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Japanese menstruation
Because, from adolescence to now, when we talk about menstruation, it is the same.
Menstruation seems to be a shameful and dirty topic, and even like a crime, it needs to be called in various slang to avoid people's eyes and ears.
However, in such a culture of menstrual shame, an anthropomorphic role was born.
Pale pink body, long curved eyelashes, flaming lips.
It's called "menstrual sauce", which was created by cartoonist Xiao on 20 17.
This year, it was also made into a movie "A Visit with Menstrual Sauce".
In this movie, the anthropomorphic menstrual sauce has become a woman's "best friend".
Qing Zi, the editor of "Heroes of Women" magazine, was beaten up by menstrual boxing every time menstrual sauce visited, and took out a large needle tube to draw blood.
For Qing Zi, menstrual sauce is a distressing friend.
Not punctual, every time I come, I suffer terribly. The action of carrying menstrual sauce makes her feel quite oppressive.
Most importantly, such pain cannot be used as any reason. She needs to act as if nothing has happened, go to work normally, and can't let others find her physiological cycle.
But in the movie, when Menstrual Sauce meets a smug male boss who can't fully understand the pain, he will also use a menstrual fist to help him understand.
This work caused an uproar in Japan.
Because it is incredible to talk about menstruation in public, not to mention drawing menstruation into a cartoon and telling stories directly with menstruation as the theme.
-it's simply immoral and incredible! !
However, for the founders, this is exactly what they want to express.
They want to break the taboo of Japanese society on menstrual shame, and let this topic return to the ordinary physiological phenomenon and become the content that people can discuss normally.
Sairi It?, an actress, said: "My agent is a boy. When he came to me and said that there was a movie called Menstrual Sauce that he wanted to perform, he faltered and couldn't say it at all."
"Indeed, for men who have never seen this work, menstruation is hard to say, right?"
"But we hope that through this work, men will understand that there is nothing to be ashamed of."
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Breaking the menstrual taboo is not an easy task.
In Japanese culture, Shinto, the primitive traditional religion, believes that gods will not bring blessings to people who are stained with blood, dirt or death, but will also be infected with bad luck if they are touched.
Therefore, during menstruation, women are not allowed to enter shrines, Shinto shrines, or even to step into the "Shenyu" island listed as a world cultural heritage.
In addition, some occupations in Japan also discriminate against women because of menstruation.
In traditional sumo events, women are forbidden to enter the arena because they are "unclean", and even if a player faints on the stage, women are not allowed to come forward to give first aid to them.
In the sushi industry, women are also openly denied entry: Yoshikazu Ono, the son of the "God of Sushi", publicly stated: "Because of the physiological period, women's taste buds can't remain stable, so they can't be competent as sushi chefs."
It is just a normal physiological phenomenon, but it is inexplicably stigmatized.
Some people think that menstrual shame is a kind of sexual shame, because menstrual cramps mean that women have reproductive ability, which is directly linked to sex.
But in fact, menstruation itself has nothing to do with sex, it is just a normal physiological phenomenon that any healthy adult woman must experience.
Such a routine physiological process should never make people feel ashamed, just as you don't need to be ashamed of hunger, drowsiness and cold.
If it must be said that menstrual cramps mean reproductive ability, then why can the same meaning of "adolescence" be accepted and talked about by everyone?
On Japanese social media, a tag named # nobagform was launched.
When women buy sanitary products, all salespeople will prepare opaque plastic bags for them to prevent them from embarrassment.
In such a big environment, this is really a very intimate move. The question is, why is there such an environment? Do I need opaque plastic bags to buy cold medicine or toilet paper?
So some women suggested that I buy sanitary products. Don't be embarrassed.
I don't need a bag. I don't need an opaque plastic bag.
I did nothing wrong. I don't need to be ashamed of it. I don't need to hide my discomfort, and I don't need to tell anyone.
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It is worth mentioning that Japan became the first country in the world to approve menstrual leave as early as 1947.
At that time, a large number of women entered the labor market, and at that time, many workplaces had few sanitary facilities, which made menstruation very inconvenient.
Therefore, the law stipulates that women who suffer from dysmenorrhea or engage in jobs that aggravate dysmenorrhea can take menstrual leave.
But don't envy it yet. For women, this holiday is not necessarily as beautiful as expected.
The establishment of menstrual leave virtually increases the difficulty of women's employment, which means a greater gender gap in the workplace.
Implementation will undoubtedly increase the burden on enterprises and make them more inclined to "hire people".
For the Japanese workplace where gender discrimination is already very serious, the establishment of menstrual leave has also entangled more women.
It should be said that there are gains and losses, but for Japanese women in the workplace, "gain" does not exist.
When the media interviewed Japanese working women, they hid their names and expressed their true thoughts.
Because the whole society is ashamed to talk about menstruation, even if menstrual leave is set up, it will only be discriminatory and will not bring real welfare.
Even many women don't know whether their employers offer menstrual leave, because no one has ever talked to them about menstruation.
Because when talking about women who are considered frivolous after menstruation, they are ashamed and afraid of being harassed, so they are secretive, unwilling to talk about it, and voluntarily give up their rights and interests.
The more serious the menstrual shame culture is, the more bound women are.
This natural and routine physiological process should not be so stigmatized and shameful.
The more shame and taboo, the more people need to stand up and discuss menstruation in a normal way.
I hope that one day, women don't need to be ashamed of the normal phenomenon of their bodies in the inertia of "menstrual shame".
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