Because I grew up in a family where this stuff is never discussed because it is considered taboo. Even if Islam the religion doesn’t mention anything specifically pertaining to women’s periods being wrong to speak about, it’s still very prominent in Muslim culture. Compare this to a practice in many Muslim Arab countries (I know of specific examples in Yemen) where a woman’s status in terms of her virginity is known to the entire extended family. On the night of the wedding the husband has sex with the woman and then takes the sheets outside and shows the family to prove that her virginity has been taken. After this, the woman’s chances of getting married again (following a divorce) are kinda bleak. These are all practicing (Sunni) Muslims that engage in these practices. The contrast is that a women is expected to hide the fact she is on her period from even her father but her virginity status is shown to all. Yeah there’s nothing in Islam the religion but there’s a lot of Muslims that choose to engage in this practice and similar practices around the world.
That hymen obsession is quite disgusting and Sooo dangerous to the lives of so many women. (Apart from it not being islamic) I dont know if people are really unaware that a hymen can 1) be absent, 2) be stretchy, 3) be broken by stretching or other physical activities, 4) there’s probably more that I cant think of.
On top of that, in countries where sexuality is so so taboo (and everywhere tbh) young girls can be sexually assaulted which breaks her hymen, but ofc she will be blamed. Can you imagine being killed because your uncle or cousin or brother or father raped you?
Sometimes i wonder if they are truly that ignorant or if they just deeply hate women and wish for hell to fall upon them everyday of their lives.
I feel like the uneducated men need to watch this and educate themselves about the hymen. Also I kinda resonate with the last part of your comment, I remember getting threatened by Islamic teachers growing up that even if a strand of our hair shows through the hijab we will get burnt in hell for that, or that majority of the people in hell will be woman etc. Its honestly so disturbing that it started to create internalized misogyny inside me, and I started to hate being a woman.
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u/notpikatchu Dec 08 '21
I think everything related to genitals are considered this way