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Boyfriend Storms Off After Girlfriend Calls Out His Fragile Masculinity For Refusing To Buy Her Pads

Boyfriend Storms Off After Girlfriend Calls Out His Fragile Masculinity For Refusing To Buy Her Pads

Woman Tells Her Boyfriend His Masculinity Is Fragile After He Refuses To Buy Her Pads“He Didn't Want The Cashier To See Him Buying Pads”: Woman Calls Out Her Boyfriend For His Fragile Masculinity, Her Post Goes ViralWoman Shames Her Boyfriend For Refusing To Buy Her Pads And Calls His Masculinity FragileBoyfriend Storms Off After Girlfriend Calls Out His Fragile Masculinity For Refusing To Buy Her PadsWoman Calls Out Her Boyfriend Who Was Ashamed To Buy Her Pads, And It's An Illustration Of Toxic MasculinityWoman Calls Out Her Boyfriend Who Was Ashamed To Buy Her PadsMan Refuses To Buy Pads For His Girlfriend Because He Didn't Want The Cashier To See Him Buying ThemWoman Calls Out Toxic Masculinity In Action After Her BF Refused To Buy Her PadsWoman Asks If She Was Right To Get Mad At Her Boyfriend Who Refused To Buy Her Pads And Said To Just 'Hold It In'
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For the privileged part of the world, buying menstrual pads is like buying chewing gum. You don’t think twice about it, and why would you? But even here, where sanitary pads are not considered a luxury, unlike it is in many not-so-fortunate countries, some people find themselves having ambivalent feelings about buying them in public.

In fact, this is what happened to a 23-year-old woman whose boyfriend refused to buy her pads at a store because “he didn’t want the cashier to see him buying pads.” The girlfriend, who found it ridiculous and couldn’t stop laughing at that point, shared the incident on Reddit in detail, where it amassed 31.2k upvotes.

Turns out, the guy was not joking and as you can imagine, the incident escalated. It all ended with the author calling him out for fragile masculinity, and asking people online if she was right to do so. Share your thoughts in the comment section below!

After a woman got her period all of a sudden, she asked her boyfriend to buy her pads but he refused, sparking an argument between the two

Image credits: My Dream Collection (not the actual photo)

So she told her boyfriend that his masculinity was fragile and shared the whole incident on Reddit to ask people whether she was too harsh or not

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And this is what people had to say about it

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Justinas Keturka

Justinas Keturka

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I'm the Visual Editor at Bored Panda, responsible for ensuring that everything our audience sees is top-notch and well-researched. What I love most about my job? Discovering new things about the world and immersing myself in exceptional photography and art.

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Justinas Keturka

Justinas Keturka

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I'm the Visual Editor at Bored Panda, responsible for ensuring that everything our audience sees is top-notch and well-researched. What I love most about my job? Discovering new things about the world and immersing myself in exceptional photography and art.

Liucija Adomaite

Liucija Adomaite

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Liucija Adomaite is a creative mind with years of experience in copywriting. She has a dynamic set of experiences from advertising, academia, and journalism. This time, she has set out on a journey to investigate the ways in which we communicate ideas on a large scale. Her current mission is to find a magic formula for how to make ideas, news, and other such things spread like a virus.

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Liucija Adomaite

Liucija Adomaite

Writer, Community member

Liucija Adomaite is a creative mind with years of experience in copywriting. She has a dynamic set of experiences from advertising, academia, and journalism. This time, she has set out on a journey to investigate the ways in which we communicate ideas on a large scale. Her current mission is to find a magic formula for how to make ideas, news, and other such things spread like a virus.

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Trillian
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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Wow that escalated. She dodged a bullet there. WTF is wrong with these guys? My teenage son would buy that stuff for me. Not without complaints, but then he does nothing without complaining first.

fuggnuggins
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3 years ago

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He might be a c**t. It's -impossible- to tell. What's not impossible to tell is that she definitely is a c**t. She's shown us as much. But as for him, we only have this demonstrated c**t's word to go on. I reckon I know what kind of person would unquestionably sympathise and side with an absolute and undeniable c**t...

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Martha Meyer
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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Good grief, why are there so many men who think you can "hold in" the blood from a bleeding wound! That doesn't make any sense. I feel sorry for her for finding out he was such an uncaring guy this late in their relationship. The comments about birth make me afraid for any woman who might ever have kids with this guy.

Jade Lynn - Panda's Brat
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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

@Maria - sometimes life gets so busy you forget to stock up on things. Have you ever been cooking and realized you ran out of an ingredient? Your partner should be willing to help you out with things, and not expect someone to hold a period in! That would be somewhat like her telling him if he was having the runs really badly "just hold it in and go get your own pepto and toilet paper" or "you should have known this would happen at this moment and been prepared for it!" Periods don't happen like clockwork for every woman out there.

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Jihan Kim
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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I had no problem buying it for my ex. The only issue being a overwhelmingly wide range of products!

Anna Banana
Community Member
3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

You're not alone! I once spent 10 minutes looking for panty liners that didn't have some obnoxious scent, and I still made a mistake because I didn't notice the fine print... (I ordered a bunch of washable ones that day so it's actually all good)

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Trillian
Community Member
3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Wow that escalated. She dodged a bullet there. WTF is wrong with these guys? My teenage son would buy that stuff for me. Not without complaints, but then he does nothing without complaining first.

fuggnuggins
Community Member
3 years ago

This comment is hidden. Click here to view.

He might be a c**t. It's -impossible- to tell. What's not impossible to tell is that she definitely is a c**t. She's shown us as much. But as for him, we only have this demonstrated c**t's word to go on. I reckon I know what kind of person would unquestionably sympathise and side with an absolute and undeniable c**t...

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Martha Meyer
Community Member
3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Good grief, why are there so many men who think you can "hold in" the blood from a bleeding wound! That doesn't make any sense. I feel sorry for her for finding out he was such an uncaring guy this late in their relationship. The comments about birth make me afraid for any woman who might ever have kids with this guy.

Jade Lynn - Panda's Brat
Community Member
3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

@Maria - sometimes life gets so busy you forget to stock up on things. Have you ever been cooking and realized you ran out of an ingredient? Your partner should be willing to help you out with things, and not expect someone to hold a period in! That would be somewhat like her telling him if he was having the runs really badly "just hold it in and go get your own pepto and toilet paper" or "you should have known this would happen at this moment and been prepared for it!" Periods don't happen like clockwork for every woman out there.

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Jihan Kim
Community Member
3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I had no problem buying it for my ex. The only issue being a overwhelmingly wide range of products!

Anna Banana
Community Member
3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

You're not alone! I once spent 10 minutes looking for panty liners that didn't have some obnoxious scent, and I still made a mistake because I didn't notice the fine print... (I ordered a bunch of washable ones that day so it's actually all good)

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