As donations pour in from all over for those affected by the devasting floods in Pakistan, many men on Twitter had to ruin the moment of human kindness. These men took to Twitter to tell donors that women’s menstrual hygiene products are non-essential. Even going as far as to ask them to not send these in donation drives.
So of course many Netizens stepped in to school such people. Soon enough plenty were tweeting about women’s menstrual health.
https://twitter.com/akhriipasta/status/1564452078952407040
Some women got graphic with the details of what flood affectees are having to do amid their menstrual cycle in a natural disaster.
https://twitter.com/zakraaaaa/status/1563871330914963462
How did you think a washed cloth is okay to use 🤮 how unhygienic it is https://t.co/bOd9yxPBmY
— Autumn (@shahrz_) August 29, 2022
https://twitter.com/Aethena666/status/1563537763647225856
As for suggestiona about homemade or makeshift pads, someone even pointed out how the floods have left people with nothing. Where do they get supplies for ‘homemade pads’. Why not provide women’s menstrual hygiene products like all other essential items?
How ignorant. Logo ky gher hi nhi rahy ab kya wo paani sy homemade reusable pads bnaye? Crackhead https://t.co/ynUb20PCZQ
— Autumn (@shahrz_) August 27, 2022
As for people arguing that ‘rural women don’t use pads’, they don’t use canned foods, sleeping bags, and tents on a day to day basis either do they. This is a state of emergency, no?
https://twitter.com/Sindhu_S_Nisa/status/1564218665591050241
There were plenty of educational resources shared to, for those that care to read.
https://twitter.com/Aethena666/status/1564540787022594048
One Twitter user went as far as to create a ‘Menstrual Education 101’ guide for Pakistani men.
Menstruation (Period Cycle) Education for Pakistani men especially:
— H⁷ (@PurplePeaches7) August 29, 2022
Aside from explaining basic biology to people, this Netizen even highlighted the importance of menstrual hygiene. As well as the long-term affects that stem from a lack of menstrual hygiene. From reproductive and uninary tract infections to cervical cancer.
such as hepatitis B. Other er serious health risks like Cervical cancer and many fungal and bacterial vagainal infections. Though period blood is not harmful it is just as clean as any other blood that comes out of our body
Therefore it is very important for men and women to have— H⁷ (@PurplePeaches7) August 29, 2022
It seems one of the men that sparked this debate on Twitter, later realized that they were at fault and deleted the tweet.
https://twitter.com/NotYourAccounta/status/1563529732246843401
So at least some people learned something about menstrual hygiene and it’s importance.
