THE BLOODY AFFAIR

WHEN DID IT ALL START? THE MENSTRUAL BLOOD FIASCO, MOST PROBABLY WHEN YOU WERE THIRTEEN OR FOURTEEN? YOU MIGHT NOT REMEMBER THE EXACT DAY OR THE DATE ON WHICH YOU HAD EMBRACED THE JOURNEY INTO WOMANHOOD. WHO CARES? 

EVERYONE AROUND YOU IS EXTRA CAUTIOUS WHEN YOU ARE ON YOUR PERIOD, BECAUSE YOU THEN ACQUIRE THE STATUS OF BEING IMPURE AND UNTOUCHABLE. PEOPLE ARE SCARED OF YOU, BECAUSE DURING THESE FIVE DAYS, YOU BECOME THE AGENT OF EVIL.  YOUR TOUCHING OF ANY IDOL OR EVEN CHANTING THE NAME OF THE ALMIGHTY BECOMES BLASPHEMOUS! YOU'RE NOT EVEN ALLOWED TO ENTER THE KITCHEN AS THIS MIGHT LEAD TO A BREACH IN THE PURITY OF THE AMBIANCE OF THE KITCHEN. 

THE NATURAL PHENOMENON OF BLEEDING IS CONSIDERED AS A SIN. NOW IF YOU ASK AS TO WHO HAD INVENTED AND WHO PROPAGATES SUCH DOGMATIC VIEWS? OF COURSE, OUR ANCESTORS. NEEDLESS TO SAY, OUR NEAR AND DEAR ONES PROPAGATE THESE VIEWS. WHEN DID FIND YOUR MOTHER, AUNT, MOTHER-IN-LAW RESPOND POSITIVELY TO YOUR PERIODS? WHEN DID YOU FIND YOURSELF IN A HAPPY STATE WHEN YOUR SKIRTS WERE STAINED? ONE SPOT OF BLOOD HAS THE CAPACITY TO RUIN YOUR DAY, MOOD, REPUTATION. HOW SHALL YOUR COLLEAGUES REACT WHEN THEY SEE THE BLOOD STAIN? SOME WOULD PASS LEWD COMMENTS, SOME WOULD GOSSIP AND SOME WOULD SYMPATHIZE. 

BUT DO YOU REALLY THINK THESE OPINIONS MATTER? DO YOU EVER CONFINE YOURSELF TO YOUR ROOM WHEN YOU'RE ON YOUR PERIODS? DO YOU EVER THINK OF CANCELING YOUR LONG PLANNED TRIP BECAUSE OF PERIODS?

SO WHENEVER SOMEONE TRIES TO POINT OUT THE IMPURITY IN YOUR BODY, GIVE THEM A COLD SHOULDER AND IN RETURN POINT OUT TO THE IMPURITY IN THEIR MINDSET!