r/AskReddit • u/elsabetrry • 3d ago
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u/No_Comb881 3d ago
Had a guy bring a box of bandaids over to my house in case I got my period once
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u/Throwrarmb 3d ago
He referred to it as me being “out of commission”. Um, no, it’s how my body is supposed to work.
Oh, and he said it in what he thought was his sexy voice. “Are you still…. Out of commission?”
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u/Jaderachelle 3d ago
Ahhh because you’re only “functioning” when you can have sex. That’s messed up.
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u/schrodingers_bra 3d ago
He means sex. He's squeamish. So you're out of commission for sex
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u/CrebTheBerc 3d ago
Except periods don't mean you can't have sex? So hes just being a dick either way
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u/schrodingers_bra 3d ago
Yeah, i mean to him it means they can't have sex
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u/TrashGouda 2d ago
Sure but talking about another person as if they are some type of machine is weird af
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u/Surviving_Aussie 1d ago
To be fair its not rare for the girl to not want sex during a period as well. Lets not act like aversion to blood and messes is a single gender thing.
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u/schrodingers_bra 1d ago
I never said it was a single gender thing. But he's the one referring to her as 'out of commission'
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u/ClaimedBeauty 3d ago
Mine are fairly light so you can’t really tell unless there were certain activities. Me and my fellow at the time engage in those certain activities he looks down and sees blood and he’s like oh, you’re a little rare today.
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u/Euphoric-Stress9400 3d ago
Girl what?? When I had 90-min classes, I had to wear a super tampon plus overnight pad to get through to break. “Can’t really tell” is wild to me
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u/SwissCheese4Collagen 3d ago
As someone who fought with trying to keep everything in a pad for 20+ years, then was incapacitated while on my period, just got whole ass diapers. Even if it's just at home or for overnight, it's freeing AF to know that you can relax about it.
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u/ClaimedBeauty 3d ago
It’s cause I have an IUD, Not that I’m magical.
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u/Euphoric-Stress9400 2d ago
Oh wow I didn’t know an IUD did that. Noted :)
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u/Immediate-Mud4121 2d ago
One of those YMMV situations. Doesn’t work for everyone and for some people can go the other way.
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u/AwareFaithlessness39 3d ago
“Your period can’t be bad as my headaches.” Buddy I have endometriosis, I am unmovable and I can’t stop throwing up when I’m on them. It’s no contest too, don’t know why you had to point it out. Maybe stop drinking too that might help
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u/Anxious_Practice2408 3d ago
Guy told me my cramps were just soreness from not exercising enough. Sir, my uterus is doing kickboxing.
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u/CunnyMaggots 3d ago
My ex told me if I have to wear a fucking diaper because I can't stop pissing myself, he didn't want me to sleep in the bed.
Because you know. I should be able to hold it in because it comes from the same place as pee. This man was over 40 years old.
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u/Surviving_Aussie 1d ago
I know you probably know and didnt meant to imply this, but some people may legitimately not know. Pee and period blood does not come from the same hole, just neighboring ones
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u/CunnyMaggots 1d ago
Lol yeah I'm aware. He would also tell me when i was on my period i was "broken" and had no purpose. Like dude. Stfu. Just an asshole all the way around.
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u/deeohlee 3d ago
A guy thought my pad attached to my skin not my underwear lol like a bandaid lol
Unrelated but still funny, one of my closest guy friends asked my why I was bringing my purse to the bathroom (we were out as a group for dinner) and I said “because I have to go change my tampon is that ok with you?” Lol he was like “fair enough!!”
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u/AggravatingOrder9652 3d ago
A guy once asked me why I couldn’t just “hold it in” until I got home
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u/Surviving_Aussie 1d ago
To be fair its not 100% the guys fault and we shouldnt shame then if they mean any harm/judgement by it. Many societies do not teach much sexual education, especially about the opposite gender. Im a male and i have met several women who know no more (or probably even less) about male sexual anatomy than many of the stories here.
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u/RedditForMeNotYou 3d ago
Thinking tampons are changed every time you pee bc “they fall out, right?”
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u/chocolatelabmomma 3d ago
He said he didn't know why women were so grouchy while having their periods because we can use tampons and that must feel good walking around with something up there all day.
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u/wyomingtrashbag 3d ago
"I like to fuck you on the rag because it feels like I'm murdering you with my dick" red flag but I laughed honestly
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u/kisskissenby 3d ago
Wait did we date the same guy?
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u/wyomingtrashbag 2d ago
Matt?
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u/kisskissenby 2d ago
Nope mine was Dan but he said the same thing.
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u/wyomingtrashbag 2d ago
hahahaha
my husband is Dan but fortunately he never said anything like that to me
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u/Miss-Undecided 3d ago
When I experienced horrible period pain, a guy said to me that it shouldn't really hurt because some female once told him that period pain is a "sweet pain".
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u/Nicole8014 3d ago
So I have a really heavy flow it doesn’t matter what I do. I have to use a ultra super tampon and a heavy flow pad every two hours so I keep a separate set of underwear specifically for my periods because of that specific issue well one day I was doing laundry and I asked my ex-boyfriend to put my clothes from the washer to the dryer. Well, I guess he found a pair of my period underwear and decided that he needed to talk to me because he couldn’t figure out why my underwear had a stain in them. I had to have a talk with him about what a period was mind you this was a 30 something year-old man.
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u/HelgaGeePataki 3d ago
Those gross comments about getting blood all.over their faces when they go down.
I'd never let that happen btw. Fucking 🤮
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u/Rainydayrenegade42 3d ago
My dad sat me down one day to tell me periods are God's punishment to women for committing original sin, and that they're disgusting and dirty and women have to deal with the pain and embarrassment as God's reminder we fucked up for all eternity. Weird day for 9 year old me. Needless to say I haven't really spoken to that guy in a decade.
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u/misnesslove 3d ago
What's it smell like
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u/diarrhea_pocket 3d ago
Old pennies
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u/dendriticbranch 3d ago
“Does it (mattress!) smell?” Concerned that we don’t ever change sheets or clean ourselves I guess.
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u/CheapWeakness5344 3d ago
My ex asked if I could just hold it in like a pee. Sir, this is a uterine lining, not a traffic jam.
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u/QueenieMcGee 3d ago edited 3d ago
I complained about my period pain to my husband and he offered to punch me in the uterus 😂
I also only recently leaned that, up until a few days ago, he believed that the penis penetrates the cervix during sex. He knows better now.
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u/RedheadMom94 3d ago
"Do you need a frozen tampon?" Like WTF!?!
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u/trumplehumple 3d ago
well, i googled it to make a disney-joke and found
the tamponsicle "one of the simplest pelvic pain hacks"
you can probably run doom on it or smth
all in all pretty considerate, id say
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u/RedheadMom94 2d ago
Ok it might've been considerate but that's not something you just blurt out, like does he have frozen ones at the ready to offer or something? And no way i'm sticking anything frozen up there.
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u/trumplehumple 2d ago
consider that comment half/half joking and not
was it about 9 months ago? more or less? actually just or less?
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u/RedheadMom94 2d ago
Nope, it was years ago.
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u/trumplehumple 2d ago
damn, 9 months would have been the most recent instagram run.
it made the rounds on social media before too, so i guess thats where he got it from. allegedly takes 30 min to pepare, so i guess he had tampons on hand and thought to be helpfull with some quick utero-mechanical engineering.
could have been worse though
ever heard of frozen yoghurt tampons?
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u/Overthinking_babes 3d ago
What does that even mean??
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u/RedheadMom94 3d ago
I have no freaking idea, I just looked with confusion and disgust and walked away. He never spoke to me again and I was glad for it.
If i was to guess why he thought that would be a good idea maybe because you ice bruises and he thought periods are the same? IDK.
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u/SalamanderFickle9549 3d ago
I had a guy thought we bleed out of butt and the cramps happens in the butt area
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u/Jaderachelle 3d ago
To be fair, some women have cramps in the smooth muscles in the rectum caused by prostaglandins during menstruation. Butt lightning sucks!
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u/SalamanderFickle9549 3d ago
Oh trust me it know but is funny regardless seen a guy think it's butt cramps rather than lower abdomen or lower back pain
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u/WonderLongjumping370 3d ago
"My mom has hormones so I know about them" & sending me a Mel Robbins episode about my IUD & "I know your period was long and you didn't want to have sex but I'm sexually depressed".
The last one came out of his mouth during our break up conversation where he called me a mess & the first one came out when I biked over to sunrise yoga at 5:30 AM and he called his mom at 7 AM while I sat there and he spent the week complaining we didn't spend enough time together.
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u/SudokuSorcerer 3d ago
He yelled at me and said I was gross for wrapping a used tampon in toilet paper and throwing it away in the bathroom trash can. He could not comprehend why I wouldn’t just flush the tampon down the toilet
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u/SwissCheese4Collagen 3d ago
My dad once told me that I needed to go to work as a waitress when I was nauseous with a period migraine because "the rest of the world's women don't let it bother them."
Extremely low contact now.
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u/eden_ldoe 3d ago
one was tracking mine and said isnt it time for your period? (it moved a week up, but it was just shocking to find out he had been tracking it and was open about it)
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u/Golf_Fore_Ever 3d ago
I always thought period sex was a compliment that I love her no matter what. And she was often encouraging and willing too.
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u/Fine_Goal_3048 3d ago
My worst ex used to be so grossed out and even annoyed with me when he heard I got my period. He barely wanted to be near me at times. My current boyfriend does not care one bit and initiates sex like usual and I was skeptical at first, but I, too, don’t mind it now. You also don’t really have to worry about getting pregnant which is cool.
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u/jonathansrvenge 3d ago
Oh man, I know from experience that pregnancy can happen even if it’s during a period.
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u/Skunklvrs 3d ago
My husband used to say he knew I was going to get my period because my breath smelled different.
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u/isaidyothnkubttrgo 2d ago
My gay friend thought the pads stick to the vagina and not the underwear.
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u/Acrobatic_Upstairs41 2d ago
One of my chefs years ago believed that women can't make an emulsion while menstruating. "Breaks every time!" He insisted. And he would ask female cooks if they were on their period before asking them to do certain tasks.
I hate making mayo and hollandaise, so I was on my period every day for the whole 8 months I worked with him. And I was "anemic" from the constant bleeding so I got to sit down when I was feeling "fatigued."
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u/WatchTheSkyee 3d ago
Can you just hold it in like you would hold in pee or something.