40 Very Dumb Statements About Women By Men Who Have No Clue How Women Work, As Shared In This Viral Twitter Thread
Being humble enough to accept when you’ve been wrong, and being curious enough to keep learning new things (even when your ego wants to get in the way) are two very good qualities to have as a human being.
It’s important to know the basics of life on Earth. Sadly, one area of knowledge that seems to be very much neglected is what some men know about women’s bodies and reproduction. In some cases, the misinformation they take as fact is simply staggering. You've been warned.
Sabrina Fonfeder, a development executive, noted that men should not make any decisions about women’s bodies, and gave an example of how little about biology some men know. One of her exes, for example, thought that all women got their period on the 15th of the month. The tweet quickly went viral and other women pitched in with similar horror stories.
Sabrina, who created the viral thread, was kind enough to answer Bored Panda's questions. She believes that men having major misconceptions about women is a problem with education.
"We're not taught anything about women because we're supposed to be these beautiful specimens. Get rid of your body hair, periods are gross, and don't get me started on pregnancy and labor and all the things women aren't taught their own bodies until they've given birth," she told Bored Panda. "There is so much shame about just existing as a woman that we don't ever talk about anything that makes us look like less than a supermodel."

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Horrible man - and some government reps agreed with him. Basically, the bill defined a fertilized egg as an “unborn child” - so a blastocyst has more rights than the woman carrying it. The bill also included life imprisonment and the death penalty for abortions.
They say they’re pro-life yet they also say people should get the death penalty if they do get an abortion. Absolutely disgusting people, I swear.
Load More Replies...My once very pro-life mother had to face reality when she ended up with an ectopic pregnancy 16 years after she had her tubes tied (after my birth - btw, the fact that she could get them tied at 22 was phenomenal and part of why I'm not leaving my state). Her option was RU-486 (now Mifepristone). I loathe the idea that with idiots like this in positions to influence laws, there's a possibility that she would have wound up dead. Folks who don't understand this sh*t need to STFU.
As a guy I support that...... not to be funny but honestly.
Load More Replies...A lawmaker trying to make a law which he knows nothing about. F**k my life. Welcome to the U.S.
There should be a law about men who make decisions about women’s reproduction.
Honestly let's take sex out of the equation and say why are people with no medical knowledge making these laws. Why do trust fund babies grow up and get to say how snap/EBT should work, why does someone who makes money off of ecological destruction get to say what his CO2 quota is. The whole system is beyond broke and the qualified people want nothing to do with it or are bullied out!
People who decide anything on a whim without any research should not make any decisions! :o
Well, not decisions that impact other people's lives.
Load More Replies...My mom aborted an ectopic pregnancy. If she hadn't, she wouldn't've had me or my sibling. No, every fetus is not special, sacred, and deserving of being gestated and born, especially not over the woman carrying it.
In Sabrina's opinion, changing the education system in a meaningful way can definitely be done. "More women in charge would be a good start. But also it's not that hard to look at what other countries do and just do that. We don't need to reinvent the wheel here," she said that there are already great examples out there. All it takes is the courage to follow in their footsteps.
Bored Panda also wanted to get Sabrina's opinion on what grown men can do to educate themselves about basic biology. In her opinion, there's no excuse for ignorance, considering the wealth of information at everyone's fingertips.
…what? This must be the same type of person who thinks “wHy dOnT yOu jUsT HoLd ThE bLoOd iN?” Smh
Or hold your sp*rm in so she doesn't get pregnant.
Load More Replies...it stuff like this where I honestly can't believe that men like this actually exist! Like HUH!?!?!
I mean, it would be a funny joke, but I am afraid OPs ex definitely wasn't joking...
Load More Replies...This is really funny. Once my daughter asked me if I was regular and I said "every 4th Thursday morning". Then, being sarcastic but I didn't caught on, "what time?" - which I answered "before 10 am for sure". There's no way I would forget such an important event.
Please don't disparage women who find themselves in these situations. As a number of recent polls and even Reddit threads have demonstrated, ever since they learned that supporting Trump means that most women will not date or f**k them, Conservative men have learned to lie extra hard to us in order to get laid. When we get pregnant, either accidentally or by stealth (which happened to me), the "oh, I don't think about politics much"/"Of COURSE I'm a feminist!"/"If you get pregnant, it's your choice" guys suddenly reveal their true colors and flip out about abortion and "You can't kill MY baby!" Then they blame us for believing their lies in the first place.
Load More Replies...I'm glad that you left that sociopath. Not only does he have no basic knowledge of human anatomy, he also is an abusive twat.
"Men can simply... read? There has never been more access to information on any topic, so I'd tell any man to do some googling and they'll get what they're looking for. Otherwise, ask a woman in your life questions and come from a place of humility," she said.
"If you scroll through the replies of my Tweet, many women talk about their male partners being adamant even when they are wrong about basic biology, and then yelling when they're told they're wrong. That's extremely annoying. I don't think they'll face any sort of shame if they ask questions from a place of genuine curiosity and a willingness to learn."
The situation when it comes to knowledge about reproduction is pretty sad in some parts of the United States. According to SIECUS, only 29 states and the District of Columbia actually mandate sex education. Meanwhile, 35 states require schools to focus on abstinence when talking about sex ed.
Shockingly, a whopping 15 states “do not require sex education or HIV/STI instruction to be any of the following: age-appropriate, medically accurate, culturally responsive, or evidence-based/evidence-informed.” What this means is that in some areas of the country, students might be misinformed at the school level.
Ooh, so this is the corresponding argument that a C-section means you aren't a real mum. So C-sections result in entirely fictional people! I'm sitting on my hands reading these so I don't facepalm myself into a coma.
Born by C-section, so that means I do not have to pay taxes since I am not real?
Does this destroy the anti-choice arguments, then? If I say I want to have a C-section, am I therefore allowed to abort my non-baby-in-the-making? Surely it can't be both "a human being" and "not a real baby"?
Of course the women don’t know about their own bodies but all of the men know EVERYTHING
I dont know that superstition but in spain old people often believe that menstruating women can curdle milk, stop the raise of bread or not being able to make mayonaise.
Load More Replies...Oh no, that's just my natural acid at all times. I took the finish off both a flute and trombone back in high school. I can also bore a hole into the heads of ignorant people so they can start taking information directly into their brainmeats.
I want to seriously know how someone can get to 50 and still be so ignorant.
There were plenty of months I can think of where I would’ve LOVED having that power.
Look at all us men queuing up for prostate exams, because of course it is so pleasurable.
Don't knock it til you've tried it! (FWIW, it hurts like hell.)
Load More Replies...I remember reading on Am I the A*****e about a man who didn't want his partner to use tampons. Seems he thought she was getting pleasure from pushing a dry, cotton thingy up her privates !! What a c*nt !! :))))
There are millions of Conservative fathers/husbands who believe this, and actively police their daughters, because they shouldn't "lose their virginity" with tampons. Conservative men are goddamn morons.
Load More Replies...If a guy says this to me one more time I swear I’m gonna shove a tampon up his a*s! Applicator and all and then ask if it gave him “pleasure”
If he said anything like this, that dude doesn't deserve an applicator
Load More Replies...Please tell me he's not going into gynecology. One guy in JH, biggest sick perv in the school who was obsessed with porn, said he wanted to be a gynecologist. That left an impression on me about male gynecologists.
I flat out refuse to ever see a male gyn again, after the last one informed my that my excruciating painful periods were due to my "small cervix" which he decided needed to be "stretched." Surprise: it was horrific, it didn't help at all, and 15 years later, a woman gyn finally took me seriously and found the uterine polyps that were causing almost 3 decades of agony.
Load More Replies...Ugh. Tampons are great because you literally cannot feel them unless they are very full.
Or very dry, Have not had a period in 30yrs and I still remember the feeling of a not full tampon coming out.
Load More Replies...Thanks to porn, my husband didn't understand how pap smears/OB visits can be seriously traumatic and painful for women. He certainly didn't think it was like porn, or fun and sexy or anything, but he had no idea that it's actually pretty much the exact opposite of that for many of us. After my last one, I needed a few hours to get my head out of trauma-space.
This isn’t the first time that Bored Panda has written about the misconceptions that men have about women. Earlier, 21-year-old Cataleya Jackson went viral after tackling the topic. She gave us an in-depth look at the reasons behind all the wrong info, cultural stigmas, and sex ed.
"One of my friends had a hilarious misconception about periods and my friends and I had laughed about it. They thought that periods just never end, that we'd be 99 on our death beds and still bleeding out,” she told Bored Panda about the extent to which some people are misinformed.
After enough alcohol, my d*k stops working. Perhaps your agument is invalid?
Load More Replies...None of us are going to have faces or palms left by the end of this list
The thing I love is how many of these idiots will double down and tell us we don't know what we're talking about. You know, despite the fact that we live with our vaginas and all.
How was he even expecting to do that? I'm getting some Hannibal vibes here...
THE HYMEN IS NOT A WALL HOW DO YOU THINK WOMEN GET PERIODS THERES HOLES
My brother tried to mansplain my period pain to me once, and insisted that women just fake it for attention, or to get out of things. Despite seeing me in agony for years, losing about 3-5 days a month of my life to cramps and pain, he still insisted it was "not that bad." I told him, "Would you like to be kicked in the balls repeatedly for 5 days?" He STILL insisted it's "not that bad." I finally said "Let me show you what my uterus is currently doing," and took his hand, and started squeezing in time to the cramps I was having. "Fine-" "Oh no, not done," I said, and then started squeezing with both hands. "Okay, I-" "Not done yet!" I chirped, and then started to twist with both of my hands in opposite directions. He never tried that trick again, and I once overheard him saying comforting things to his girlfriend a few years later, so... yay?
I mean you helped change him to help the next I guess
Load More Replies...Let's take all the TP out of the men's loo and use the same argument, see how long it takes him to change his tune...
Nah cause that analogy might make him think that we can hold in our periods like you can hold in a poo...
Load More Replies...Actually, that was a Senator that genuinely thought the women on his staff were lazy because he believed they had complete control over their periods and could stop them willingly. He found out differently when a staffer needed to go to the ladies room for her monthly visit from Aunt Flo. The dude was married with three kids. How did his wife never explain this to him?
Mf if menstruation was voluntary I wouldn’t have had debilitating cramps every month
"In my country, we do have sex education at ages 13, 15 and again at 17 (if they've opted to study biology in 11th and 12th grade otherwise it's just at the former 2 ages). It's very scientific and doesn't leave space for questions about things that actually matter, things that happen in real-life,” she said that the education part is pretty sterile and removed from reality.
Okay... if the guy was this freaking moronic...there had to be signs before that. Enough signs not to breed with that person. Am I wrong?????
Or you could just provide both girls and boys with proper sex ed, how a womans body works and changes during pregnancy and what happens with baby inside. Not optional but mandatory. Then you would not have these kind of situations. The guy might have been a super nice any intelligent man.
Load More Replies...Are these people being homeschooled by people who avoid talking about sex?
Honestly? A lot of them are going to public schools that don't talk about sex. Last Week Tonight's sex education episode is available on YouTube, it's a bit old but probably more relevant than ever.
Load More Replies...My ex boyfriend asked did I need winter or summer pads because it was in the spring time he thought bigger pads were for winter and smaller size for summer like the bigger they we're they kept you warm
Hey at least he was trying to learn = credit and if he asked cause he was picking some up for you ... 100X credit!!!
Load More Replies...I had this one friend who was king of shading me for using super plus tampons... I had severe endometriosis and had 2 crime scene level periods a month. She said "I'm too small for those" and I responded.. "That tells me a lot about your man's D" lol
Double oofs on this one, because he also thought y'all get... Roomier with each partner
...but only if it's different partners - after more than three sex partners it is like throwing a sausage in a cathedral! If you only sleep with your husband you magically stay tight that only he fits like a key in a lock... /s
Load More Replies...Men are ridiculous about this. I had an ex attempt to shame me -- after he cheated on me, lied to me, and got me pregnant-- by claiming I was "loose." Sweetie, that's just a tell on your tiny d**k. Vaginas do not get "loose" related to the amount of sex we have or don't have, and your penis is not enough to stretch it out significantly on any permanent basis. Vaginas literally push out 10lb babies. Your p****r is not that special.
O-o Why does Boredpanda censor "D---" but not PP
Load More Replies...Tampons come in sizes like small, medium and super. Woman are stretchy down there. In general we don't use small tampons because we're small, we don't use super tampons because we're extra wide (with exceptions offcourse) but we choose the size of the tampon on how much blood we loose. Sometimes you need a small for a day (although it's not reccomended to wear tampons more than 8 hours, you can read up on toxic shock syndrome) sometimes a super will last you an hour
Load More Replies...Also super is the medium size. I know it SOUNDS big, but that is less wide than a thumb. Source: am a vagina owner.
i must admit that i thought that women use tampons matching their size of their vaginas. but not that the size is related to the sexual partners you had
the size required is dependent on how heavy the flow is, actually.
Load More Replies...I'll have to look if there's a website that debunks sexual/reproduction myths.
Try the podcast Stuff Mom Never Told You, or for a more feminist/politically engaged take, Unladylike.
Load More Replies...Sex Ed should not be optional that parents can pull their kids from.
Okay American male pandas, what did they teach you guys in health class in jr. high when the girls were separated out to learn all about our plumbing and how a period works? It really feels like you were not taught this.
Wait, they separate the boys and girls during sex ed?! This explaines a lot.
Load More Replies...How long ago was this? I’m 61, and the first sex ed class I was ever in was in 5th grade, which was back in 1970-1971, so if he’s younger than me, he can’t claim he was never taught anything about it. Of course, teaching that subject in elementary school was relatively new back then. I remember the (female) teachers giggling a lot. The class also left me wondering how sperm manages to get through pajamas. The next year they sent the girls to the auditorium to watch “the movie”. I remember some boys kept trying to get in. You should’ve seen the faces on the (female) teachers, who were practically slamming the doors on their hands. A week later, the boys were sent to the auditorium for their version of “the movie”.
Let's not blame the parents. When anyone is so ignorant of such an easily investigated and understood topic when such info is readily available only the idiot themselves are responsible.
Weeeell, if someone he trusts told him "its like this" then he probably never felt the need to investigate. He felt "I trust this person. I don't need to investigate. Why would I?" Soo... I think you can put the blame on the parents/ teachers
Load More Replies...And that, my fellow Pandas, is why we all should be educated about periods and sex and whatnot, because they aren't protecting us, they're making an entire generation of clueless idiots
“Most people don't even learn, they just memorize it to be able to reproduce it during the exams, and then they forget all of it. We need better education, and it has to be more informative and relatable than scientific," Cataleya said.
20 US states have no or extremely limited secs education. 9 have essentially none. In order to promote an abstinence-only curriculum and avoid all conversation on protection, many districts and states would rather leave it all to the parents. Even human anatomy & physiology are left out in order to avoid broaching sexual reproduction.
Load More Replies...When I first started, it's to my Dad I went to see what's to be done about it. My mother had left so he referred me to my older sister.
My sister came to me when hers started, because we were at our dad's that weekend. I didn't have anything with me (I usually just took some when I needed it, rather than keeping some there) so I had to go to dad and ask him to drive me to the supermarket :)
Load More Replies...Sorry, but your Dad is an uneducated nitwit. Just because we are male does not mean we should not learn about everyday biological processes. The fact that these uneducated males are also making decisions for the country about things they have no clue about is frightening.
My mother started at nearly 14. I’m 61, and I started when I was 12. I understand that we now have some girls starting when they’re 10. So 5th grade isn’t really a bad guess anymore.
Don't stress unless you have other symptoms as well and are 17-18, but talk to your doctor if you are worried. I was almost 15 before I got mine, which I wasn't worried about because I knew it would be a hassle once I did get it lol. I was much older than my mum when she got hers though, so she was worried and asked my gp about it and he said I would probably get it by the end of the year. I missed proving him wrong by about 2 days which I was annoyed about :) My sister however got hers much earlier, more the age my mum was which was interesting.
Load More Replies...Just cause your dad was dumb doesn't mean the rest of us aren't smart enough to make decisions.
To be fair about this, it is common to accidentally go in the wrong opening when placing a urinary catheter. Even nurses who have placed hundreds of catheters still do this sometimes.
I second this. Based on the woman’s age, birth history and if she has gone through menopause, the urethra can be in different locations. I’ve seen hundreds and sometimes it’s like finding a needle in a haystack.
Load More Replies...All you need to pass med school is a c average. Not all doctors pass with A's!!!! Just remember that
Putting a Foley catheter in older, heavier women IS a challenge tho. Knowing the right place and FINDING the right place can be very different!
Yeah, you have to get your head right in there, it is not always obvious
Load More Replies...You never know if your doctor got an A on the test or a C-
Nurse here. This is a common problem. Even I- a woman- have accidentally placed a urinary catheter into a woman's vagina. It's a difficult task at times. If you miss the urethra- which is often hidden by the labia- the catheter slips right in to the vagina. It's a tough skill to master. The doc was probably a resident with little experience. On a related note, it can be difficult to pass a catheter through a man's urethra when they have an enlarged prostate.
As a nurse who has inserted quite a few catheters, I will say that the right spot can be difficult to find. Women are not all built exactly the same. With some it is very obvious; with others it is hidden a bit up inside. A common tip for nurses learning how to do it is, "If your first try winds up in the vagina, leave it there while you try again so you will know where not to go. So the doctor might just have been struggling to find the urinary meatus. If he did not know the urinary tract has a separate opening, though, that is pretty bad. I am embarrassed to say that when I got my period at 13 and my mother was showing me how to insert a tampon, I asked her ,"But doesn't it get in the way of peeing?" She had to explain to me that there are two separate places.
Imagine this guy, the guy who thinks it happens on the 15th and the guy who thinks it happens on the full moon all meet.
Pure and total chaos, war, death, even castration! OH THE HORROR
Load More Replies..."this is why i can't talk about feminism with you". Yeah, because you lack the ability to engage in a two-way conversation, dude.
What's up with these guys assuming a human body would conform to a man-made system for telling time? Or did they really believe our calendar was designed to work around the menstrual cycles of women? Even if that's the case, which woman? You cannot facepalm hard enough at that totally bizarre logic.
Well, it’s pretty hard to talk to someone who doesn’t know what words mean (feminism is just equality and a poor word for it at that). But other than that, duuuude. what the f**k.
The number of conversations like this that I've had with men is too damned high. No one cares what you think of our periods, pregnancies, reproductive choices, any of it, dudes. Shut up.
He wants to talk about feminism the way it should be discussed, with other dudes ;)
According to the woman, there’s a lot of stigma surrounding sex ed. And it needs to be erased. She shared an example of what happened when she was in the 6th grade.
"They called away all the girls from classes, brought us to an auditorium to discuss periods and what they are, why they happen, what we should do, etc. They gave us packets of pads and told us to keep them in our lockers for emergencies. Their heart was in the right place, but by only asking the girls to attend this, they ensured that periods became some sort of mythical and curious event in the minds of all the boys," she said.
Well, we've had drowning a fetus while bathing, and, should be deciding when to have a period, so....
Load More Replies...My brother cried, when our mom was pregnant with me, he was 4, bc she ate peas, and he imagined they would hit me on top of my head one at a time. Again, he was 4!
Load More Replies...Ahh, just like Vito Barbieri. (ID Rep who asked if a pregnant woman could swallow a camera to show doctors what is going on with a baby)
Is he mentally or academically deficient you learn this sort of s**t in high school
Yes, I was about to comment how glad I am that the "ex" part seems to be consistent throughout this list.
Load More Replies...What did he think would happen to the baby when you digest the food? Does the stomach acid pick and choose what to melt and not?🤔
He probably thinks the fetus selects the tastiest morsels and uses its little stubby fingers to choose and shove it in its mouth, chew, and swallow. No, no, don't mention that newborns can't eat solid food. Facts have no meaning here in the Mansplain Zone!
Load More Replies...Did your ex have to remind himself to breathe and put one foot in front of the other everyday?
Shocking that they're the ones making the laws about our reproductive choices, no less.
Load More Replies...periods came before calendars would be a small hint to some on this list
Which was also looooooong before the concept of both leisure time and the weekend became popular among the working class.
Load More Replies...That reminds me of my favourite video ever: in the eighties (?) on a quiz show a woman is asked: in which month a pregnant woman begin to show her pregnancy? (I probably would have said "the fifth month"). Her answer: "September".
So this guy assumed women have some kind of biological calendar and GPS naturally. Is he confusing his phone with his hand?
If only they were that predictable! I'm just thankful when the cramps last only a day or two...
A complete and utter idiot who shouldn't have had children. Yelling at a 10 year old girl for getting her period!? How f**d up!
Load More Replies...This makes me mad. I hope she was informed that she did nothing to be ashamed of and that her period was a natural and healthy part of being female. Her father let her down with his stupidity.
can you imagine how many women would opt out of sex to keep from having their periods?
I, too, was 10 when I started but my next (second) one didn't start until 6 months later. That whole time I thought I was pregnant. 😩
I'm starting to think a lot of these men are raised by religious morons that make up things to avoid talking about female anatomy/biology.
What a f*****g imbecile. It's always an akward situation and then have to be confronted by a moronic reaction like this.
"[The boys] were not educated, they remained ignorant to what should be essential information to them. And of course, we all scrambled to hide our pads because we all thought we would rather be caught dead than holding a packet of them. They teased us about it and we, being only 11, had nothing to say to defend ourselves because the stigma around periods is very strong in my country."
Maybe with a well placed kick or some nice comment
Load More Replies...I wish I had been this brave. My high school boyfriend used to insist that only a "straight shot" would cause pregnancy, and he would "pull out." I am so, so fortunate that he was shooting blanks, as I found out later, because as a seventeen-year-old, I did NOT have the confidence nor feel safe refuting his b.s. at the time. We need to teach kids early how to have these conversations, and practice scripts with them. Guys will say ANYTHING when they want to get laid, and will absolutely blame us if something goes wrong.
Exactly- it's not just sex ed that's needed, it's how to have healthy relationships.
Load More Replies...There was the myth back in school that women could shake up a bottle of coke and open it, let the resulting spray go up into themselves, this to avoid pregnancy.
I read a short story where a prostitute did this with selters.... coke is a bit disgusting. But flushing out was a way to avoid pregnancy (of course not very efficient) before contraception.
Load More Replies...Tell him to inject bleach up his urethra instead to see how he reacts.
Tempted to recommend superglue up his urethra… but that becomes a rather serious health issue. Still, tempting when they are that arrogant.
Load More Replies...Hey, guys? "Stop having sex!" is not an appropriate thing to say to any woman about anything, ever. It's also not a viable solution. Shut up.
It doesn't matter HOW the pills work, the vast majority fo women have sex with men so why is it the WOMEN who should stop having all that sex???
OK, Buddy. You never said a word about men not “having all that sex”, so I assume you meant that men still would. OK. So, if all the women just stopped “having all that sex”, exactly WHO—-or should I say WHAT—-will all the men be turning to as an alternative? I’m waiting to hear your answer.
Even then, if I want to have that much sex, I get to. Who are you to say I can't. Now go watch porn or something.
A little pill for men to help with performance in bed
Load More Replies...*kicks him in his thing* YOU DARE TO SCREAM YOU PIECE OF HUMAN WASTE FLUSHED 20 TIMES
Load More Replies...For men reading this, if you don't change the tampon or get to the loo in time on heavy days, the uterus can push the flow harder to get past the obstacle and it can flood badly. I've been in work meetings where I notice women freeze for a moment as though they're looking inwards, look panicky, then leave for a few minutes, and I remember that slight internal shift that tells you 'LEAVE NOW'.
punch him in the face and when he starts bleeding tell him to hold it in :D
Any time a man says "Why don't you just ____" to a woman, you know some deeply stupid, ridiculous s**t is about to fall out of their dumb gobs.
My favorite responses to these are where the woman is like oh why do you bleed when u get hurt just hold it in huh? It would save you a lotta money on bandages
In some cases, the stigma is so deeply-entrenched, that it would take more than a bit of education to change things. "I have friends whose own parents make them sit on mats on the floor when they are on their periods because they are considered impure and should not touch anything in the house," Cataleya told us.
I was aged about 13 or 14 when our general science teacher (not one of the biology teachers) told the mixed class that the pill was something that needed to be taken every day. "If a boy offers you a single pill and tells you that's all you need to be safe, then he's lying." I can't remember how the topic came up (this was back in the early 80's), but it was sound advice.
I think he was only told about plan B or Levonorgestrel. Which is what woman who have been assaulted, a condom breaks or otherwise any reason they believe they need emergency contraception.
Newsflash: Pubescent girls can get put on The Pill to help regulate their cycle. There are other gyno issues that can manifest early, where The Pill is the best option for treatment. This is why holier-than-thou pharmacists/pharmacy techs should have zero right to refuse to fill a BC prescription "because she's too young/because you're (the parent) promoting promiscuity." Eff that. If a girl needs The Pill, she needs it, and it's not up to anyone else to tell her she can't have it.
We like to drag it out so we can be a bit€h longer ! I use to push it all out at once but not anymore sometimes I make it last up to 10 day just so I can be mean for a 3rd of the month ! Good times
“This girl I’m dating is really cool and we totally vibe. But you know, like all women, she decides to keep her period going for a week so she can bîtch & moan. Oh well, I suppose I’ll never find a perfect match” - Jesus, what logic is that?
yes, just push a week's worth of blood out at 1 time...y didn't I think of that!!!! girls are problems are solved!-sarcasom
You think we like blood flowing out from there? You think we like having to change pads and that terrible stink? Eh? EH??
I'm sorry I'm laughing, but the scene from the movie (in slow motion), is playing in my mind.
Load More Replies...Back in the early days when my now husband and I first started dating, we went on a cross country roadtrip. One morning, we were trying to get ready to go, crammed in the hotel bathroom together, and I dropped my drawers to pee. I was on the last days of my period, and had maybe five or six drops on my pantyliner. He saw it and shrieked, "Oh my god! That's so much blood!" He genuinely looked like he was about to pass out. I ended up having to explain to him how much a woman actually bleeds.
I hope he ends up with a woman who uses a diva cup. He might never recover.
"Some women aren't allowed to enter the kitchen or the prayer room, they're not allowed to leave the house. A majority of women in my country have no access to pads or tampons and use cloth which causes infection and prevents them from being able to earn a living. I could go on and on about how bad it is here for a lot of women," she said.
Marjorie, you can have a break from the housework between 2pm and 3pm, if you could just schedule to have your period then please.
Dearest Nathaniel, I woke up in a pool of my own blood this morning... Would you like to go to sleep that way? Love Marjorie
Load More Replies...And then there's those of us with Endo who just never stop bleeding.
The fact that he found a woman willing to have his child is frightening.
Time to remove focus from the vagina as the most pleasurable hot spot! This reminds me of a recent conversation I had with a friend who works in a sex shop. She said when women buy toys for themselves it's most often one of the air pressure vibrators with 100% clit stimulation, second is a dildo curved to get the g-spot but always with some type of clit stimulation to go with. When men buy something for a woman they usually look for a more "plain", classic type of dildo without any type of clit stimulation. That speaks a lot imo. Women give birth through vaginas, they are not meant to be as sensitive as people (men) are led to believe. That stimulation alone doesn't mean much at all (especially not when wearing a tampon).
I hate cli stimulation when something is in. But I'm one of the 0.1% women who have vaginal and cervical simulation.
Load More Replies...Here's a thought: shove a catheter up their John Thomas and see how quickly they climax from it. I mean it's right up their love tube so it has to feel good, right?
Men, please start equating a woman’s use of tampons with her being as far from even thinking about sex, much less climaxing, as she could possibly get. Believe me, when you’re achy, doubled over with bad cramps, and suffering from a prolonged splitting headache while on your period, you’re only thinking about chocolate and ibuprofen. Anything even remotely sexual is the farthest thing from your mind.
I really want to say something about not feeling small things in there.
It is debatable if this belongs on this list. After all, NASA scientists KNEW she would not use 100 tampons during a two week trip. But if there had been only one or two too few or part of the stock would have been damaged,, there would have been no chance to get a replacement, and it would have posed logistical problems. So they overshot by a huge margin just to be on the safe side (, especially as the costs of a few dollars did not really matter in the grand scheme of a billion dollar space mission).
They may also need to account for enough supplies for a minimum length of time in case a complication leads to the trip being extended.
Load More Replies...And why would they not send? I mean, the weight is not a problem, size also is not an issue, price is definitely not an issue. So it makes sense to send waaay too much now that they can. This way, they won't have to think about redundancy. I bet they were sent in different packages in different compartments too (again redundancy in case one container is damaged etc.). NASA definitely knows hos many she may or may not need. The astronauts have a say in that. CapCom has a say in that. There are physicians going over the list of supplies that know of that. This item does not belong here.
This is partly true. NASA asked Sally if 100 would be enough, but in the end she (and every female astronaut since) stopped her period chemically using birth control pills. The water waste system is designed to handle body fluids, but not blood. And since it recycles the water to become drinking water, it's important that its clean. Therefore, periods in space can be dangerous and are avoided.
Wow. I didn’t know anything about that. That’s interesting.
Load More Replies...At least they asked first and they genuinely didn't know how conditions in outer space would affect menstrual bleeding.
Lmao I have a box of 100 tampons in my desk and for a while the mechanics kept stealing them for mechanical jobs until I bought them some cheap paintbrushes (I have no idea what they were actually using the tampons for)
Even though most people hate feeling embarrassed, there’s no shame in admitting that you were wrong about something. "There's no shame in it if you're 30 and have misconceptions about periods. It is sad that you may not have educated yourself about it, but there's absolutely no shame in asking women to educate them or to start reading online themselves. Sex Ed is so important," Cataleya told us.
Twelve huh? I guess he included public holidays and vacation time for the mom?
My mom was pregnant with my middle brother for 11 months. But that was because her doctor was a bit of an idiot, and when she came in at 8.5 months with labor pains (that stopped on the long drive in) he told her to come back when the labor pains started again, and went on a 2 month vacation. She didn't start up again, and the person who answered the phone at the office said she'd start up when her body was ready. At 11 months the doctor called to scold her for not having had her post-natal checkup, and she gave him an earful. He had to induce. My brother was 11.5 pounds at birth and they nearly had to do a C-section.
My dad didn't want us using tampons because he thought it would "spoil" us
how many times do women have to say this? the hymen is not a fckin walk
These stupid, stupid men. If they paid even the slightest attention to anything, we wouldn't be having these conversations.
So a 52 yr man dating or having sex with a 16 yr girl? Wouldn't there be legal action taken against the 52 yr old man?
My mother tried to dissuade both myself & my daughter (when we each went through menarche) that using tampons would make us "not virgins" 🙄
I'm thinking these guys just totally glossed over sex education in school.
Where's our explanation lol. Am also very confused
Load More Replies...Wait. Could mine have been bigger if I took midol during periods?
Don't know about boobs, but I've tried my wife's Midol (I also get migraines). It works, but only if I take it right away, if I can feel it coming on ahead of time. Sometimes I can. If not, nothing works. My prescription medicine, actually makes it FAR FAR worse. I have tried it twice, and both times my head hurt so bad I couldn't stop vomiting. I do have boobs now, but I don't think it was the midol. I think it's likely the coconut custard pies, and dairy queen.
Yeah, a lot of painkillers work like that. When I had bad migraines, the only thing that worked once they started was codeine. Thankfully they aren't so bad now because codeine is so tightly regulated now so I doubt I'd get a prescription.
Load More Replies...Yeeeeah, my dad started taking birth control pills because he thought it would stave off male pattern balding. He had a certificate in bio-chemistry.
Curious: what was his reasoning? Oestrogen/ gestagen versus testosterone/ dihydrotestosteron to prevent the balding? Did it work? 😅
Load More Replies...I had a boss who used to get migraines. One day he came out of his office begging me for excedrin. I was out so I gave him 2 midol. He came out later thrilled at how much better his headache was. Next week, same thing. He asked me to go to CVS to get him some. When I came back with the midol he looked at me - kind of squinted, and stuffed them into his briefcase!
This is silly. Back in the eighties, I had friends—-men—-who lifted weights. They swore by Midol for relieving pain from strained muscles, and were not at all ashamed to admit it.
giggle snort... saw a video where a guy was dumbstruck over Midol. He went to the gas station to get some Tylenol and was told they were out but that he could take Midol. He was understandably dubious but tried it and realized it for the magic it is! He was Gobstruck at how wonderful it was lolz.
Midol is pretty much just acetaminophen and caffeine. God, these men are pathetically fragile.
When I was a child and found out women have eggs, I visualized them as looking like a bunch of grapes.
Mine said he's learned more about the female anatomy in the four years we've been together then he's learned his whole life. He's 35.
Periods hurt because the uterus is a pretty big muscle, that contracts/expands to push out the unused endometrial lining. Muscle cramps hurt.
OK, so my mother, as a child, heard other girls talking- You get rid of an egg. As they all had only seen hens eggs. They were all about 13, but this was literally almost 100 years ago.
Well, if we're being entirely fair, until actually getting my period, I (unless I actually put my brain into the equation) always imagined human ova to be, like, quarter-sized ( I also didn't know how many we would have, I thought that ovulation was making a new egg to replace the one menstruation pushed out)
I want all men on Earth to experience one year living as a female and then we'll see how it goes EDIT: Not including those who actually understand
Picturing a woman walking around doing the 'egg song' a hen does when laying an egg - lol
Yeah I had a male colleague, in his 40s, father of 2, asked about a bin that we didn't have in the men's room. Then questioned why women use them instead of just getting it done at home before work. I honestly don't know where to start.
Maybe no-one ever explained it to him because they couldn't believe anyone could be that dumb.
But he knew it wasn't a sphinter, right? Surely he'd been near one before
Truth be told, it is a bit complicated to take a look down there, and you can't really feel the urethra with your fingers. It again comes down to bad education in school.
Load More Replies...And these are the people we let govern women's health. Why do we let them do that, again?
We're planning a full strike this summer. Please keep your eyes opened for info, and participate. Yes, dudes, that means you, too.
Load More Replies...To be fair, if nobody has taught those details in Sex Ed, a boy growing into a man could understandably have that misconception, given that on their penis, the same hole serves for both peeing and ejaculating. If nobody has taught them anything, it's a fair assumption based solely on judging by the information you have at ...hand :p
Again basic anatomy I bet those who thought this had horrible grades in school
Yet men in the U.S. are convinced they know what's best for a woman to do with her body! smh.
And this misconception must be why so many think women can magically hold their menses...
And probably wasn’t potty trained—-hell, let’s call it housebroken—-until he was 30.
Load More Replies...At her age, if she was bleeding out the vagina, she needs to be checked for uterine cancer
If that were the case, I'm pretty sure there is a record broken somewhere.
Pretty sure the surge of estrogen combined with feeling like someone's punching you in the uterus repeatedly has more to do with it!
Have to admit I thought that too ( the sticky part agaist the body, for the pad not to move away from position), and in my defense I shoud say I was 8 at that time.
No he knew that they were mostly made at night, so would expect them to be borne exactly 9 months later
Load More Replies...Because of how our hormones work and other influences, labor is more likely to start at night, but more children are birthed during daylight.
Well, at least we're not the only generation who was mis-informed.
That and a lot of mammals give birth at night so not that far of a jump.
Load More Replies...There are times I had the temper of a werewolf during that week... XD
Load More Replies...I love when men learn that our periods sync up to other women's periods. Totally blows their mind.
Ok first the Julian calendar. Now the moon? So basically he thinks he could predict the cycles by looking at the tides.
Actually historically, there was the belief that menstruation and the moon were linked. It was also thought that the moon caused people to go crazy and the reason we use the word lunatic to mean crazy.
The lunar tie in is a weird myth, does the full moon moon have extra gravity or something?
28 days in a lunar cycle, which is the same average for a menstrual cycle, so "with the moon" is a very old timey way to refer to periods. Plus men being steady and constant like the sun, with women being constantly changing like the moon is represented in many cultures too. Actual menstrual cycles aren't as predictable as moon phases and individual women can run shorter or longer than 28 days. Moon phases were thought to play a role in mental health too. The moon affects the tides, so it's logical to think it could affect other things too
Load More Replies...There is a theory that periods did sync with Luna cycles. Men hunting while the full moon provided enough light and stopping "home" and impregnating did offer a survival advantage if more children were produced. Obviously this no longer applies so there is not now fixed time. There is also another theory that the the behaviour that sometimes occurs during a period is also providing an advantage by driving the men out to hunt more. I'm not sure how right these are ... could just be an academic adding 28 and 28 and coming up with an idea they like the sound of.
One of my exes had her period like clockwork on the fullmoon. I kid you not.
"I didn't know you needed it. I just thought you like to store useless stuff in your vagina for no reason."
Yes, this is a thing, and yes, there are absolutely men out there who try to trap us with pregnancies. That's the main impetus behind Conservative men trying to overturn abortion. They want to be able to rape us and lock us in with pregnancies, remove us from the workforce, and make us into their personal bangmaids.
In the middle of suitably distracting activities, sure. You're not supposed to be able to feel it if it's in there right
Load More Replies...Doesn't matter if I NEED it. It was clearly mine and you threw it away without asking or telling so regardless of education you are a d**k!
"I didn't know you needed it", fantastic, so instead of assuming that, because you didn't know what it was, what made you think you could remove something from her WITHOUT ASKING?!
At least he didn't think it was some kind of gasket to hold your uterus in place.
At least he didn’t try to pull an IUD out. He sounds like he would.
Load More Replies...How come he doesn't even know what kind of contraception method they were using?
because in addition to inadequate sex ed, i find through a lot of these posts that people just don't talk to each other enough in relationships :(
Load More Replies...I actually feel pretty neutral about this one. It's not a massively stupid assumption to make if you haven't had much experience with periods.
No no, the silicone menstrual cups are the plungers.
Load More Replies...As someone who had a hysterectomy 4 years ago, I can assure you, that you still need to do gynecologist exams.
I had a total hysterectomy, uterus/cervix/Fallopian tubes, in 2009, I no longer go to GYN, no need for Pap smear. If I had issues with yeast or other infections then I would go to GYN. My GP orders my yearly mammogram. I actually stopped going to GYN bcs the damned nurses kept asking me about my last period. The last time I asked her if she had read my chart, she mumbled "No". I said if she reviewed my chart she'd see that I had a hyster done by a surgeon in their practice. I also said it was poor patient care on their part to not notate on a chart if a patient had a hyster to skip the period/pregnant questions. 3 years of that nonsense after hyster.
Load More Replies...My family doctor refused to refer me to a gynecologist , I am 58 and one year post menopausal. He said he could take care of everything. I went to a different doctor. I have my referral now.
@Lori Grondin: Okay, but post menopausal is not like having an operation. I can understand why you might want the right meds, maybe, but a GP can do pap smears and such on post menopausal women.
Load More Replies...I had a total hysterectomy at 35 due to extreme endometriosis. My gyno told me I still had to do yearly pap smears because even though everything else is gone, I do still have a vagina!
@Sherri Brewer: Um, time for you to get a new doctor. Or have him/her clarify. Pap smears test for cervical cancer.
Load More Replies...After my hysto, the gyno who performed it still did exams on me because A, my breasts didn't disappear just because my uterus did, and B, there's still a chance for tumors/cysts/whatever to grow in the space where uterus/ovaries/cervix used to be, so better to be safe than sorry.
Slightly related, there are external urinary catheters for women that some nurses refer to as "twatdogs"
Not a bad person at all. A bad dad wouldn't have cared about her. He was just uneducated.
Load More Replies...I grew up in the JW cult and most girls I knew weren't allowed to use tampons until they were married because their parents saw it as a loss of virginity. And I include my own moron mother in this!
My grandma once told me, like 25+ years ago, that if I'd masturbate EVERYONE would know it because my palms would get covered with fur 😂
This is common. I know women who believe this as well, granted they are part of a LDS cult, but yeah, no tampons because it would take the girls' virginity and the girls would find it pleasurable.
Yeah, my dad won't buy me tampons solely for the reason that "I wouldn't be a virgin anymore"
I think your dad needs some common sense talked into him
Load More Replies...i don't think girls get "excited" from tampons (wouldn't know, i use pads)
Yeah when we want to go through more trauma after having periods every month for over thirty five years
Load More Replies...I've decided not to go through menopause. Doesn't work with my schedule.
To be fair men do not understand much about menopause. I know I learned a lot when my wife went through it.
Dear ladies here, is the menopause a "good" thing? I'm kinda looking foreward s to not having my periods all the time
It's so individual that I don't think anyone could really answer that. For me, it was a relief, because I always had awful periods. And my menopausal symptoms were not that bad. But other women can suffer a lot during menopause.
Load More Replies...So now we know how vegetarians are created we can work together to stop it!
Hold on, there's truth in this. Tests have shown that what is eaten during pregnancy is easily detectable in the amniotic fluid, and the foetus develops a taste for familiar flavours. The same is true for breastfeeding. If meat is eaten during pregnancy, the child is more likely to enjoy meat.
Okay, A) Why would you not want your child to like vegetables? and B) I think this is less of a sex ed issue, more like someone explained genetics to this guy very badly at some point.
While the things you ingest can affect ths fetus (hence why women should never take thalidomide and should avoid contact with finasteride while pregnant), the side-effects of such things are never that literal...
That is incorrect. Studies have shown that a child is statistically more likely to enjoy food they have been exposed to en utero, and whilst breastfeeding.
Load More Replies...Uh, he’s absolutely right. An egg is dispatched from one ovary or t’other through the Fallopian tube. It implants to the uterus wall but if it doesn’t get fertilized, it’s flushed out along with the uterine wall that thickened up in case of fertilization. Granted, he may be all out to sea concerning the size of the egg but when you stop and think about it, it’s kind of odd that it takes an egg the size of, well, a chicken egg to grow a chick but human eggs are teeny.
Well... an egg IS involved when you ovulate and it's certainly involved when you MISS a period... maybe a little smaller than a duck egg tho.
Surely, SURELY at some point in his school career, someone had to have explained what a mammal is, right?
Wtf even when i was like 6 i knew that I didn’t hatch out of egg 😂
I have news for you… yeah, you were totally hatched from an egg.
Load More Replies...I don't agree with the third sentence, but I can understand where the miscommunication about the second sentence came from. I'm a girl, yet I was never told by my parents, family, or even my health teacher when I asked her about what times of the month can a woman not get pregnant. It's not really excusable, but it's slightly understandable, seeing as no one explained it to me despite me asking them.
There isn't a specifically a period of time where you can't get pregnant. There are times where's it's much less likely. Pregnancy during menstruation is not unheard of.
Load More Replies...Pedant here, but I can see this being open to further misunderstanding. Women can get pregnant *any* day of the month, which covers *every* day of the month. Because my ovulation cycle is different to yours, which is different to Sally's, and so on, we have all 365.25 days covered. I believe this could be linked to the lad who thought all women get their period on the 15th.
To be fair, a woman CAN get pregnant every day of the month, even during her period. But lots of women get pregnant from unsatisfying sex...
I'm thinking this guy did everything he could to avoid having his partner experience an orgasm
I wish reproduction was dependent on the female orgasm- evolution would have made it as easy as mens’.
As a kid I had a lot of animals. I honestly thought that the only time a woman could get pregnant was if she were on her period. Thank goodness I mentioned that to my mum one day and got that squared up.
We are never told about the cycle a woman goes through. So I imagine many go through their entire lives never learning about ovulation. We struggled to get pregnant with our second child and I end up with a crash course. ;-P
I can see his train of thought, though. Some children do go through prodigious puberty, and my guess is that he's clinging on to any last hope that your kid's okay.
I think you meant precocious puberty? Arguably a bigger issue than ulcerative colitis, but totally a thing.
Load More Replies...She was diagnosed with a disease and he is still not convinced??? I'm sorry I just don't understand what is going on in their minds.
I'm sure you've already considered this, but Ulcerative Colitis can be caused by food allergies. My middle child had the same issue, and it was proteins in cows milk. She has been MOSTLY dairy free now since she was a baby, my wife even had to stop dairy while she was breast feeding. She can do sheep and goat milk, and that's what all of the cheese in our house is made from, but otherwise, it's almond milk everything. Occasionally, she'll sneak a milk chocolate bar from her friends house, or worse, an ice cream. Then it's blood for a week, and crying in the bathroom.
Physics. I was working in a research facility organizing a conference. We were discussing our dressing choices for the conference diner. A female researcher (husband has a phd in physics too) stepped in and ask: you know that guys are considered dressed fancy as long as they wear trousers?
Yeah, I had to read that a couple of times to make sure I was not hallucinating things.
yet again, why do these people in relationships not f*****g TALK TO EACH OTHER.
Well, if I told someone I had issues with my colon, it probably wouldn't occur to me to explain that I could still get pregnant.
Load More Replies...I really tried thinking here. I know someone who had ulcerative colitis and after surgery she was told she would have fertility issues but I don't know why. Maybe a surgery issue or something? So if the gf had surgery and something happened I could maybe understand
I think sometimes men hear things and then try to put 2 and 2 together because it's what they want to hear.
Load More Replies...Didn't you know we can hold it in when we want to? Haahaa
Load More Replies...That's like saying you could hold post chilly meltdown by squeezing your a**e cheeks. Good luck dear sir, do inform the people in the vicinity of the impending catastrophe when you attempt this.
Trying to visualize her running down the hall with her legs squeezed together. P.S. doesn't work.
Poor sap with Endo here. I'd kill for 4...or 11 really...
Load More Replies...Possibly off topic here: When it's that time of the month, it's best NOT to hike in areas where there are bears. They can smell the blood and the outcome of the hiker might not be a happily ever after story. There is a true story about this but I'm sorry that I can't remember where I read it because it was so long ago.
But if you are going bear or deer hunting it can help if you are on your period.
Load More Replies...Pretty sure even if you could you wouldn't get much of a look. Cervix and all that.
My mother and the State of Texas agree with him. F*cking morons, the lot!
Load More Replies...Assure him a tampon is not replacing him. Then show him your vibrator and tell him THIS is replacing you instead. ;-P
Nature already addressed the issue of gravity by having hydraulics in the delivery system.
Actually, there is less chance of her getting pregnant that way, but it can still happen.
It can even happen with NO penetration, Some of them are determined strong swimmers!
Load More Replies...Again, mansplaining at its best, because this guy so knows what he's talking about !
Just kick him in the balls multiple times throughout the day, for 5 days. At a certain point, it'll be just like a period, because there comes a time neither will be able to have kids anymore!
wring out a flannel (wash cloth) in front of him and say that's what your innards are doing.
I just have to ask him how does he know that? You can have an opinion about a fact but you can't make a fact from an opinion.
So we should encourage women to be pregnant for an extra month so we can bring along the next level of human evolution?
Even if that were true, asking that of a woman in her 9th month of pregnancy might get you killed. It's the "GET OUT!!!!" phase of pregnancy that makes labor look not so bad
Load More Replies...The idea of a fetus going through the stages of evolution is called recapitulation theory (also called the biogenetic law or embryological parallelism). This theory was conclusively disproven by the mid 1900s. However, I took a course in Human Anatomy and Physiology at a college in 2012. The instructor was an outspoken atheist who was clearly against any religious beliefs. During the course, he taught recapitulation theory as being fact. And he has a PhD in Biology.
I mean... He's wrong, but his idea is actually quite sound. I mean, fetal development does kind of mirror vertebrate evolution to a point. Just read "Your Inner Fish," by Neil Shubin. It's quite remarkable how the homologous and analogous structures in all vertebrates develope during the embryonic stage.
So time contraction happens in the womb huh? That would be one hell of a thing to explain for theoretical physicists.
I mean, I can sort of see where this crazy idea came from...basically all vertebrate embryos start out the same way and differentiate as they grow, and human fetuses grow a tail before reabsorbing it. But he has badly misunderstood some biology basics.
Basic biology should be taught in schools. I doubt many guys have had tampon lessons from parents
Load More Replies...Oh wait you can? I was taught by my school's very lacking sex ed that you can't.
I blame parents who don't teach their kids basic human biology. I come from generations of public school education and not a single male in my family thinks this.
I don't think the second one is about not understanding how periods work so much as simply being a d**k about something that's none of his business.
Are menstrual cups what I think they are? They seem very unhygienic
That dad of that menstrual cup ex is the worst person for not pulling out.
One tampon in for the rest of your period? More like one tampon in for the rest of your life...
My tampons last 4 hours at the most, no way is that staying in for a whole week
I really hope you publicly took full advantage of this wonderful opportunity to teach someone to mind their own business!
That's a fair questiom. I'm a woman in my thirties and don't know what they look like.
I have never seen one either- we don't have them in Australia.
Load More Replies...Upvote if you know the setup to this punchline: "I'm gonna have puppies!"
It seems familiar, but i need a memory refresh
Load More Replies...Again, proving the point of this thread...
Load More Replies...For anyone who may be confused as to how that works, you have to take it every day at the exact same time, or its effectiveness will be greatly reduced or completely removed. Doesn't matter if you're doing the deed or not.
Not to mention some women don't take it because they're having sex anyway. I've been celibate for more than 20 years (I'm ace) but I've been on the pill for the last decade, because periods suck and I don't see why I should be having them if I don't need to.
Load More Replies...The pill can be helpful against other menstrual issues too, e.g. to reduce the monthly pain or to fix your cycle to four weeks if your natural cycle is only three. So it’s not just birth control.
Exactly. I started taking the pill at 14 because I had really heavy, painful periods that lasted up to three weeks at a time. Nothing at all to do with underage sex.
Load More Replies...And birth control has other effects besides just controlling birth. I have PCOS and it's prescribed to alleviate symptoms.
I literally had no choice but to go on the pill because I was throwing up every month otherwise. I was not having sex at the time. Such ignorance.
to add: You also need to be on BC for at least a month (some longer) before protection is effective. Every day same time, no matter what.
We should have something like this for men, make us men responsible for contraception.
I believe they tried that at one point and it went back to research because there were so many complaints about the side-effects (which happened to be the same ones that women get on it)
Load More Replies...That isn’t how it works? (I’m 14 and haven’t been told these things yet)
Viola I too am glad your asking! Tamras right. But also, please, if you take the pill and notice side effects like mood swings, depression, suicidal thought or bad quality sleep/nightmares, go to your gyn! Tell them and don't just believe it when they want to tell you that it's impossible to be a side effect of the pill. Not every pill is right for every person. And sometimes the other options of contraception are better for certain people.
Load More Replies...This is at least the 3rd time I've seen this misconception on this list. I guess this one is really common.
The cows can drown by filling with water from the but+hole, that´s right cows can drown from their a**. And girls and cows are quite the same, are´nt they?
Do... do men just never learn what a cervix is? Who am I kidding, most men don't even know the difference between a vulva and a vagina...
One thing for sure: I always have to go pee after a pool session or getting a bath.
How on Earth are the two supposed to be connected? I would like to know the "thinking" behind this.
Probably make a chart of all the letter of the alphabet on a dart board. They throw darts while wearing blindfold and use the letters hit to form words thus forming such theories
Load More Replies...The old saying is one tooth for each child. That's what women lost due to vitamin and calorie deficiency before food stamps and WIC became a thing.
My mom said this too. But she knew it wasn’t true.
Load More Replies...It is possible to have periods throughout the pregnancy - however not get pregnant skip a month and then have normal periods like the guy believed O_O - I had an aunt who didn't even realize she was pregnant with her 9th kid (back in the day, no TV, greek village) until she went into labor. She was obese so she didn't have a visible baby bump, and had periods throughout the pregnancy, maybe not completely regular because she was over 40 by that point, so she took it as it being signs of menopause. When she went into labor, her hubby rushed her to the hospital because of the pain she was experiencing, and it was the doctor at the ER that told them that the woman is in labor. When later we asked her like, how did you miss being pregnant, didn't you even feel the baby all these months? She told us that every time the baby was kicking or whatnot, she thought that she had indigestion, or something she ate messed up her tummy.
That's pretty common. The other one is hymen. Hymen don't just magically disappear because you had sex. Your grandma who had 9 children still has her hymen.
Oooh, this could be a whole episode on CSI. Finding period blood on the crime scene but not knowing who it belongs to... Then the theif gets away because she stops having her period so they can't prove it's her. Yeah, I would watch that.
I'm waiting for the CSI show that finds blood in the sink and makes it evidence only to find that its from rinsing period panties.
Load More Replies...Otoh, I read about a guy who was mad that women didn't *donate their period blood* to blood banks. Like it's just straight up blood like you cut yourself and not full of other stuff.
That’s the best part! Instead of standing corrected, such mansplaining geniuses can go on arguing for hours 🤣
A friend of mine was told this by A DOCTOR! Apparently menstrual blood is old blood, that's why you can't get an iron deficiency because of heavy periods. (yeah, we didn't understand that either)
WTF Because it is NOT true! Heavy menstrual bleeding can result in iron deficiency and thus in anaemia!
Load More Replies...Hmm I’ve never thought about it much . I think I thought it was different too. Anyone care to clarifying for us kids in the back
The only difference is that the menstrual flow also contains tissue (since we are literally shedding the lining of our uterus). But the blood part is still the same as the blood moving through our blood stream.
Load More Replies...They are both different types. Do your research before laughing at someone who's actually right.
Well, tbh, I have heard about the Tooth Fairy, so this could be something similar
Load More Replies...When a baby girl is born she actually has a blood spot on her nappy, her first period. Mostly nurses are the ones who change it so mother doesn't always see it.
Not all of the time. Sometimes inners don't match outers, or someone has extras or none
You *can* take an extremely wonky train of thought where he could be right. If you did exercise (not just push ups) and diet which results in weight loss, your boobs may shrink along with the rest of you. Not to a more manageable size (because I have no idea what is meant by that!), but by around half a cup - plus any band size reduction. Unfortunately you cannot specify where weight loss happens on your body (wouldn't that be amazing! Shrink the thighs instead of making my face look even more gaunt!).
I mean there is some truth to breast size being alterable based on weight, but the general proportion tends to stay roughly the same whether you're a healthy weight or obese...
It does alter according to general body fat percentage, after all boobs are in essense fat and glands. However the size/shape is genetic and hereditary. If you put on weight they will get a bit bigger, if you lose weight they will get a bit smaller, but their "original" size has nothing to do with body fat. You can be completely skinny and have big tatas, you can be overweight and have back with nipples :/
Load More Replies...since the urethral meatus is not located in the clitoral hood for most women, almost certainly not people who've had multiple births, and if he wasn't doing a thorough exam he may not have seen or known what he was feeling. That being said schools REALLY need to step up health class.
Load More Replies...I doubt he managed that, the lights were probably off and he must have needed guidance even at that!
Load More Replies...And turn in circles counter-clockwise
Load More Replies...Let me guess, that suitemate's BF is in Congress now, or in the Supreme Court. >.<
Well... But wait a minute. There ARE signs that it's coming. I usually know the day before because of specific things my body does. And I can usually tell the week before that it's on it's way. I'm not at all regular, so I've always just had to be aware of my body to know where I am in my cycle. Not just for my period, either, but what's going on with me for the whole month.
It depends on a lot of stuff and how each body works. Sometimes pregnancy/birth actually gets rid of pains or discomfort that accompany periods, same with some birth control pills. Unless you keep track of the days (if you're regular), or stay alert by the fact that you're on your no pill week, you might not feel the signs of a period showing up. No pinchies on the belly, no irritability, no pain, nothing. I think it differs from woman to woman, and this dude was probably married to the most regular woman on the planet to be so sure of his opinion :p
Load More Replies...You should pee after sex, or even after you masterbate, because it flushes out any bacteria that may have entered the urethra. But, yeah...
Truthfully, different pills have different effects. Not all pills stop ovulation. Depending on the hormone active there are different effects.
It does both, plus stops fertilization. He's a third right. If he was saying that 30 years, he was 100% right.
This is just more proof that men have no idea how the pill works. It'd probably blow this guy's mind if someone explained to him that you have to stop taking the regular pills for a few days in order to ovulate and get a period. If you just keep taking the regular ones, no period, and plenty of people do so on purpose for medical reasons or convenience.
You should kick him in the nuts every month and say the same if he complains
I would correct him and say that once you have all your kids you don't need your period anymore. Of course that does not stop it from showing up each month. Wouldn't it be nice if you could choose the timing for menopause. Just decide you are done with kids and now Menopause should start. ;-P
Met too - ROFL We are like chimps in a cage expecting a treat for clicking the play button.
Load More Replies...I must admit it would be interesting if it was like a fountain down there. He was kind of brave/cool for daring to ask. 👍 (asking is definitly better then the men above telling you)
I have had it be like a fountain down there. Placental hemorrhage, couldn't stop the bleeding long enough to pull my underwear up. Scary, almost died, would not recommend.
Load More Replies...Well, this is true for some of us. :P Like i can't stand up and pull my pants up fast enough to not bleed on the floor.
I have this image in my head of one of those chocolate fondue fountains but with blood. But On my heavy days it seemed like a water fall. I had to wear overnight pads during the day. I gave up on tampons because I would get blood all over me.
I had a heavy flow until I gave up milk. Milk has too much estrogen for me.
Load More Replies...Okay but once my period was so heavy that when I went into the bathroom at work it looked like a crime scene afterwards. There was blood on the WALL. (I cleaned it, don't worry.)
I had that issue when trying to put my mensural cup back in and it flipped open! I also had to wash the wall.
Load More Replies...They partially do, don't they? Even though the main mechanism of action is the hormone.
There are also non-hormonal IUD that release copper.
Load More Replies...vagina-havers, don't use douches, you don't need them and they're honestly bad for you. if you have a persistent bad smell down there, go see a gyno, because something's not right.
Although this list is a horror story of ignorance and societal failings, I AM please to see that many started out with "My ex -...." or "I once had..." Good on ya, ladies.
I think that these shameful examples are more of an indictment of your education system than they are of men in general. Maybe if you were given a more modern and comprehensive sex ed these could be avoided. You need to become less prudish and more practical about sex ed and biology and I am sorry to say ladies that you are often just as much to blame as the guys are. If you don't talk about things like periods and your bodies to your sons, brothers and partners and they aren't taught about it at school, how are they going to learn?
Y'know it is okay to be ignorant on some things. In fact it is natural to not know things depending on your upbringing, access to material et cetera. But being adamant and indignant to defend their own versions of truth is what makes these men idiots.
I'm shocked. Like most of this stuff was taught to me when I was in school. Jesus!
Did these people never get educated or told where babies come from??? 😳
I have had multiple conversations with different men where I find myself having to explain that to me, my chest area is just my chest. Like, if I fall asleep with my hand on my sternum, it doesn't mean I'm feeling myself up. Another time, I told my (50-ish) friend that I'd pulled a chest muscle over the weekend. He said he couldn't relate, because he was a guy. I guess he thought breasts were made of muscle. I don't know
I had a 29 year old guy friend who said morning after pills are the same as abortions.
Although this list is a horror story of ignorance and societal failings, I AM please to see that many started out with "My ex -...." or "I once had..." Good on ya, ladies.
I think that these shameful examples are more of an indictment of your education system than they are of men in general. Maybe if you were given a more modern and comprehensive sex ed these could be avoided. You need to become less prudish and more practical about sex ed and biology and I am sorry to say ladies that you are often just as much to blame as the guys are. If you don't talk about things like periods and your bodies to your sons, brothers and partners and they aren't taught about it at school, how are they going to learn?
Y'know it is okay to be ignorant on some things. In fact it is natural to not know things depending on your upbringing, access to material et cetera. But being adamant and indignant to defend their own versions of truth is what makes these men idiots.
I'm shocked. Like most of this stuff was taught to me when I was in school. Jesus!
Did these people never get educated or told where babies come from??? 😳
I have had multiple conversations with different men where I find myself having to explain that to me, my chest area is just my chest. Like, if I fall asleep with my hand on my sternum, it doesn't mean I'm feeling myself up. Another time, I told my (50-ish) friend that I'd pulled a chest muscle over the weekend. He said he couldn't relate, because he was a guy. I guess he thought breasts were made of muscle. I don't know
I had a 29 year old guy friend who said morning after pills are the same as abortions.
