Period. End Of Sentence.,

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Has anyone seen this?

It's only 23 minutes long but it's truly shocked me

It shows how ashamed girls are of getting their periods in India and have to leave school

And how a basic Always type pad was a massive revelation to them because they still do what are great grandmothers did with cloths.

Modern protection just not available or popular due to stigma.

Very sad.

It’s awful but I wasn’t surprised at all, having travelled in various developing countries it’s obvious that so many of our basic necessities never mind luxuries are absent, and attitudes to women are frequently vile.

I've never travelled in a developing country and so I just ASSUMED that they would have towels even if it was an unknown brand to me.

I mean India has had Netflix since 2016 so not long after it went international but PROCTOR AND GAMBLE haven't made an affordable version over there?

Baffling

The doc won at Oscars Documentary Short

Thing is in India there are hundreds of millions of people who aren’t poor in the sense of low disposable income, they are poor in the sense of next to nothing at all - they barely have any food or shelter, certainly no access to medical care or education. India has a huge middle class but a combination of the caste system and naked greed and self interest means that the government runs a space programme whilst allowing people who used to be (and often still are) called “untouchables” to live lives of misery way beyond our comprehension.

By which I mean they have no income at all