Jyoti Sanghera, circa March 2011.
Earlier this year, Jyoti Sanghera, chief of the UN Human Rights Office on Economic and Social Issues, called the stigma around menstrual hygiene “a violation of several human rights, most importantly the right to human dignity”. …And this builds a case for free tampons how?
Jyoti Sanghera, circa March 2011.
Y’know, another thing, too... Tampons aren’t always necessarily safe. A childhood girlfriend of mine back in the ‘80s popped up on a local tv news report after she’d used them and suffered dreadful toxic shock syndrome and issued a warning about them. After all, for women, you’re having to insert a foreign object inside of your body.
But where does female genital mutilation fall in here as far as “violation of several human rights and dignity”?
I remember when I started, my grandmother sent a note to my female teacher that said “Please excuse her for bathroom breaks as she has come into bloom”.
The term being on the rag was explained to me by my grandmother. Back in her day, women used white rags for their periods. The women would wash and hang them on the clothes line and any boy that made fun of it or commented on it, got smacked.
So the poor can’t afford tampons, pads, panty-liners but they can afford cable, designer clothes, jeans, jewelry, 200.00 tennis shoes?