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A Swimmer’s ‘Period’ Comment Breaks Taboos In Sports — And In China

Fu Yuanhui, a Chinese swimmer at the Rio Olympics, made headlines this week for telling the world she was on her period.

On Sunday, when she finished fourth in the women’s 4x100 meter medley relay, an interviewer found her doubled over and grimacing. She asked Fu if she was in pain.

“Actually, my period started last night, so I’m feeling pretty weak and really tired,” Fu told the interviewer in Mandarin, according to an English-subtitled video on Shanghai Expat’s YouTube channel. “But this isn’t an excuse. At the end of the day, I just didn’t swim very well.”

The interview turned Fu into an overnight sensation on Weibo, a Chinese social media site, reported the New York Times: She broke the silence around menstruation in sports.

According to The Guardian, one commenter wrote, “It is a normal physiological phenomenon, so why can’t we mention it? Fu Yuanhui is awesome!”

The swimmer’s remark also shed light on shifting Chinese attitudes toward periods.

“It tells us a lot about what’s going on in China today,” says Susan Greenhalgh, a professor who focuses on Chinese society at Harvard University’s department of anthropology. “The vocal empowerment of young people and the fact that gender issues are coming to the fore, it’s exciting.”

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Fandometrics In Depth: Game of Thrones Edition

Winter has finally arrived in Westeros.

Season six of Game of Thrones had everything: Time travel, necromancy, dragons, shame… It also had 7.4 million tagged posts and 8.2 million searches here on Tumblr (that’s through the duration of the season, April 24th to June 26th, 2016). We analyzed literally everything tagged #GOT and #Game of Thrones for this special edition of Fandometrics.

Top Episodes

6x09, “Battle of the Bastards”: 53% of the posts

6x05, “The Door”: 14%

6x04, “Book of the Stranger”: 11%

And the least popular: 6x06, “Blood of My Blood”: only 1.7% of the posts.

Top Characters

Jon Snow had the biggest year (of course) with more than 1.5 million of the 7.4 million GOT posts tagged with character names. To illustrate your absolute favorites, we now bring you charts!

Top Ships

There were more than half a million posts about 13 different pairings during season six. Interestingly, most didn’t use the common portmanteaus (think: Stucky) that are popular with modern ships. 61% of the tags used a classic “character 1 x character 2" naming structure instead. Here are your favorites:

Jon Snow x Sansa Stark, 33% of the posts

Brienne of Tarth x Jaime Lannister, 24%

Brienne of Tarth x Tormund Giantsbane, 15%

And the least favorite: Sansa Stark x Tyrion Lannister, with just 0.22% of the posts.

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This Friday is Earth Day, and it will be historic: World leaders will meet at the United Nations in New York to sign the historic Paris climate agreement they struck last December. The signing will officially put the world’s blueprint for a clean energy future into motion.

But now, we must turn the promise of Paris into the concrete steps we need to protect our world. That’s why we’re looking to the world’s five largest emitters of carbon pollution — the U.S., the European Union, China, India and Brazil — to steer this new era in our fight against climate chaos.

You can help! Take action by signing our petition and asking the “Big 5″ carbon polluting countries to deliver on their Paris climate commitments. Click here to learn more and add your name!