Taboo, in simple terms it means a type of situation that is generally not acceptable by the current mode of society. When I say current I mean something that was expectable in 1900 might not be acceptable as of now and hence that is a taboo. Here I am trying to pull in few topics of taboo that are grossly present in Indian society and share my thoughts on the same. So, first topic that I going to pull in is “periods / menstruation” or however you want to term it as.
All of us bleed, at times on our own mistake or at times due to mistake of others, but girls bleed as its her creation and not a mistake. Its just a biological process, something same like a guy masturbating every day just the difference is we enjoy and they don’t.
A mere mention of menstruation takes us a million years back into the dark ages and beyond, we can only see a cloth fill of blood and not a girl in paid. It just disturbs us and nothing more. What is menstruation, a normal bodily function of a healthy female body such a taboo? Why should any girl face humiliation, shame, denial, seclusion and ridicule because her body is performing a biological function that enables her to reproduce someday? Don’t guys have a night fall?
We can think of a hundred and one issues that need to be looked upon, but menstruation isn’t one of them. Little girls who experience their bodies change and grow need guidance and not ignorance, information, help and access to hygienic solutions. Little boys and not so little men need to be taught sensitivity and acceptance towards the plight of their female counterparts. Families need to be rid of superstitions and rigid myths that cause long term harm to a girl’s psyche when she is at her most vulnerable. We are bunch of hypocritical and misogynistic prudes and nothing more than that. We love the beauty of a girl, we want their vagina to satisfy our pole but when she bleeds we turn our face away from her. Is this the love that we commit to her?
How many of us have heard from our parents to change the channel on tv when a advertisement on wisper or stayfree is coming. What should we do, should we go ahead and tell our children also to change the channel or we should sit and explain them that is a medical situation, all girls (beautiful or gul, young or old) suffer this. There is no option but to face this pain. Also, who in India has not heard from mom saying to ur sister that not to step in kitchen or not to visit the temple, when I was young I never got that, but as I grew up, I figured out that girls egg have a history saying that they make her body untidy and impure and hence cant visit temple, what the fuck is this. We consider this to be impure, do we realise our birth is the only time when mother does not bleed, does that mean we are also impure as we are creation of that impurity only. The body which is suppose to be worshiped is disrespected like this? Are we guys ever going to come over thing and feel the pain that breaks her for those 5 to 7 days.
70 percent of women in India cannot afford sanitary napkins, and only 12 percent of the 355 million menstruating women in the country use them. Just 2 percent of women in rural India use sanitary napkins, even though three-quarters of the population lives there. Why can’t we simply accept the fact that menstruating is as natural as rains in the monsoon? Why can’t we support the women during their periods, instead of ignoring them, snubbing them, asking them to stay out of religious shrines, and adding to their pain and misery? We women did not choose their periods, it is just how we are engineered. Besides, periods are not exactly a walk in the park, and these restrictions that are unreasonably imposed upon women only make matters worse.
I have taken lot of stuff from the various articles that I have read over time & I truly feel cleaning of hearts and mind from such impure thoughts is way more important than cleaning your floor.
Be positive to periods! ***
All of us bleed, at times on our own mistake or at times due to mistake of others, but girls bleed as its her creation and not a mistake. Its just a biological process, something same like a guy masturbating every day just the difference is we enjoy and they don’t.
A mere mention of menstruation takes us a million years back into the dark ages and beyond, we can only see a cloth fill of blood and not a girl in paid. It just disturbs us and nothing more. What is menstruation, a normal bodily function of a healthy female body such a taboo? Why should any girl face humiliation, shame, denial, seclusion and ridicule because her body is performing a biological function that enables her to reproduce someday? Don’t guys have a night fall?
We can think of a hundred and one issues that need to be looked upon, but menstruation isn’t one of them. Little girls who experience their bodies change and grow need guidance and not ignorance, information, help and access to hygienic solutions. Little boys and not so little men need to be taught sensitivity and acceptance towards the plight of their female counterparts. Families need to be rid of superstitions and rigid myths that cause long term harm to a girl’s psyche when she is at her most vulnerable. We are bunch of hypocritical and misogynistic prudes and nothing more than that. We love the beauty of a girl, we want their vagina to satisfy our pole but when she bleeds we turn our face away from her. Is this the love that we commit to her?
How many of us have heard from our parents to change the channel on tv when a advertisement on wisper or stayfree is coming. What should we do, should we go ahead and tell our children also to change the channel or we should sit and explain them that is a medical situation, all girls (beautiful or gul, young or old) suffer this. There is no option but to face this pain. Also, who in India has not heard from mom saying to ur sister that not to step in kitchen or not to visit the temple, when I was young I never got that, but as I grew up, I figured out that girls egg have a history saying that they make her body untidy and impure and hence cant visit temple, what the fuck is this. We consider this to be impure, do we realise our birth is the only time when mother does not bleed, does that mean we are also impure as we are creation of that impurity only. The body which is suppose to be worshiped is disrespected like this? Are we guys ever going to come over thing and feel the pain that breaks her for those 5 to 7 days.
70 percent of women in India cannot afford sanitary napkins, and only 12 percent of the 355 million menstruating women in the country use them. Just 2 percent of women in rural India use sanitary napkins, even though three-quarters of the population lives there. Why can’t we simply accept the fact that menstruating is as natural as rains in the monsoon? Why can’t we support the women during their periods, instead of ignoring them, snubbing them, asking them to stay out of religious shrines, and adding to their pain and misery? We women did not choose their periods, it is just how we are engineered. Besides, periods are not exactly a walk in the park, and these restrictions that are unreasonably imposed upon women only make matters worse.
I have taken lot of stuff from the various articles that I have read over time & I truly feel cleaning of hearts and mind from such impure thoughts is way more important than cleaning your floor.
Be positive to periods! ***
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