Being a good Muslim girl, you look forward to the days when you can take a few days of fasting breaks during Ramadhan, right?
Oh, don't give me the face. I know you've been checking that calendar every day since Ramadhan started, and not just to make sure that Eid is (still) on the 10th of September this year. You look forward to the day when your time of the month is supposed to come. You look forward to having that lunch, and the afternoon tea, and the cigarettes in between. Smack in broad daytime Ramadhan.
Especially if you want the whole world to know that you're going through THAT TIME OF THE MONTH.
No? Yeah, I thought so.
So even if you have the legal excuse not to fast, you act it anyways. You don't eat or drink or smoke, just like everybody else during Ramadhan. Just to respect everybody's feelings. And to keep your bodily functions private.
I say, it's your day off. Have that cigarette and lunch and tea. Add your family iftars too. You'll be on your own when everybody else's Ramadhan is done and you have to skip the last lunches before NEXT YEAR'S Ramadhan because you had to make up for the ones you missed this year.
7 afterthinkers:
Oh I don't mind if the whole world knows, I'm a girl. What I don't like is when guys see you have a drink and are all like "ohhh you're not fasting!??!" so I say, "no not today".. and they stupidly reply "why not?" Well DUH, guys don't ask girls that question!
You remind me of all the ways that we try to explain that excuse. I mean, beside the obvious, "Time of the Month", Indonesians call it "Hinderance", Bengalis "Shuri Karap" or physical unwellness (which, you can imagine, brings too much sympathy), and Arabs call it "عذر شرعي" a.k.a. legal excuse; because Vulgar Displays of Not-Fasting in Ramadhan can put you in jail some Arab countries, even if you're not Muslim, per se. :)
Thanks for coming over. I wish you an enlightening worship, Jaz.
Slightly off topic and being a total ignorant(forgive me, not being a woman, nor a believer turns me into kind of nobody actually)I want to cheer this special 'days off' treatment.
I love every bit of flexibility in religions. And this seemingly is one. The explicit exception to the rule is friendly to women and implicitly discards secretiveness about menstruation ( tough as it may be in daily life where taboos are still raging).
Indeed, "That Time of the Month" in the absence of chocolate remedies is blasphemous. (◑‿◐)
PS. I'd love to know when the taboo started. I mean, when/how did being a woman become delicate matter anyway, you know?
and i get to wear nail polish! i love nail polish, just got my 1st red shade. my toenails look like candy xD
there was a doctor at the hospital who kept criticizing girls wearing nailpolish by saying "so u want EVERYONE to know that u have ur period?!"
i think saying that in such a manner is unbelievably childish of a doctor. if being that age, and a doctor, and u still cant handle the fact that half the planet menstruates, u have a problem.
@ Hning:
Some occasional blasphemy may well be the spice good religion needs.
And no, I don't know. Probably these taboos are from he same source where witches came from: male anxieties related to the very women they oppress(ed) in their men's worlds. Perhaps it is common for oppressors to fear the oppressed.
Im giggling at Souma. Hilarious and SO true..
I am of the hidey hole type.. Eat under my desk in my office, and then wipe all evidence.
I think its not so much about being 'secretive' or delicate.. but living in a non-Muslim country where everyone knows its Ramadaan, and not everyone knows about the 'special rule'.. its about upholding the image of Islam in some small way..Especially since i have a very long scarf wrapped around my head!
So, on to excuses.. I say I have my period. Blunt, thats how it is.Cant handle? dont ask.. teehee!
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