It is actually really SAD that full grown men cannot be bothered enough to read a Wikipedia page on womens phisiology. And yet they learn football players stats.
It's very odd to me. My husband just turned 40, grew up in a pretty conservative area/family and knew all this stuff before wikipedia even existed. I think his parents explained a few things to him but just generally paying attention and being curious will get you pretty far. I hate to say it but I think him growing up raising cows was helpful during my pregnancies lol. Lots of differences but he had a pretty good grasp on the progression of labor and delivery.
We should ask all the American male senators how they think these things work. Because they're definitely the experts and should be in charge of women's bodies.
I would LOVE to watch this be a thing and watch them make a fool of themselves for being so ignorant and stupid. I'm pretty sure one male senators said that a woman can decide if she wants to get pregnant or not from SA. Or if you have an "O" during an SA you must be enjoying yourself.
Years ago I dated someone who literally thought all women had their periods at exactly the same time every month together! All the women everywhere. That’s what he thought ‘time of the month’ was. Can you imagine the absolute chaos 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
of course it was a republican. this was in 2015, quote from the national post, "The question Monday from Republican state Rep. Vito Barbieri came as the House State Affairs Committee heard nearly three hours of testimony on a bill that would ban doctors from prescribing abortion-inducing medication through telemedicine." “Can this same procedure then be done in a pregnancy? Swallowing a camera and helping the doctor determine what the situation is?” Barbieri asked." this part was especially terrifying & revealing of conservatives though: "Barbieri, who sits on the board of a crisis pregnancy centre in northern Idaho, voted in favour of the legislation." on a board for a pregnancy crisis center but he doesn't even know how pregnancy or the anatomy of people who can get pregnant work. it's funny because it's so stupid but terrifying because this man has made millions by now working in our government & other powerful, influential positions but is so stupid & violently hateful. "Already this year, it has killed a proposal that would provide legal protections to gay and lesbian Idahoans" it needs to be a much more educationally intensive process to get into politics, more experience, more compassion, more ways to help more people instead of who can get them & their billionaire buddies the most money.
@@MossTunicI completely agree with this about how terrifying ignorant ridiculous and scary it is! What gets me they love playing with toys, don't want to read the instructions, but want to dictate. 🙄
I'm not surprised if the man who assumed we could hold it in thought the blood passed through the same hole as urine (i.e. Urethra) and vagina is just... for pleasure & sex
This reminded me of when I cut my finger when opening a can. It cut pretty deep. I tightly wrapped a paper towel around it, drove with it elevated above my heart to my dad's house. It had stopped bleeding but also had very little circulation. My dad used a few butterfly bandages, then wrapped it real good and it was fine but it took a while for the initial bleeding to stop.
This reminds me of the incident, when an american elected (male) official (congressman? I am not sure) asked (female) doctor, who was talking about swallowed pills with cameras that are used to check the colon, whether the same procedure could be used to monitor pregnancy... She replied to him very matter-of-factly, that swallowed pills don't end up there. I would not be able to be so calm with my reaction to him... And those people decide on laws about abortion and other health care!
said this in a similar comment referencing this guy & i think it's important for more people to know the details of this though so copy & paste it is. of course it was a republican. this was in 2015, quote from the national post, "The question Monday from Republican state Rep. Vito Barbieri came as the House State Affairs Committee heard nearly three hours of testimony on a bill that would ban doctors from prescribing abortion-inducing medication through telemedicine." “Can this same procedure then be done in a pregnancy? Swallowing a camera and helping the doctor determine what the situation is?” Barbieri asked." this part was especially terrifying & revealing of conservatives though: "Barbieri, who sits on the board of a crisis pregnancy centre in northern Idaho, voted in favour of the legislation." on a board for a pregnancy crisis center but he doesn't even know how pregnancy or the anatomy of people who can get pregnant work. it's funny because it's so stupid but terrifying because this man has man thousands if not millions by now working in our government & powerful, influential positions but is stupid & violently hateful. "Already this year, it has killed a proposal that would provide legal protections to gay and lesbian Idahoans" it needs to be a much more educationally intensive process to get into politics, more experience, more compassion, more ways to help more people instead of who van get them & their billionaire buddies the most money.
This guy took “She has a baby in her tummy” literally! 😂 Funnily enough I mentioned him to my husband a few days ago during a general discussion on how some people in power shouldn’t have it. I live in the UK but saw it on a Mama Dr Jones video ages ago, but it stuck with me. My husband just shook his head & said “HOW exactly did he even think that would work?!” I just don’t get the type of person who makes decisions on something SO important & doesn’t feel the need to educate themselves on the subject first! Or even worse just straight up IGNORE the medical facts & research in favour of some outdated opinions.
EXACTLY!!! This is at least 80% due to America's 'abstinence only' education policies - there's no sex ed, so there's no basic human biology/ anatomy either!!
@@BritKay118 and separating genders too, at least in canada. i couldnt believe those aholes didnt have to learn about what i was going through i was so mad lmlmlmlao
@@quinnm.3127 We separate the genders in classrooms, but not about the things we learn. In our school they have to separate the guys from the girls so that the teacher can educate on any awful misinformation and/or misogyny popping up in class, without the girls being hurt or offended, and vice versa. I am so glad we have this system, cause when the guys had their sex ed, suddenly the classroom they were in were FULL of blown up tampons cause they were learning about menstrual products... :)
@@BritKay118 but periods have nothing to do with sex, it's just an organ doing it's thing like the stomach has acid to break down food, the uterus sheds it's lining. it's the opposite of getting pregnant, how is that a nono
I had an ex years ago who when I told him I was having my period, got really arsey with me and shouted that I was a liar because ‘I said I was on my period yesterday!’ Dude genuinely thought they were over with in a couple of hours 😕 if only!
In the US, only 22 states even mandate sex ed, and only 13 require the instructions to be medically accurate. Politicians strive to “protect” children from learning about bodies and sex and yet also keep women from having autonomy of their own bodies. Because of this, there is so much ignorance about the female body and very little medical incentive to study it. Scientists only began studying the clitoris in the early 2000’s and last year was the first time menstrual products were tested using human blood. It is socially acceptable to stay in the dark about how women work, therefore we have dudes thinking periods come out of the urethra and that the responsibility of birth control lies solely with us.
Fun fact, there actually used to be a plethora of detailed study on the clitorus and women's bodies until the late 1800's (pretty sure, might've been the century before, I learned this a long time ago), and for "some" reason *coughcishetwhitemencough* almost all of it was purged from medical textbooks
In 2008 a doctor was performing a hysterectomy on a woman. By complete chance, she just happened to ovulate during the procedure. It was the first time we had ever witnessed ovulation in humans, and we learned quite a bit from it. **Two-thousand and eight**
To be fair, I thought that was a thing until I was like 18 😂 I don’t know how I missed that in health class. Thought you could take a test the next day and find out lmao
I love how these men think we have a choice in the matter 😂 My dude, I would opt out of ever having a period if I could do so without surgical intervention.
@nicolehawley912 preach. It took me 3 years to find a Dr who would do a salpingectomy (removing a length of my fallopians before cauterizing and clamping. Similar to a tubal) because I knew pregnancy and motherhood would probably cause me an insane amount of mental stress and the results of that would be... catastrophic to my existence.
@@lynxelmore5364 very understandable! Us living is more important. I've never wanted children. The real kicker for me, I would have to go off my epilepsy medication to have children which I'm never going to do because I don't want to risk having a seizure and not have my license for yrs. I won't even hold my nefew without me sitting down where he's super safe.
My 15yo gay son just came in (listening to this) to say he's got friends who don't understand why he - as A Gay - would need to know anything if this stuff cos he's never going to have a girlf! Both him & my other two sons know all this cos I bloody taught them so they weren't 'those men' when they grow up.
I taught my sons all the facts as well. As soon as they had a question they were fine with asking, knowing I would tell the truth and not laugh at them for asking. The eldest, about the age of ten at the time, bursting into the bathroom as I was doing my hair and his dad was in the bath. "What does w@nk mean?" he asked. We told him and he said "Urg. That sounds horrible. I'm never doing that." then he clears off to go watch wrestling or Power Rangers.
My male gay best friend was amazing when I was in highschoool, he'd run off to get a heat pack or anything I needed and he ended up being the most compassionate to my pain, other girls would get theirs and say 'you're a drama queen, it's not even that bad.' Then he'd proceed to cuss them out 😂
I get the impression that gay men probably know more about female anatomy than straight men, cause they see women as people (not s3x objects) and talk & listen to them as such. Just a theory. Sounds like you’re raising your kids right.
@@hellsbells8689 my middle son has an in depth knowledge of sanitary towels cos he used to read the packet when he was on the loo lmao. Even stopped hubby buying the wrong ones once, when he was about 10! He was the same one that decided he would adopt children cos sex just sounded too messy & disgusting. Is your son my son?!! 😂
I overheared two guys in a supermarket talking about how they can recognize a girl being on her period becase she's buying pads. I was like "No, that's not how it works. If she was currently on her period, you'd be the one buying her pads. When she's on her period, it's too late to go buy some pads... You buy pads in advance or when they're discounted"
That’s not really true, I’ve been on my period while buying pads and tampons because I ran out of supplies while being on my period. I’m perfectly capable as a woman to go buy more hygiene products while actively being on my period
If you get caught buying pad AND icecream together, then you are on your period. I once rocked up at the checkout and didn't realise all I was buying was 6 tubs of Ben and Jerries in different flavours and maxi pads 🤣😂🤣 Another time I rocked up at the supermarket counter buying dodgy supermarket underwear and maxi pads and the shop assistant was like "how is your day going?" And I was like "my dude, the answer is before you." It was very funny. She was like "oh..." then cackled with me.
Yeah, because you never know what man you'd get. Whilst every bear is known to be pretty chill and it's also a lot less worse to bet brutally murdered, if it was just by instinct. Just one thing to keep in mind though: Most men are a lot easier to kill with a good stick than a bear would be. (No, seriously, I see where it's coming from, but I don't think it's particularly clever to use an example that's pretty illogical and that even involves doing the "this gender as a whole" thing that certain men like to do with women.)
Not to be a buzzkill but grown men being this ignorant about women is honestly just annoying at this point. I can understand not knowing every single detail about women's bodies but the fact they don't even know the basics is just such a turn off to me. 😬
I have an ex boyfriend who seriously thought that a women can only get pregnant when they orgasm. He thought that a women "drops" a tiny egg when she orgasms and thTs how she gets pregnant. Like wth. This is why people should always sign that paper for their kids health class in elementary school.
I worked at a Planned Parenthood for almost a decade. What’s really scary is, grown WOMEN not knowing how women work. It was really sad to see, but it was a great opportunity for me to educate them.
My midwife told me (while I was in labour!) that I would be surprised by how many women do not know where their pelvic muscles are so they don't know how to push and then exercise the muscles after birth. I was confused because I've known where the muscles are before anyone even told me about them. I am still confused.
While pregnant with our first child, my husband asked me, “How old will she be when she finally opens her eyes?” He thought babies were like puppies and didn’t open their eyes right away!
I'm an OB nurse. Some time ago, there were some fundamentalist Christian nurses working with me. Neither allowed their kids to participate in Sex Ed at school, nor did they teach it at home. They both ended up dealing with teen age pregnancies in their kids (one girl, one boy), became Grandmothers long before they hoped to, and ended up having to raise those babies. Of course this didn't happen at the same time, but the 2nd one sure didn't learn from the example of the first. I remember having discussions with both of them about the subject before this happened. I even said that kids that only learn abstinence are at risk of becoming young parents. I felt strongly about this. After all, we saw it at work all the time. They remained adamant that I was wrong.
@@SaheeliRai That would somewhat be fair enough for a younger adult with no child on the way. But imagine you're about to become a parent very soon and still don't know how, well, human children work.
@@lethfuil we don't know how old he was. Or when this took place. And how is he supposed to learn, if he can't ask? I don't remember being told this kind of information in school
@@SaheeliRai He was old enough to make a baby. And unless it was before the internet, informations are painfully easy to get. You can (and could!) ask a doctor too. Luckily we also learnt that in basic biology in school, but I know sone countries are not that privileged. Overall, I don't think it's too bad to ask that, even in his situation. Don't get me wrong. He DID ask after all, which is important. It's still a little silly nowadays, but it mostly makes for a good laugh. And for a huge worry for the school system.
I'm canadian and a few years ago the government (federal? Provincial? I can't remember) passed a law that made menstrual products tax-free. Up until then, they were taxable because they were considered "luxury products." Any human with a uterus will tell you that it is NOT a luxury item, it is a basic necessity!!! It's not like we can just decide to not have a period this month because we can't afford tampons???? Utterly ridiculous! They're already expensive, even without added tax....
I'm a bit torn here. (And I don't know how Canada handles it, in my country we get different taxes for what's considered a normal, or needed thing to have and what's a luxury. So there's that.) OF COURSE it's not a luxury item! But so isn't food, a certain amount of whatever it is you're heating your place up with, a certain amount of gasoline, toilet paper etc. It's all still taxed (here). So, why is one necessity being tax free and the others aren't doesn't have a good enough explanation to me (don't get me wrong, I think that all those things, at least the basics in a basic amount, should be tax free). I very much love the scottish way however! Not letting one half of the people pay for extra necessities, just because of their genitals, that the other half doesn't have to care about is very cool.
I raised my son to not be one of _those_ guys. So much so, Mr Science was fascinated with tampons. He'd perform experiments with them, including soaking them & putting them in the freezer. Imagine my surprise when I found them in there 😂
PLEASE do more of these! I've been an RN for 26 years, so sometimes I wonder if I unintentionally expect non-medical people to know things that, in my profession, are common knowledge but really aren't common knowledge. But this level of ignorance is unbelievable!!!!!! And we have the internet now 😕
I once explained to a male friend of mine, that the way they calculate pregnancy has only a small amount to do with when ovulation/sex actually happens since the dates they tell you correlate to the last known period. So, they will say that you are five weeks pregnant but in reality you are closer to 3 weeks pregnant since the timeline is calculated using menstruation, not the likely time of actual ovulation/insemination, meaning that you can be "two weeks pregnant" and not have even had sex yet at any given month. And remember, these are the same men saying that 6 weeks is "plenty of time" to make a decision about continuing the pregnancy.... Until you consider that two weeks don't count and you won't likely know or even suspect for another 2-3 weeks.
This had me rolling!!! Fantastic topic.😅😂 When I went into labor with my son, my husband was saying, "Calm down. Why are you carrying on like this. My ex-wife just went in and got it over with." Meanwhile, I was in 17 hours of hard labor and never dilated past 3.5. And ended up having an emergency c-section. About 6 years later, I was talking to his ex, and she told me about how she had scheduled c sections with all 3 of her babies. Omg....talk about being clueless...lmao.😂
Considering the fact that male loneliness epidemic happening, men are committing sui..de as I heard..I don't have to imagine what happens if they turned as a woman..oh shit😆
I'm an elder caregiver and had to explain to my 85 yr old male client who was married for 30 years, 5 children that women don't pee out of their vaginas. He actually fought me on it for days! Subject came up because I had a kidney stone 🤣
I think that's the main one I've come across, that it comes bursting out at all angles from the opening, no honey, I can get a decent stream and even aim if I get the right position 😂
Maybe it's a generation thing as well. I was flabbergasted when, during a discussion with my 50-something mother (born in 1936 and mother of two), it emerged that she was convinced that we women peed through our cl*toris. Even though she was s*xually active all her life, I guess she hadn't been taught the basics.
@@anne-claudec9405 yeah I agree, the first thing mum did was tell me to grab a mirror and have a look, I need to know where I'm putting stuff 😆 and that came from her mum passing her a box of pads/tampons and said 'you'll need these soon' as her education.
"Don't teach sex Ed in schools! That's the parents' job/right/responsibility!!" and then the parents refuse to or don't know themselves, and either give no info or false info. Not to mention the shaming and fear mongering those kinds of parents will push onto their children, instead of providing a safe, neutral, educational space for the children to ask questions.... 😒😒😒😒
Not an American, but I wanna add that I really hope you all vote for whoever isn't the Fascist. It doesn't matter if you think Biden is a potato, always vote even a potato over a fascist. Greetings from Germany.
But they get so uncomfortable talking to their kids about it so they expect the schools to educate them about it. Now those same parents are mad at schools for teaching sex education. 😂
I gave all of the talks to my younger brother, my parents tried with us but with English being a 2nd language for both of them, a lot of things got lost in translation😅 I learnt everything from books, because school was pretty useless as well
@@nicolorange Are you high? More than half the US “doesn’t follow a religion”? The most recent data available from 2022 shows 64% of Americans are Christian. That’s not even including other religions. Just google it. Also, one’s religion shouldn’t affect sex ed, but that’s a whole other discussion.
Please please if you are a parent of a boy, have that talk with him. So many of these describe my husband. He asked me to finish a period so we can go swimming, to poke holes because my milk wasn’t coming, and so on. Let’s just say it’s my ex-husband for many reasons. Especially after he got mad that our preemie daughter came early. He thought I should have held her in. As a mom to a son and a daughter, my kids know this stuff.
In my public high school, i remember a male teacher basically scolded the class about going to the toilet during the 15 min break between class instead of during class, and a girl raising her hand to say "but sir, if my period suddenly comes now and i didn't know it was coming, i still need to go to the toilet" like for real, all teenagers are basically irregular, we're all learning to deal with that. we're not just dumb and unprepared, we're also caught unaware half the time 😂
We have a long way to go with making a monthly cycle not a taboo subject. Half the population experiences this so please normalize the discussion!! Thank you for this video!
i remember one time in high school my friend said she felt blood coming out so she wanted to go sit down... this guy who was with us was genuinely asking "why can't you just hold it until you get to the bathroom?",, even all the other guys in the group started dragging him being like "did you really just ask that" & we had to explain to him that we cant control it, it just comes out... thats what pads & tampons r for lmao
I think it's worse in America because they have so many kids that are home schooled or sent to religious schools where they aren't taught anything (I grew up in America and was religiously home schooled for two years). I've heard stories of young newlyweds going to their doctor worried because they weren't yet pregnant even though they 'lay together' every night. Doctor had to do a biology lesson to two very shocked 19 year olds. I lived in Indiana and we used to get a lot of Rumspringa Amish kids (it's traditional practice for an Amish young adult around 18-19 to take a year away from the Amish lifestyle to determine if that is the life for them) and these kids are clueless, especially the girls. The guys usually knew a bit more because of breeding the farm animals, but the girls knew nothing and a lot got took advantage of and SA'd. That's the other side to not educating your kids, they don't know about consent and boundaries and how to say no, much less how to deal with the aftermath.
The other poster is right that they don't teach it in school either. I taught my daughter in elementary school around second or third grade and thank God I did, her fourth grade teacher was clearly trying to groom both of us and she recognized it first (she had much more interaction with him). I was so thankful that I did. She knew to keep her distance and reported it to me the second she noticed subtle clues, like putting his hand on her shoulder a lot, speaking in a low voice close to her and trying to get her alone for "extra help" even though she was incredibly advanced. It's so sad that we have to teach children about predators but they should absolutely know about their bodies and the threats out there. I hate to hear that about Amish girls but it makes sense that they would be easy targets 😔
No, I went to a secular school and never learnt this. You just figure things out by meeting different types of people and having conversations. The homeschoolers I know definitely know more than most probably because they've all milked goats and delivered calves. 😂
I've been openly discussing the importance of consent and boundaries to both my son and daughter from the moment they could understand basic words alongside the names of each body part and have recently began explaining in more advanced detail encouraging open communication on our amazing bodies; how exactly the male and female body differ (including such fun facts as: every fetus starts out as a female in the womb, and that there are natural biological humans born intersex), puberty changes to expect, masturbation being natural and normal with an emphasis on doing so alone in their own privacy (I don't ever want them to have guilt, confusion or shame about it like so many), ovulation and the menstrual cycle, STD risks, pregnancy, birth control for pregnancy prevention, and the realistic maturity levels needed to properly take on the often mental, emotional and physical responsibility of sex. I may not be doing it right, but I am trying. And that's a lot more than I can say for the parents and schooling of either my generation or today's. I was both homeschooled by my religious mother and went to a private Christian school... zero sex education, just a whole lot of toxic purity culture nonsensical B.S. which is naturally harmful. Fortunately, unlike my childhood peers who were all married and/or pregnant by 18, I ended up attending public high school upon moving in with my dad after my parents' divorce. It was there that I attended a sex ed class for which I am grateful. This was in California, which I believe had a lot to do with it. As of now, only just 13 states can offer sex education classes, but it's my understanding that the parents can opt their child out and other legislative factors including the particular teacher's personal beliefs which unfortunately results in a system producing terribly uneducated citizens. "It's the parents' job!" Okay, in an ideal world, sure. However, due to varying reasons such as religious beliefs, family cultures, and generational ways, this has not and clearly will continue to not happen.
My husband is thankfully really understanding of times when he doesn’t understand female issues. When we were dating early on I was complaining that my period was gonna come due on around my birthday, and he asked me if I could just push it out so it came earlier…. Like it was a stuck poo. 😂😂😂 Bless his heart.
Imagine how many of these guys have been single for years because they think women are lying about having periods for multiple days. What doofuses. 🤦🏿♀️
I had period pains that were so sore I literally fainted…you have no control over what that time of the month is going to do, such as heaviness or flow, pain, tenderness, cramps, moods, crying, etc. And then let me not even start on the entire party of total bodily confusion that will go on for years during peri-menopause!
After 18yrs of being peri it finally happened and it was all over. Yay! until I started having the odd post menopausal bleed during lock down in the UK. Instead of a D&C after the water camera is sent in (due to splash back risks, Doctor couldn't do that) so he inserted an IUD teaming with hormones so guess what I do again. It comes out next year so lets hope I'm all emptied out by then lol
@@hellsbells8689 I am so sorry you have suffered so much with menopausal issues. The Doctor should have worn a mask and eye protection and done the D&C. Covid would not have changed the precautions that protect doctors and nurses from any blood born disease (such as hepatitis and HIV) and experts were very quick to rule out blood as a way Covid was spread.
@@moonprincessRN To be fair, it was at the very first weeks of the lock down. All the staff were in full gear. Masks, hair coverings, boot coverings, visors, gloves. It wasn't until I was in the stirrups that I was told I couldn't have the 'water camera'. He took some samples as I squealed like a pig. I swore too. Then he tells me he's put in an IUD and I shout OH NO!. I had one years ago and became pregnant with it in. I had to have it surgically removed from Uterine Wall when it became embedded. I had a miss with that pregnancy, that's when the IUD was removed. I know they were doing their best at such an up in the air time but I would never have given permission to having an IUD again.
@@hellsbells8689 As a nurse, I fully understand the chaos of that time. I still disagree with that Doctor's treatment of you. I am sure they were very busy, but you still deserved proper treatment. And now to find out that he did it without your permission?! I cannot condone that behavior. I also don't understand why it had to be left in for 4 years, esp. when you didn't want it in the first place. I could, perhaps, understand a stop- gap temporary solution, but waiting 4 years seems wrong. I just feel for you. I hope everything turns out well when the IUD is finally removed.
@@moonprincessRN Thank-you. It has been left in in the hope that it will help me to shed or at least not to produce more lining thickening. It wasn't very thick and smooth, so the Specialist told me but she suggested I have the 'water camera' to investigate further. By the time my appt came round a couple of weeks later, we'd entered the first week of Lock-Down in the UK. I remember wearing a mask for the first time. The Doctor did tell me before I was on the table that he wouldn't be able to do the 'water camera' but he wanted to take samples of something so I let him. But that IUD was in before he told me. 6 weeks later the Specialist called to see how I was doing with it. I told her I never agreed to having it and my fear of its removal but said all has been ok with it in. No major bleeds, just light shedding, which she seemed happy about. She did write on my notes that when the time comes to have it removed that I, the patient, will need to have it removed in a hospital and not a Doctors surgery, just for my peace of mind.
Met my friend for a coffee and she looked like she had seen a ghost. I asked what was wrong and she said "my cousin changed her sons nappy in front of me... And I pointed and asked what are they!?!" She was talking about his 2 veg. She thought the saying of a boys ahems dropping, meant they were up in the body their entire life, and when they drop, they pop out 😂 She discovered this last year... She is 40 this month 😂 😂
Even in Canada Sex Education (depending in province its called Health and/or wellness instead of Sex Ed) is optional...every child is sent home with a form indicating what will be taught and if you consent to your child participating, or you can pick and choose which topics they can be involved in and opt out of others...basic knowledge and understanding starts in Gr 4 and each year thereafter the knowledge expands...I had to have puberty/menstrual convo with my daughter early because I got my period when I was 9 and I was never taught this kind of info at home (strict religious house) I legit thought I was dying and I refuse to have my kids go through that horrifying mess
Humanity is doomed. Even though men should know better, I wasn't terribly surprised about their misconceptions. I cannot get over that an adult woman thought lesbians didn't get periods, though. My word, if that were possible, a whole lot more of us would actively try to switch teams. Thank you, Robert. I think you're right about offering a 3-month intensive course to adults (maybe a bit younger than 28, though).
it is pretty daft, but i can only assume she thought they didn't have it cus they didn't Need it to have kids cus they're gay 💀 that's like thinking gay men don't have sperm cus they don't Need it lol. my god this world tests me everyday....
I need to immediately read posts on that subreddit. 😅 I have had a few instances like this with my husband, but it's always questions. No presumptions of knowing more than me, just curiosity because he wants to know.
Yes! I'm always compassionate when my partner asks because he's had some silly girlfriends that either said stuff because they were too embarrassed or genuinely didn't know themselves. He'd get the left tampons as a joke because we're so open about it haha
My biggest moments have been the numerous times ive had to explain to drs and nurses that I cannot be pregnant because I had to have a total hysterectomy. Ever since I had to have my hysterectomy, my insurance doesn't cover the cost of pregnancy tests, so ive had to pay for them a couple times after ER trips (I have a couple conditions that put me in the ER regularly), so now I refuse to let them run a pregnancy test. I've literally gotten to the point where I say "where are all the possible places a pregnancy can be?" And then they will usually answer "the uterus and fallopian tubes" and sometimes they'll include the cervix. Then I point out to them that I do not own any of those organs, and the dr who removed those organs, is the one who just told you I do not need to be tested. If my insurance covered it, I wouldnt care at all, but since I already have way over $50k in medical debt, I'm not trying to add any unnecessary costs to that🤷♀️
Makes me realise how blessed I was right from the start of our relationship. My husband grew up in a family with 3 girls. He was well versed in 'grabbing the chocolate, the heating pad, the tv remote and a box of tissues'. I knew I landed a keeper. 44 years together. ❤
As a sexual health research student, this was such an interesting video to watch. As funny as it is, this forum also truly demonstrates how vital proper education about bodily anatomy and sex is!!
I have to wonder if a lot of the commenters on the forum are American and have been home schooled. It seems common for them not to want to teach their children about sex, for fear of them wanting to have it. Never mind that some are being forced to have it but don't even know what is being done to them. Knowledge is power!
Something else interesting to note (which also confirms that it is not likely that the forum posters are mostly homeschoolers) is the recent and ongoing push back from parents against teaching sex ed in public schools! This includes refusing to let their children attend health class, there not being a sex ed class at all (or in some places, only conservative Christian curriculum), a teacher who is not qualified (or does not provide proper, inclusive information), and refusals to change outdated curriculum. Here in Canada, there was recently a massive pushback on changes in sex ed in Ontario.
The Left or right tampon!!! 🤣🤣🤣🤣 Seriously...some people!!! My sister's friend once said she didn't want a "boy to pee in her belly button cos she would get pregnant"..she was 15 at the time!!! 😧😧😧xxxx
I laughed at that twice over because generally on the packages I've ever bought L stands for "Light" not "Large" but that may be country dependent. Not for nothing, I wouldn't want a boy to pee in my belly button anyway. LOL
When i was 8 I asked my 11 y.o. brother how babies were made. My Mom had 7 kids by then and I wanted to know. He said that the married couple lies next to each other in bed. They both pee and the pee from both mixes together then goes into the woman. I was disgusted that my parents did that. I don't know whether my brother believed that or was just jerking me around. I suspect the latter.
My high school boyfriend who was 15 at the time thought women peed from their butts.... I mean, I know that 14/15 is when a lot of children are introduced to sex education but I felt that he should have at least had some grasp on the basic information on how people urinate. lol
Evidence that the world's sex ed models are absolutely failing!! 😂 Good on you for addressing this. On the other hand, this cracked me up! Dudes.... DUDES!!? 😂😂😂
My husband is always in awe when I thank him for knowing basic human things that relate to having a uterus. He is thankful people in my life, before him, set the bar so low. 😂😂😂
We literally have the world of information at our fingertips..a whole ass computer in our pockets..and these people still (willfully) have no clue. 🤦♀️
When I was a teenager, the topic of tampons came up in conversation, and I'm not even sure what was said about how many the average woman is likely to go through in a lifetime, but I have such a vivid memory of my male friend going "Well yeah, it's one a month for the rest of your life!" And all the girls being like ONE A MONTH?! My friend, that would be very dangerous. 😂
To be fair, if you used one a month for the first month, you’d probably have gotten toxic shock syndrome, so that would indeed have been it for the rest of your life……you be dead. So technically accurate.
In the 🇺🇸, boys & girls are seperated for sex ed, so I understand some of the confusion. I'm embarrassed to say that I recently released that the boys I was dancing with in my teens didn't all have hard objects like keys or phones in their pockets. I didn't understand how men work at all until I was in college.
In germany we also got separated for Sex ed, at about age 11 or 12, but we learned about both sexes and the possibillity of intersexuals. The separation was to prevent beeing too embarassed to ask questions. In elementary school we all just had a very basic education where we didn't get separated. I went to a catholic elementary school, praying every morning at school and so on and we still learned this.
This is what happens when the educational system in the late 90s/early 00s asked boys to leave the room when we were taught about menstruation. What was that about?!! I’m 36 it wasn’t even that long ago!? Google is your friend, lads!
Oh god, PLEASE do another round of this!! 😂😂😂 I ALSO had to educate one of my daughters’ male TEACHERS when she was in HS, that you can’t just hold it in until you go to the bathroom!! HOW is this rumor being spread?? This teacher was somewhere between his 50-60s!! It just baffles me that it is apparently so very common!
They don’t Google it because they are confident that they know everything about it 😭😭😭 You don’t Google things that you already have all the answers for 😮💨
My aunt was dating a guy when i was pregnant with my first born. This guy claimed he was in med school. He was absolutely LOST when the subject of my baby bump came up. He had absolutely no clue how a woman got pregnant nor what a period was. So me, at 20yrs old had to educate this 40 something man "in med school" how I got pregnant and how a period worked. My aunt dumped him a few days later lol
The ignorance of some people is astounding! I have a 10-year-old son and we talk about periods and reproduction regularly so he doesn't turn into one of these people LOL Where were their mothers?!
Exactly! We have 2 boys and a girl in the middle - young adults now, but my daughter and I discussed our periods openly their entire lives and NORMALIZED it. Because it’s NORMAL. Same kind of talks about sex. Start early and age appropriate and by the time they’re teens they’ll feel perfectly comfortable asking questions (or googling it). My children taught SO MANY of their friends about human anatomy and sex growing up.
That was fun watching you lose it in the most gentle way. I was doing other stuff and had to actually stop and look cause I could just hear the laughter bubbling up in you. It was great. 😊
I've seen the "why don't you hold it in until you go to the toilet?" quite a few times. I'll never get over how dense some people are. Why aren't mothers teaching ALL their children about periods. I know I did. I just called it my poorly tummy and warned them I would be more snappy at that time because it was true and I wasn't going to be in the mood for any shit. My sons were darlings but I knew I wouldn't be as kind to everyone when I was almost doubled over in pain but still having to do "life". My sister came to stay with me when my eldest was about 3y/o. For some reason he thought tampons were called "pounds" and he would offer to get her a pound every time she went to the loo. lol I need to remind him how cute he was.
An ex once tried to make me feel like they're was something wrong with me because I couldn't block my nose and then blow to expell my entire period out of me in the shower. Like he didn't just insist that's how it works, he went the extra step to try and make me feel like I was broken.
I went to a 2 different Christian private schools for a couple years (though I was mainly in US public schools) and there was not sex-ed classes. Also in public schools parents can opt them out of those lessons, so many people truly grow up uneducated about these things! 😅 I’ve even known many women who have no idea what is going on with their own bodies which is so dangerous!
9:21 - Don’t you know, our insides are crazy straws. 🤣 This is just a testament to how bad the education system is (at least in the US). I am actively unlearning alllll the wrong info I was taught in school and learning things I wasn’t taught but should have been. It’s not as bad as others since my parents did correct things where they could.
i literally knew a guy in college(like seriously this is not a joke-like it has to be though? maybe he was effing with us but i really don't think he was. like he was dead ass serious) who thought babies were birthed out of a womans butt...like for real my jaw actually hit the floor when he told me this. it would not make sense for him to make this kind of weird joke because he just isn't like that so that's why i really think he believed this...
Sex Ed doesn’t happen until 9th grade in some places and even then the parents are asked if the child is allowed to attend. Some places don’t have it at all. Not shocked that some people are clueless
On a long road trip and needing a pee, my male friend handed me an empty bottle. I said it was more difficult than that. He said "Can't you just screw it in and go" whilst making a lightbulb removal motion with his hands 😆
