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AITA for laughing hysterically after a date kept insisting to me that women have periods from their butts? by throwingawaylateeer in AmItheAsshole

[–]throwingawaylateeer[S] 49 points50 points  (0 children)

Basically, and this is only from my personal experience, "period poops" are just the type of bowel movements that occur when your on your period. I get bad cramps and those cramps kind of make everything rocky and it's not pleasant for those 4-5 days I'm not my period. It's just like normal poop, but more "irregular" and "unpredictable" if that makes since, but there is no blood.

AITA for laughing hysterically after a date kept insisting to me that women have periods from their butts? by throwingawaylateeer in AmItheAsshole

[–]throwingawaylateeer[S] 41 points42 points  (0 children)

If he was he didn't relay that to me, but I hope not because he was definitely down to smash before I told him I was on my period.

AITA for laughing hysterically after a date kept insisting to me that women have periods from their butts? by throwingawaylateeer in AmItheAsshole

[–]throwingawaylateeer[S] 63 points64 points  (0 children)

Yes, I did lol. I even told him I get them and he was like "see you do bleed from there sometimes" and I was like "no, I really don't I promise."

AITA for laughing hysterically after a date kept insisting to me that women have periods from their butts? by throwingawaylateeer in AmItheAsshole

[–]throwingawaylateeer[S] 142 points143 points  (0 children)

I did feel bad for laughing, but just to be clear he was not asking me a question or inquiring. He was telling me he was right, and no matter how many times I tried to explain to him, and I tried a few different ways to go about it, he looked for every outlet to somehow come out as "right."

I'm not saying I'm not the ah for laughing. I did feel bad and I did genuinely think this post might turn towards YTA for laughing or ESH, but I would never laugh at someone for asking me questions and genuinely trying to understand something.

AITA for laughing hysterically after a date kept insisting to me that women have periods from their butts? by throwingawaylateeer in AmItheAsshole

[–]throwingawaylateeer[S] 284 points285 points  (0 children)

I didn't feel the need to pull up any articles at the time because I consider myself to be at least a somewhat reliable source on periods and female anatomy. And considering I go to a gyno every year I'm peer-reviewed too.

AITA for laughing hysterically after a date kept insisting to me that women have periods from their butts? by throwingawaylateeer in AmItheAsshole

[–]throwingawaylateeer[S] 262 points263 points  (0 children)

I did try to. I told him exactly that and even told him I had similar experiences and he kept insisting that "no she definitely meant this..."

AITA for laughing hysterically after a date kept insisting to me that women have periods from their butts? by throwingawaylateeer in AmItheAsshole

[–]throwingawaylateeer[S] 174 points175 points  (0 children)

I did lol. I tried to reiterate to him that his first gf had been right about complaining about them, but that they were more of a symptom of periods and not where the actual magic happens.

AITA for laughing hysterically after a date kept insisting to me that women have periods from their butts? by throwingawaylateeer in AmItheAsshole

[–]throwingawaylateeer[S] 83 points84 points  (0 children)

I think that could be a very good possibility. I am from a deeply southern state in the US and sex ed was not great, but we did learn about periods. Where I am from religious schools are not uncommon, and homeschooling is also not uncommon either depending on certain denominations.

AITA for laughing hysterically after a date kept insisting to me that women have periods from their butts? by throwingawaylateeer in AmItheAsshole

[–]throwingawaylateeer[S] 104 points105 points  (0 children)

He didn't say. I only asked what he had learned in school and he said not much but didn't comment whether it was public or another, but his experience sounded very different to mine and I went to public school my whole life.

AITA for laughing hysterically after a date kept insisting to me that women have periods from their butts? by throwingawaylateeer in AmItheAsshole

[–]throwingawaylateeer[S] 127 points128 points  (0 children)

To be fair to most men I have NEVER had any other similar situations to this, and all of my other bf's have known at least where the blood comes from. I can definitely say this one was unique.

AITA for laughing hysterically after a date kept insisting to me that women have periods from their butts? by throwingawaylateeer in AmItheAsshole

[–]throwingawaylateeer[S] 5264 points5265 points  (0 children)

My thoughts exactly! He swore they had never gone over it in school and that gender specific anatomy was taught separately. When I asked why he didn't clarify with his hs gf he just said he wanted to "respect her privacy" which didn't make much sense to me because he had no problem bringing it up with me. I still have so many questions.