This week's Pop Culture Tuesday was inspired by 2 articles I saw over last week. The first one was Donald Trump making offensive comments about Megyn Kelly during the GOP debate, implying she was menstruating at the time because she dared to challenge him. The second one was that a woman ran the London Marathon without a tampon in to take a stand against period shaming and to highlight what many young girls in underdeveloped countries have to do.
Firstly though, I'm going to talk about the misogynist that is Donald Trump. Because he had to answer such 'tough questions' during the GOP Debate he blamed the anchor for being on her period!? So just because he couldn't answer some political questions, he decided to lash out at a cisgender woman for that and blames a process she can't help but do? That is never appropriate! In fact, periods aren't even an insult anyway, they happen, so everyone that thinks it's an insult needs to get over themselves, and fast.
Secondly, I respect Kiran Gandhi (the woman who ran the London Marathon without a tampon) so much. You might not think it takes guts to run 26 miles without a tampon in to make a political statement, but I do. Not only was she fighting back against periods shamers, who say that it's disgusting and unnatural, but she was pointing out that many young girls and trans boys, don't have any access to sanitary products while they're menstruating, or if they do they only have a few and have to reuse them, making them at risk for bacterial infection. The time has passed since cis women and trans men were told to keep their mouth shut about the menstrual cycle and now it's time to speak out about the tax they carry, the lack of availability of sanitary products in underdeveloped countries and that having a periods is no big deal - it's a natural part of life.
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