Period Shaming - is this a thing?

Kiran Gandi ran the London marathon without a tampon allowing her menses to flow freely during the race. She took the decision to do this because amongst other things

Quote:

"I have this vision that if men had their period, because we are in a male-privileging society, that rules would be written into the workplace, rules would be written into the social fabric that enable men to take a moment when they need to or enable people to talk about their periods openly,"

She talks about Period Shaming, I'm not even aware that this is thing but I am male, so.....

I'd appreciate our female members opinions.

The full story including a photo is here. She hopes her stand will help transcend oppression and allow women to run marathons any way they want.

I don't know what she means by that, are there separate rules for female marathon runners?

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