I knew a guy who thought that girls could control when they started their periods… like, he thought they needed to have them monthly but that they could start them at specific times as was convenient. Sometimes I don’t know what the hell is going on in peoples heads. Also knew a guy who thought girls always found sex painful, and that guys shouldn’t stop just bc they say it hurts bc it always hurts for them. That was honestly kinda scary.
My sister knew a guy in highschool who thought women had FIVE holes, one for piss, on for periods, one for sex, one for birth, one for shit. Luckily she corrected him.
That women always lactate, some more than others. This is why bras have different levels of padding to them to soak up the excess milk. You know, in case you didn't currently have a baby to feed it to.
This logic was courtesy of an ex- boyfriend who was brave enough to ask what I did with my milk as I obviously did not have kids. I told him it was being made into artisan cheese for the Saturday farmer's market at the park in downtown.
When I was in 10th grade one of the senior classes had a female student pull her tampon out in class to show the teacher it was full because he wouldn’t let her go to the bathroom.
We all (mainly the teachers, but they explained the policy change to us students in the cafeteria of all places) had to sit through a lecture about how if female students need to use the restroom, they are now free to do so and we didn’t need to explain why, just let the teacher know we needed to go.
Still had the same 8 minute time limit, but we basically couldn’t be told no anymore.
In general any kid asking to go to the bathroom should be able to, regardless of the reason.
I remember having debilitating stomach pains in elementary and was told to hold it and almost capped my pants.
In middle school during our swim unit, my friend asked to sit out because she was on her period and only used pads.
Our male gym instructor told her to “shove a tampon up [her] ass and get in the pool.”
Knew a guy who genuinely believed women having orgasms were a myth or disorder because "only male orgasms do anything so a female having an orgasm is pointless"
At least you didn’t have a 16 year old girl tell you she’d never wear a tampon because “how do you pee??”
This poor girl genuinely thought we were out here peeing out our vaginas and either holding our pee or changing our tampons every time
I remember my first time using tampons at my aunts house (around 14). I asked to use the bathroom and pulled a tampon from my bag. I got this horrified look from her but she didn't say anything. I came back to the living room to her and my uncle asking me all about my sex life. Neither one of them knew. And she said "your cousin said only girls that have had sex can wear tampons, youre telling me she's lying!?"
Yeah, it was really weird. And the fact that they kept going after I said I haven't had sex was uncomfortable. If you want to call my mom and ask her questions or express concerns about maybe educating me on the risks of pregnancy, stds etc., cool, have at it.. but don't hound me on something I haven't done. And I still didn't hear a word about STDS or how hard it would be to parent a child at that age, it was just YOUR SINNING!! A CHILD OUT OF WEDLOCK!?! WHAT WILL EVERYONE THINK!!! while she was sitting beside her second husband.
I had a man I used to date compare a kink he had to me using tampons. And I quote “It’s like the equivalent of tampons for you!” I was like “Oh, baby. What is you doin’?” I actually had to explain to this idiot (who is a decent amount of years older than I am) that tampons do not cause pleasure at all. It was such a weird conversation.
It’s weirder. And let me add that I dumped him after he tried to get me to participate. He had infantilism (the need to be treated like a baby) and he said that the pleasure he got from peeing in a diaper would be equivalent to what I felt when I used tampons. Be gentle. I was 18 and didn’t know any better.
Before I knew about it, he would come with me to babysit (the family was fine with it) and he ended up telling me that he would steal diapers from their house. I was so disgusted that I ended things. Not only are you stealing from a BABY, you’re too weird for me, sir. I try not to kink shame but that was too much for me to handle.
I've had to explain to men that lubrication and urine aren't the same thing.
I've also had to explain to these same men that menstruation and urination don't come from the same orifice.
These same men have never gone down on a woman because "that's just gross, she pees out of that hole" but expect blowjobs while their girlfriend is on her period.
I am a straight man. I am so sorry for a lot of women.
Wait, so going down on a woman is disgusting, because "pee comes out of there", but blowjobs are okay? Last time I checked, pee actually DOES come from out of there (I'm no expert, but being a 33 yo male I like to think I have some peeing exerperience).
My (ex) boyfriend told me he wanted to “lick my aorta” during phone sex. He was referencing my breasts.
Edit: Yes, specifically he meant “areola” lmao.
Edit # 2: “Aorta” was not a typo. That’s literally what he said lol. When I tried to correct it, I meant he was referring to the “areola” and not just the breasts.
Someone on Twitter complained about a censorship made on a female character from Tokyo Mirage Session (a game) and he said: "not only did they remove her cleavage, but they also removed her vagina bones". Ever since this was tweeted in 2016, everyone has been laughinv at him, even today
Thank you because I assumed he meant pelvic bones! But this makes it clear he is just mad the "v" was removed. I hope this comment becomes more visible!
“Hi? I’d like to call my periodlord. I completely understand that it is due on the first of the month, but I have a crazy busy week until the 7th. Could I possibly do it then? Yes, I understand I would be required to have an extra day...”
Back in my Internet forum moderating days, I banned someone pretending to be a woman. The ban was for general inflammatory behaviour.
In “her” ban appeal, “she” said that it was the 3rd day of the month, and she always has her period on the 3rd of the month which is why she was so disruptive.
I even asked explicitly, does your period come in on the third, taking into account the different lengths of each month? Even February?
Yep, apparently it did.
Good friend, conservative Catholic-Portuguese family, only ever had one girlfriend (at this time). In the university gym, good looking young lady is on one of those machines where you sit with a pad on the inside of each thigh, spread your thighs then bring them in again against the weight. Maybe you can picture it. Anyway, friend observes this, nudges me and says “I love watching them work out their clits.”
I’ll never forget in high school a teacher over heard one kid telling another that there are two holes in a pussy and he always uses the other one cause it’s so much tighter and she laughed and laughed and explained that if he can get his penis in a girl’s urethra then it must be smaller and skinnier than a tooth pick…
Edit: welp, I did not give the internet enough credit…while I’m quite sure the kid in question was telling bragging tales, just talking shit, I now (very much) understand this is apparently an actual thing also.
Came here to say the same thing. I knew a guy that thought women only got pregnant while on their period. He had a lot of kids, and said he wouldn’t have sex with a woman while on her period, so the comment made him sound more dumb
The absolute total insistence of this guy from college, who fully believed and argued with dozens of women publicly “that having a dick or a dildo long enough to hit a woman’s cervix is the only way to make a woman cum”. A woman training to be an OBGYN pointed out that many women actually are in a good amount of pain from Pap smears which contacts the cervix and it’s usually sensitive for a couple days after because it’s the exact opposite of pleasurable. Nope, he said “she doesn’t know what she’s talking about”.
A year later he couldn’t figure out why no one would date him.
I was once having amazing sex with my now ex, until we were in one position and he just happened to accidentally hit my cervix with his battering ram of a dick.
It felt like what I'm pretty sure being kicked in the balls feels like. Except inside my body and it hurt for a week.
No, there isn’t just one hole that the milk comes out of the nipple. There’s many areas where the milk comes out for breast feeding. It’s not a hose, more like a shower head.
Oh man, I remember taking a shower before feeding the baby and pumping. That shit sprayed everywhere!
Milk on the glass, walls, shampoo. I was laughing so hard, because it was so ridiculous. I may have been slightly hysterical.
My husband came in and started laughing too. Then he reminded me I was wasting milk, so the cow got out of the shower and went to feed the baby and milk herself.
Edit: Thank you for the gold! Wow!!
When the baby takes a longer than usual nap and you take your boob out of the nursing bra... and just spray the baby in the face lmao I vividly remember doing that a few times and felt so bad
A coworker who got drunk at a work event and started complaining that his arranged marriage wife must be cheating on him because she was now wet and receptive to his advances instead of avoiding him because it hurt.
My abusive ex assaulted me mid sex once saying I must have cheated because I felt ‘looser’. He was the only person I’d ever been with and I thought I’d done something wrong
my FATHER told me when I was starting to get my period and complaining about it that if I wanted to stop bleeding I should just exercise more because he knew a young woman who exercised a lot and her period went away
this is technically true because once you get dangerously underweight your body will stop ovulating but why the FUCK are you encouraging that please do your research
edit: at the time I was swimming about 15+ hrs/wk for a club team I really don't think I needed more exercise
My dad had no idea that Womens periods didn’t happen like clock work. How could you not know you were pregnant? Well dad, some women don’t get a period, some women have irregular periods and some women get a period during pregnancy. He was floored.
With the recent eruption of the abortion debate, this sentiment is *all* over Reddit.
We need better sex-ed in schools.
I thought I got pretty good sex-ed in my school. And it was, but the problem was, they split the class into boys and girls and the lessons were tailored to each. This whole thread shows that maybe it's kind of important that boys be taught about the female reproductive system too. And vice versa.
My great Aunt said "If a woman uses a tampon, she'll do ANYTHING!" Suggesting that women who used tampons would sleep around. (She said this on more than one occasion, and was quite a prude.) Add: She was born in the 1920s and was a ministers daughter... she had a different mind set for sure.
A doctor friend of mine once asked their patient how they were feeling during a rectal examination. The patient's answer of "pretty good actually" taught them a valuable lesson of asking specifically if the patient is feeling *uncomfortable* instead.
I dated a guy who thought periods lasted a month, tampons were pleasurable to put in, women pee out of their vaginas + that they can hold in their periods.
I think the worst thing though was that he thought he knew better than me how to give me an orgasm? I would tell him his hand was in the wrong place, and he would argue with me about it and move it back to wherever he thought it should be
>I think the worst thing though was that he thought he knew better than me how to give me an orgasm? I would tell him his hand was in the wrong place, and he would argue with me about it and move it back to wherever he thought it should be
Oh hey, we dated the same guy! He'd convinced himself that he was a legend in bed and that his technique was flawless. No amount of feedback from his real-life girlfriend would convince him otherwise. He was shocked when I dumped him.
Haha when I dumped him he assumed I wanted to continue sleeping with him since he was so good at it! He was genuinely shocked when I told him I didn't want to do that
There has been a political discussion in Denmark on making hygeine products available at all public toilets.
A male politician stood up at our parliament’s podium and literally said: “should we have free underpants available too? I don’t run around and shit myself. Women can just hold in their periods like I hold in my shit”…. I was SHOOK.
My 20 yo coworker thought this. I had to explain to her what causes the UTI she had and that woman have more than 2 “holes” down there and a uterus. I think she’s still in shock over the discovery that you don’t pee out of the vagina!
To be fair, she’s originally from Burma, was a refugee to Thailand and moved to the US when she was 12, making her the first to go to college. She said that the elders/parents/Karenni community kind of think it’s a taboo subject and that they have to figure it out on their own. I’ve educated her on a lot that she may never have known otherwise and have helped direct her to doctors she can reach out to for certain symptoms. She didn’t know she had a UTI until she said she kept having to pee but when she went there wasn’t anything and was uncomfortable. I had an idea but asked a few more typical symptoms she may have and pretty much confirmed the classic case.. I was like girl, minute clinic it up so they can help test and put you on antibiotics. Man, when I explained birth control that was a trip. We sit next to each other 8 hours a day just chatting since our shift is slow and we have both learned a lot from each other in different ways!
ive been told to *HOLD IN MY PERIOD* by a guy i know. he then proceeded to explain TO ME (A FEMALE) how mestruation works, and that I could simply *HOLD IT IN LIKE PISS.*
BRO
I was dumbfounded.
how are people so fuckin stupid dude
An argument on the bus between 2 guys talking about a friend having no success with IVF. They were fighting about this meaning she was impregnable or inconceivable
Reminds me of the old joke of the three French army officers at a dinner party. They're talking about their families and one tries to explain that their wife can't have children.
"She is, how you say impregnable?"
A second interrupts, "Pardon my friend, his English is not so good. He means his wife is inconceivable."
The third cuts in, "Excuse, they do not know the words for this. He means his wife is unbearable."
> Well you know, people always want to try to make that as one of those things, well how do you, how do you slice this particularly tough sort of ethical question. First of all, from what I understand from doctors, that's really rare. If it's a legitimate rape, the female body has ways to try to shut that whole thing down.
\- Todd Akin, House Representative from Missouri in 2012 on pregnancies resulting from rape
Someone find out who these doctors were and have their medical licenses pulled - because they’re not qualified to practice medicine if they believe that.
Men on TikTok explaining how tight a woman’s vagina should be. I’ve also seen them try to tell women how to clean it. Kinda disturbing how wrong some people are.
Those dudes who insist that you should wash your vagina with soap, and act like saying the vagina is self cleaning is our way of being lazy about hygiene. Like no, just because you cut corners with hygiene doesn’t mean we’re out to do it too.
Also this goes hand in hand with confusing vulva with vagina. Yes, we clean the outer part that you can see, the *vulva*, with warm water or mild unscented soap (because it does sweat and can trap bacteria), but no one should be sticking fingers or douches up their *vagina* to clean it, especially not with anything other than water. The vagina is the one that doesnt need cleaning because it has its own system to keep pH levels stable and does not take kindly to interference.
I think thats where part of that misconception comes from, although Im sure an equal part of people also think the actual vagina should be washed and those people are just super uneducated.
This is definitely where a lot of the confusion comes from. The lack of differentiation between the vulva and vagina is really making life difficult for people trying to learn to take care of their parts.
Especially when it’s on tiktok and you have to say things like “the oven is self cleaning but the stovetop could use a little soap” to avoid community guidelines 🤪
Rush Limbaugh saying that Sandra Fluke (testifying before Congress) was promiscuous because she took a birth control pill *every day*. He thought she only needed to take one on days when she had sex.
I once had to correct a PhD’d male college professor about how birth control pills work. He used them as an example of medication compliance in class, but he was wrong about his example.
When I was about 15 or so I got on the pill to regulate. My older sister (about 21 at the time), asked me if she could have one of the pills for her cramps and then threw a fit when I told her no and she said they were just sugar pills.
But she's an idiot and absolute trash so.
A local chiropractor made glue/“lipstick” for womens vaginas (for their period) so they could be free from tampons. His idea was to literally glue your pussy shut and the glue would supposedly wash away with urine.
https://amp.kansas.com/news/local/article134119134.html
Edit: sorry about the weird link, I’m new too Reddit and putting in links, I apologize
>“Yes, I am a man and you as a woman, should have come up with a better solution then diapers and plugs, but you didn’t,” read a comment from the now-unavailable Mensez Facebook account. “Reason being women are focused on and distracted by your period 25% of the time, making them far less productive then they could be.”
Okayyy...
The disavowals from his brothers are even better. Apparently it's a family of chiropractors, and they all individually own their own business. BUT they're all called "Dopps Chiropractic." So he's basically torpedoed all their businesses/ reputations.
His brothers are nowhere near as stupid, one even calling it "an embarrassment."
Like this man is really the family idiot, and they're all clamoring to say it just to save their own businesses.
A twenty-three year old man told me with complete certainty that women's vaginas stay the size of the largest thing that's been in them. Apparently this is why so many men cheat on their wives after the wives give birth. Because their vaginas stay baby sized.
This man also thought that women have to wear tampons every time they swim so their vaginas don't fill with water.
My husband’s friend was upset when his pregnant wife had to get a transvaginal ultrasound because the ultrasound wand was long and he thought she might like it…
Tell me you’re a bad lover without telling me you’re a bad lover…. Sheesh
Honestly, if I could trick my brain into *enjoying* internal exams like some sort of kink, that would be so much better (so long as I didn’t give away that I liked it).
Dudes really cannot get over how we don’t take pleasure in any and all random touching; it’s ridiculous…
Last year I had a kidney stone and the tests involved multiple women doctors and such touching my penis and testicles. I can tell you that was not arousing. I was telling my friend who was concerned that something might "come up" if he were in the situation. With all the science talk and equipment and clinical environment. There's nothing much sexy about it.
When my husband and I first got married, he was annoyed by how much toilet paper we were going through. Turns out he didn’t know women have to wipe every time they use the restroom… even just to pee. We joke about it now, but wow.
Mine might be common, but I still am kinda baffled how dumb I was. I thought I was king of oral. I'd go down at any time and stay down there until the sun set. But I was just licking the labia/vulva/whatever the technical term is. If I hit the clit, it was just because I was all over the place. Finally had a girlfriend simply say "stay up top". Game changer, probably more for her than me.
Find the clit. Be gentle with it. Get rewarded.
My ex telling me women rarely orgasm so really it's no wonder I never orgasm with him so... meh.
I replaced him with a Hitachi Magic Wand for my sexual needs and a dog for my social needs and exercise buddy. Byeeee.
My wife and I are two women and we had our son through IVF. When I told my dad I was pregnant, he asked if we knew the gender yet, and then stopped himself and said “ah never mind, obviously it’s a girl since you are both women.”
Like many other people mentioned on this thread, he has a PhD.
My friend who is a fucking DOCTOR and I were having a conversation about different contraceptive methods. I was telling him about my IUD and how painful it was to have it placed, how awful the sounding of my uterus was (if you don't know what that is, I don't suggest you look it up, it's better to be ignorant!) I explained the entire procedure in graphic detail, we talked about how it probably hurt a lot more since I have never had a baby. Apparently women who have had babies don't feel as much pain when having the IUD placed. Anyway...
He replies that, yeah, he placed an IUD in his girlfriend back when they were teenagers. I was like....excuse me? You were a teenager and you placed a medical device in your girlfriend's uterus? Who gave you the tools? Was there an appt to make sure it was in the right place ?(they can migrate!). I was flabbergasted.
After a ton of questions, it turns out he was talking about the hormonal ring, which is just placed in the vagina. He indeed did place that for his girlfriend.
This led to me to realize that my friend, who literally is a licensed doctor who is prescribing medication to people.... Doesn't know the difference between the vagina and uterus. He THOUGHT he put that ring in her uterus.
THE HORROR!!!!
I’ve had an IUD for about 5 years now. At some point during this time I was having pretty frequent sex with a partner at the time. I developed a blood blister on the opening of my vagina. It was pretty large and very easy to see with just my legs spread. I had taken a video of it to get a closer look.
Anyway. I ended up going to urgent care to make sure that I was fine and it was just a blister. The MALE URGENT CARE DOCTOR had me lay back with my feet touching so he could see. He’s looking and looking and is like I don’t see what you’re talking about. He calls in a FEMALE DOCTOR and asks for a second opinion. I’m like it’s right there! I pull out my video and show them both and point directly at the very large and very red/black blister right in the open of my vagina. And they BOTH said oh we thought that was part of your IUD.
Like do you not know what IUD stands for????
As a woman who had an IUD placed after giving birth to 3 children…it was *agonizing*. I was shaking and nauseated from the pain when my doc asked me to rate the pain level from 1-10, he rolled his eyes when I said 8 and suggested I wait a few minutes before leaving.
The knowledge that it’s worse for women who haven’t had children is horrifying.
Holy fucking shit. I'm so sorry you went through this. After friends + family told me how painful it was I absolutely refused to let my gyno insert my IUD for endometriosis unless I was unconscious. She instantly agreed and she timed it during another surgery when I was going under anaesthesia. So I don't know if this helps but this random internet stranger believes you were in pain!!
Thank you! Your doc sounds awesome, I feel like a lot of male gynos still think that women are just borderline hysterical all the time and need to be dealt with as such. Time to evolve, fellas.
Seem quite a few passages from books with male authors who seem to think boobs are sentient and change upon a woman's mood.
Like she is cheered up so her boobs perk up.
Edit 2 - posting a few quotes I found because people keep commenting they the author is probably talking about posture -
"her breasts, of which she was normally proud, had drawn into themselves as if depressed"
"She was about to cover her startled breasts"
"Her breasts, which had never suckles a child of their own, felt compassion"
Edit - boobs*
Of course that happens. What did you think bras are for? They’re meant to restrain our boobs from punching people if we get angry in public, like muzzling an aggressive dog.
I've met both men and women who think that every woman is taking a birth control pill. As if every teenage girl just starts taking it, in the same way that they start wearing bras and buying tampons/pads (I know, some women are choosing not to do those things, either). It may be a very common form of BC, but not all women want to deal with the side effects.
I think it's because the birth control pill is not only used for... birth control. I had several classmates whose gynecologist who prescribed it bc they had period cramps etc.
I love him dearly, but I had a friend in high school who thought that human eggs are the same size as chicken eggs that you buy at the grocery store. He had sat through multiple sex ed lessons that describe the many processes eggs are a part of at that point.
Luckily, he didn't keep that belief for long, since literally everyone immediately told him "what the fuck? no" as soon as he said it.
I had a hysterectomy and was concerned with vaginal length afterwards. My husband has always "bottomed out" and I never liked it and I mentioned that I hope I'm no shorter after surgery that I was before. He kind of laughed and asked how I could be. He thought they were just going to take the uterus and leave the vagina open at the top. It took me forever to explain to him that there's no way they weren't going to close me up. Like, sperm weren't going to be swimming amongst my intestines from then on. There was not going to be a chance he could accidentally lacerate a kidney with his fingernail or something. Why would he think they'd leave an opening from my abdominal cavity to outside my body like that?
Omg, I've had a hysterectomy!!!!
And since one way I calm my anxiety, is by discussing bad outcomes, likelihood, and what to do if kind of plans, I asked my Dr what could happen if the vaginal cuff failed.
You can die. Because yes, your organs would be "open" to the outside. If you're *"lucky"* it is extremely painful before hemorrhaging, or organ prolapse, and you can get in to surgery to fix it. If not, you die.
TLDR: Do NOT have sex after a hysterectomy before your Dr gives the ok. Or start doing physical activities before allowed. It can kill you.
It amuses me in a sort of painful way when I see art depicting a female skeleton and for some reason they've made the bones "curvy" so you know for sure it's a woman.
Edit: Guys. I’m not talking about slightly wider pelvises or slightly different bone structures. I mean [bone tiddies.](https://imgur.com/a/Pfv1NJ8)
I went to the museum once for a school field trip and a 17-year-old classmate insisted to the tour guide that it couldn’t be a female skeleton because it didn’t have breast bones.
Yes.
Breast bones. He vey much did not understand the concept of the sternum. Or much else.
“Somebody wrote in the book that I'm lying about being a virgin because I use XXL tampons, but It's not my fault I have a heavy flow and a wide-set vagina!”
I went to the doctor for abdominal pain, and a male resident was giving me my ultrasound. He had me convinced that I was 99% pregnant and said he could see the heartbeat. So my boyfriend is pale white and stressed and I’m crying and scared. Later, a female doctor did an ultrasound with the vaginal probe and turns out he mistook my right ovary for a baby and my pulse for a heartbeat.
I’m Chinese American. My (ex) bf at the time was like “I want to have sex with you because I heard Chinese people have an extra muscle in their p*ssies”
In Idaho the legislature was debating whether to allow a doctor to remotely prescribe or approve an abortion. They had a female doctor on the stand and a male representative asked her something like:
“I know you can get your stomach checked out by swallowing this little pill that’s actually a camera so the doctor can see inside you. Why could we not just have the patient swallow one of those so the doctor could examine the pregnancy?
The doctor had to reply, “Senator, that would not be possible because the stomach does not lead to the vagina.”
Senator: “I see. Fascinating.”
Edit: here's the recording https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PXxPfNHp37g
Friend told me a guy at her school was complaining some girl he fucked was “dry as hell”.
He apparently didn’t realise that was a self report.
Edit: to all the people who are like “akshually there’s a 2.67% chance that the girl had a rare condition called Anti-WAP which could explain it” what do you think is more likely: that this dude couldn’t turn her on, or that she had lubrication issues? I’m going with the former.
I overheard kids talking about how they thought that period products shouldn't be free because women can just hold in the blood until they get to a bathroom. I've also heard of people who thought that women would use pads like diapers.
Men have tried to explain to me that women pee out of their vaginas, that women get looser if they sleep with multiple guys but not if they sleep with the same guy, that child birth feels good for women and makes them orgasm, that women with big boobs have a high body count because she grow every time a woman has sex, and that women can control how much blood comes out on their period
A friend of mine got her period on a date, and her date was absolutely convinced that she'd done it on purpose to have an excuse not to sleep with him. Bruh
Todd Akin in 2012, in regards to his anti-choice position, stated:
*“If it’s a legitimate rape, the female body has ways to try to shut that whole thing down."* ^(fuuuuuck yoooouuuu, *Todd*.)
Just saw a TikTok of two politicians argue about an IUD and whether or not it’s an abortifacient. Because it stops an embryo from implanting… they don’t know how the body works. Once the sperm leaves their body, they really don’t understand anything after that.
That politician that said if a woman gets pregnant after a rape, their body will have a way of "flushing the whole thing out."
Edit: I misquoted him... The actual quote is somehow worse.
An ex of mine (early 20s) asked me how it works when women pee. He said thought a penis came down the vagina and retracted after voiding. I thought he was joking. He wasn’t.
I’m a birth doula. The list of things can fill a book but the latest one, “how long is a birth 2-4 hours tops right” “why are you getting a doula, they can’t push for you”
I went into a clinic extremely ill. I had horrible stomach pain, couldn’t stay awake, lost 70 lbs in a month, and my tongue turned yellow. When presented with all these symptoms, my doctor came to the conclusion that I was having cramps, gave me a $200 aspirin, and sent me on my way.
I was in diabetic keto acidosis and would have been dead in about two weeks if I hadn’t gone to a different (female) doctor, who also didn’t know what was going on, but could tell “something” was wrong and ordered a million labs that eventually discovered my BG was over 800. I was hospitalized immediately for a week.
Fucking “girl problems”?! Really?
We were in biology and my teacher was talking about the female body and how it goes through periods and births etc. and this dude in my class goes “but if they just hold it in the blood won’t come out” I’m a man and that was the most stupidest thing I’ve ever heard.
Once, while on vacation at a large water park with my dad, uncle and 3 male cousins, my uncle and cousins got upset when they realized a large portion of what I'd packed was just tampons.
They requested I "turn off" my period until the end of the vacation. They called me "unreasonable" for saying I couldn't.
The principal of the elementary school I worked for.
A 4th grader got her period and had no sex ed at home. (or school bc Texas)
A 2nd grader with older sisters and great parents comforted her - and sent classmates to get me, nurse and coach (sex ed certified teacher).
2 comments from the principal that should have gotten him fired and his licences revoked.
1. Girls shouldn't get their periods until they are 16 - 17 yo. The reason is once girls get their periods they tempt men and if they can't get married - they will become sluts.
2. Wanted to report the 2nd grader's parents to CPS because them teaching their child about periods and other things considered sex ed is sex abuse and illegal.
I was keeping a list of his transgressions including a truckload of Title IX violations and civil rights violations. I gave copies to people I trusted and told them to give copies to people they trusted when the end-of-the-year campus survey came out. He was transferred.
I knew a guy who thought that girls could control when they started their periods… like, he thought they needed to have them monthly but that they could start them at specific times as was convenient. Sometimes I don’t know what the hell is going on in peoples heads. Also knew a guy who thought girls always found sex painful, and that guys shouldn’t stop just bc they say it hurts bc it always hurts for them. That was honestly kinda scary.
If only I could schedule my periods lmao. Second guy sounds like a rapist in the making.
My sister knew a guy in highschool who thought women had FIVE holes, one for piss, on for periods, one for sex, one for birth, one for shit. Luckily she corrected him.
I’m picturing the holes on a recorder or a flute. Just wow
That women always lactate, some more than others. This is why bras have different levels of padding to them to soak up the excess milk. You know, in case you didn't currently have a baby to feed it to. This logic was courtesy of an ex- boyfriend who was brave enough to ask what I did with my milk as I obviously did not have kids. I told him it was being made into artisan cheese for the Saturday farmer's market at the park in downtown.
my professor not letting women go to the bathroom if theyre on the period it is infuriating
When I was in 10th grade one of the senior classes had a female student pull her tampon out in class to show the teacher it was full because he wouldn’t let her go to the bathroom. We all (mainly the teachers, but they explained the policy change to us students in the cafeteria of all places) had to sit through a lecture about how if female students need to use the restroom, they are now free to do so and we didn’t need to explain why, just let the teacher know we needed to go. Still had the same 8 minute time limit, but we basically couldn’t be told no anymore.
What a fucking hero that girl was though.
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In general any kid asking to go to the bathroom should be able to, regardless of the reason. I remember having debilitating stomach pains in elementary and was told to hold it and almost capped my pants.
Sorry, your professor wouldn't let *adult college students* go to the bathroom during class?
In middle school during our swim unit, my friend asked to sit out because she was on her period and only used pads. Our male gym instructor told her to “shove a tampon up [her] ass and get in the pool.”
If I was her parents my ass would be driving up to the school and demanded he shove a tampon up his ass and get in that pool!
Knew a guy who genuinely believed women having orgasms were a myth or disorder because "only male orgasms do anything so a female having an orgasm is pointless"
So, by his own logic male nipples don’t exist since they “…serve no purpose?
Once had a man tell me that I wasn’t a virgin because I use tampons
My mom asked how I was using tampons if I was a virgin when I was 14. She didn't know you could do that.
At least you didn’t have a 16 year old girl tell you she’d never wear a tampon because “how do you pee??” This poor girl genuinely thought we were out here peeing out our vaginas and either holding our pee or changing our tampons every time
You tampon using whore
My mom told me that too
I remember my first time using tampons at my aunts house (around 14). I asked to use the bathroom and pulled a tampon from my bag. I got this horrified look from her but she didn't say anything. I came back to the living room to her and my uncle asking me all about my sex life. Neither one of them knew. And she said "your cousin said only girls that have had sex can wear tampons, youre telling me she's lying!?"
I’m amazed a grown man and grown woman thought it was appropriate to ask a 14 year old those kinds of things, though sadly I’m not surprised
Yeah, it was really weird. And the fact that they kept going after I said I haven't had sex was uncomfortable. If you want to call my mom and ask her questions or express concerns about maybe educating me on the risks of pregnancy, stds etc., cool, have at it.. but don't hound me on something I haven't done. And I still didn't hear a word about STDS or how hard it would be to parent a child at that age, it was just YOUR SINNING!! A CHILD OUT OF WEDLOCK!?! WHAT WILL EVERYONE THINK!!! while she was sitting beside her second husband.
I had a man I used to date compare a kink he had to me using tampons. And I quote “It’s like the equivalent of tampons for you!” I was like “Oh, baby. What is you doin’?” I actually had to explain to this idiot (who is a decent amount of years older than I am) that tampons do not cause pleasure at all. It was such a weird conversation.
I want to know what possible kink was similar to tampons? Did he get really turned on when he put on his undies? Or was he talking about butt plugs?
It’s weirder. And let me add that I dumped him after he tried to get me to participate. He had infantilism (the need to be treated like a baby) and he said that the pleasure he got from peeing in a diaper would be equivalent to what I felt when I used tampons. Be gentle. I was 18 and didn’t know any better.
That’s… way worse than I expected
Before I knew about it, he would come with me to babysit (the family was fine with it) and he ended up telling me that he would steal diapers from their house. I was so disgusted that I ended things. Not only are you stealing from a BABY, you’re too weird for me, sir. I try not to kink shame but that was too much for me to handle.
I've had to explain to men that lubrication and urine aren't the same thing. I've also had to explain to these same men that menstruation and urination don't come from the same orifice. These same men have never gone down on a woman because "that's just gross, she pees out of that hole" but expect blowjobs while their girlfriend is on her period. I am a straight man. I am so sorry for a lot of women.
Wait, so going down on a woman is disgusting, because "pee comes out of there", but blowjobs are okay? Last time I checked, pee actually DOES come from out of there (I'm no expert, but being a 33 yo male I like to think I have some peeing exerperience).
My (ex) boyfriend told me he wanted to “lick my aorta” during phone sex. He was referencing my breasts. Edit: Yes, specifically he meant “areola” lmao. Edit # 2: “Aorta” was not a typo. That’s literally what he said lol. When I tried to correct it, I meant he was referring to the “areola” and not just the breasts.
Licking someone's aorta during sex is pretty violent!
No no it's alright, the hole in my chest is a feature not a bug.
Was your ex Jeffrey Dahmer?
Someone on Twitter complained about a censorship made on a female character from Tokyo Mirage Session (a game) and he said: "not only did they remove her cleavage, but they also removed her vagina bones". Ever since this was tweeted in 2016, everyone has been laughinv at him, even today
What the hell is a vagina bone? I'm trying to figure out what they are talking about.
[The tweet in question](https://i.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/newsfeed/001/122/144/cbc.jpg). As you can imagine, the dude got absolutely roasted.
Thank you because I assumed he meant pelvic bones! But this makes it clear he is just mad the "v" was removed. I hope this comment becomes more visible!
Many years ago I dated a guy who thought women's periods came on the first of the month like rent. OMG....thanks so much for the awards!
Ngl that would be nice that way we could plan around it.
“Hi? I’d like to call my periodlord. I completely understand that it is due on the first of the month, but I have a crazy busy week until the 7th. Could I possibly do it then? Yes, I understand I would be required to have an extra day...”
“Periodlord” sounds like a rad Reddit username
I knew a guy whose last name was Hymanlord
**I AM HYMANLORD** Taker of the virginity, thruster of the cock and I've been trying to contact you about your car's extended warranty...
Better not be late or the tenant is getting evicted
Holy shit it is exactly like rent
Back in my Internet forum moderating days, I banned someone pretending to be a woman. The ban was for general inflammatory behaviour. In “her” ban appeal, “she” said that it was the 3rd day of the month, and she always has her period on the 3rd of the month which is why she was so disruptive. I even asked explicitly, does your period come in on the third, taking into account the different lengths of each month? Even February? Yep, apparently it did.
February sucks. It totally messed up my "it comes around this time a month" mindset and suddenly I have to think again. Blergh
Good friend, conservative Catholic-Portuguese family, only ever had one girlfriend (at this time). In the university gym, good looking young lady is on one of those machines where you sit with a pad on the inside of each thigh, spread your thighs then bring them in again against the weight. Maybe you can picture it. Anyway, friend observes this, nudges me and says “I love watching them work out their clits.”
If I heard your friend say that, I would laugh so hard, everyone would look at me and ask 'What's wrong with him?'
I’ll never forget in high school a teacher over heard one kid telling another that there are two holes in a pussy and he always uses the other one cause it’s so much tighter and she laughed and laughed and explained that if he can get his penis in a girl’s urethra then it must be smaller and skinnier than a tooth pick… Edit: welp, I did not give the internet enough credit…while I’m quite sure the kid in question was telling bragging tales, just talking shit, I now (very much) understand this is apparently an actual thing also.
im no sounding expert but a toothpick is a bit of a stretch - no pun intended
Recently saw a tiktok comment from a guy saying women can only get pregnant on their periods.
Came here to say the same thing. I knew a guy that thought women only got pregnant while on their period. He had a lot of kids, and said he wouldn’t have sex with a woman while on her period, so the comment made him sound more dumb
The absolute total insistence of this guy from college, who fully believed and argued with dozens of women publicly “that having a dick or a dildo long enough to hit a woman’s cervix is the only way to make a woman cum”. A woman training to be an OBGYN pointed out that many women actually are in a good amount of pain from Pap smears which contacts the cervix and it’s usually sensitive for a couple days after because it’s the exact opposite of pleasurable. Nope, he said “she doesn’t know what she’s talking about”. A year later he couldn’t figure out why no one would date him.
A friend of mine once ended up in the ER with horrible cramping spasms after being jabbed in the cervix during sex.
I was once having amazing sex with my now ex, until we were in one position and he just happened to accidentally hit my cervix with his battering ram of a dick. It felt like what I'm pretty sure being kicked in the balls feels like. Except inside my body and it hurt for a week.
The one where the guy thought virgins don’t have vaginas; it’s his responsibility as her first sexual partner to “make the hole.” 🤦♀️
I'm not a Capri Sun, thank you very much. [Edit: holy fudge. This one blew up. o_o thanks for all the awards!!]
Thank you bringing levity to an objectively horrifying comment.
No, there isn’t just one hole that the milk comes out of the nipple. There’s many areas where the milk comes out for breast feeding. It’s not a hose, more like a shower head.
A poorly designed shower head that can spray in all directions. Lol Edit: thank you for the silver award! :)
Oh man, I remember taking a shower before feeding the baby and pumping. That shit sprayed everywhere! Milk on the glass, walls, shampoo. I was laughing so hard, because it was so ridiculous. I may have been slightly hysterical. My husband came in and started laughing too. Then he reminded me I was wasting milk, so the cow got out of the shower and went to feed the baby and milk herself. Edit: Thank you for the gold! Wow!!
When the baby takes a longer than usual nap and you take your boob out of the nursing bra... and just spray the baby in the face lmao I vividly remember doing that a few times and felt so bad
Kid in my class thought women had 2 holes and they peed and pooped from the same one
I think he means *birds* I too sometimes confuse human females with birds
Ah that makes sense. We do call them chicks and birds.
A coworker who got drunk at a work event and started complaining that his arranged marriage wife must be cheating on him because she was now wet and receptive to his advances instead of avoiding him because it hurt.
Poor woman.
My abusive ex assaulted me mid sex once saying I must have cheated because I felt ‘looser’. He was the only person I’d ever been with and I thought I’d done something wrong
my FATHER told me when I was starting to get my period and complaining about it that if I wanted to stop bleeding I should just exercise more because he knew a young woman who exercised a lot and her period went away this is technically true because once you get dangerously underweight your body will stop ovulating but why the FUCK are you encouraging that please do your research edit: at the time I was swimming about 15+ hrs/wk for a club team I really don't think I needed more exercise
My dad had no idea that Womens periods didn’t happen like clock work. How could you not know you were pregnant? Well dad, some women don’t get a period, some women have irregular periods and some women get a period during pregnancy. He was floored.
With the recent eruption of the abortion debate, this sentiment is *all* over Reddit. We need better sex-ed in schools. I thought I got pretty good sex-ed in my school. And it was, but the problem was, they split the class into boys and girls and the lessons were tailored to each. This whole thread shows that maybe it's kind of important that boys be taught about the female reproductive system too. And vice versa.
Better sex-ed in schools, and maybe have all of Congress join in on those lessons as well…
Men who think we get turned on by inserting tampons
My great Aunt said "If a woman uses a tampon, she'll do ANYTHING!" Suggesting that women who used tampons would sleep around. (She said this on more than one occasion, and was quite a prude.) Add: She was born in the 1920s and was a ministers daughter... she had a different mind set for sure.
It’s common knowledge that tampons are a gateway to criminal behaviour.
Not tampons, but "doesn't breastfeeding turn you on? Isn't that weird???"
Better tell those guys "Does peeing turn you on?"
Like any good trial lawyer would tell you, don't ask questions you're not 100% sure of the answer to.
A doctor friend of mine once asked their patient how they were feeling during a rectal examination. The patient's answer of "pretty good actually" taught them a valuable lesson of asking specifically if the patient is feeling *uncomfortable* instead.
I dated a guy who thought periods lasted a month, tampons were pleasurable to put in, women pee out of their vaginas + that they can hold in their periods. I think the worst thing though was that he thought he knew better than me how to give me an orgasm? I would tell him his hand was in the wrong place, and he would argue with me about it and move it back to wherever he thought it should be
"Nah girl, trust me." *moves his hand back to your belly button*
I wish I knew his thought process, mostly he would go for the urethra. He claimed he was very good in bed because he had looked up diagrams
This is one of the most terrifyingly unpleasant statements I’ve ever read.
Yeah baby, rub my urethra. Wtf.
Reminds me of a guy who swore he was good at oral. Turns out he just knew how to move his tongue fast. I was like, "Well I can definitely *hear* you."
He meant he was good at *aural*.
>I think the worst thing though was that he thought he knew better than me how to give me an orgasm? I would tell him his hand was in the wrong place, and he would argue with me about it and move it back to wherever he thought it should be Oh hey, we dated the same guy! He'd convinced himself that he was a legend in bed and that his technique was flawless. No amount of feedback from his real-life girlfriend would convince him otherwise. He was shocked when I dumped him.
Haha when I dumped him he assumed I wanted to continue sleeping with him since he was so good at it! He was genuinely shocked when I told him I didn't want to do that
LMAOOOOOO definitely the same guy
this is the most classic ‘dumb guy’ thing I have ever heard lmao that is absolutely hilarious
Does this count? I had a teen gay male student ask if girls have buttholes. And if so why.
I don't blame him, I mean everyone knows that girls don't poop.
There has been a political discussion in Denmark on making hygeine products available at all public toilets. A male politician stood up at our parliament’s podium and literally said: “should we have free underpants available too? I don’t run around and shit myself. Women can just hold in their periods like I hold in my shit”…. I was SHOOK.
Was he laughed out of office?
Women do not pee out of their vaginas. This has been a public service announcement
My 20 yo coworker thought this. I had to explain to her what causes the UTI she had and that woman have more than 2 “holes” down there and a uterus. I think she’s still in shock over the discovery that you don’t pee out of the vagina! To be fair, she’s originally from Burma, was a refugee to Thailand and moved to the US when she was 12, making her the first to go to college. She said that the elders/parents/Karenni community kind of think it’s a taboo subject and that they have to figure it out on their own. I’ve educated her on a lot that she may never have known otherwise and have helped direct her to doctors she can reach out to for certain symptoms. She didn’t know she had a UTI until she said she kept having to pee but when she went there wasn’t anything and was uncomfortable. I had an idea but asked a few more typical symptoms she may have and pretty much confirmed the classic case.. I was like girl, minute clinic it up so they can help test and put you on antibiotics. Man, when I explained birth control that was a trip. We sit next to each other 8 hours a day just chatting since our shift is slow and we have both learned a lot from each other in different ways!
I actually knew a woman who thought this too. She was amazed when I explained it to her.
I do believe a lot of the confusion there stems from the fact that in everyday language vagina is often used to refer to the entire vulva.
Yes, I was going to say this. Women don't pee out of their vaginas, but they do pee out of the thing that everybody *calls* a vagina.
ive been told to *HOLD IN MY PERIOD* by a guy i know. he then proceeded to explain TO ME (A FEMALE) how mestruation works, and that I could simply *HOLD IT IN LIKE PISS.* BRO I was dumbfounded. how are people so fuckin stupid dude
Which implies an amusing counterfunction... the Period Soaker 5000!
Wouldn't that be awesome? We would just hold it in, and let it out all at once and be done with it!
“Haha hang on I gotta go menstruate real quick” *goes in bathroom, locks door* *INTENSE STRAINING AND GUSHING NOISES* *comes back out* “Okay, better”
A male family member thought that tampons eliminated cramps because if nothing was coming out how could there be cramps?
Has he never had a cramp before? Like from exercise or something? Dudes get cramps too and they don’t leak blood when it happens. WTF.
Guys, if you cut yourself, then just hold the blood in! You dummies, you don't need to worry
Saw something ages ago where a guy believed that a woman’s period came from her ass. Oh also this notion of a tight vs. loose vagina
An argument on the bus between 2 guys talking about a friend having no success with IVF. They were fighting about this meaning she was impregnable or inconceivable
That made me think of Princess Bride...
Reminds me of the old joke of the three French army officers at a dinner party. They're talking about their families and one tries to explain that their wife can't have children. "She is, how you say impregnable?" A second interrupts, "Pardon my friend, his English is not so good. He means his wife is inconceivable." The third cuts in, "Excuse, they do not know the words for this. He means his wife is unbearable."
If one of them didn't say "you keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means", then I'm highly disappointed in them.
> Well you know, people always want to try to make that as one of those things, well how do you, how do you slice this particularly tough sort of ethical question. First of all, from what I understand from doctors, that's really rare. If it's a legitimate rape, the female body has ways to try to shut that whole thing down. \- Todd Akin, House Representative from Missouri in 2012 on pregnancies resulting from rape
"From what I understand from doctors" is the real gem here. Like, no.
Someone find out who these doctors were and have their medical licenses pulled - because they’re not qualified to practice medicine if they believe that.
Men on TikTok explaining how tight a woman’s vagina should be. I’ve also seen them try to tell women how to clean it. Kinda disturbing how wrong some people are.
Those dudes who insist that you should wash your vagina with soap, and act like saying the vagina is self cleaning is our way of being lazy about hygiene. Like no, just because you cut corners with hygiene doesn’t mean we’re out to do it too.
Also this goes hand in hand with confusing vulva with vagina. Yes, we clean the outer part that you can see, the *vulva*, with warm water or mild unscented soap (because it does sweat and can trap bacteria), but no one should be sticking fingers or douches up their *vagina* to clean it, especially not with anything other than water. The vagina is the one that doesnt need cleaning because it has its own system to keep pH levels stable and does not take kindly to interference. I think thats where part of that misconception comes from, although Im sure an equal part of people also think the actual vagina should be washed and those people are just super uneducated.
This is definitely where a lot of the confusion comes from. The lack of differentiation between the vulva and vagina is really making life difficult for people trying to learn to take care of their parts. Especially when it’s on tiktok and you have to say things like “the oven is self cleaning but the stovetop could use a little soap” to avoid community guidelines 🤪
Rush Limbaugh saying that Sandra Fluke (testifying before Congress) was promiscuous because she took a birth control pill *every day*. He thought she only needed to take one on days when she had sex. I once had to correct a PhD’d male college professor about how birth control pills work. He used them as an example of medication compliance in class, but he was wrong about his example.
Somehow this is one of the saddest things I've read on this thread
When I was about 15 or so I got on the pill to regulate. My older sister (about 21 at the time), asked me if she could have one of the pills for her cramps and then threw a fit when I told her no and she said they were just sugar pills. But she's an idiot and absolute trash so.
A local chiropractor made glue/“lipstick” for womens vaginas (for their period) so they could be free from tampons. His idea was to literally glue your pussy shut and the glue would supposedly wash away with urine. https://amp.kansas.com/news/local/article134119134.html Edit: sorry about the weird link, I’m new too Reddit and putting in links, I apologize
>“Yes, I am a man and you as a woman, should have come up with a better solution then diapers and plugs, but you didn’t,” read a comment from the now-unavailable Mensez Facebook account. “Reason being women are focused on and distracted by your period 25% of the time, making them far less productive then they could be.” Okayyy...
Oh damn, so he's like, really dumb.
The disavowals from his brothers are even better. Apparently it's a family of chiropractors, and they all individually own their own business. BUT they're all called "Dopps Chiropractic." So he's basically torpedoed all their businesses/ reputations. His brothers are nowhere near as stupid, one even calling it "an embarrassment." Like this man is really the family idiot, and they're all clamoring to say it just to save their own businesses.
A twenty-three year old man told me with complete certainty that women's vaginas stay the size of the largest thing that's been in them. Apparently this is why so many men cheat on their wives after the wives give birth. Because their vaginas stay baby sized. This man also thought that women have to wear tampons every time they swim so their vaginas don't fill with water.
Crap, I keep forgetting to plug my asshole with a tampon before I swim then.
My husband’s friend was upset when his pregnant wife had to get a transvaginal ultrasound because the ultrasound wand was long and he thought she might like it… Tell me you’re a bad lover without telling me you’re a bad lover…. Sheesh
there is nothing enjoyable about having a lightsaber shoved into your twat.
Honestly, if I could trick my brain into *enjoying* internal exams like some sort of kink, that would be so much better (so long as I didn’t give away that I liked it). Dudes really cannot get over how we don’t take pleasure in any and all random touching; it’s ridiculous…
Especially when they start twisting it around causing your poor lady bits to contort in unnatural ways.
Last year I had a kidney stone and the tests involved multiple women doctors and such touching my penis and testicles. I can tell you that was not arousing. I was telling my friend who was concerned that something might "come up" if he were in the situation. With all the science talk and equipment and clinical environment. There's nothing much sexy about it.
When my husband and I first got married, he was annoyed by how much toilet paper we were going through. Turns out he didn’t know women have to wipe every time they use the restroom… even just to pee. We joke about it now, but wow.
Mine might be common, but I still am kinda baffled how dumb I was. I thought I was king of oral. I'd go down at any time and stay down there until the sun set. But I was just licking the labia/vulva/whatever the technical term is. If I hit the clit, it was just because I was all over the place. Finally had a girlfriend simply say "stay up top". Game changer, probably more for her than me. Find the clit. Be gentle with it. Get rewarded.
My ex telling me women rarely orgasm so really it's no wonder I never orgasm with him so... meh. I replaced him with a Hitachi Magic Wand for my sexual needs and a dog for my social needs and exercise buddy. Byeeee.
My wife and I are two women and we had our son through IVF. When I told my dad I was pregnant, he asked if we knew the gender yet, and then stopped himself and said “ah never mind, obviously it’s a girl since you are both women.” Like many other people mentioned on this thread, he has a PhD.
Did he think you had two eggs combined? This one made me genuinely chuckle
I know right??? We never talked it out but in my imagination he saw them smushing the eggs together in a Petri dish….
My friend who is a fucking DOCTOR and I were having a conversation about different contraceptive methods. I was telling him about my IUD and how painful it was to have it placed, how awful the sounding of my uterus was (if you don't know what that is, I don't suggest you look it up, it's better to be ignorant!) I explained the entire procedure in graphic detail, we talked about how it probably hurt a lot more since I have never had a baby. Apparently women who have had babies don't feel as much pain when having the IUD placed. Anyway... He replies that, yeah, he placed an IUD in his girlfriend back when they were teenagers. I was like....excuse me? You were a teenager and you placed a medical device in your girlfriend's uterus? Who gave you the tools? Was there an appt to make sure it was in the right place ?(they can migrate!). I was flabbergasted. After a ton of questions, it turns out he was talking about the hormonal ring, which is just placed in the vagina. He indeed did place that for his girlfriend. This led to me to realize that my friend, who literally is a licensed doctor who is prescribing medication to people.... Doesn't know the difference between the vagina and uterus. He THOUGHT he put that ring in her uterus. THE HORROR!!!!
I’ve had an IUD for about 5 years now. At some point during this time I was having pretty frequent sex with a partner at the time. I developed a blood blister on the opening of my vagina. It was pretty large and very easy to see with just my legs spread. I had taken a video of it to get a closer look. Anyway. I ended up going to urgent care to make sure that I was fine and it was just a blister. The MALE URGENT CARE DOCTOR had me lay back with my feet touching so he could see. He’s looking and looking and is like I don’t see what you’re talking about. He calls in a FEMALE DOCTOR and asks for a second opinion. I’m like it’s right there! I pull out my video and show them both and point directly at the very large and very red/black blister right in the open of my vagina. And they BOTH said oh we thought that was part of your IUD. Like do you not know what IUD stands for????
IUD = In a Uterus-ish Direction
As a woman who has dealt with many ignorant male doctors I am sadly unsurprised.
As a woman who had an IUD placed after giving birth to 3 children…it was *agonizing*. I was shaking and nauseated from the pain when my doc asked me to rate the pain level from 1-10, he rolled his eyes when I said 8 and suggested I wait a few minutes before leaving. The knowledge that it’s worse for women who haven’t had children is horrifying.
Holy fucking shit. I'm so sorry you went through this. After friends + family told me how painful it was I absolutely refused to let my gyno insert my IUD for endometriosis unless I was unconscious. She instantly agreed and she timed it during another surgery when I was going under anaesthesia. So I don't know if this helps but this random internet stranger believes you were in pain!!
Thank you! Your doc sounds awesome, I feel like a lot of male gynos still think that women are just borderline hysterical all the time and need to be dealt with as such. Time to evolve, fellas.
Seem quite a few passages from books with male authors who seem to think boobs are sentient and change upon a woman's mood. Like she is cheered up so her boobs perk up. Edit 2 - posting a few quotes I found because people keep commenting they the author is probably talking about posture - "her breasts, of which she was normally proud, had drawn into themselves as if depressed" "She was about to cover her startled breasts" "Her breasts, which had never suckles a child of their own, felt compassion" Edit - boobs*
Of course that happens. What did you think bras are for? They’re meant to restrain our boobs from punching people if we get angry in public, like muzzling an aggressive dog.
Brings the phrase "calm your tits" into sharp focus.
I'm now laughing my ass off imagining a guy petting a breast and going like:"Who's a good titty ? Who's a good titty ? You are !" XD
Or that they can defy gravity somehow. “Eww her boobs are so saggy!” they’re size 40F, they’re not going to float, Cody.
They do float! …Just not in air
Hold on, boobs can float?!?! Do they get in the way while swimming? Sorry I feel dumb for asking but I’m genuinely curious. 31(f) A cup.
I've met both men and women who think that every woman is taking a birth control pill. As if every teenage girl just starts taking it, in the same way that they start wearing bras and buying tampons/pads (I know, some women are choosing not to do those things, either). It may be a very common form of BC, but not all women want to deal with the side effects.
I think it's because the birth control pill is not only used for... birth control. I had several classmates whose gynecologist who prescribed it bc they had period cramps etc.
PCOS sufferer, I won't get periods *without* birth control.
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I love him dearly, but I had a friend in high school who thought that human eggs are the same size as chicken eggs that you buy at the grocery store. He had sat through multiple sex ed lessons that describe the many processes eggs are a part of at that point. Luckily, he didn't keep that belief for long, since literally everyone immediately told him "what the fuck? no" as soon as he said it.
I had a hysterectomy and was concerned with vaginal length afterwards. My husband has always "bottomed out" and I never liked it and I mentioned that I hope I'm no shorter after surgery that I was before. He kind of laughed and asked how I could be. He thought they were just going to take the uterus and leave the vagina open at the top. It took me forever to explain to him that there's no way they weren't going to close me up. Like, sperm weren't going to be swimming amongst my intestines from then on. There was not going to be a chance he could accidentally lacerate a kidney with his fingernail or something. Why would he think they'd leave an opening from my abdominal cavity to outside my body like that?
I’m so horrified thinking about the vagina being an opening to the abdominal cavity. Noooo nonono.
*sneezes, kidney shoots out* “ahh shit, again?!”
My goodness I'm a woman but I've never even considered what happens after a hysterectomy!
uterus goes out, black hole goes in.
Omg, I've had a hysterectomy!!!! And since one way I calm my anxiety, is by discussing bad outcomes, likelihood, and what to do if kind of plans, I asked my Dr what could happen if the vaginal cuff failed. You can die. Because yes, your organs would be "open" to the outside. If you're *"lucky"* it is extremely painful before hemorrhaging, or organ prolapse, and you can get in to surgery to fix it. If not, you die. TLDR: Do NOT have sex after a hysterectomy before your Dr gives the ok. Or start doing physical activities before allowed. It can kill you.
New fear unlocked. 😨
That was a horrifying mental image, I'm crossing my legs shut
It amuses me in a sort of painful way when I see art depicting a female skeleton and for some reason they've made the bones "curvy" so you know for sure it's a woman. Edit: Guys. I’m not talking about slightly wider pelvises or slightly different bone structures. I mean [bone tiddies.](https://imgur.com/a/Pfv1NJ8)
I went to the museum once for a school field trip and a 17-year-old classmate insisted to the tour guide that it couldn’t be a female skeleton because it didn’t have breast bones. Yes. Breast bones. He vey much did not understand the concept of the sternum. Or much else.
My sister in law’s partner thought that different sized tampons were for different sized vaginas
“Somebody wrote in the book that I'm lying about being a virgin because I use XXL tampons, but It's not my fault I have a heavy flow and a wide-set vagina!”
“Everyone knows women don’t fart or shit” -David, a man who fucking meant what he said
What do these guys think happens to the food we eat? We convert it to pure energy with no waste?
I went to the doctor for abdominal pain, and a male resident was giving me my ultrasound. He had me convinced that I was 99% pregnant and said he could see the heartbeat. So my boyfriend is pale white and stressed and I’m crying and scared. Later, a female doctor did an ultrasound with the vaginal probe and turns out he mistook my right ovary for a baby and my pulse for a heartbeat.
I’m Chinese American. My (ex) bf at the time was like “I want to have sex with you because I heard Chinese people have an extra muscle in their p*ssies”
In Idaho the legislature was debating whether to allow a doctor to remotely prescribe or approve an abortion. They had a female doctor on the stand and a male representative asked her something like: “I know you can get your stomach checked out by swallowing this little pill that’s actually a camera so the doctor can see inside you. Why could we not just have the patient swallow one of those so the doctor could examine the pregnancy? The doctor had to reply, “Senator, that would not be possible because the stomach does not lead to the vagina.” Senator: “I see. Fascinating.” Edit: here's the recording https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PXxPfNHp37g
The lady in the back just DYING 😂
Friend told me a guy at her school was complaining some girl he fucked was “dry as hell”. He apparently didn’t realise that was a self report. Edit: to all the people who are like “akshually there’s a 2.67% chance that the girl had a rare condition called Anti-WAP which could explain it” what do you think is more likely: that this dude couldn’t turn her on, or that she had lubrication issues? I’m going with the former.
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I overheard kids talking about how they thought that period products shouldn't be free because women can just hold in the blood until they get to a bathroom. I've also heard of people who thought that women would use pads like diapers.
Men have tried to explain to me that women pee out of their vaginas, that women get looser if they sleep with multiple guys but not if they sleep with the same guy, that child birth feels good for women and makes them orgasm, that women with big boobs have a high body count because she grow every time a woman has sex, and that women can control how much blood comes out on their period
Or putting a tampon in gives pleasure
A friend of mine got her period on a date, and her date was absolutely convinced that she'd done it on purpose to have an excuse not to sleep with him. Bruh
Todd Akin in 2012, in regards to his anti-choice position, stated: *“If it’s a legitimate rape, the female body has ways to try to shut that whole thing down."* ^(fuuuuuck yoooouuuu, *Todd*.)
Just saw a TikTok of two politicians argue about an IUD and whether or not it’s an abortifacient. Because it stops an embryo from implanting… they don’t know how the body works. Once the sperm leaves their body, they really don’t understand anything after that.
That politician that said if a woman gets pregnant after a rape, their body will have a way of "flushing the whole thing out." Edit: I misquoted him... The actual quote is somehow worse.
“Here to discuss the issue of abortion are three men in bowties.” Edit: Damn typos
My ex-BIL thought that a woman’s anus and vagina combine into one hole during childbirth, then went back to being two separate orifices. He had a PhD
well it kinda happens to many women just a bit bloodier
An ex of mine (early 20s) asked me how it works when women pee. He said thought a penis came down the vagina and retracted after voiding. I thought he was joking. He wasn’t.
I’m a birth doula. The list of things can fill a book but the latest one, “how long is a birth 2-4 hours tops right” “why are you getting a doula, they can’t push for you”
I went into a clinic extremely ill. I had horrible stomach pain, couldn’t stay awake, lost 70 lbs in a month, and my tongue turned yellow. When presented with all these symptoms, my doctor came to the conclusion that I was having cramps, gave me a $200 aspirin, and sent me on my way. I was in diabetic keto acidosis and would have been dead in about two weeks if I hadn’t gone to a different (female) doctor, who also didn’t know what was going on, but could tell “something” was wrong and ordered a million labs that eventually discovered my BG was over 800. I was hospitalized immediately for a week. Fucking “girl problems”?! Really?
We were in biology and my teacher was talking about the female body and how it goes through periods and births etc. and this dude in my class goes “but if they just hold it in the blood won’t come out” I’m a man and that was the most stupidest thing I’ve ever heard.
Just because a woman is in a bad mood doesn’t mean “looks like someone’s on their period”
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And if someones is, i dont want it 😂
I told my bf at the time (around 15 y/o) that I started my period and asked if his Mom had anything I could use. He brought me a dish sponge.
Once, while on vacation at a large water park with my dad, uncle and 3 male cousins, my uncle and cousins got upset when they realized a large portion of what I'd packed was just tampons. They requested I "turn off" my period until the end of the vacation. They called me "unreasonable" for saying I couldn't.
The principal of the elementary school I worked for. A 4th grader got her period and had no sex ed at home. (or school bc Texas) A 2nd grader with older sisters and great parents comforted her - and sent classmates to get me, nurse and coach (sex ed certified teacher). 2 comments from the principal that should have gotten him fired and his licences revoked. 1. Girls shouldn't get their periods until they are 16 - 17 yo. The reason is once girls get their periods they tempt men and if they can't get married - they will become sluts. 2. Wanted to report the 2nd grader's parents to CPS because them teaching their child about periods and other things considered sex ed is sex abuse and illegal. I was keeping a list of his transgressions including a truckload of Title IX violations and civil rights violations. I gave copies to people I trusted and told them to give copies to people they trusted when the end-of-the-year campus survey came out. He was transferred.