I don't even like showering when I'm on my own period for that exact reason. Its heavy. I get blood splatter all over and I have 2 days a month I feel like I'm reenacting the " shower scene from Carrie"

Lol Good_nuff.

Gentlemen: The average amount of blood a woman loses over the course of her cycle is only 86.7ml, or 4.9 tablespoons, which is barely over 1/3 of a cup... although some with abnormally heavy menses will bleed roughly double that amount. It may seem like more because it'll mix with runnier vaginal fluids on its way out. Much less than the perceived amount.

I really don't understand why people do this patronising-ass "aww, aren't old people sweet" nonsense. They're not newborn babies, you weirdos

Do you feel better now that you have apparently demonstrated your smartness in logical fallacies to the internet?

Bruises, really?

He is a horrible person for being too tired to shower.

What if one day he is too tired for sex!?

Yeah, dear god! There's a difference between a book that's just a book and one where all the sauciest parts are annotated and highlighted.

Also, related, if you don’t already know this, swim diapers are just diapers that are not absorbent, so they hold in poop, but pee goes right through them. So while I would never allow my potty trained child to pee in a pool, babies do it all the time. I also watched a science show one time about how the “chlorine smell” of pools is not just from chlorine, but from the chemical reaction of chlorine with urine. Pretty gross to think about, but I’m not a germaphobe, so I don’t generally have a problem with public pools, but I know plenty of people who do. But, then again I’m more of a take a dip without getting my face or hair wet kind of swimmer when it comes to pools.

I don’t have a “dilution discharge theory.” I’m just saying when you go swimming you are already swimming in a tiny bit of others people’s funk. If you wear a tampon it keeps the blood in. If you are leaking through or around your tampon don’t go swimming in a pool!

Okay, so the difference is, and hear me out about that one, that you're meant to swim in a pool. No matter what, you swim in it and some minuscule amount of bodily fluids ends up in it. It's expected and it's what chlorine is there for.

Now, and this will shock you, you're NOT meant to rub yourself in cosmetic product you're producing. I know, it's shocking.

Am I advocating for everyone to use the public pool at any time? Hell no, if you are sick, stay the fuck out. If you have diarrhea, stay the fuck out. If you use tampons (or a cup or pads) and don't stain your underwear on your period, go ahead. If you do leak, please be considerate and avoid the pool on those couple days.

Give her extra cuddles and chocolate. Periods are horrible.

Let her know you don't think her body is anything but beautiful, you were just giving her privacy and didn't mean to upset her.

People are allowed to have personal preferences! I don’t want to have sex on my period. Why am I allowed to make that choice, but a man HAS to have sex with a woman on her period if he wants to or not? Consent works both ways. He doesn’t have to do anything.

Hun i never once said anything about going into a swimming pool. I never swim when on my period cuz I PERSONALLY don't want to that that risk and I also find it unsanitary. Also I'm not only talking about my body it's basic knowledge how the human body works and if you look at all the other comments you would see all the WOMEN are saying the exact same thing.

OMG, I’m a woman, and your man turning down a shower with you is NOT oppressing you! He is allowed to say yes or no as he wished. That’s called consent. He doesn’t have to do whatever she wants. He didn’t tell her she was disgusting, he just said Nah, and she came out sulking and looking for a fight. And let’s be real here - sometimes when we’re on our periods we like to pick fights. We feel irrationally irritated AF about things that might normally only be a mild irritation. You cannot remove a person’s right to choose just because their female partner is on her period!

Blood flood.

Exactly the point I was trying to make. Why did he have to? He said he was drunk and lying down, so likely couldn’t be bothered. If he’d had a few too many cocktails, it a fair assumption that she had also been drinking, and that affected how they both felt and reacted. But it really is a mountain out of a molehill.

If it had been a woman who refused to join her bf in the shower, only to get him visibly sulking afterwards, with the argument that she made him feel bad for being a man - well, everyone would be telling her to leave / divorce him, and there’d be red flags everywhere.

Consent goes both ways people! Nobody should be forced to do something they don’t want to just to please their partner, and their partner shouldn’t sulk and accuse like that afterwards. People must be so hung up on the notion that this was period shaming that they’ve forgotten about consent. They’ve lost sight of the bigger picture. She was using ‘period shaming’ to shame him for not doing what she wanted, and using it as her excuse for acting all offended.

I first read "puss" as "pus" and was all set to recommend several doctors to help you sort that out.

Please tell me you're a writer because I want more great stories from you!

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No on should be forced to do anything they are uncomfortable with. If there is a misunderstanding the fu is not talking about it

Everyone can say no to a shower and definitely no to sex.

If I was a Cosmetic Chemist who worked in a lab formulating cosmetic products, and I accidentally bled into a large vat of a cosmetic product OR I sneezed and a large glob of mucus fell in OR if I misplaced my hairnet and large clumps of hair fell in...would you be OK with still bringing this batch of products to market? Blood, Mucous and Hair discharging, shedding or vacating the body are all NATURAL and the chemist should NOT be shamed for being HUMAN, does your 'Diluted Discharge Theory'' still apply?

Are you the kind of parent who would be OK with your children pissing or deficating in a public pool full of other people because there's enough water in the pool to dilute everything so it's not easily noticable? Does your "Dilution Discharge Theory' make this OK?

If I was a chef who cut my finger while preparing a large pot of gumbo or soup and a few drops of blood dropped into the pot - Is it ok to still serve this food to my customers?? It's totally natural to bleed when people cut themselves, so does your 'dilution discharge theory' still apply?

I'll support and praise her!. Why? Because I agree with her logical assessment of the situation and I like that she's unapologetically a woman with her own thoughts even if they don't fit into YOUR narrative of how a woman should feel or think on topics pertaining to gender. Pick Me" accusations are often lobbied by people who don't have the intellectual fitness to form their own prose or can't form logical rebuttals to other people's well thought out arguments.

You're using way too much logic in your comments Squiggle. That's why all of your comments are being down voted, smh. Kudos to you for keeping it respectful and on topic and for not taking the bate of the strawman arguments being lobbed at you.

That's sounds like something thing Jeffrey Dahmer would say..... I'm just saying ... 🤷🏽‍♂️