The stigmatization of menstruation in India first came to my attention two summers ago when I led a professional development seminar for visiting faculty from that country. They were here (in the US) studying community-based documentary film-making in part to advance their effort of using popular media to fight against the pervasive stigma of mensturation in their country. Part of their inspiration was Period: End of Sentence, a documentary on Netflix that you could Google in half a second if you wanted. I’m quite confident you won’t look into the film, just as I’m confident you didn’t read any of the articles that have been posted though, so that’s fine.Someone just regurgitated article URLs and spent half a second googling menstruation stigma
i love how the only qualification for something to be true and a pervasive issue in society is an article has to be written about it. Low threshold but hey perfect for satisfying the target audience
it’s so obvious they can’t articulate it themselves.
wonderful clarification much appreciated. I feel like I get it now. Notwithstanding being male makes me inherently unable to grasp that women menstruate and sometimes it’s in an embarassing situation. Too dense for me.
Not one I expected either, but it’s certainly Apple-relatedNot really a topic I was expecting to see on a tech rumor website. Still struggling as to why this would even be brought up on Macrumors.
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Your recent “I’m male” card is obnoxious and has nothing to do with any of this. I get that you’re going to keep at it. My posts are more for the other readers here. Your claims are inaccurate, based exclusively on your own statements of the world but devoid of any supporting evidence.
You did each of those wrong.Can I get free deodorant? If not, its stigmatized. Society wants me to smell.
Can I get rent paid for? If not, it's stigmatized. to have to have a residence of some kind.
Can I get tires paid for when they eventually lose tread or endure a few nails? If not its stigmatized. To be able to go places.
Can I get gas for free? If not its stigmatized.
You haven’t proven anything. Where is the proof that it’s a widespread stigma in the U.S.? You’ve got squat.God can’t be proven or disproven. The existence of a stigma can be. I’d say I can’t believe this needs explaining, but in your case I very much can.
Elaborate. Re-using the word as evidence it is so doesn't work here.Tampons aren’t stigmatized. Women who menstruate are stigmatized.
My point was not to “prove“ the stigma — you won’t accept the study in the original piece, won’t accept additional articles, and insist that only you have the evidence — nothing I’ll present here will do anything for that. My response there was pointing out that you don’t seem to understand the relationship between the things (tampons; or in your poorly-structured examples, deodorant and gas and tires) and the people.Elaborate. Re-using the word as evidence it is so doesn't work here.
i.e. Ice cream is delicious because it is DELICIOUS.
oh ok! Very convinced now.
The key to understating the US is understanding that it isn't actually one country.Remember not all regions of the US are the same. When I started traveling around the US more I was quite struck how profound some regional differences are.
did apple sue this author yet? lol--
Next we should de-stigimitize that everyone poops perhaps. Except to a broader demographic of people of all ages, not just children, because some of us are pedantic children no matter how old we get and despite new information and life experiences! weeee
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Without substantial scientific data, women’s menstrual symptoms have historically lent themselves to dismissal, or have even been minimized as overreaction or oversensitivity.
Dr. Michelle Williams, Dean of the Faculty at Harvard Chan School. “By building a robust generalizable knowledge base, the Apple Women’s Health Study is helping us understand factors that make menstruation difficult and isolating for some people, in addition to elevating awareness of a monthly experience shared by women around the world.”
lol @ menstruation being “stigmatized.” These people are mentally ill.
As a menstruation expert, please do enlighten us as to how it’s “stigmatized” and what should be done about it.
For such a widespread, all-consuming issue of “menstruation stigma,” you guys can’t seem to pull up -any- piece of evidence supporting your ludicrous claims. Go ahead and educate us, my dude.
You haven’t proven anything. Where is the proof that it’s a widespread stigma in the U.S.? You’ve got squat.
The responses in this thread are very indicative of the logically bankrupt arguments.
An American friend told me his wife was thrown out of a mall for breastfeeding in public. But maybe it’s different from state to state.No. Not at all. It is, of course, perfectly legal.
Since some of the other health calculations assume your selected sex is your sex, not gender, it would make sense to use that to auto-hide things like cycle tracking in the health app if you select male.What's weird is that you think it's "weird that it's enabled always". The chance of an Apple Watch owner being female is roughly the same as them being male, from a planetary population perspective.
Besides, I'm not sure you're not trolling. If you had actually looked into removing the cycle app from your Watch, you'd realise it is possible.
That has some general logic to it, but I think part of the problem is ignorance.Since some of the other health calculations assume your selected sex is your sex, not gender, it would make sense to use that to auto-hide things like cycle tracking in the health app if you select male.
Where in the civilized world are women being asked to leave home. Small tribes in remote spots don’t count. That’s not civilized society. By choice.In your flawed and unsupported opinion, that is.... I guess kicking women out of the village during their period isn’t stigmatizing? Telling women that products for menstruation aren’t necessities of life by refusing to cover them with benefits for the poor? I guess your definition of stigmatization is different than everybody else’s.
Again, you haven’t refuted any evidence. I guess at that point, the only possible way to argue your point is to redefine the English language.
The stigmatization of menstruation in India first came to my attention two summers ago when I led a professional development seminar for visiting faculty from that country. They were here (in the US) studying community-based documentary film-making in part to advance their effort of using popular media to fight against the pervasive stigma of mensturation in their country. Part of their inspiration was Period: End of Sentence, a documentary on Netflix that you could Google in half a second if you wanted. I’m quite confident you won’t look into the film, just as I’m confident you didn’t read any of the articles that have been posted though, so that’s fine.
This isn’t about embarrassing. Erections are embarrassing. Passing gas is embarrassing. Having your performance at work, your attitude when with others, your personal hygiene, even your potential threat to society glibly explained away as “being on the rag” or “getting a visit from Aunt Flo” or — this is the one I really had to talk with my daughter about — “lady problems” is a stigma.
Your recent “I’m male” card is obnoxious and has nothing to do with any of this. I get that you’re going to keep at it. My posts are more for the other readers here. Your claims are inaccurate, based exclusively on your own statements of the world but devoid of any supporting evidence.
My dude I think you got lost on your way to the 1850s imperial civil servant roleplay zoneWhere in the civilized world are women being asked to leave home. Small tribes in remote spots don’t count. That’s not civilized society. By choice.
How so? Can you answer the question? How is my post untruthful.My dude I think you got lost on your way to the 1850s imperial civil servant roleplay zone
Can we have a list of countries you’d consider acceptable before doing the legwork for you?How so? Can you answer the question? How is my post untruthful.
Is any “modern” country asking women to leave their home because of their period?
Any country that has modern comforts. Electric service, running water.Can we have a list of countries you’d consider acceptable before doing the legwork for you?
Nepal and India immediately come to mind. They both have electricity and running water.Any country that has modern comforts. Electric service, running water.
Not concerned about India and Nepal. Both are Basically 3rd world countriesNepal and India immediately come to mind. They both have electricity and running water.
The Nepal situation is sending women to huts outside every month; it was such a big problem that the government had to outlaw it, but it still happens a lot because the taboo is stronger than people worrying about breaking the law.
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Nepalese Girls Share Stories of Period Shame in This Short Documentary
Bathing in the river, sleeping in an isolated hut — these are their stories.www.globalcitizen.org
In India, 23 million girls a year drop out of school when they get their first period due to the taboos, leading to a lack of information and shaming.
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23 Million Women Drop Out Of School Every Year When They Start Menstruating In India
In India, 23 million girls drop out of school early when they start menstruating and many of them end up facing acute health problemsswachhindia.ndtv.com
I do not understand why one would make claims without even doing the most basic research to see if their claims are true.