https://www.nytimes.com/2022/08/15/world/europe/scotland-free-period-products.html
Scotland Makes Period Products Free
The country is the first to offer tampons, sanitary pads and other menstrual products free of charge.
www.nytimes.com
https://www.verywellmind.com/what-is-period-stigma-5116231
What Is Period Stigma?
Period stigma is discrimination faced by people who menstruate. Menstruation misconceptions and lack of access to sanitation cause quality of life problems.
www.verywellmind.com
"Period stigma" is a broad term for the discrimication faced by people who menstruate. From physical problemas to the verbal shaming of menstruating people as "dirty", "unclean", "impure". Even as a joke, if someone is perceived as behaving in a sensitive, sharp, or aggressive manner, saying they may be PMS-ing or menstruating.
새로 배운 단어
On the rag : 흡수성 천을 속옷에 고정해서 피를 받던 것에서 유래한 슬랭이다. She's on the rag 이라고 하면 she's on her period
PMS : premenstrual syndrome
Perpetuate : make continue indefinitely
legislation : 법률제정
sanitary product : 위생용품
fundamental : 기본적인, forming the base from which everything else develops
compound : 합치다, 혼합하다 (The coronavirus pandemic only compounded those issues...)
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