The Devil lost in thought
addressed a full court,
“How did I wipe out
the human kind?”
An answer so simple
had escaped his
“oh-so-male” mind
for so many millennia.
Grand schemes he tried–
deals, wars, atom bombs,
biological weaponary–
but failed. And then…
“I chanced upon a look
into a woman’s mind,
the perfect weapon I find.”
Demons, his subjects
stirred with excitement,
“Was she a super villain?”
“Naah, just a regular girl
having her first menstruation…”
Silence ensued at the declaration.
“You see,
humans shame their women
about their menstruation.
The topic–a taboo–
makes turns women
into second-class citizens,
for the duration.
They bear the pain
and the shame
together as if a sin.
Even a drop brings
public humiliation.
It drives all woman,
dead or alive,
at some point in life,
to wish they
never had menstruation.
I just granted that wish!”
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