outcast

had this horrid moment this afternoon..
when me & my family headed to the bugis area coz me little sis had a craving for laksa. we happened to pass by the temple on the way to the stall so mum suggested going in to offer some incense. all of us except me
coz i've been deemed too 'dirty' to enter the temple and offer blah coz i was perioding. like ermmm...
felt like such an outcast..a reject as i stood waiting outside the temple in the horrid hot heat of the afternoon.
i wonder how and where and why such a rule came about.
i have nothing against the religion but why should one be deemed unfit to enter a place of faith and worship because of a natural and humanly feminine quality?

nonsense?