Post by kevin on Sept 16, 2016 15:33:28 GMT -5
www.telegraph.co.uk/women/life/this-woman-discovered-her-male-colleagues-were-keeping-track-of/
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A woman in Australia discovered her male colleagues were tracking her period so they could avoid her when she was moody and "stay away from trouble".
Writing in the Herald Sun, the woman's friend relays the conversation in which her friend found out that her male colleagues were keeping track of her menstrual cycle using calendar alerts.
She writes: "She found out her male colleagues were keeping track of her 'time of the month' after she had a small argument with one of them, who had asked her if she was on her period.
"'I was shocked and said, ‘Yes. How do you know?' she explained to me.
"It turns out he had been tracking her cycle on his work calendar, sending himself reminders of when her period was about to come up. Making the whole thing worse, he’d sent the calendar to all their male colleagues so they could all keep track of her and their other female friends’ cycles."
The male colleague justified his actions by saying it was a "good strategy to track her period cycle in order to avoid unnecessary situations". He added: "I’m just trying to stay away from trouble."
The piece explains how the disturbing routine began after a conversation in which the man in question declared that the woman "talked back", which was apparently why she was still single.
The writer, Elizabeth Daoud, explains: "Clearly upset by what he’d said, she began to cry. After apologising, he said he wished she had warned him earlier that she was on her period as it would’ve 'saved [him] from apologising so much!'
"He’s got a nickname for a period: 'C63', named 'after the Mercedez Benz C63 that moves 0km to 100km in under four seconds ... that’s how fast her mood will change'."
Daoud, understandably incensed by this behaviour, has since found several apps which allow men to track women's periods. One such app, called uPMS, apparently markets itself as: "an application for all guys out there suffering the monthly Psychotic Mood Shifts from their better halves."
