What do you think about the 'Period Leave'?

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Yes, I was on leave today, because of the first day of my Periods!! Does that make me sound weak or fragile or delicate? Even if it does, I don't care! Periods do not make us weak or fragile and neither does taking leave on the very first day of your periods. It is all about pampering yourself during the difficult times so that there are no health issues and you get to boost up your energy.  For some girls/ladies/women, it might be an easy phase, easy enough to go to work and suffer the pain while for others might be difficult. It depends from body to body, person to person. Attitudes towards menstrual blood in contemporary Western culture still circle around the subject with a mixture of denial and horror, advertisements for sanitary products typically use the blue liquid in an attempt to sanitize the reality of blood. It's still a 'Taboo'!!! Menstrual blood is constructed either as something that requires a hygienic makeover or as something unnatural and obscene, a further indication of the horrors of sexual difference and the threatening ‘secrets’ of the female body. According to me, 'Period Leave' is not a sign of weakness.

What do you think? 

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