Despite the fact that periods are “icky” apparently, a film about menstruation just won an Oscar. Praise Be!

Period. End Of Sentence won the award for Best Short Documentary, and the film’s director, Rayka Zehtabchi, had the greatest response in her acceptance speech.

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“I’m not crying because I’m on my period, or anything. I can’t believe a film about menstruation just won an Oscar!”

The film is a documentary about the deep-rooted stigma attached to menstruation in a rural village in India.

This stigma has prevented girls and young women from staying in education, worshipping in temples, and having access to basic sanitary products.

And, tonight it won itself a lovely, shiny Oscar despite an anonymous male member of the Academy recently admitting that, while Period. End of Sentence is “well done", it's about women getting their periods, and women getting their periods grosses men out.

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“[I'm not going to vote for] Period. End of Sentence — it's well done, but it's about women getting their period, and I don't think any man is voting for this film because it's just icky for men,” he wrote in his anonymous Oscar ballot featuring his selections for the year's awards ceremony (via The Hollywood Reporter).

Wow. I didn’t realise we were still living in 1876.

Anyway, screw that guy because Period. End Of Sentence has won an award and the world is good again.

Anna Lewis News Editor Anna Lewis is the News Editor at Delish UK, which means she’s always either writing about food, cooking food or eating food.

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