<story><title>The Indian sanitary pad revolutionary</title><url>http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-26260978</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>nsxwolf</author><text>I&amp;#x27;m not aware of an obsession with menstruation in any major variant of Christianity.</text></item><item><author>yawz</author><text>Religions (and consequently certain traditions) that have survived until today have an incredible obsession with mensturation. This is just another stick to beat and humiliate women with. It is unbelievable (for a questioning, inquisitive human being) that Bronze Age traditions and beliefs are still revered today.</text></item><item><author>nate_meurer</author><text>I want to hug this guy.  Like, really.  Buy me a airplane ticket.&lt;p&gt;Arunachalam Muruganantham is a hero.  I use that word in its full magnitude.  Since I am now an expert on the matter, having read the &lt;i&gt;entire&lt;/i&gt; article, I&amp;#x27;ll speculate on what motivates this man:&lt;p&gt;- Grit.  Crazy amounts of grit.  The article is full of good quotes, but my favorite is what he said after being abandoned by his mother:&lt;p&gt;&lt;i&gt;&amp;quot;It was a problem for me,&amp;quot; he says. &amp;quot;I had to cook my own food.&amp;quot;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;p&gt;- Humility combined with hunger:&lt;p&gt;&lt;i&gt;&amp;quot;Luckily I&amp;#x27;m not educated,&amp;quot; he tells students. &amp;quot;If you act like an illiterate man, your learning will never stop... Being uneducated, you have no fear of the future.&amp;quot;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;i&gt;&amp;quot;Every time he comes to know something new, he wants to know everything about it,&amp;quot; [his wife] says.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;p&gt;- Love of humanity, on some level at least:&lt;p&gt;&lt;i&gt;&amp;quot;Anyone with an MBA would immediately accumulate the maximum money. But I did not want to. Why? Because from childhood I know no human being died because of poverty - everything happens because of ignorance.&amp;quot;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;p&gt;As an aside, I LOVE the picture of his wife and daughter toward the end.  This one photograph lends better context to the story than all the others combined.  I know a single picture means nothing, but the look in his daughter&amp;#x27;s eyes makes me think she&amp;#x27;ll inherit something of her dad&amp;#x27;s baddassness.&lt;p&gt;And as another aside, bloody god-damn fucking hell, are the following bits really true?&lt;p&gt;&lt;i&gt;There are still many taboos around menstruation in India. Women can&amp;#x27;t visit temples or public places, they&amp;#x27;re not allowed to cook or touch the water supply - essentially they are considered untouchable.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;i&gt;There are also myths and fears surrounding the use of sanitary pads - that women who use them will go blind, for example, or will never get married.&lt;/i&gt;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>heartbreak</author><text>I could only think of one verse off the top of my head, but here are several. The Leviticus 15:19-30 reads a lot like what was described in the article. &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.openbible.info/topics/menstruation&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.openbible.info&amp;#x2F;topics&amp;#x2F;menstruation&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>
<story><title>The Indian sanitary pad revolutionary</title><url>http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-26260978</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>nsxwolf</author><text>I&amp;#x27;m not aware of an obsession with menstruation in any major variant of Christianity.</text></item><item><author>yawz</author><text>Religions (and consequently certain traditions) that have survived until today have an incredible obsession with mensturation. This is just another stick to beat and humiliate women with. It is unbelievable (for a questioning, inquisitive human being) that Bronze Age traditions and beliefs are still revered today.</text></item><item><author>nate_meurer</author><text>I want to hug this guy.  Like, really.  Buy me a airplane ticket.&lt;p&gt;Arunachalam Muruganantham is a hero.  I use that word in its full magnitude.  Since I am now an expert on the matter, having read the &lt;i&gt;entire&lt;/i&gt; article, I&amp;#x27;ll speculate on what motivates this man:&lt;p&gt;- Grit.  Crazy amounts of grit.  The article is full of good quotes, but my favorite is what he said after being abandoned by his mother:&lt;p&gt;&lt;i&gt;&amp;quot;It was a problem for me,&amp;quot; he says. &amp;quot;I had to cook my own food.&amp;quot;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;p&gt;- Humility combined with hunger:&lt;p&gt;&lt;i&gt;&amp;quot;Luckily I&amp;#x27;m not educated,&amp;quot; he tells students. &amp;quot;If you act like an illiterate man, your learning will never stop... Being uneducated, you have no fear of the future.&amp;quot;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;i&gt;&amp;quot;Every time he comes to know something new, he wants to know everything about it,&amp;quot; [his wife] says.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;p&gt;- Love of humanity, on some level at least:&lt;p&gt;&lt;i&gt;&amp;quot;Anyone with an MBA would immediately accumulate the maximum money. But I did not want to. Why? Because from childhood I know no human being died because of poverty - everything happens because of ignorance.&amp;quot;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;p&gt;As an aside, I LOVE the picture of his wife and daughter toward the end.  This one photograph lends better context to the story than all the others combined.  I know a single picture means nothing, but the look in his daughter&amp;#x27;s eyes makes me think she&amp;#x27;ll inherit something of her dad&amp;#x27;s baddassness.&lt;p&gt;And as another aside, bloody god-damn fucking hell, are the following bits really true?&lt;p&gt;&lt;i&gt;There are still many taboos around menstruation in India. Women can&amp;#x27;t visit temples or public places, they&amp;#x27;re not allowed to cook or touch the water supply - essentially they are considered untouchable.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;i&gt;There are also myths and fears surrounding the use of sanitary pads - that women who use them will go blind, for example, or will never get married.&lt;/i&gt;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>yawz</author><text>Woman being unclean during menstrual cycle is part of Abrahamic religions. But I guess this comes from the bigger problem of &amp;quot;sex&amp;quot; being wrong unless it constitutes &amp;quot;breeding&amp;quot;.</text></comment>