[ SECRET POST #2518 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2518 ⌋

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Comments

[diet_poison]

wow seriously?

I only use pads, never used a tampon, and I've never caught shit for it

(though granted, in middle and high school I rarely talked about periods to anyone...I was very much the opposite of the way I am now with TMI stuff)

[(Anonymous)]

(Different anon) I once got told off by a PE teacher in high school for using pads instead of tampons when I brought a note excusing me from swimming. It was a guy PE teacher, too. I don't remember his exact words, but I distinctly remember feeling a lot of shame for being super uncomfortable with the idea of tampons.

(Full disclosure: it wasn't directed at me specifically, but at our whole class, because a suspiciously large number of girls had notes excusing them from swimming that day. I get that girls overplaying the period card would be a huge frustration for PE teachers, but that doesn't make what he said okay. I was really ashamed of myself for not being able to use tampons for years after his little speech.)

[diet_poison]

That is horrible. Ugh.

I mean I get that he had no perspective for realizing that wasn't okay, but it doesn't take that much thought to realize that teenage girls are REALLY self-conscious about their periods...

When I was on high school we had a separate section for swimming and we'd rotate in and out. The only two teachers who taught swimming were female. The first time I took gym I changed my rotation to avoid having to swim on my period since it was summer school and each rotation was only 3 weeks. The second time it was this lady who was really quite awesome; even though I hated gym, she was probably one of my favorite teachers there. Super sweet, nice, and understanding lady. She talked to the girls separately and told us that she encouraged us to wear tampons, but if we were really not comfortable with that, she wasn't going to penalize us for staying out of the pool for those days. Which is what I did and she was totally fine with it. I just walked laps around the edge of the room for my "exercise".

[(Anonymous)]

There was a female PE teacher standing right next to him while he said all this. The one bit I very clearly remember from his speech was that he handwaved his "I'm a guy and therefore don't have any perspective on this" position by saying "DON'T THINK I DON'T KNOW WHAT I'M TALKING ABOUT HERE, I HAVE A WIFE, AND I USED TO WORK AT A GIRL'S BOARDING SCHOOL." -_-

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There was a female PE teacher standing right next to him while he said all this. The one bit I very clearly remember from his speech was that he handwaved his "I'm a guy and therefore don't have any perspective on this" position by saying "DON'T THINK I DON'T KNOW WHAT I'M TALKING ABOUT HERE, I HAVE A WIFE, AND I USED TO WORK AT A GIRL'S BOARDING SCHOOL." -_-

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I was thinking about it a lot after I wrote that comment and some more little bits came back to me, including a statement about the only valid reason for not using tampons was if you had some sort of medical condition that made it impossible. I thiiiiink he insisted upon bringing in a doctor's note if you were going to cite your period as your reason for not swimming? Sooooooo much rage.

That's really good she was like that! <3 My female PE teachers weren't as bad as this guy, but they definitely weren't amazing.

[diet_poison]

Yeah she was about the only thing I liked about gym. Most of the teachers weren't horrible, but the class as a whole was...but swimming was kind of fun, even if it was a pain to get ready to go after class lol

[(Anonymous)]

Nooooo, I can't fix my borked html while anon!!! Dangit, I really wanted that gif in there.

[diet_poison]

Don't worry about it! It's a fitting gif.