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Swimming + Menstruation = WTF?
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HarvestLife
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Swimming + Menstruation = WTF?
So in gym class we've recently begun swimming. I've managed to find a swimsuit that fits and doesn't have lots of padding shoved in my face. But my teacher called all the girls over and said that we can only miss one day of our periods, so we should use that day on our heavy flow days. I have never swum with my period because I don't want to bleed in the pool even if it stops in the water, it'll all rush out when I get out.
Stupid gym teacher. AND my gym teacher's a FEMALE!
(This post was last modified: 04-04-2013 09:02 AM by HarvestLife.)
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Swimming + Menstruation (Sorry for the guys!)
That sucks...maybe you could fake a stomachache and sit in the nurse's office the whole period or something? Or just skip the class altogether?
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RE: Swimming + Menstruation (Sorry for the guys!)
Ask her if she minds having a red tinted pool.
Maybe your teacher needs to learn her bodily functions...
Cant you get your parents involved or something. Or maybe you just say all your times are of he heavy flowing kind.
(Why are you apologizing to the men. Are you implying we are not mature enough to handle a common and naturally occuring function of the female body and expect us to cover our ears like adolescent children and scream "ew" while running away. I for one am not pleased with your lack of faith. *thered be a darth vader image with the quote here but i cant be bothered in attempting to do so while posting via mobile phone. Its hard enough to type*)
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Omfg your school has a pool? Dang you must be rich, I live in the ghetto town with moldy, falling apart schools. Anyways, you could fake a sickness to your school nurse, or just hang around in the bathroom the whole class. If that's impossible, use tampons, or just do what I do, whine and go to the doctor, to get 'the pill'. Now I barely even have a period, that would definitely help you out. How long is your swimming unit?
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RE: Swimming + Menstruation (Sorry for the guys!)
(04-04-2013 08:26 AM)brainiac3397 Wrote: (Why are you apologizing to the men. Are you implying we are not mature enough to handle a common and naturally occuring function of the female body and expect us to cover our ears like adolescent children and scream "ew" while running away. I for one am not pleased with your lack of faith. *thered be a darth vader image with the quote here but i cant be bothered in attempting to do so while posting via mobile phone. Its hard enough to type*)
Yes, I am. I have never met a man (my age at least) who could handle any mention of the word period. I apologize for offending you! And I don't even know how to use a mobile so I suppose I should have given the people of SS the benefit of the doubt.
She also said that there was one girl who DID bleed in the pool and that someone had to clean out the pool and the pool deck. Yet she's still telling us to swim with our periods. And she didn't tell us how the girl felt about this. Which kind of bothered me. I think she's missing a soul.
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Swimming + Menstruation = WTF?
I've been in the pool on my period. A tampon will stop it up just fine unless it's a really heavy-flow day. Use super absorbency tampons if you have to.
Menstrual cups will also work if you have one.
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RE: Swimming + Menstruation = WTF?
Tampons are lovely things.
Never use a pad. Pads are the devil.
I'm a girl ffffeck
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Swimming + Menstruation = WTF?
Penis 4 lyfe no menstruation. Male privilege rocks.
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RE: Swimming + Menstruation = WTF?
(04-05-2013 05:39 AM)Wes Wrote: Penis 4 lyfe no menstruation. Male privilege rocks.
We have to search and meet and go out and really try to find a girl to fuck us.
If a girl were to stand on a podium in front of a thousand men and ask if anyone would want to have sex, there'd probably be at least one guy who raises his hand and says, "Uhh, yeah sure I'll fuck you!" No effort.
Male privilege for sure.
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RE: Swimming + Menstruation = WTF?
(04-05-2013 12:14 PM)Dirtbikemike Wrote: (04-05-2013 05:39 AM)Wes Wrote: Penis 4 lyfe no menstruation. Male privilege rocks.
We have to search and meet and go out and really try to find a girl to fuck us.
If a girl were to stand on a podium in front of a thousand men and ask if anyone would want to have sex, there'd probably be at least one guy who raises his hand and says, "Uhh, yeah sure I'll fuck you!" No effort.
Male privilege for sure.
Assuming she's not ass ugly.
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RE: Swimming + Menstruation = WTF?
(04-05-2013 12:25 PM)Wes Wrote: (04-05-2013 12:14 PM)Dirtbikemike Wrote: (04-05-2013 05:39 AM)Wes Wrote: Penis 4 lyfe no menstruation. Male privilege rocks.
We have to search and meet and go out and really try to find a girl to fuck us.
If a girl were to stand on a podium in front of a thousand men and ask if anyone would want to have sex, there'd probably be at least one guy who raises his hand and says, "Uhh, yeah sure I'll fuck you!" No effort.
Male privilege for sure.
Assuming she's not ass ugly.
Oh, there are some desperate and lonely guys out there. I doubt that matters much.
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(05-14-2013 03:01 PM)Prince Darkstar Wrote: Dirtbikemike is the only guy I know of on here who won an argument with a teacher.
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RE: Swimming + Menstruation = WTF?
(04-05-2013 12:27 PM)Dirtbikemike Wrote: (04-05-2013 12:25 PM)Wes Wrote: (04-05-2013 12:14 PM)Dirtbikemike Wrote: (04-05-2013 05:39 AM)Wes Wrote: Penis 4 lyfe no menstruation. Male privilege rocks.
We have to search and meet and go out and really try to find a girl to fuck us.
If a girl were to stand on a podium in front of a thousand men and ask if anyone would want to have sex, there'd probably be at least one guy who raises his hand and says, "Uhh, yeah sure I'll fuck you!" No effort.
Male privilege for sure.
Assuming she's not ass ugly.
Oh, there are some desperate and lonely guys out there. I doubt that matters much.
I should know, I'm one.
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(04-05-2013 12:28 PM)Wes Wrote: (04-05-2013 12:27 PM)Dirtbikemike Wrote: (04-05-2013 12:25 PM)Wes Wrote: (04-05-2013 12:14 PM)Dirtbikemike Wrote: (04-05-2013 05:39 AM)Wes Wrote: Penis 4 lyfe no menstruation. Male privilege rocks.
We have to search and meet and go out and really try to find a girl to fuck us.
If a girl were to stand on a podium in front of a thousand men and ask if anyone would want to have sex, there'd probably be at least one guy who raises his hand and says, "Uhh, yeah sure I'll fuck you!" No effort.
Male privilege for sure.
Assuming she's not ass ugly.
Oh, there are some desperate and lonely guys out there. I doubt that matters much.
I should know, I'm one.
Oh I never said that. I said there are some guys like that.
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(05-14-2013 03:01 PM)Prince Darkstar Wrote: Dirtbikemike is the only guy I know of on here who won an argument with a teacher.
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RE: Swimming + Menstruation = WTF?
If you're uncomfortable with it, for any reason, that's your personal business and perogative. A lot of women like to use pads not tampons. No one has a right to tell someone else how to maintain their own vagina. Get a doctor's note. Any family practitioner will write one. Just tell the doctor it makes you uncomfortable.
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Swimming + Menstruation = WTF?
Just like a man shouldn't have to wear a condom because it makes them uncomfortable.
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Swimming + Menstruation = WTF?
So many centuries and all this technology and we still haven't made the perfect condom.
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Swimming + Menstruation = WTF?
Also sex is voluntary but the pool isn't. Therefore, the pool is raping the OP.
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