Sanitary Napkin Politics: Sondhi Bloody Sondhi

Yes, I like that song – seriously: This story is too beautiful to be missed, but I’m too busy with this and that. Lots of beautiful material out there already on Bangkok’s chief protester turned sorcerer Sondhi Limthongkul, who thanked the women of his People’s Alliance for Democracy PAD for having fought off evil spirits with used sanitary napkins from menstruating women.

You can’t beat that, worldwide. Nah I’m no prophet, just observing, but didn’t I say some time ago that deep down the PAD are basically a cult. That’s textbook cult and thank you Sondhi for showing us the way to the light by means of witchcraft and red magic. But hey, I’m not laughing off the great destructive power of Thai menstrual blood and women’s sexuality. No one would!

But maybe such practices don’t really enhance the cause of higher morals and pure ethics. Anyway, maybe we can all agree by now that basically the PAD have fired their last bullets and there’s not much left for them to do other than spin and manipulation based on some superstitious, but genuine belief. It sounded all too beautiful in the beginning – here are some sorcerer Sondhi tidbits:

From Thomas Bell‘s “Bangkok protesters adopt witchcraft to topple Thai government” in the Telegraph (read the whole thing):

“People who don’t like the PAD will think they have lost it and gone quite mad,” said Thitinan Pongsudhirak, a political scientist. But he added: “A lot of Thai people believe in this.”

From – what a headline! – “Sondhi Lim, the Tampax Brahmin” by The Shark (with video):

I wanted to blog about this before, but Sondhi Lim has left me speechless. I don’t know if it is sexist, because it is playing to the middle-class housewives who make a big chunk of PAD support. Hey ladies, why chuck those pads in the bin, when you can play your part in saving the nation and use them to cleanse the country of Thaksin’s evil Khmer voodoo? For the sake of national health, I hope Thai women don’t get any bright ideas of cleansing other evils in life with this lovely ritual.

And from female bloggeress Meaw & More, again gorgeously headlined “Strategic Sanitary PADs”:

Well, as I am trained to talk about the political and the personal even the private (yike, but it’s not what you think), I think it is yucky but we should look at the larger implication (…)

The hush-hush nature of sanitary napkins in Thai culture will make it difficult to place them, particularly the used ones, somewhere apart from a trash can and restroom (…)

I was wondering where can they find used napkins. Ask for a donation? Will real PAD men undertake the task of placing them at the monument? Or ladies did it. Menstrual blood is a taboo, despite being a powerful antidote to black, white magic and men. Now it has been engineered to ignite a coup?

Earlier, I thought the female panties for Burmese junta was quite a campaign, but it is pale in comparison.

Right, the leaders have to do something, anything, to lift the demonstrators’ spirits …