Feminist Rantings

Feminist ranting over the phone goes – ‘you know we were talking, this Corona thing feels like one is waiting for the periods. When will it come? Sometimes I think, let it come and let’s be over and done with it.’ And we end up laughing at both Corona and our dwindling pre-menopausal periods.  It has been a long period of waiting for periods. Most often it came and sometimes it did not. Such has life been for many of us. It is amusing that as women we could draw metaphors for these extraordinary times from something most take as an ordinary part of life. Personally speaking, when you have bled for 5 days for almost every month, leaving out the wanted and unwanted pregnancies, for about 30 years of your life, it feels like bleeding through your vagina is as normal breathing through your nose. The only difference was that you did not wear a pad to soak in what comes out of your nose. Even that has been taken care of by now. Is it any wonder that menstruation metaphors decorate our e