AIBU to want to share this with you?

[Lemondrizzletwunt]

Partly inspired by the other menstruation thread, this is taken from a person on FB, and I think it was so brilliantly written that I had to share it with you:

"thank you Instagram for providing me with the exact response my work was created to critique. you deleted my photo twice stating that it goes against community guidelines. i will not apologize for not feeding the ego and pride of misogynist society that will have my body in an underwear but not be okay with a small leak. when your pages are filled with countless photos/accounts where women (so many who are underage) are objectified. pornified. and treated less than human. thank you. ??

as a part of my final project for my visual rhetoric course i created this image along with a full set which you can view at //www.rupikaur.com to demystify the period and make something that is innate "normal" again cause rape categories in porn are okay. objectification and sexualization is okay. people getting off on naked underage women. bondage. torture. humiliation. abuse is okay but this makes them uncomfortable. that's what this work is supposed to do. make you as uncomfortable as you should feel when you watch others get abused and objectified. ???? ?
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This just goes to show who is sitting behind the desk. And whose controlling the show. Whose controlling the media and who is censoring us.

Some women aren’t allowed in their religious place of worship. Out of their homes. To do certain things. And are told they are sick. As if the period is a common cold. Yes. This is here in North America. I have been hospitalized many times because of issues associated with my period. I have been suffering from a sickness related to my period. And ever since I have been working so hard to love it. Embrace it. Celebrate it. Even thought it’s given me so much pain in the past few years. and they want to tell me I should be quiet about this. That all of this we experience collectively does not need to be seen. Just felt secretly behind closed doors. That’s why this is important. Because when I first got my period my mother was sad and worried. And they want to censor all that pain. Experience. Learning. No.

Their patriarchy is leaking.

Their misogyny is leaking.

We will not be censored.
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i bleed each month to help make humankind a possibility. my womb is home to the divine. a source of life for our species. whether i choose to create or not. but very few times it is seen that way. in older civilizations this blood was considered holy. in some it still is. but a majority of people. societies. and communities shun this natural process. some are more comfortable with the pornification of women. the sexualization of women. the violence and degradation of women than this. they cannot be bothered to express their disgust about all that. but will be angered and bothered by this. we menstruate and they see it as dirty. attention seeking. sick. a burden. as if this process is less natural than breathing. as if it is not a bridge between this universe and the last. as if this process is not love. labour. life. selfless and strikingly beautiful."

[CollatalieSisters]

Yanbu.

[Lemondrizzletwunt]

I am very new to feminist thought (I think I have always been a feminist in that I want equality for the sexes with no ifs or buts, but I've only recently been doing any research) and it's the first time it's dawned on me that we bleed to basically ensure the survival of the entire human race. When you have such an important ability, whyever should you be ashamed of it? It should be revered. I suppose because the P can't do this they make us feel ashamed of it to divert our eyes away from an ability we have that gives us power?

[Lemondrizzletwunt]

It's got me thinking, anyway!

[scallopsrgreat]

^"This just goes to show who is sitting behind the desk. And whose controlling the show. Whose controlling the media and who is censoring us.
"^ I think that nails it. The people men who are running the show see women existing for men's pleasure.

[Lemondrizzletwunt]

YY Scallops! We are only there for decoration / sexual enjoyment. When we can't fulfil this (e.g fat, ugly, not wearing makeup, not scantily clad, menstruating, performing any bodily function) we are made to feel ashamed.

[partialderivative]

There is no shame or anything like that in our household.

My wife and DD's just carry on. Like women all over the world.

Am I missing something?

[BriarRainbowshimmer]

Yanbu for sharing.

How do you know what women all over the world feel partial