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A Woman Is Writing Feminist Messages On Period Pads And Posting Them Around Her City
http://www.buzzfeed.com/rossalynwarren/a-woman-is-writing-feminist-messages-on-period-pads-and-postElonë, a young woman from Karlsruhe, Germany, is writing feminist messages on period pads and posting them up in public places around her city.
She first shared her project idea on Tumblr two days ago. Since then, her photo has been shared over 100,000 times.
The messages she’s writing on the pads focus on women’s rights issues, such as tackling street harassment and taking a stand against victim blaming.
The message Elonë shared in the original viral photo was inspired by Twitter user @cutequeer96, who made the comment last September.
She first shared her project idea on Tumblr two days ago. Since then, her photo has been shared over 100,000 times.
The messages she’s writing on the pads focus on women’s rights issues, such as tackling street harassment and taking a stand against victim blaming.
The message Elonë shared in the original viral photo was inspired by Twitter user @cutequeer96, who made the comment last September.
Nice!
But why are the messages in English? :shurg:
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Response to F4lconF16 (Reply #6)
But that hasn’t deterred Elonë. In response to one critic, she said: “Why the fuck did you just get offended? Because of period pads?”
Why? I thought it got its point across clearly. Thing is, there are many people out there who are more disgusted by menstruation than rape. It's a snarky middle finger to those people, creates awareness, and does so in a fun, innocuous manner.
Btw, you say the focus should be on the issue, but then criticize the delivery? 
It took them 45 minutes to get the drummer out!
What do you call a drummer who just broke up with his girlfriend?
Homeless.
"The Defendant"
What does it mean when your drummer is drooling out of the left side of his mouth?
The stage needs leveled.
What is the difference between a drummer and a large pizza?
A large pizza can feed a family of four.
and a purifying bath called a "mikveh" is required before she is allowed to have sex again.
Mikveh or mikvah (Hebrew: מִקְוֶה / מקווה, Modern mikve, Tiberian miqwe, pl. mikva'ot or (Yiddish) mikves,[1][2] lit. "a collection"
is a bath used for the purpose of ritual immersion in Judaism. In the Hebrew Bible, the word is employed in its broader sense but generally means a collection of water.[3] Several biblical regulations specify that full immersion in water is required to regain ritual purity after ritually impure incidents have occurred. A person was required to be ritually pure in order to enter the Temple. In addition, a convert to Judaism is required to immerse in a mikveh as part of the his/her conversion, and a woman is required to immerse in a mikveh after her menstrual period or childbirth before she and her husband can resume marital relations. In this context, "purity" and "impurity" are imperfect translations of the Hebrew "tahara" and "tumah", respectively, in that the negative connotation of the word impurity is not intended; rather being "impure" is indicative of being in a state in which certain things are prohibited (as relevant) until one has become "pure" again by immersion in a mikveh.
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Its main uses nowadays are:
by Jewish women to achieve ritual purity after menstruation or childbirth;
by Jewish men to achieve ritual purity (see details below);
as part of a traditional procedure for conversion to Judaism;
to immerse newly acquired utensils used in serving and eating food.
In Orthodox Judaism, these regulations are steadfastly adhered to and, consequently, the mikveh is central to an Orthodox Jewish community; they formally hold in Conservative Judaism as well. The existence of a mikveh is considered so important in Orthodox Judaism that an Orthodox community is required to construct a mikveh before building a synagogue, and must go to the extreme of selling Torah scrolls or even a synagogue if necessary, to provide funding for the construction.[5] Reform Judaism and Reconstructionist Judaism regard the biblical regulations as anachronistic to some degree, and consequently do not put much importance on the existence of a mikveh. Some opinions within Conservative Judaism have sought to retain the ritual requirements of a mikveh while recharacterizing the theological basis of the ritual in concepts other than ritual purity.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mikveh
is a bath used for the purpose of ritual immersion in Judaism. In the Hebrew Bible, the word is employed in its broader sense but generally means a collection of water.[3] Several biblical regulations specify that full immersion in water is required to regain ritual purity after ritually impure incidents have occurred. A person was required to be ritually pure in order to enter the Temple. In addition, a convert to Judaism is required to immerse in a mikveh as part of the his/her conversion, and a woman is required to immerse in a mikveh after her menstrual period or childbirth before she and her husband can resume marital relations. In this context, "purity" and "impurity" are imperfect translations of the Hebrew "tahara" and "tumah", respectively, in that the negative connotation of the word impurity is not intended; rather being "impure" is indicative of being in a state in which certain things are prohibited (as relevant) until one has become "pure" again by immersion in a mikveh.
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Its main uses nowadays are:
by Jewish women to achieve ritual purity after menstruation or childbirth;
by Jewish men to achieve ritual purity (see details below);
as part of a traditional procedure for conversion to Judaism;
to immerse newly acquired utensils used in serving and eating food.
In Orthodox Judaism, these regulations are steadfastly adhered to and, consequently, the mikveh is central to an Orthodox Jewish community; they formally hold in Conservative Judaism as well. The existence of a mikveh is considered so important in Orthodox Judaism that an Orthodox community is required to construct a mikveh before building a synagogue, and must go to the extreme of selling Torah scrolls or even a synagogue if necessary, to provide funding for the construction.[5] Reform Judaism and Reconstructionist Judaism regard the biblical regulations as anachronistic to some degree, and consequently do not put much importance on the existence of a mikveh. Some opinions within Conservative Judaism have sought to retain the ritual requirements of a mikveh while recharacterizing the theological basis of the ritual in concepts other than ritual purity.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mikveh
