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    MorganaLeStrangeTracy Moore
    5/04/15 12:34pm

    Once I saw multiple drops of blood on the floor near the toilet in the shared bathroom. I showed my roommates. We were all grossed out. Then we laughed. Then we cleaned it up. Still not sure whose blood it was but whatever. It happens.

    Why are boys so grossed out by period blood? And it’s not even just the blood. I’ve seen grown men weirded out by unused tampons and pads in unopened boxes. If it takes seeing some bloody tampons to get them the frak over it, then I say tie a bloody tampon around the old shower nozzle.

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      FrolickingGiantMorganaLeStrange
      5/04/15 12:42pm

      Wild generalization here. But I feel like fear of period blood separates the men from the boys. Dudes who have yet to really grow up are terrified of it for some bizarre reason (it’s a good thing-we’re not having a baby!!) but more mature guys tend to just be like okay, cool, lets go in the shower.

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      adultosaur married anna on the astral planeMorganaLeStrange
      5/04/15 1:34pm

      i went to all girls’ hs and there were a couple of areas in the school that were hangout spots- the seniors had a lounge, and the juniors took over a squarish bit of hallway called the pit. people kept backpacks there, etc (we had lockers but i have no idea why no one ever just used them) and one wall of the pit had windows. every once in a while someone would put a box of tampons out there, on a window ledge, surrounded by other stuff, for general use.

      and we always got in trouble for it. at a school. for all cisgender* ladies. they never even gave a good reason, they just told us not to have them out and about.

      * i do not know of any trans female students attending, and in the past 10 years a few friends have transitioned/come out as trans men.

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    HaHaYouFoolTracy Moore
    5/04/15 12:37pm

    Not as cool but equally as stuck in my brain: When I was 19 or 20, I must have been either at the tail end of period, or just about to start, because I was using pantyliners that day, but nothing else. While hanging out at the boyfriend’s apartment, changed my pantyliner once. Weeks later, boyfriend tells me that later that night, after I’d left, his roommate had gone into the bathroom and seen the wrapper for my pantyliner sitting on top of the garbage in the can and placed it on my boyfriend’s pillow as a hilarious joke. As boyfriend is telling me this story, I’m just like, “Okay, yeah? What?” I don’t understand what he’s trying to tell me. And then slowly the look on his face and the tone of his voice register...it dawns on me that he is reprimanding me for changing my pantyliner in his apartment. HE was embarrassed by his immature roommate’s immature joke, and he is, in turn, shaming me for putting him in a position to be so embarrassed. Suddenly, I was shocked and horrified and so, so sorry, and profusely apologized. If I ever needed to use a tampon, or something, at his apartment after that, I made sure to wrap it all up in TP and bury it at the bottom of the garbage can.

    NOW, having grown up quite a bit since then, I am retroactively furious with my boyfriend for getting pissed at me, and disappointed in myself for not giving him what-for right then and there. Live and learn.

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      Rhetorical ImpulseHaHaYouFool
      5/04/15 12:58pm

      I borrowed by HS boyfriend’s jacket for a day, when I was on my period, and when I gave it back he found a wrapped, unopened tampon in the pocket (I had stuck it there to make sure I had one with me during a bathroom trip in case of emergency). He got all squicked out about it and acted like I was the jerk for forgetting it was there. UGH, boys.

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      RanGalaxyHaHaYouFool
      5/04/15 1:05pm

      I’m kind of blown away by this! Like, it was just the pantyliner wrapper, yeah? Not that that would change much! There’s like this little pastel wrapper - identifiable as girly only by this shade - and sitting on a garbage can, a pretty sanitary spot to put it.

      GIF

      What is the reverse version of this? Screaming when you find a razor with a speck of shaving cream on it?

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    switzerrTracy Moore
    5/04/15 12:54pm

    Two words: diva cup

    Even I know that, and I’ve never had, nor will ever have, a period.

    Although as the father or a pre-menses daughter, one who I have shared 50-50 custody with, I am pretty sure that she will begin her period while in my kind and loving household, which will most assuredly require a call to Telehealth . . .

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      adultosaur married anna on the astral planeswitzerr
      5/04/15 1:41pm

      keep yourself stocked w lady products. have some pamphlets on hand. get our bodies, ourselves. be completely honest and open with her about it - i would say let her know, casually, that if she should need it, you have tampons and sanitary napkins available, and you are available to talk to her if she needs it. and then nothing else.

      the chances that she will come to you are likely slim (like idk your life or hers, yk? i am assuming) and she will likely be like UGH DAD EW STOP, but in the long run, a gentle, confident, and non-pushy moment like that will probably do her a lot of good in a world where she will be perpetually shamed by society, and likely her peers, for having a functioning body.

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      switzerradultosaur married anna on the astral plane
      5/04/15 1:51pm

      That’s the approach I’ve taken . . . open, honest, and available. and to her credit, she hasn’t pushed me away when I’ve brought the subject up. My daughter is lucky, though, to have many older women in her life that can offer her support, too.

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    CatAssTracy Moore
    5/04/15 12:26pm

    HA! I love this story. I dressed as a 'sexy' bloody tampon for H'ween several years ago. I still have friends and one very impressed bartender who like to bring it up occasionally. Never shall I think of a better costume, I believe.

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      KayleeyoncéJayneCatAss
      5/04/15 1:48pm

      Omg I love this! do you have pics?!

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      CatAssKayleeyoncéJayne
      5/04/15 1:50pm

      Now I'm determined to dig one up. They're somewhere...

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    Paperclip1Tracy Moore
    5/04/15 12:37pm

    I find it funny that some men get freaked out over a gently used tampon, yet will stick their penis in any vagina, no matter how little they may know about it! I mean, a tampon and penis both enter vaginas, but men will CONSTANTLY play and fondle their penis, yet recoil in horror of a tampon. Even a straight out of the package unused tampon!

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      AssFault on the Highway to HellPaperclip1
      5/04/15 12:43pm

      Maybe because to them, in that way, a tampon is so similar to a penis but it’s not their penis so it’s akin to touching another penis? Paging Dr Freud...

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      Paperclip1AssFault on the Highway to Hell
      5/04/15 12:54pm

      GREAT POINT!!!

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    sirstinksalotTracy Moore
    5/04/15 12:31pm

    Ahhh tampons in the shower...

    I had a college roommate who used to take her tampon out in the shower, leave it on the side of the tub and then forget about it. Nothing like stepping into a shower with a period waterfall drizzling down the side...

    I am a woman and even I don’t want to deal with other women’s tampons.

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      CindyLouCthulhusirstinksalot
      5/04/15 12:54pm

      That doesn’t even make any sense because then wouldn’t she have to deal with bleeding on her towel when she got out? Roommates. Sometimes I think there is a secret, Filthy Roommates Union where they meet to come up with novel ways of being gross.

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      sirstinksalotCindyLouCthulhu
      5/04/15 1:14pm

      My guess is that she expertly jumped from the shower directly over the toilet for next tampon insertion because there was never a blood trail on the floor. Though, you’re right that this doesn’t make sense because why would you be considerate enough not to leave a blood trail on the floor but not considerate enough to get your tampon out of the shower?

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    TerraTracy Moore
    5/04/15 12:33pm

    Wait... YOU’RE the cause of that stereotype of feminists leaving used tampons everywhere? That isn’t just MRA bullshit?

    *facepalm*

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      AssFault on the Highway to HellTerra
      5/04/15 12:43pm

      More likely that the lead singer of L7 was.

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      Rhetorical ImpulseTerra
      5/04/15 1:00pm

      That’s a thing? Really? I’ve heard a lot of feminist stereotypes but never “you leave bloody tampons everywhere.”

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    PieBowlerTracy Moore
    5/04/15 12:56pm

    This story comes up from time to time among my friends, mainly because of the reaction of the douche I was dating at the time. I went out boozing the night before a date with him and I drunkenly tripped and completely shredded my knee. It was too big of a scrape for even the largest band aid, so I put a gauze pad on, taped it, good to go. The next morning after our date, he left for work and I showered and got ready at his place then also went to work. Before I showered I took off my bandage, rolled it up and tossed it in his bathroom trash can. NBD, right? Wrong. That night he called me completely pissed and grossed out that I left my bandage in his trash can and broke up with me. Fortunately we’d only dated about 6 weeks and I was getting weary of him due to some issues he had in the sack. Plus my cat hated him.

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      adultosaur married anna on the astral planePieBowler
      5/04/15 1:42pm

      uh

      like what?

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      PieBowleradultosaur married anna on the astral plane
      5/04/15 2:07pm

      Given the level of freakout over a bandage, I imagine if I dared to leave a tampon or pad with my dirty lady blood in his trash, he probably would have tried to call the cops on me.

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    ihatepickingnamesTracy Moore
    5/04/15 1:32pm

    The story that follows me around is about the time I superglued a kid to his chair. That story didn’t change, though. It happened exactly the way people tell it.

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      DemonRumihatepickingnames
      5/04/15 1:40pm

      Go on...

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      ihatepickingnamesDemonRum
      5/04/15 4:13pm

      Haha I mean there’s not really much more to it. I was in 7th grade. The plan was hatched during lunch. The whole class knew about it (except for the victim, of course). I got back to the room before him and put the super glue on his chair. Unfortunately, as soon as he sat down one girl started laughing hysterically so he knew something was up. He tried to get up from his chair and couldn’t at first. However, he tried again and was able to get up with more effort. A teacher had to rip the pants from his ass. Our teacher was laughing while trying to yell at me (no one informed her it was me; it was just the foregone conclusion).

      Anyway, the next year I changed schools (from Catholic to public) and everyone already knew about it (the kid I superglued had been at that public school until 7th grade so everyone knew who he was).

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    GELLA - LLAPTracy Moore
    5/04/15 12:31pm

    this story sound like something Shreyber would on reddit and post here

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      catfaceGELLA - LLAP
      5/04/15 12:35pm

      The all time best/grossest Jezebel tampon story: http://jezebel.com/388226/ten-day…

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      samanticscatface
      5/04/15 1:57pm

      woah

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