So it seems a lot of chairs rattled after reading my previous post. I had some interesting discussions with a friend over email. It does add a bit to what I say. So bear with my lashing words yet again. Fortunately its an excerpt and not the entire conversation so your blood pressure won't shoot up too high this time. Here goes it:
"....We have super powers but we hide them, our power has been converted into a taboo. No one should know when it happens.
Why does the chemist still hide a Whisper pack in a newspaper and a hideous black polythene bag?
What am trying to say is that very conveniently someone converted our strength into our weakness.
Its time we realise that and set the equations right.
It won't happen tomorrow but maybe it could just start with asking for a pack of Whisper over the counter and refusing to hide it in a hideous black bag."
That the product is called Whisper is a sign itself that we need to shout!
hmmm.. actually I saw your comment on the previous post and wanted to reply. I was in a hurry to reach Office, thought will post a reply after am back. But, now, what I wanted to say, has already been said. :)
ReplyDeleteYour thinking is right and most of us think alike too. We humans are social beings, and usually don't feel so secured alone. We cannot actually blame the chemist for wrapping the pads in a newspaper and packing it in black polythene cover. That is his 'level' of thinking. Lets change it. Next time, you are going to politely and boldly refuse the newspaper wrap and black polythene pack. The wave of freshness will not blow by itself, we need to initiate it. So, next time you know what you are doing at the chemist store?
Often it is said women are weaker. But, its not true. They are equally stronger to any men. Taking into consideration the topic in discussion, I don't think any men could withstand the pain every month, that too being so very normal! Hats off.. How if men were to 'share' this pain of women? Someone might laugh at this, but great if that would have been a reality.
We need to blame ourselves here for imposing so many social restrictions and taboos on women. When we humans have managed to create the almighty-superpower 'God' himself, its nothing of a surprise that these sets of taboos were invented, that definitely deserves a black flag..