Women from a college run by followers of Swaminarayan Temple in Gujarat's Bhuj were ‘paraded’ to washrooms so teachers could check if they were bleeding from their vagina.
Some people were so infuriated that they threatened to have me thrown out of my country. I am a woman, and any issue related to my gender has no nationality.
In a country notoriously tight-lipped about menstruation, the topic of sanitary napkins, menstrual hygiene, waste disposal and even the taxation of sanitary pads has suddenly gone mainstream.
In a country where unemployment is at a historic high, the national anxiety isn’t about jobs — it’s about reach. Aspirations have shifted from employment to engagement, from careers to content.
This is the most shallow, mind numbing, moronic, atavistic, antediluvian and aseptic feminist drivel which is common place in certain sections of the media. It does not take into account the societal and cultural nuances of context, and demonizes all questioning as anti women propaganda.
Moreover clubbing disparate issues and arguing to the point of extinction is surely not the smart way of ensuring equality or getting your due. Women are not goddesses or paragons of virtue that they should be given special treatment by society.
This writer has no idea behind the reason for Sabarimala. Besides it has been s voluntary custom followed by women. Why? Please find out.
No one talks about shitting and pissing either in regular conversation.
Why is there a taboo on menstruation in all societies? It’s obviously because of hygiene considerations that were there in the past. Today too things have not changed much, except for a few as the writer says.
Men are not another species, so work for a change in hygiene conditions and then seek change.
This is the most shallow, mind numbing, moronic, atavistic, antediluvian and aseptic feminist drivel which is common place in certain sections of the media. It does not take into account the societal and cultural nuances of context, and demonizes all questioning as anti women propaganda.
Moreover clubbing disparate issues and arguing to the point of extinction is surely not the smart way of ensuring equality or getting your due. Women are not goddesses or paragons of virtue that they should be given special treatment by society.
This writer has no idea behind the reason for Sabarimala. Besides it has been s voluntary custom followed by women. Why? Please find out.
No one talks about shitting and pissing either in regular conversation.
Why is there a taboo on menstruation in all societies? It’s obviously because of hygiene considerations that were there in the past. Today too things have not changed much, except for a few as the writer says.
Men are not another species, so work for a change in hygiene conditions and then seek change.