Hello, fellow Hivers!
A couple of months ago I was in the car with a friend of mine (Zoe, in case anyone has the reference) and we were talking "girl stuff" (and contrary to what most men might think, our long conversations more likely will revolve around work, housework, detergents and our bodies, yeah, cramps periods, all the crying and on the bottom of the list the subject man might come up).
While we were sharing cooking experiences she told me about the other day when she had her period and couldn't bake a cake.
I was looking blatantly at her trying to co-relate the uterus with being able to "stiff peak".
It only reminded me how in third world countries women are considered impure during their menstruation.
My thought wasn't far from that after all!
Even in developed countries ("developed" may raise some arguments), they still have taboos related to the women period, which is a big incentive for the manhood stupidity on the topic.
So I asked around a few male friends of mine whatever they knew about women on their periods, and while they all agreed and were "right" on "there's a lot of crying involved, pain and are aggressive";
I was also flooded with ancient knowledge and very funny but worrying beliefs, so I decided to bring a few:
#1 - "Take a Shower";
#2 - "Take a Bath";
(Now, how does this make sense? Don't we wash? At all?)
#3 - "Go to a cemetery or a funeral";
(Yes! There's a risk the dead might sense something and then BOOM: Zombie Apocalypse)
#4 - "Stay away from geckos. (They might come up the vagina)";
(WHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAT?)
#5 - "Cannot enter a wine cellar. (It can sour the wine.);
(I don't think I've been drinking vinegar honestly)
#6 - "Cannot have a haircut.";
(Can you guys imagine our agendas? Between coordinating the period with the moon to get a haircut no wonder we're always in a mood)
So to finish off, this one goes out to everyone who is a plant lover and probably these were the reasons why my plants are always dead - not me forgetting about their existence.
These pearls came from a friend who is a farmer so I decided to make a special ending, strap on:
#7 - "You can't water plants"; "You can't touch the plants because they can die"; "You can't touch flowers because they can wither"; "Water the onions"; "Can't seed"; "Can't climb fruit trees." and "Cannot pick fruit from the tree.";
How do these people live? This is not only one person, these are people who also heard this from many others!
Now let's imagine we actually lived like these?
How could it be?
