True, periods don’t give a call and they just crept on women; especially when females get them in public all of a sudden and without having a sanitary napkin with them, the situation can turn out to be embarrassing and worse. There are a number of girls who get nervous and don’t get what to do at that time but today we are going to introduce you with a different girl named Anushka Dasgupta who takes such an uncomfortable situation with extreme ease and without getting even a bit troubled.
She also got her periods suddenly in public and didn’t have a sanitary napkin and it might come to you as a surprise that she wasn’t even concerned about or troubled with that. And when others offered her help, she simply refused, in fact, got annoyed. According to her, she didn’t want to receive that attention and those people were making an attempt to force her for hiding her “womanhood”.
This is what she posted on Facebook:
“I came home today at four minutes past nine after a long walk, a metro journey and a 10 minute bus ride.
There’s nothing unusual about my evening except for the fact that multiple women walked up to me on my way home and asked me to pull my tee shirt down, most men ogled, all the kids I met didn’t notice/care. I came to know why I was the centre of attention for the better of my journey when a woman (well meaning, I’m sure) offered me a sanitary napkin. I had stained my pants.
So here I was, well past eight, standing alone at Esplanade with a massive red stain across my butt and a rather artistic red dot under the zipper of my pants.
This post is for all the women who offered to help me hide my womanhood, I AM NOT ASHAMED. I bleed every 28-35 days, it is painful at times, I get moody at times, but I walk into the kitchen and get myself some chocolate biscuits and I’m good to go for the next eight hours come hell or high water because I AM NOT ASHAMED.
This post is for all the men who ogled at me today, I AM NOT ASHAMED. Check out the big red blotch on my pants all you want, check out my butt, check out the way I move, come touch me if you dare, and I will show you that I AM NOT ASHAMED. I will take out a sanitary napkin and show you how it works while you can teach me how to pee in public (because clearly you’re not ashamed, and neither am I).
To all the children who didn’t give a damn, DO NOT BE ASHAMED. There will be many bloodstains on pants, on skirts, on bedsheets, on cushion covers, on chairs, on tables, against the wall, and on the battlefield where YOU fight the stigma by NOT BEING ASHAMED. Do not whisper when you utter the word “PERIODS”, do not subtly offer a woman a sanitary napkin, or a fresh change of clothes. ASK her if she needs one, TELL her she has stained her clothes, DO NOT HELP HER HIDE IT.
I AM NOT ASHAMED.
I AM NOT ON MY *period*.
I AM ON MY PERIOD.”
Indeed, her move was appreciated by many netizens who applauded her in comments:
Anushka also replied to their comments:
You go girl!
