It is so hard to explain this to people who haven't grown up down here, but I was still wrong. We can't make generalizations at all.
Yes India is a society where menstruation is a taboo. It is a "dirty thing" that girls do, or something to most men. Live in relationships are against god. Women have to be "pure" until marriage. Men can do whatever the fuck they want as long as they aren't gay or effeminate, of course.
Ah yes, the joys of indian "society", but do you know something?
I cherish people who do not live by these standards.
When you meet someone over here who treats women as human beings and considers live in relationships to be normal then you have found an outlier, and they tend to be pretty amazing folks.
Yes India is a society where menstruation is a taboo. It is a "dirty thing" that girls do, or something to most men. Live in relationships are against god. Women have to be "pure" until marriage. Men can do whatever the fuck they want as long as they aren't gay or effeminate, of course.
Ah yes, the joys of indian "society", but do you know something?
I cherish people who do not live by these standards.
When you meet someone over here who treats women as human beings and considers live in relationships to be normal then you have found an outlier, and they tend to be pretty amazing folks.