WHOM DO WE WANT TO BE AWARE OF? A MAN?
Stop being obscene!
If you really want to spread awareness, do it sincerely
Talking about Menstruation has become a trend!
“PMS” is another element for our said rescue. Thanks to social media for letting PMS videos going viral. Lets for a while consider that opening up, giving a voice to menstruation in #HappyToBleed and such cliché campaigns, which race up in getting women accepted as a women, is ok. But then who we are targeting on?
Menstruating Man
Why do we need a man to know the pains, the cramps, the mood swings, the hygiene, the PMS and what not? Are they the ones going to menstruate?
On the other hand, there are women for whom spending bugs on things which are as trivial as makeup is ok. But spending on hygiene makes them go instantly run out of money. They still use sand filled clothes for soaking their menstrual flow! And when, on making them informed about the hygiene, they smile it off as if somebody has cracked a joke!
Thus, we ourselves (many of us) are not really aware of our own body and we don’t really want to be. And then, we want to make Men aware of it? Why?
WE ARE MENTALLY BLEEDING
On her first period, you banish her into sheds; away from the evil eyes of “Men”. Here, you yourself induce the sense of shame in her. Then you come down on streets with a #PeriodsAreNotAnInsult campaign, striving really hard to convince the same “Men” that it is no stigma and she is “#HappyToBleed”!
Here you say that you are fed up of the stigma, the taboo and so talking about Menstruation is necessary.
Another hilarious act which carries a hidden pride in it happens in places like Andhra Pradesh as an example, where people throw parties on their girl getting her first period–letting everybody know that “my girl is ready for a successful womenhood, that too at the early age of 12”!
GAINING THE EYEBALLS
Musician Kiran Gandhi ran the 2015 London Marathon without a pad or tampon, crossing the finish line with a large red stain between her legs. She did this as an act of putting an end on period shaming.
“Women’s bodies don’t exist for public consumption”–Kiran Gandhi
Also, recently, 20-year-old Arushi Dua asked Mark Zuckerberg to launch an “On my period” button on Facebook to help fight menstrual stigmas in India.
But, for women who are already empowered, have the campaigns and Public Display of Awareness become a source of publicity today? Yes, it seems to be! Because, there is an entirely different issue that has been sidelined unfortunately, and needs to be worked on.
THE REAL PERIOD STORY
70% of girls in India don’t talk about menstruation. A huge number in the world is still using clothes and sand for menstrual flow. Women are not willing to open up on menstruation and talk within self. They carry a stigma with it. Now who has created this stigma? Atleast not a man! A man has nothing to do with whether you visit a temple in your periods or not! So why are we in a continuous effort and attempt to make “men” realize that menstruation is not a taboo? It is women herself who shame periods with stigma. Thus, we, the women, should take the charge of it and atleast now bring the change sincerely.
So, if you really want to break taboos and the secrecy, instead of taking a trumpet and announcing the very natural phenomenon, why don’t you start going street to streets and aware a girl in–person. That will make a big difference!
#HappyToDeficate #HappyToUrinate
Our body excretes the waste blood in the same way as it excretes stools and urine. This excretion of waste blood is Menstruation. Hence, bleeding is as normal as defecation and peeing! So if, somebody is ashamed of menstruating and wants to showoff that they are happy in bleeding then please stop discriminating. Go out campaigning for defecation and urination; and be #HappyToDeficate #HappyToUrinate, as well.
RUINING FEMINISM
Just getting LIVE on TV’s with a PAD in your hand, thinking this would make you look like a social reformer, would not help. For creating awareness we first need to know who we want to be aware of? With all such immoral and obscene PDAs, this “period feminism” has ruined feminism as a whole. Feminism is losing its essence and empowering women is becoming a cliché. So, step outside of the internet and TV world, and go to the illiterate streets.
Take the challenge!