Biology is not hard to understand; most of us learn the basics of human biology and anatomy in school. Today’s Reddit story is about someone who apparently skipped those classes. It’s about a woman who went on a date with a 22-year-old man who believed periods come out of butts. Yep, you’re in for a fun read.
The Story
A woman with a throwaway account, throwingawaylateeer, posted her situation on AITA (Am I the A**hole?), asking the community on Reddit if she was wrong for laughing at his date. Here is her story:
“Throwaway. There was this guy(22M) who I(20F) have gone on a few dates with in the past couple of months. He’s nice and so far we’ve only progressed to going on public dates, but about a week ago we finally decided to have a nice date at my place. Since it was going to be at my place I let him know before that I was on my period because I wasn’t sure what expectations he had or where his boundaries were yet, and we agreed to just have a nice takeout dinner and watch a movie.”
“He comes over and we eat then sit down on the couch to pick a movie when he says that it sucked that I was on my period Then he said how he thought it was so strange that women give birth through the vagina but have periods from their butts. (This was a completely unpromoted statement from him and I’m still not sure how we got on the topic tbh) I asked him what he meant by that and he said again exactly what he had said before. I kind of smiled, assuming he was very much just joking, and said “oh yeah, so weird” thinking that he was going to start laughing soon to end the joke. He didn’t, and instead started to talk about his first and only girlfriend he’d had in high school and how she used to complain about bad “period poops” all the time. At this point I ask him if he is being serious and he looks a little confused and says he is.”
“I ask him to explain how he came to that conclusion and he explained that his first experience being around periods was the hs gf and before then he had never received or seen much information. He understood it was something that happened inside the body and that blood came out “somewhere” but assumed it came out of the vagina until he heard her complaining and realized it actually came out of the butt. It was very unexpected coming from a 22 year old man. I somehow managed to keep my composure when I told him that periods do in fact come out of the vagina and not butts.”
“He looked confused and then a little frustrated and started insisting to me that was wrong and then kept saying “are you sure?” as if I was confused about where it came out of my own body. I explained to him the anatomy a bit and how it worked but he was very adamant. Eventually he conceded that most women must have periods like that, but some, hence his ex-gf, have their periods form their butts. He just could not understand no matter how many times I tried to explain it to him that he had just simply come to the wrong conclusion and misinterpreted his gf’s words. The whole situation became so much that I started to laugh. I was doubled over, clutching my stomach, crying laughing over this whole debacle, and he sat there red-faced, continuing to try and argue with me. Eventually he said he was ready to leave and did before we could watch a movie. I felt bad for laughing after he left because I could tell that had been when he decided to leave and he also texted me later that night to say he had done a little bit of research “on his own” and that he was no longer interested in pursuing any sort of relationship because he couldn’t stand to be with someone who laughed at someone for “not understanding”. AITA?”
The Responses
Many people from Reddit’s community responded to this post, unanimously supporting this woman. For context, NTA means “Not the A**hole.” Here are some of the best comments:
Padloq rightfully said:
“NTA.”
“‘Are you sure?'”
“Yeah dude, we’re pretty sure we know where we bleed from.”
Issyswe commented:
“To have achieved 22 years of age and not understand the basic stuff covered in a 5th grade puberty film is pretty sad. And we also live in the age of the internet. NTA.”
xenomouse said:
“NTA”
“Honestly. This is for the best.”
“And it’s not because I think he’s stupid. It’s because he was digging in his heels this f****ing hard over something he knows he has zero knowledge of.”
“Compounded by the fact that he refused to even entertain the idea that you might be right (about something you experience regularly!) until he’d looked it up on his own.”
“I’m not saying it’s bad to want to verify. But this is a guy who NEEDS to always be right, and never wants to let his girlfriend teach him anything.”
Educational-Food9471 wrote pure facts:
“NTA”
“This was an insane and funny conversation. Glad he’s not coming back.”
“Don’t you just love when guys try to tell you how your own body works, especially your female parts?”
antonio-bolonio commented:
“NTA”
“I am a guy… I’m 29, and I have very little sympathy for adults who don’t understand periods.”
“Before y’all come at me and call me a white Knight or a simp, let me be clear, we live in a day and age where you have the world’s collective knowledge in your pocket. I have heard lots of excuses for why people don’t know about these types of things, but at a certain point that burden is on them entirely.”
“Like… I’d be laughing at him too for something I learned about when I was a preteen.”
This post is still active and has received more than 2.5k comments at the time of writing this article, you can read all of the comments on Reddit here.
What’s Your Take?
Ladies, what would you have done in this situation? Share your take in the comments below!
Source: Reddit – AITA for laughing hysterically after a date kept insisting to me that women have periods from their butts?
