勇氣:瑜伽教師公開穿白褲練習瑜珈時滲出月經的聲明

史蒂芬妮(Stephanie Góngora)是一名瑜伽老師,她經常在她的社群媒體上發布她的圖片和影片,她的Instagram上有超過256,000名粉絲。

有天,當史蒂芬妮正在錄製她新想到一系列進階的瑜伽姿勢時。她突然意識到每個女人都會發生的情形,她的衛生棉已經飽滿到無法再吸收她的月經了,月經已經滲透出她的褲子了!

當時,史蒂芬妮考慮是否要暫時停止她的錄製,但她腦中出現了一個奇特的念頭,她決定要有一些不同:史蒂芬妮確實暫停了錄製並離開,當她回來後,史蒂芬妮繼續她的錄製,只是這次她改穿了一件白色的瑜珈褲!

當史蒂芬妮變換瑜珈姿勢時,一個紅色的斑點出現在她的雙腿之間,並繼續的明顯、擴大。

 

I am a woman, therefore, I bleed. . It's messy, it's painful, it's terrible, & it's beautiful. . And yet, you wouldn't know. Because I hide it. . I bury things at the bottom of the trash. I breathe, ragged and awkward through the cramps, all the while holding onto this tight lipped, painted on smile. . Tampons? Shhh. We don't say those words out loud. Hide them. In the back pocket of your purse, in the corner of the bathroom drawer, at the very bottom of your shopping cart (please let me get a female cashier). . Events or engagements get missed. I'll tell myself it’s the PMS, sure, but it has more to with the risk of being "caught," at what...I'm not quite sure. . And I’m lucky. . Over 100 million young women around the globe miss school or work for lack of adequate menstrual supplies, & fear of what might happen if the world witnesses A NATURAL BODILY FUNCTION. . WHY? . Because hundreds of years of culture have made us embarrassed to bleed. Have left us feeling dirty and ashamed. . STOP PRETENDING. Stop using silly pet names like Aunt Flo because you're too afraid to say "I'm bleeding" or "vagina." Stop wasting so much effort hiding the very thing that gives this species continuity. . START talking about it. Educate your daughters. Make them understand that it can be both an inconvenience and a gift, but NEVER something to be ashamed about. Educate your sons so they don't recoil from the word tampon. So when a girl bleeds through her khaki shorts in third period (pun intended), they don't perpetuate the cycle of shame and intolerance. . This #StartSomethingSunday , I want to highlight @corawomen . . Cora Women is a 100% Organic tampon company. . But that’s not all. They are also breaking barriers. Making it ok to talk about periods, even on social media. Providing personalized, delivered tampon/pad orders right to your door. AND for every box purchased, donating a box of sustainable pads to girls who can't afford menstruation products. . Fuck yeah. That's the kind of stuff I can galvanize behind, NO money OR product needed. Just a mission I support on a topic we should ALL be talking about. . THIS IS JUST A LEAK, NOT FREE BLEEDING ✌

Ein Beitrag geteilt von Steph Gongora (@casa_colibri) am

她的影片已經被觀看了至少超過35萬次,並獲得了許多人正面的肯定,當然啦還有一些噁心、憤怒的留言。 下面是從她的影片擷取的片段解釋與自我辯護摘錄:

「因為數百年的文化使女性對於在自然正常不過的月經感到很尷尬,它讓我們感到骯髒和羞愧。

停止假裝了!不要浪費這麼多的努力來隱藏給這個繁衍物種生命的源泉。

開始談論它,用正確的方式教育妳的女兒,讓妳的女兒知道,儘管月經可能會帶來的不便,但它也是一個獨特的恩典,不是羞恥的事情!

教育妳的兒子正確的態度,所以他們不會對衛生棉、衛生棉條、月亮杯這類的字眼產生反彈畏縮。所以當他們看到女孩淺色褲子上月經時,不要嘲笑這些女孩,不要讓女孩對她們的「恩典」感到恥辱和丟臉。

史蒂芬妮澄清的說:「我並不是『自由出血者』,我也不是叫大家不要用衛生棉或棉條。我是女人,當然也會有月經,它是一團糟的、痛苦的、可怕的、卻又很美麗,只是你不會知道,因為我們女生總想刻意隱藏了它。所以我只是想要提倡誠實和接受而已,這對我來說很重要,這也是為什麼我要在此大膽和清新的發言。」

這種「誠實」並不是每個人都會覺得自在。有些人覺得這種「誠實」就像是有人用他們身體親密私人的部位摩擦在他們的臉上......

但也許這就是重點。 當人們停止了憤怒,習慣了月經是完全正常,甚至是重要的「東西」時,女性可以不必再覺得羞愧 ,不必發布像史蒂芬妮一樣的影片...

多麼好的概念!

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