to sell them, you will sell them early.
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This response caused a thousand waves.
Many people say that sanitary napkins are not shameful personal items, but are essential items that can be rescued at critical moments.
Result There are many rebuttals in the comment area:
I know I'm going to have menstruation, so why don't I prepare sanitary napkins in advance?
can’t bear it, let’s talk about it when you go to the place?
This is commonplace. Do you still need a high-speed train to prepare a dressing room and a bathing room for you in the future?
You are not asking for equality and respect, but for privileges!
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mighty, Sir doesn't want to argue more.
But some comments are really too dazzling.
Unexpectedly, in the 21st century, there are still people who are so unaware of women who live together day and night and occupy half of the earth's population every day, and are so lacking in physiological knowledge. I don't know which part of education has a problem.
But is the problem limited to this?
Today Sir wants to talk about it, What exactly are we talking about when we are talking about the "high-speed rail sanitary napkin" incident.
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What is menstruation?
People, especially men, have shown their lack of physical knowledge about women in many film and television dramas. In the Hong Kong drama "Hai Qiao (Dong Cuiwen) asked the male colleagues about their understanding of sanitary napkins during market research.
They can’t even tell the most basic concept of “day and night use”.
-know why sanitary napkins should be used day and night
-it should be used at night...it should be thicker for night
html-it will be longer at night, about 27-34 cm
The key point is that they don’t understand and don’t want to understand, thinking that women’s menstruation is just a stomachache, so they can forget the pain when they buy.
I usually pretend not to know
When she has a stomachache, it's embarrassing.
Or accompany her to have a big meal, relax
When a woman buys things, she remembers nothing.
This kind of ignorance is also scattered in reality.
During the Wenchuan earthquake, the demand for female physiological products was put last.
At the beginning of the epidemic, no one has any experience and no one has noticed the physiological needs of female medical staff.
Later, when a netizen donated physiological supplies to female medical staff in Wuhan, some people were puzzled: "You can't save your life, and you still care about your crotch?"
A TV station interviewed a female nurse who participated in the epidemic prevention and control in Wuhan. The nurse told about the various inconveniences of being in the menstrual period, but the TV program cut off the "menstrual period" when it was replayed.
△ There have been news that women's physiological needs have been ignored everywhere
So, what exactly is menstruation?
Can women's monthly bleeding be easily dealt with as some comments say?
menstruation refers to the phenomenon that women's blood or mucosa regularly excretes from the endometrium of and the vagina through the vagina. Probably once every 21 to 35 days, lasting 2 to 7 days.
Some women experience lower abdomen pain and swelling before and after menstruation or during menstruation. Some people even need to take painkillers to survive this period.
American drama " Super Sentiment Hunting " presents the pain of women during menstruation in a comedic way.
A female super-sensory person shared her dysmenorrhea with a male actor, which gave men finally a chance to experience a woman's menstrual dilemma.
He needs to take pain medication to work properly.
Menstrual period causes changes in estrogen and progesterone in the body, which also allows the male actors to experience the pain of emotional fluctuations.
The male actor suddenly burst into tears at the shooting site, which affected the shooting progress.
Director accused the male actor of being undedicated and the agent thought he was mentally ill.
In fact, this is just an "ordinary thing" that women have to experience once a month.
In addition to the inconvenience caused by menstruation itself, the menstrual cycle itself is also an uncertain factor. Many women have unstable menstrual periods, and they cannot make accurate predictions and make complete preparations every time they go out.
As for whether it can be tolerated?
This is the funniest link.
Actual menstruation is like nosebleed . It cannot be controlled by willpower, and there is no solution like "release it when you get to the place".
When women put forward the demand for "I hope to sell sanitary napkins on high-speed rail", the argument that "does you have to create a dressing room and a bathing room" is even more a malicious sophist.
Menstrual period, as an uncontrollable physiological phenomenon, is a completely different nature from the choice of makeup and bathing.
is a urgent need compared to other unimpressed demand , and then the unreasonable demand of other needs is refuted by the rationality of the urgent need. It is logically called landslide fallacy .
After popularizing the basic knowledge of menstruation, I will return to the initial question.
Why don’t people understand this way of the other half of people they are with day and night?
In fact, behind this ignorance, there is a more serious problem.
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Menstrual shame
I believe everyone has heard from girls during their growth: "That".
It seems like the ghost who is invisible in the thriller but has been following him all the time. There are always a few days every month when a girl is facing a great enemy, whispering, "That's coming."
If you ask, what is "that"? It is " Aunt ", "relative", "unlucky", "bad thing"...
In short, menstruation cannot be said.
△ TV series " too thick color "
The word "menstrual period" seems to be cursed. Once it is said, it will make both the speaker and the listener feel ashamed.
"Mental shame" is everywhere in TV series.
The popular "Their Names " under the banner of female themes openly rejects women's menstruation and changes all the lines mentioned in the play to "makeup removal cotton pads".
△ The actor's mouth is "sanitary napkin"
The barrage was in an uproar.
What's even more outrageous is that there is a plot in the drama where the heroine bought a lot of sanitary napkins for market research, but the lines blatantly changed the "sanitary napkins" that everyone can see to "makeup removal cotton".
is even more exaggerated. When the heroine said that she couldn't carry so many "makeup remover cotton" and wanted the man next to her to help, the man said again: "If it's a black plastic bag, I will carry it." What about
? If the "makeup remover cotton" is in your hands, it will be shameful?
TV series "So you are still here".
The heroine clamped the sanitary napkin in the book to go to the toilet, but was stopped by the hero.
During the dispute between the two, the sanitary napkin fell out, and the students in the entire corridor came out to watch the joke.
Compared with " In the Name of Family " seems particularly progressive, and does not avoid the plot of Li Jianjian 's first period.
But when playing, everyone can see that the word "menstrual period" has been changed to "menstrual period".
And the "menstrual period" in the popular Taiwanese drama " Want to See You" in 2019 is even worse.
has already undergone a layer of castration in the original version, and it refers to "menstrual period" as "that". In the mainland version, it is still difficult to escape the fate of being deleted, and even "that" cannot appear.
△ Original version, the male protagonist thought it was the first day of the heroine's menstruation
△ Mainland version, the male protagonist's line was deleted, and the female protagonist said it was "the first day we were together"
After the American drama " Friends " was introduced to the mainland, the menstruation could not escape the fate of being deleted and modified.
first period——"My menstruation" was translated as "My adolescence".
So, the meaning of the next line becomes "My adolescence came when I was thirteen years old", which is incredible.
Or in "Women Not Easy to Do", when discussing the topic of sanitary napkins, the men at the meeting said that when they were shopping in the supermarket, if they walked to the sanitary napkin rack, they would be called perverted.
Not to mention touching me, my wife and I went to the supermarket
After passing the column of sanitary napkins, we have turned around and left
Going alone? People must say that I am perverted
△ "Mental shame" is also an inconvenience for men
Some people also think that sanitary napkins are evil things.
You actually hold it in your hand
Take it away, men encounter it very evil
If everyone's "passive, acquired" menstrual shame is an old and decadent social discipline, then men take the initiative to perform menstrual shame on women is full of malicious intentions.
The " Gentlemen of East Eighth District " has been scolded recently. In addition to being greasy and vulgar, it also did something to insult women:
woman
0,000 years of bleeding and immortality? Is it
△ No female audience will think this sentence is humorous
is not just a TV series, but the 2018 Indian movie "Padman" is the normal translation of " Padman ". After being introduced to China, it was not only renamed " Indian Partner ", but the sanitary napkins on the poster were also replaced with A4 paper.
△ The left is the original poster, and the right is the Chinese version poster
The slogan on the poster " breaks ignorant customs, saves 600 million women in India, the world's first movie to focus on menstrual periods ".
became the best irony in this poster. The same is true in
ads.
Almost all sanitary napkin advertisements use blue instead of the red of menstrual blood, presenting a sense of cleanliness.
This is because when TV advertising first began to prevail in the early 1980s, TV stations in the United States, Australia, New Zealand and other countries had a regulation called Taste and Decency. One of the statements was: menstrual period products are not allowed to appear.
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The more you see, the more confused you make people.
is the word "menstrual period" cannot be passed?
is not.
The best drama " Beginning " was not at all disgusted when mentioning sanitary napkins, and it was even a male passenger on the bus who provided help to Li Shiqing. In the drama " Vulgar Female Development Record ", parents are also particularly enlightened about Chen Jialing's sex education .
When Chen Jialing had her first period, her father would teach her how to cook pig blood soup, and her mother would give her a sanitary napkin with ease.
So, when the boy picked up the sanitary sanitary tampon that Chen Jialing fell, she did not feel "menstrual shame". Instead, a female classmate who was not educated in enlightened sex pulled her away and ran away.
There is also no change in reality.
016 Rio Olympics women's 4x100m medley relay final, reporter interviewed the swimmer at that time Fu Yuanhui .
Fu Yuanhui squatted on the ground in pain at that time. The reporter asked her if she was feeling uncomfortable. She answered frankly:
"Because I had a period yesterday, I was still a little tired and very tired. But this is not a reason, it's still not good for me to swim."
Fu Yuanhui's frankness immediately attracted a lot of comments online. The British Independent even commented: This is just a small step for Fu Yuanhui, but a big step for women.
This does not mean that "menstrual shame" is not an innate and unchangeable problem?
As long as there is correct and enlightened education, avoid unprincipled self-castration and menstruation, it can be completely demystified and become a popular concept.
This is not only the liberation of women, but also the liberation of men. Why not do it?
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secondary
So, why is "menstrual shame" so difficult to remove?
Award-winning Oscar-winning short film "Meniosity Revolution" is filmed in Indian social customs, but we can see the underlying logic of "menstrual shame" that is common all over the world. The men and women in
are very secretive about "menstrual period".
The reporter asked a few girls: "What is menstruation?"
They looked at me and looked at you, laughing, but no one answered the question positively.
The husband cannot touch the women who have menstruated.
Women who have menstrual periods cannot touch anything casually.
During menstruation I can’t touch water or go to the front of the house
And cooking
I can’t do anything
Temples are even more unavailable because they are considered unclean.
That's right, is not clean .
In social concepts, menstruation is dirty, ugly, and unlucky.
Women who have menstrual period are also "injury".
If a woman enters the house during menstruation
There will be tigers to eat our cows, buffaloes and goats
When did this stigma of menstruation begin?
In fact, in history, people's attitudes towards menstrual blood have a transformation process .
In the primitive era, blood was connected with life.
Blooded beasts, enemies and deaths after bleeding make people feel awe of it, and the blood that women regularly shed monthly has further strengthened the ancients' understanding of blood:
Blood represents the mysterious power of life, divine power, warding off evil, and overcoming crises.
In matriarchal society, women's body and menstrual cycle are regarded as sacred.
Archaeology has discovered the fact that it proved the sacred existence of women 6,000 years ago:
The bones engraved with marks are the most primitive calendars, and they are used by women to record their menstrual cycles.
In many tribal societies in primitive society, special ceremonies related to menstruation will also be held.
The attention received by women's menstrual period is far more than the attention received by men's first nocturnal emission.
The superstition and taboos of menstruation of Chinese people have also undergone changes with the changes of history.
Modern Chinese folk scholar Jiang Shaoyuan wrote in his book "Several aspects of the Chinese's Tiangui View":
Chinese people have always been interesting to say about this red thing, and they are divided into two factions: some people regard it as the most terrible filth and try their best to avoid it; some people claim to be treasures, relying on it to play all kinds of wonderful achievements, even defeating imperialism and becoming an immortal!
However, with the change from matriline society to patriarchal society, the social status of women has fallen, and menstrual blood is gradually regarded as an ominous foreign object, thus forming a taboo on menstruation - society uses this discipline to attempt to control the female body.
So, menstruation, which was originally a normal physiological phenomenon in women, is related to "uncleanness".
Its internal logic is: women are inferior genders, and things that are closely related to women's bodies and not related to men are also inferior. They cannot enjoy public spaces because public spaces are masculine.
Therefore, things that are only related to women can only happen silently, handle them secretly, and disappear quietly.
The essence of menstrual shame is misogynistic.
Say that selling sanitary napkins on high-speed rail is a argument that women are demanding privileges, which is the extension of this logic.
Men do not have the need for sanitary napkins. When women require services that men cannot use in public spaces, their dominant position is challenged. So, they made stressful opposition and resistance.
The incident of "high-speed rail sanitary napkins" that has been rumored from all aspects.
It is a health issue, an economic issue, a cultural issue, or even a political issue, but cannot be a female issue.
We don’t know what changes this discussion will bring.
But there are always people on the road.
015, Harvard female graduate Kiran Gandhi ran the London Marathon without using a sanitary napkin during menstruation. Her pants stained with menstrual blood were exposed to public, which instantly caused controversy.
But her actions have broken the taboo of not being able to mention menstruation.
Chilean Artist Carina Úbedah made the bed sheets stained with menstrual blood that had been accumulated for five years into installation art. sheets are fixed on a ring like embroidery crafts and hung down from the ceiling, symbolizing female ovulation.
She told the original meaning of menstruation: there is endless life in the gurgling blood.
△ Source: YouTube
" Global Women's Rights Charity UK International Program Organization ", which is committed to the protection of women's rights, took two years to promote the passage of menstruation-specific expressions.
Publicly talk about menstruation is the first step to end menstruation shame.
Indian Canadian artist Kuar has a poetic interpretation of menstruation:
My monthly bleeding helps make the continuation of humanity possible.
My uterus is the home of God and the source of life for our species. Regardless of whether I will give birth to new life in the future, this blood is considered holy in ancient civilizations.
But most people, the entire society, and most communities try to avoid this process of discussing this sacred nature.
Society has become accustomed to consuming women's bodies and breasts, and people are used to connecting women with pornography.
When a woman is bleeding, people regard it as a dirty, sick burden.
It seems that this process is not as natural as breathing. It seems that this process is not a necessary link to life in the universe. It seems that this process has nothing to do with love, labor, life, selflessness and amazing beauty.
In fact, after all, it is just one sentence.
Without menstruation, there is no human .
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