Getting over the menstrual taboo!
It was a Friday morning - I hadn't slept through the night because I was having these horrible cramps with backache and nausea and I did not have enough strength to get up from bed to go to office. I had taken a sick day off - and whenever someone asked why I was on leave, I replied that I was sick and I had a back ache, until it hit me - why I was doing this, why couldn't I just say I was having period cramps. And then I reasoned to myself that I wanted to maintain a "decent" conversation and not let things go awkward. Two things were really disturbing about my thought process - That I consider talking about periods with guys to be "indecent" and that I was so ashamed of going through this perfectly natural biological phenomenon that I thought a conversation going awkward if i talked about periods would be because I said something shameful. Looking back, I guess I have always had this feeling - I have been mortified when guys are playfully going o...