#Happytobleed

Being from India, I’m very well aware with the fact that India is an ancient country with many of its ancient traditions still being followed. But there is a hitch here...

Why do we follow or mistake all our ancient myths as traditions???

I’m not saying I’m against following them but then following all of it without knowing the exact reason behind them is something annoying.

We say that we want India to be a progressed country. But is it possible with such poor logical skills; where we do each and everything just because our elders told us to do? There is heck a lot of difference between the times back then and times now!! Our ancesstors did have logic in whatever they thought. They did not allow women in the temples and kitchens during their menstrual days back then because there would be a lot of work load on them and working would tire them to an extent of almost killing them. There is this lesser known fact that people actually used to celebrate the first time a girl got her periods because that did mean she was turning into an immensely gorgeous and sensible lady from a cute, little girl. Does anyone know this?

We compare a girl to a boy on every other aspect. We say we want both the genders to go hand in hand. We compare our little girl with the next door neighbour’s son stating that he studies harder than her and scores well. Does he ever have to bear the trauma of the family for 4-7 days? Does he go through mood swings? Does he MENSTRUATE?NO. If you really want both to be equal then these myths can’t be there.  This is no post for gender equality and stuff because there are things which men face and women don’t!

Coming to this Happy to bleed petition, whole of india knows what it is about and if you still don’t; worry not. I’ll help.

“Indian women unhappy about a 'sexist' statement put out by a Hindu temple in Kerala have started a social media campaign to tell the world that they're not ashamed to menstruate. 

Using the hashtag #happytobleed, the women are making a stand against 'rules' introduced by the chief of a famous Sabarimala temple, which currently bans all women of reproductive age from 10 to 50.”

This is happy to bleed!!! The more annoying part is yet to come.

“Prayar Gopalakrishnan said recently he would only allow female worshippers into the shrine, which is dedicated to Lord Ayyappa, when there is a machine invented to detect whether or not women had their periods.”

-          Excerpts from (http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/asia/indian-women-launch-happy-to-bleed-campaign-to-protest-against-sexist-religious-rule-a6748396.html)

Is this what we educate Indian engineers for? To make such useless machines which would embarrass every woman entering into the shrine?

TIMES CHANGE, PEOPLE CHANGE

Times did change but when will people? Till when will we continue calling menstruating girls impure and treat them as untouchables for those days!!

They are the most golden days of a female’s life and you just can’t ruin them by treating her as an untouchable!!

Trust me if she didn’t menstruate you would never know many things...

·       That she is turning into a woman from a girl.

·       That she will be able to reproduce.

·       The confirmation of “good news”.

ALL I WANT TO SAY IS IT IS TIME TO 

Ø CHANGE OUR MYTHS

Ø CHANGE OUR MINDSETS

Ø CHANGE INDIA

-signing off

A woman,

A blogger

A  #happytobleed person

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