00:08When you look at the dropout rates, the comparative chart between boys and girls,
00:13one of the inflection points is at 12-13 years of age. Girls just drop out. They stop going to
00:19school because there is a stigma attached to menstruation. Because their parents didn't tell
00:23them anything. There is no sex education. And when the bleeding starts in the school,
00:27it becomes a spectacle. There is just so much shame and embarrassment. And for the others,
00:32it's good fun and girls just drop out. Even the layers of skin that automatically peel off,
00:37they have their own periods, time period. Just as the unfertilized egg is being shed. Similarly,
00:44the skin is also shed, both men and women. Because you blow it up into such a big thing,
00:49in the mind of the girl also, it becomes a disproportionately big thing. Whereas it is
00:55nothing. It's like any other usual process in the human body. That's it.
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