ask-aphsiberia:
facts-before-ideology:
hadeia-heddy:
“Menstruation is the only blood that is not born from violence, yet it’s the one that disgusts you the most.” —Maia Schwartz
الحيض هو الدم الوحيد الذي لا يولد من العنف، ومع ذلك فهو الدم الأكثر إثارة لاشمئزازك “.
-مايا شوارتز
Those of you decrying “ewwww” and “booo” to this image are ignorant to the fact that in many countries, menstruation is taboo. It is a common myth held by many religious people and institutions that a woman cannot offer prayers, take part in religious ceremonies, and is forbidden from touching sacred objects or being permitted to enter a place of worship.
You are ignorant to the fact that in many places, a menstruating women is considered cursed, impure, or sick.
You are ignorant to the fact that many women and girls are excluded from social groups and certain environments, including from their families and homes. Many women and girls are sent to “menstrual huts” during menstruation.
Women’s very lives are sacrificed to the altar of menstrual myths and social exclusion based on our bodies and its functions.
She bears the cross of her ultimate sin, her femaleness.
I remember in anthropology going into great lengths about different cultures and views on menstruation. One of my favs that always stuck with me was a native american one, forgive me I cant remember which tribe at the moment, who saw menstruation as the time a woman was at her most power. It was in this time when she bled for days and didn’t die that they could do the most incredible of feats. I feel bad because I cant recall the exact tribe but I do remember they were a materarical society.
OKAY SO LISTEN UP
I’m Hindu.
When a woman is in her period, she’s not allowed to touch almost anything. Not her clothes, not food, not people. And someone else cannot touch things touched by you.
If someone else does touch you, they cannot touch anyone or anything until they bathe and change all their clothes.
Your clothes are handed to you by someone else as you cannot touch your wardrobe clothes. Someone else gives you your food, and you have to finish it or throw it away because someone else cannot have the leftovers because it has become impure as you have touched it. We cannot utter prayers to the gods,touch any holy article or go into temples or holy places. (Note that most Hindu homes will have a small ‘temple’ inside). Hell, most temples have an innermost room where women are not allowed at all times.
Needless to say, I dreaded getting my first period. When I first got my period, my mother made me sleep on the floor on a mattress and an old blanket kept aside for especially this purpose. She told me I was lucky sleeping in my room, because my cousin’s parents made her sleep on the couch.
This was new to me and I wondered what I had done to be so impure. I remember crying till 4 A.M, and then deciding that I was not going to give one fuck and touch everything I wanted (for which I got several scoldings and an occasional beating, of course)
So yea, FUCK YOU IF YOU IGNORE THIS SHIT THAT GOES ON AROUND THE WORLD IN DIFFERENT CULTURES. WOMEN DO NOT DESERVE THIS.
Men take the very thing of power and wealth we have and desecrated it, made it our greatest shame and sin.
Celtyradfem 