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Women shouldn't have free tampons because bladders?!?!!

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Dervel · 18/10/2016 18:44

www.google.co.uk/amp/www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/teenage-meninist-sparks-fury-anti-9067035.amp?client=safari

This guy is depriving a village somewhere of an idiot.

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Passmethecrisps · 18/10/2016 19:17

Nah. 15 seconds of fame bellend. That's all there is too it. He has probably said this at some point at it got some laughs so mr one trick pony decides to spread it around the web a bit awaiting his fucking bafta for 'totes hilares bants'

Unicornsarelovely · 18/10/2016 19:19

It's just self promotion. If gets him on the telly and all over facebook standing up for poor self controlled menz. Plus as he's a Brexit campaigner and has MRA support I wouldn't be surprised if he applies to lead UKIP.

DownWithThisSortaThing · 18/10/2016 19:22

The article I read said he thinks women 'need to learn' how to control their bladders
So: does he think all of us are incontinent?
Or does he think it's a common practice for some women to be able to hold the period in til we get to a toilet, and the rest of us should learn this magical skill?

On a side note I do like the idea of being able to do a period like you do a wee. So instead of it dragging on for a week, just go to the toilet once and get it over and done with. Not sure how we can make that happen, we should probably evolve or something

Soubriquet · 18/10/2016 19:22

I think some men do think like that though

I remember one poster on here saying that her expartner used to think women had one gush of blood into the toilet and that's it. Period over

I remember that because it took me a few hours to pick my jaw off the floor

GETTINGLIKEMYMOTHER · 18/10/2016 19:25

Best laugh I've had all day,

He's going to feel such a prat - maybe not just now, but once it sinks in how thick and ignorant he appears.

MrsJayy · 18/10/2016 19:26

Hope you all start clenching the boy has spoken

BingBongBingBong · 18/10/2016 19:26

I can't tell if he's trolling or actually thick as shit.

ErrolTheDragon · 18/10/2016 19:27

In this case, I dont think its an either/or, bingbong.

Soubriquet · 18/10/2016 19:28

He's probably thick as shit and oh so proud he's come to a solution

Gowgirl · 18/10/2016 19:28

Ok I think I just wet myself, luckily its definitely not shark week.....bloody Pratt!

HappyAxolotl · 18/10/2016 19:29

I do remember a good few years ago now with a mixed group of friends and someone was talking about those SheWee things that had just been launched and were big in the news. Most of the men were quite puzzled as to how they worked as they thought women wee from the vagina. Even worse, so did one of the women. These were 20-somethings who had encountered vaginas before!

But even if this is a common belief among men, do they not understand what a period is and what tampons are used for?

FurryGiraffe · 18/10/2016 19:33

Why did his GF not put him straight?
Does she not know how periods work either?

Possibly not. A friend of mine was once rung by her panicked SIL to say that her DD (friend's DN) had started her periods and was asking what was happening and SIL didn't know what to say. Bemused friend said just to explain what was happening. SIL then said "but what is a period"? She was in her 30s with four children.

MooPointCowsOpinion · 18/10/2016 19:37

FurryGiraffe there isn't one part of that I do not need explaining. My gast is flabbered.

PassiveAgressiveQueen · 18/10/2016 19:37

I am sure he is just talking shit in the hope of going viral

LordRothermereBlackshirtCunt · 18/10/2016 19:39

My friend had her bag searched going through security at the airport. The young man who went through her bag pulled out a box of tampons, opened them, held one up in front of the whole queue and asked her what it was.

She complained to his manager who told her that he'd have a word with him. That must have been a fun conversation, not quite what you expect when you take on a management role . . .

SilverBat · 18/10/2016 19:44

My sister is in her 30s (no children, although I can't understand that it would make a difference).
I can't remember what she had been discussing with her friend, but came to me and confessed that she had never realised that in her words 'there were separate holes for wee and blood'!!!
I always thought she was of normal intelligence. I asked her how the hell she thought she could still wee when she was wearing a tampon, she obviously had a 'derr moment' and realised what a complete idiot she was.

SquirrelPaws · 18/10/2016 19:45

A boy in my class at school used to think this. He was about 12, we'd only had separate sex-ex classes at that stage and he didn't have a sister. The girls in the class quickly put him straight.

FurryGiraffe · 18/10/2016 19:48

FurryGiraffe there isn't one part of that I do not need explaining. My gast is flabbered.

When my friend repeated this conversation to me the following day I think I just stood and sputtered. It's so utterly improbable. It would be funny if it wasn't so sad: we're failing girls very very badly if they can reach not only the age but actually the process of reproduction without understanding how their own bodies function.

RedElephants · 18/10/2016 19:50

He made me lol..

So Ryan whatever your name is, lets have a chat about this... say, in 5/10/100 years time when youve grown a bit.. yeah?
In the meantime I suggest you continue to read books about the anatomy and especially how the FEMALE body works!!

ChocChocPorridge · 18/10/2016 20:00

I think the children are relevant because you've actually used the bits involved, and presumably seen the occasional anatomical diagram whilst doing so (my big purple book of pregnancy certainly had them)

I have heard of men who didn't understand why we couldn't just hold the blood in and let it out in one go, but I think this kid's in it for the dubious fame personally - assuming he's been through the UK educational system anyway - the only people I've heard ask this were rather sheltered, and religiously educated in less rigorous countries.

My DSes know about periods - DS1 calls tampons my blood thingies, and we've discussed where babies come from. DS2 is only just 3 and still refuses to believe I don't have a willy though, so he still has some to learn.

elephantoverthehill · 18/10/2016 20:12

DM gave me lecture a few years ago along the lines of 'I am very disappointed to find you have those pads in the bathroom. If you did your exercises properly you wouldn't need them'. I thought my goodness DM knows something I don't. A few brain cells later I explained to DM that I was having my period, she replied with ' Oh I had forgotten all about them'. Do you think this guy overheard the first part of DM's tirade?

scallopsrgreat · 18/10/2016 20:14

I think he was trolling around FWR earlier today.

Monkeyinshoes · 18/10/2016 21:25

That's what I was thinking elephant

Either this is a complete wind up or he's seen a Tena advert and thought incontinence and periods are the same thing.

0phelia · 19/10/2016 16:12

Imagine sticking a tampon up your urethra.
owch.

LassWiTheDelicateAir · 19/10/2016 16:43

I'm completely puzzled how SheWees work.

Shewee is a urinating device that allows women to urinate without removing clothes whilst standing or sitting

Eh?

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