It'll be a parody on the diaper cake pictured, only with pads, tampons and chocolate.
Why, you ask?
So many insignificant occasions are celebrated, yet the bigger events go by unnoticed and unacknowledged. Secretary’s Day, for example, has a Hallmark card and a lunch special. But what of the special day that secretary got her first period as a young girl? There certainly was no Hallmark card or lunch special to celebrate that.
So many stories related to a woman’s first menstrual cycle are both horrific and mortifying. These menarche mishaps are suffered in silence and surrounded by secrecy. It’s tainted with embarrassment and shame because society deems menstruation a taboo subject. Western society has robbed us of our right to celebrate. And so we never talk about it and are burdened with a secret and suffer each month in silence.
A young girl’s entry into womanhood is a big deal that deserves to be celebrated. It’s a powerful thing that signifies womanhood and reproduction and the stuff of life. We can help change the way it’s viewed by helping young women embrace this special event. Such positivity helps to promote a better self image.
When we think celebration, cake comes to mind. This fun craft project is a sanitary napkin cake, a parody on diaper cakes. Because our period deserves its comeuppance, and we need to celebrate and laugh and start a dialogue and open the lines of communication so that another woman doesn’t have to be scarred by the humiliation of something so natural and normal and exciting.
So many stories related to a woman’s first menstrual cycle are both horrific and mortifying. These menarche mishaps are suffered in silence and surrounded by secrecy. It’s tainted with embarrassment and shame because society deems menstruation a taboo subject. Western society has robbed us of our right to celebrate. And so we never talk about it and are burdened with a secret and suffer each month in silence.
A young girl’s entry into womanhood is a big deal that deserves to be celebrated. It’s a powerful thing that signifies womanhood and reproduction and the stuff of life. We can help change the way it’s viewed by helping young women embrace this special event. Such positivity helps to promote a better self image.
When we think celebration, cake comes to mind. This fun craft project is a sanitary napkin cake, a parody on diaper cakes. Because our period deserves its comeuppance, and we need to celebrate and laugh and start a dialogue and open the lines of communication so that another woman doesn’t have to be scarred by the humiliation of something so natural and normal and exciting.
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