Nature's Menstrual System

I can safely say that over the years teaching yoga to males and discussing the differences between males and females, that males know very little about female reproduction. The interesting part of this is that a male can go through an entire lifetime and not have a clue about the menstrual situation and its effects on female feelings and responses.

To make matters worse, males, many males, are born with a presumption that they understand the world better than females.

Okay let us give the males the benefit of the doubt and so that they do know the world better, but then if one challenges the male to explain the menstrual cycle, one will probably get an answer that describes the external signs of periods and a little may be said about mood swings.

I recall years ago, when I went to visit Arthur Beverford. There was one occasion when I sat on the floor in their bedroom. There was a little disagreement over some topic between Beverford and his wife. Later that day, outside the building Beverford felt the necessity to explain what happened. He said this, “Mama is on the rag. It happens once per month.” He smiled as if to say that this would explain everything.

At the time, I had no idea what on the rag meant because I did not grow up in a society which used that American slang. Some time after, years after, I realized what he meant.

Do I know something about menstruation?

The answer is that I know very little about it in terms of experiencing it myself. Whatever we know about it nowadays is due to advances in observation of human bodies by the medical scientist. Imaging that!

Before science we were in the dark about so many things, so shabby, so ignorant!

Many young men whom I spoke to over the years are complete dummies on the subject of women’s menstrual cycle. I grew up in a house with two adult and one minor female. One of these used to put her menstrual pad under her bed frequently. Because I had the chore to sweep the area, I frequently found the soaked pads or the dried stained pads. I had no idea why they were there, nor how they were used, nor for what purpose.

The sad part of the whole menstruation thing for men is that they are not equipped with the experience or knowledge to understand anything about it. They see it as a woman’s anxiety and responsibility. That is how men are designed. Anyway, I found this article which I think is informative. The link is below.

Buddha is said to have pursued enlightenment as a solution to trauma. So much for him. If I am ever enlightened, people can say that it was because I failed to find a way to convince men that women are a different species. Yoga keeps failing again and again, because men are not open-minded about women. Men will not give up their position to submit to the truths about women. Men use themselves as the standard instead of approaching the woman topic with the view that they, (the men) know very little if anything about women. This is a major cause of failure to become enlightened as far as I am concerned.

These attitudes about women are hurting them more than ever and cause them to fail in the bid for liberation. Any way I got to accept that so far I failed in this effort to bring men to the understanding that women are different and are worthy of fresh research and an open mind.

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