A Japanese Woman Was Threatened to Be Killed 8,000 Times for Her Initiative with Sanitary Pads (7 photos)

A Japanese politician has received more than 8,000 death threats after she proposed leaving free sanitary pads in public toilets.





How it all happened



This smiling girl

Ayaka Yoshida, 27, is a member of the Mie Prefectural Assembly and the Japanese Communist Party. And at the end of March, she posted a very simple and neutral message on social media: “I want sanitary pads to be available everywhere, like toilet paper.” It would seem that there is nothing terrible about this. But the message quickly caused angry responses. They even wrote to the secretariat of the MIE assembly. The most cultured people wrote: “At her age, she should know that she needs to carry emergency sanitary pads with her.”





I saw these around here about ten years ago, but they somehow didn’t catch on in restaurants

However, the temperature was heating up. Soon the responses became more threatening. The council received about 8,000 emails, about one per minute, for almost four days from 8 p.m. on March 28. The Japanese went a little crazy. Most of the emails, of course, came from one address. A specific activist who took up the fight against an ordinary girl. He wrote:

"I will kill the assembly member Ayaka Yoshida, who does not carry emergency pads, and she is old enough to know about it!"



At the press conference, the Japanese woman said that she filed a police report

Of course, the girl filed an official complaint with the local police. She hopes that an investigation is underway. The issue of feminine hygiene in Japan has been unhealthy for many years. Many people on YouTube make videos that if you buy pads, they will wrap them in a black bag so that no one, God forbid, will guess that you are a woman.



By the way, in Japan they even put free baskets in some cafes, women's, probably

This is an incredibly strange desire to avoid obvious and understandable things in places where they belong - in a pharmacy, in a household chemicals store, and now in women's toilets. And such outbursts reflect a deeper pattern of gender persecution aimed at preventing women from trying to change the state of affairs. In general, attacks on female politicians in Japan are a very common occurrence. Almost any theses are criticized, even the most neutral ones. The most frequently criticized topics are support for working mothers, women's health, lack of places in kindergartens, sexual violence in Japanese society, domestic violence and others.



A black bag for carrying sanitary pads from the pharmacy to home in Japan

At the same time, statements from male politicians about curtailing women's rights are considered acceptable. Thus, in November, Naoki Hyakuta, the founder of the Conservative Party of Japan, said that the solution to the demographic crisis in the country would be a legal ban on women getting married after 25 and having their uterus removed at 30. He also said that women should not be allowed to attend university from the age of 18 so that they can focus their efforts on having more children. There was a scandal, he was forced to apologize, but no one deprived him of his job.



Stalkers in Japan have moved from reality to social networks. Lazy stalkers

But here is the message about sanitary pads in toilets, I know for sure that we would not have such hysteria in social networks. And what do you think, if a politician from some very traditional region, for example, Dagestan, published something like this, would they write something like this to her? It seems to me that even there they would not, even though this topic is almost taboo for them. What do you think?