Apologies about the extraordinary amount of gagging this is about to put everyone through, but we just have to share.
A clueless dude recently shared a harrowing story with the Reddit community that proves guys need to get more woke about feminine hygiene products.
The user KarateJames posted in the “Today I Fucked Up” subreddit (very appropriately named) about how he managed to mistake his wife’s menstrual cup as a drinking glass. [Insert vomit emoji, here.]
I found out today about something I’ve been doing for a couple of weeks.
My wife and I have a toddler and so our bathtub is always full of toys, including non-bath toys our son insists on bringing in anyway. If anyone has kids, you know they come with all kinds of nonsense looking pieces. Some of these pieces my wife puts up in the hanging basket, out of reach of our son, if it’s not supposed to get wet or it’s an important piece to a toy or something.
I brush my teeth in the shower every morning. And after my wife had taken out the cup I use to rinse my mouth out, I picked up the closest thing to a cup that was in the hanging basket. Figured it was one of these weird pieces to a toy. It worked fine to get a mouthful of water for rinsing after I brush.
Cut to today in the car. My wife is talking about lady stuff and mentions her menstrual cup in the shower. After a moment of spinning into the depths of hell, I asked her to please, for the love of gods, tell me it’s not that rubber cup thing in the basket.
It was. And I’ll never be clean.
Reddit was pretty appalled by the anecdote, but several people assured the OP that menstrual cups are cleaned very thoroughly after use, so it shouldn’t be any more unsanitary than a normal cup.
We’re guessing this has never happened with a tampon before..!
