Waking up uneasy and uncomfortable, looking at my grey pajama whispering red coloured stories of my successful failure to know my body's mood; the white bed sheet of mine, screaming in dark red, complaining about me being a woman; that's what a period stain has to be. Right ?
A shame
A disgrace
Something you can not talk about
Well at least not with boys
I really wanna know
When back in school, we girls were made to sit in a separate room and were told that now we are of an age that the Period Monster can enter our life any day and we are are supposed to deal with it silently, patiently and of course without telling the boys
Why WHY boys of the same age were not grown up enough to know about the biology of a female human body?
Was it just to ensure to take their curiosity to a level where they start believing in half-baked information and assuming in myths ?! And why were girls both at school and home introduced to periods as a monthly tsunami in our vaginas that we need to feel bad out, crib out and never talk about.
Tell me if any girl out there could actually tell her male friend that she just got her first period
Leave friends. Tell me if you could go to your own brother and father.
No. Right.
Do you realise what woman excrete for those 4 days every month, is what a forms protective layer around the life for 9 months that gets nurtured in a woman's womb.
How can something so important and so beautiful be something women are not proud of or talk about ?! If I be fortunate enough to have a daughter, she and I are definitely going out for a date on her first period to celebrate the embarkment of her womanhood. I will make sure she comfortable enough to ask her dado go out and buy tampons and sanitary napkins for her.
Dear men, if the prosaic functioning of a female body is something you find inappropriate to talk and write about, GROW UP.
And dear girls, don't make your man believe that those four days of the month is the only time when you deserve chocolates and extra pampering. Well, you deserve it on every fucking day. So does he, even if there is no chance of him having cramps or a vagina in the first place.
-Manchit Sachdeva