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I Am Not Untouchable. I Just Have My Period.
Posted on 3/8/19 at 12:57 pm
Posted on 3/8/19 at 12:57 pm
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Forbidden from participating in daily life, Nepalese girls are speaking out against menstrual shaming.
Interesting, I had no idea. Isn't Nepal the happiest place on Earth due to the happiness index or am I thinking of someplace different?
Forbidden from participating in daily life, Nepalese girls are speaking out against menstrual shaming.
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The first time I heard the word “chhaupadi,” I was standing on a rooftop in Surkhet, Nepal, in November 2017, surrounded by teenage girls. They were students at the Kopila Valley School, where my husband, Brian Lindstrom, and I had spent the previous week leading workshops in writing and filmmaking, which led to our video Op-Ed above. Some of the girls had asked to meet with us after school to talk about their lives; we’d barely finished with introductions when one tearfully told us that she’d been banished from her home and made to sleep in a cow shed when she began menstruating. This is the way it was for many girls and women in Nepal, we learned, as the other girls told us their stories.
Not all were made to practice the chhaupadi in the strictest form. Some were allowed to stay in their homes but were confined to one room with darkened windows; others were forced to spend their days in nearby forests, permitted to return home only after darkness and required to depart before dawn. Most were prevented from attending school while menstruating and all had severe restrictions on what they could eat, and whom they could touch and even gaze upon. Regardless of the degree and severity of the rules they were compelled to follow, what they all had in common was that each was stigmatized and isolated for a natural process.
The impact of such discrimination is profound. It’s also dangerous. Several women each year are sexually assaulted while in chhaupadi and some die — from cold exposure, snake bite or suffocation caused by smoke inhalation. In January, 35-year-old Amba Bohara and her two young sons suffocated to death when Ms. Bohara lit a fire inside her tiny menstrual hut to keep them warm. In February, 21-year-old Parbati Bogati died in an abandoned house, also of suffocation.
Interesting, I had no idea. Isn't Nepal the happiest place on Earth due to the happiness index or am I thinking of someplace different?
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Posted on 3/8/19 at 12:59 pm to DavidTheGnome
No one wants to touch you
Posted on 3/8/19 at 1:01 pm to DavidTheGnome
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Isn't Nepal the happiest place on Earth due to the happiness index or am I thinking of someplace different?
I belive that would be Bhutan...also up in the Himalayas.
Posted on 3/8/19 at 1:02 pm to DavidTheGnome
reddit does international women's day....
Posted on 3/8/19 at 1:02 pm to DavidTheGnome
Menstrual shaming has a precedent:
Leviticus Chapter 15:
Leviticus Chapter 15:
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19 “ ‘When a woman has her regular flow of blood, the impurity of her monthly period will last seven days, and anyone who touches her will be unclean till evening. 20 “ ‘Anything she lies on during her period will be unclean, and anything she sits on will be unclean. 21 Anyone who touches her bed will be unclean; they must wash their clothes and bathe with water, and they will be unclean till evening. 22 Anyone who touches anything she sits on will be unclean; they must wash their clothes and bathe with water, and they will be unclean till evening. 23 Whether it is the bed or anything she was sitting on, when anyone touches it, they will be unclean till evening. 24 “ ‘If a man has sexual relations with her and her monthly flow touches him, he will be unclean for seven days; any bed he lies on will be unclean. 25 “ ‘When a woman has a discharge of blood for many days at a time other than her monthly period or has a discharge that continues beyond her period, she will be unclean as long as she has the discharge, just as in the days of her period. 26 Any bed she lies on while her discharge continues will be unclean, as is her bed during her monthly period, and anything she sits on will be unclean, as during her period. 27 Anyone who touches them will be unclean; they must wash their clothes and bathe with water, and they will be unclean till evening. 28 “ ‘When she is cleansed from her discharge, she must count off seven days, and after that she will be ceremonially clean.
Posted on 3/8/19 at 1:03 pm to BrohemAlem11
NYT catch up baw not reddit
Posted on 3/8/19 at 1:03 pm to madmaxvol
That's a lot of unclean!
Posted on 3/8/19 at 1:04 pm to DavidTheGnome
Posted on 3/8/19 at 1:04 pm to DavidTheGnome
Posted on 3/8/19 at 1:08 pm to JDPndahizzy
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That's a lot of unclean!
What's crazy to think about when reading the Levitical laws is that people had to be told these things. People were fricking savages just 6000 years ago.
Posted on 3/8/19 at 2:16 pm to DavidTheGnome
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one tearfully told us that she’d been banished from her home and made to sleep in a cow shed when she began menstruating.
Well if they wouldn't be so fricking mean and use the period for an excuse.
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Isn't Nepal the happiest place on Earth due to the happiness index or am I thinking of someplace different?
Yeah Baw. You are thinking of Disney.
Posted on 3/8/19 at 3:08 pm to DavidTheGnome
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In January, 35-year-old Amba Bohara and her two young sons suffocated to death when Ms. Bohara lit a fire inside her tiny menstrual hut to keep them warm. In February, 21-year-old Parbati Bogati died in an abandoned house, also of suffocation.
I Think these are just on account of being stupid
Posted on 3/8/19 at 4:23 pm to jimmy the leg
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Bhutan
That's what I use to boil my crabs.
Posted on 3/8/19 at 4:23 pm to DavidTheGnome
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tiny menstrual hut
I'm about to put my wife in one of these.
Posted on 3/8/19 at 4:24 pm to DavidTheGnome
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NYT catch up baw not reddit
Even worse you cretin.
Posted on 3/8/19 at 4:28 pm to Rize
Posted on 3/9/19 at 1:57 am to DavidTheGnome
The real danger is sharks.
Posted on 3/9/19 at 2:15 am to DavidTheGnome
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one tearfully told us that she’d been banished from her home and made to sleep in a cow shed when she began menstruating.
She must be an absolute pleasure to be around when she is on her period for her family to put her in the cow shed.
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