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When my girlfriend is on her period, I am available for foot rubs, back rubs, and whatever else she wants. It sucks that girls have to deal with periods, and since I can’t empathize all that well, I try to make myself available to help make those few days better in any way that I can. Well apparently not all dudes are the same, because some guys are tracking their colleagues periods so they can avoid interacting with women altogether.
Basically, these men are tracking female colleagues’ periods on a calendar so they can avoid “moody” coworkers when they are PMSing. I might be able to understand keeping up with your girlfriend’s cycle, but tracking the cycles of all your coworkers? Yeah, that’s a little too far.
As is typical with our generation, the guys are too lazy to do it on their own, so they have created multiple apps to track periods. No joke. Thankfully many of these apps, like PMS Buddy, uPMS, and IAmAMan have been shut down.
Not everyone is creeped out, though. Some women are totally cool with it.
One woman anonymously commented on her male colleagues at work tracking her period.
“They want to stay away from me when I’m PMSing because I get a bit moody.”
She went on to say that one of her male colleagues gave a pretty simple explanation for why he uses this information, saying it’s a “good strategy to track her period cycle in order to avoid unnecessary situations.” Hot take, dude.
I am a little curious as to how this whole thing started. How did so many men figure out when women were on their period? Are they looking for tampon applicators in the trash in the women’s bathroom? Are they eavesdropping on gossip? Are they going up to coworkers like “Sup Barbara, you on your period?” I really have no explanation for a semi-normal way to find this out. Overall, it just seems a little creepy to me.
What do you think about this? Ladies? Fellas? Let us know in the comments.
[via Elite Daily]
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Times I safely assume a woman is on her period: a 24 hour window around her telling me she’s on her period.
You know what I don’t want to do at work? Give myself more work as I pry into the personal lives of my coworkers.
I’m definitely the minority here, but living on the boat together I know they all sync up like an iPhone the second week of the month and we go to “Code Red”
This just seems like a lot of unnecessary meddling…I have no idea how a guy would figure out a female coworkers cycle, first of all, and secondly, I know for at least me personally I’ve pretty much got the same resting bitch face any day of the week at work. So regardless of whether I’m pmsing or not, my coworkers won’t notice me acting unusually moody in most cases. If anything I’m less talkative because I’m trying to avoid interacting with people.
This is more than meddling – it’s a weird fucking thing to even think about, let alone try to keep track of. Source: World’ most regular / average dude.
I don’t see this working too well in an office that has a 5:1 women/ratio. Do you just not show up to work during their cycles or what?
Never had a boyfriend track mine, but I would tell them when I was PMSing as a warning, helped to avoid a lot of pointless fights. I will never want a coworker to know my cycle though.
That……….is weird.
This would be glorious and the most selfless thing ever; if they tracked my period and knew to stay away from me and not say stupid shit…its a win for everyone. They’d know to steer clear and I’d have less murderous thoughts.
What the actual fuck.
Not weird – especially when you work in an open office layout with a female manager who is like Dr. Jekyll turned into Mr. Hyde the first week of the month. Just helps you remember to keep your head down and say as little as possible.
Definitely weird.