Stigmas around Women

For brief 6, I wanted to look at some of the stigmas that still surround women even in the 21st century. I think some of them are things that shouldn’t have any stigmas around them at all, but society has made that difficult. One the biggest things for me is periods, I still feel uncomfortable to sometimes talk about especially with boys. Some of the main causes for this stigma is that some people deem it as meaning you’re dirty, but it also comes from the period poverty too. I think the stigma surround this needs to be addresses and torn down considering that periods are a natural thing that majority of women experience and also have no control over, its healthy way for your body to flush out what it needs to and to also keep your hormones in balance. But I also think by talking about it more openly and voicing opinions on things such as tampon tax, period poverty, having to have days off work because of it and more. I personally really struggle with mine and have serve cramps all the time and majority of the time vomiting too and I remember having to call up my place of work to apologise because I couldn’t come in and I got a very snide remark in return and was told that If I wasn’t at work in 30 mins I wouldn’t have a job :/ I think we need to be educated a lot better on them and not just some random clip in sex ed that’s 30 seconds explaining it via a cartoon vagina

I looked into other stigmas such as female pleasure as well, for years with sex in mind women were only seen as objects, they were deemed to be there to please their husbands and bear children. I can understand why there is a little more stigma around this as not everyone is going to want to openly talk about what they get up to behind closed doors. I think it’s a very important when it comes to being a women that you know what gives you pleasure when it comes to certain things, especially sexual wellness. A lot of women may have never explored into sexual wellness where as others might be experts in the area. I think we need to lose the terms such as “slut” and “slag” when it comes to women talking about sex. It’s as quite understandable when you think about, women are going to have some of the same desires as mean to.

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