It is a “sanitary strip”, it has no shame
(Mohammed Fadeli – member of the Faculty of Shahid Beheshti University)
It’s been a week that I’ve been participating in various meetings, including the social, cultural and public participation review meetings, due to being a member of the “National Flood Report Special Committee”. One point in all the meetings bothers me and yesterday I finally had to open my mouth to protest.
Men and women, officials and officials of NGOs participating in aid delivery, reporters and TV presenters, all use expressions such as “sanitary items needed by women” and similar. One of the noble people of the NGO organizations used the phrase “cellulose products used by women” to refer to “sanitary tape” with a lot of effort.
My question is, should citizens, especially women, in this society be pressured, embarrassed and tortured to name, buy and use a simple product for a natural need? My question is simple: are women harming someone or doing something ugly by buying and using sanitary napkins? I don’t want to compare and everyone’s behavior in their personal life is respectable, but really men and women who buy cigarettes and use them in public places are not doing something bad and harmful to others and themselves? If it’s embarrassing to use the word “sanitary bar”, isn’t it even more embarrassing to use the names of drugs, guns, and profanity that are thrown around like a quote?
The people responsible for providing aid to the flood victims are embarrassed to say this word and as a result they cannot say clearly when there is a shortage, nor can they say now, for example, that the need for this product has been eliminated and people will send other items.
Being ashamed of the use of “sanitary tape” and mocking and taunting women who buy this product, etc., is part of the anti-woman and painful discourse that hurts millions of women in Iranian society. The result of this anti-woman discourse is that, according to one of the published videos, aid workers only throw sanitary napkin packages to the flood victims, with their backs to the women (perhaps this wrong behavior is not done everywhere).
Its name is “sanitary tape”, it is very sensitive and important to meet the natural needs of half of the human population on the planet, and it is a product that a woman needs for almost a quarter of her reproductive life. Let’s not be ashamed of using its name, let’s not make fun of any woman for it, let’s use it freely and correctly in the literature of helping. A society whose men and women are afraid of using the name of such an essential product is exposed to greater sexual and gender harm (lack of #sexual_wisdom) and more malfunctions.
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