Recently, more than 40 teachers from " Northwest Yunnan Teaching Team " have taken more than 6,000 sanitary napkins to the mountains and became a hot search. Data picture. Photo/IC photo
Recently, more than 40 teachers from the "Northwest Yunnan Teaching Group" brought more than 6,000 sanitary napkins to the mountains to the hot searches. In the picture, teachers and caring business people transport sanitary napkins to the mountainous areas and distribute them to girls in the mountainous areas, and also conduct "physiological health classes" for them.
This incident can become a hot topic, obviously not just because of the "teaching group's love". Whether it is distributing sanitary napkins to these mountain girls or conducting physiological health classes, this has touched on a long-term neglected but needs to be paid attention to - some mountain girls often face considerable embarrassment and shame during menstruation due to the lack of physiological knowledge.
"Let menstruation be seen" is the first step to eliminate "menstrual shame". Many women have had this experience. Since they went to school, they learned to conceal their menstruation without a teacher. From the sanitary napkins hidden in their pockets at the end of class, to mysterious secret codes such as "bread", "menstrual period" has become a shame that cannot be mentioned publicly in the subconscious, and will not appear in daily conversations. This directly causes: it is obviously a normal physiological phenomenon, but it is in a "vacuum" state in the context of reality.
The lack of physiological knowledge even makes many girls feel fearful of normal physiological phenomena. For children in these mountainous areas, to help them eliminate this fear, we should not only consider physiological hygiene, but also pay attention to the popularization of physiological health knowledge. Many of them are left-behind children. In addition, they are greatly influenced by the ideas of the older generation, and their physiological health knowledge is almost blank, so there is no need to actively seek information on ways to obtain physiological supplies.
As the head of the Northwest Yunnan Educational Group said in the interview, they not only donate sanitary napkins, but more importantly, convey a healthy physiological and psychological concept to children. This means that both boys and girls need to receive appropriate health education. Healthy physiological and psychological concepts take root in their hearts, which is more important than a few free sanitary napkins.
Of course, it is also necessary to see that behind the gap in physiological knowledge of these children, the gender environment, gender awareness, family parent-child relationships, etc. are actually a series of social issues. Therefore, it is very important to allow them to have a correct understanding of their bodies and correctly understand the social and cultural significance of menstruation. These are deeply influenced by acquired education and the overall social concept, and in any case, they cannot follow the old paths of "abnormality" and "unspeakable" in the past.
The efforts behind these "changes" cannot be solved by just one teaching group. The work done by this teaching group has made the society see the difficulties of these girls, and whether all parties can form a fixed mechanism to help these children in the mountainous areas form a correct understanding of their menstrual period requires the joint efforts of the entire society. This task has a long way to go.
Written by/Beijing News Commenter Ding Hui
Edited by/Liu Yunyun
Proofreading/Wu Xingfa
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