Am I the only one who gets irritated when someone shares this?

[WhoWants2Know]

I've seen dozens of variations of this story shared on social media. Lad saves innocent young girl from her period.

It doesn't actually strike me as wholesome. It kind of reminds me of that person (the one who sued waxers) who used to start threads about what to do if they were in a gender neutral toilet and a young girl asked for period advice,

Leaks happen. It's nobody's favourite thing. I can't say I've ever noticed a leak on someone else's person, and I wouldn't necessarily expect a leak to be on the back of a pair of trousers unless the woman had been lying down.

Maybe I'm overthinking, but does anyone else feel like this story is less of a wholesome anecdote and more a patronising way of insinuating that women NEED men because they're at the mercy of their biological functions?

Because girls prefer to hear that they've bled through their clothes from girls.

If they want to hear it at all.

I don't understand your stance at all.

I've been in loads of situations where men have said, can you xyz. When they were worried. Were they wrong to do that?

No they weren't - as you say, every situation is different.
I'm only going by what it was like for me at high school, we all have different experiences.

Because girls prefer to hear that they've bled through their clothes from girls

Depends which girl though.
I don't understand your stance that girls are automatically nice and will help you.
That's not my experience at all (and I'm not saying that they were all horrible as they weren't, but there were a lot who were)

No,

If you read my posts I'm not talking about randoms.

Sensitive guy who has been getting the school bus with the same people for x years can't be trusted to know which girl/s might be good in that situation?

Is he sensitive guy or not?

And of the other examples I gave where I have been asked. Where it was strangers. The men were wrong to ask?

The one time I sought help. Was I wrong to for a woman? And settle on a couple?

Do you 2 genuinely not understand that sometimes women/ girls feel more comfy, or safer, talking to women or girls?

I love the rosy tinted view on here that all girls are part of a lovely sisterhood that will help each other out

Lol, this. Plenty of girls in my DD's year would take the opportunity to point and laugh (and I'm not saying the boys would be any better) . DD won't entertain the thought of a mooncup, because there is no way she wants other girls to see her washing bloody hands. Her friends would be fine, but lots of girls aren't friends and aren't supportive of other girls. The whole sisterhood thing doesn't exist for many teenagers. In fact I'm not sure it exists for a lot of adult women, I've never particularly felt supported by other women.
As for the school bus, most where we live use packed public buses and don't always travel with and live near their friends.

"Because girls prefer to hear that they've bled through their clothes from girls."

Do they? As long as the person telling me is polite and not a tit about it, I couldn't care less really.

Dido what is your take on whether or not the story is true?

I don't think it is myself. And I think that if it isn't true then the really interesting thing about this is why someone would make it up and put it online and then why so many people reblogged it (in many versions).

What point are they trying/hoping to make?

Not saying that no boy ever has not done this, but in this case it 100% didn't happen.
It's only missing "and then everyone stood up and applauded".

Also, when I was at school, if this happened to you and other girls saw. Well, that's what you would have been known for, and mocked for until the day you left school. I'd rather find out from a sympathetic boy than an unsympathetic girl.

@WhichOneOfUsIsCaving2

Dido what is your take on whether or not the story is true?

I don't think it is myself. And I think that if it isn't true then the really interesting thing about this is why someone would make it up and put it online and then why so many people reblogged it (in many versions).

What point are they trying/hoping to make?

If you had read the thread you will have seen what my view is. I don't think it's true. I'm not sure what the point is although I don't think it's a bad thing if it encourages boys and young men to take the attitude that periods are perfectly natural and there's no need for girls to be embarrassed.

That seems a healthier attitude than some of the frankly bizarre attitudes expressed on here that heaven forfend a boy might mention this direct to the girl concerned.

I would start to read it and think oh hod, dome more made up bollocks and read something else and not give it another thought to be honest.

Posted without correcting typos!
Sorry!

Men always want praise for things women do all the time and don’t even mention.

Sorry generalising. Lots of men.

@NiceGerbil

No,

If you read my posts I'm not talking about randoms.

Sensitive guy who has been getting the school bus with the same people for x years can't be trusted to know which girl/s might be good in that situation?

Is he sensitive guy or not?

And of the other examples I gave where I have been asked. Where it was strangers. The men were wrong to ask?

The one time I sought help. Was I wrong to for a woman? And settle on a couple?

Do you 2 genuinely not understand that sometimes women/ girls feel more comfy, or safer, talking to women or girls?

You are embellishing this story even more than whoever originally created it. I do wonder however if you've ever been on a school bus or even been a teenage girl. It's beyond bizarre to assume this (probably) mythical boy will know which of the other girls were the (probably) mythical girl's friends or that just because he himself is nice that all his friends will be.

You've still failed to give any coherent explanation why he should not speak to the girl direct. Why are some feminists so invested in perpetuating the idea that periods are some awful , female secret?

You're also adding a few fake arguments. No one has said you were wrong to do what you did or the men who asked you to help were wrong.

Sorry, Dido. I must've missed that post.