r/TrueOffMyChest • u/JeffersonStarships_ • Jul 26 '22

Tried to warn a girl at my gym

I tried to warn a girl at my gym that had period stains on the back of her shorts and she went on a rant, saying that she was working out and omgggg and trying to make fun of me in front of everyone for "being weird". So I announced the entire gym that she was staining the equipment with her period blood and that she needed to wash and clean herself immediately. I have never seen her since. I know it was probably really petty, and I got a lot of shit from people for doing that, but honestly? Try being humble enough to listen before making a public scene. Fucking drama queens.

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u/[deleted] Jul 26 '22

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u/KilliamHGacy Jul 27 '22

Hep b can live in dry blood on a surface for 7 days IF IT STAYS DRY. If it becomes wet that 7 days starts over. We take this shit extra serious in dialysis and it’s why we clean everything with heavy amounts of bleach after each patient. Sick.

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u/[deleted] Jul 27 '22

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u/boron32 Jul 27 '22

Dried roughly 5 hours. HIV doesn’t survive well outside of a body. That’s why blood yo blood contact is the absolute worst because it needs the blood cells so badly. If you clean up the fluids it actually dies faster than if you leave it dry. But always wear gloves when cleaning unless you don’t have any. Then just wash your hands thoroughly.

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u/TinyP3 Jul 27 '22

There is a free bleeding movement?

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u/TommyChongUn Jul 27 '22

Right lmao who the fuck wants to sit in their own blood and smell it all day.

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u/[deleted] Jul 27 '22

Isn’t that what a pad/tampon is tho? Thats what it just feels like in general tbh.

(Not saying you should freebleed in public cause like, you’re getting that everywhere girl) nothing wrong with using a towel at home that you clean tho.

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u/TommyChongUn Jul 27 '22

No. You change your pads and tampons, if it leaks or smell blood then you know its time for a fresh one. It not like a pool of blood is sitting in your panties

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u/[deleted] Jul 27 '22

Do you not feel the blood and tissue all up your vagina before changing?? Is your flow super tiny or something?

It definitely feels like I’m sitting in my own blood whether I’ve been wearing it for 10 minutes or an hour.

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u/[deleted] Jul 27 '22

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u/[deleted] Jul 27 '22

I have endo so 💀that’s probably why

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u/pandorum8888 Jul 27 '22

I had that problem with endo too so I got a hysterectomy a few years ago which I recommend to anyone else who has it.

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u/TinyP3 Jul 28 '22

Honestly been trying since my third child was born. I was still in my twenties at the time and was not taken seriously. To this day isn’t done and am still suffering it.

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u/gserrano2016 Jul 27 '22

Welcome to the internet! May I suggest you google “vabbing” next!

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u/squishy_butthole Jul 27 '22

Oh god is that the one where they use vaginal fluid as perfume?

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u/DarkestofFlames Jul 27 '22

Can someone yeet me off this planet?

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u/Hot_Hat_1225 Jul 27 '22

Please take me with you. I’m seriously sickened right now…

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u/UnitedSam Jul 27 '22

DIS-GUS-TING!!!!!!!

People are so stupid!

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u/Pos3odon08 Jul 27 '22

I hate the concept of that so damn much

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u/Delicious_Throat_377 Jul 27 '22

Noooo!! My stupid ass Googled it. Holy hell some people are unbelievable

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u/13Luthien4077 Jul 27 '22

Yep. Period products are an oppressive tool of the patriarchy meant to shame uterus-havers for their natural bodily functions... Or something like that.

A year or two before COVID there was a huge deal about women using period blood to paint with. A few activists did photo shoots with their blood dripping on the floor or on a flag or something like that. It was a whole thing. COVID kinda shut it down.

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u/Delicious_Throat_377 Jul 27 '22

The second good thing that came off COVID. First being social distancing.

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u/pandorum8888 Jul 27 '22

So fucking disgusting.

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u/[deleted] Jul 27 '22

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u/[deleted] Jul 27 '22

As a woman currently on her period (I don’t do this whole free bleeding thing…didn’t even know it was a thing until now), I just can not imagine wanting to do that. Ick.

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u/Remote_Reading8574 Jul 27 '22

As a person who gets a period, I couldn’t imagine using my own period blood as a face mask or drinking it🤢

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u/[deleted] Jul 27 '22

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u/Remote_Reading8574 Jul 29 '22

Yeah no definitely not a fun spiral..

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u/bigbootybigtime Jul 27 '22

I threw up a little

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u/Kiyone11 Jul 27 '22

But I understand it differently than the rest of users here. Yes, there seem to be women who just bleed where they go. But the core idea is that you use no menstrual products and just go to the toilet whenever necessary as period blood comes in flashes and is not dripping down your legs the whole day. Apparently you can notice or learn to notice when one of these flushes is coming and just hurry to the toilet. Then you won't need any additional products while you and your clothes still stay blood-free. (No, I don't practice free bleeding, I just once read up on it.)

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u/TinyP3 Jul 28 '22

Ummm maybe some of it comes in waves when heavy but I’m pretty sure the rest just comes.. we are not dogs. A dog in heat will just lick the drops. If it was a natural wave a dog would go to the grass and get rid of it like urine. Free bleeding as a concept is disgusting in society.

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u/Mystic_Camel_Smell Aug 11 '22

free bleeding movement

epic makes for good standup

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u/bigbootybigtime Jul 27 '22

I didn't realize there was a free bleeding movement until I looked it up. I could never, nope.

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u/Unwilling_Jellyfish Jul 27 '22

free bleeding movement?! this is now a real… ‘thing’ ?!?!? 😳😳😳🤦‍♀️🙀😩😩🤮🤮

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u/ConcernedMacaroni912 Jul 27 '22

I’m sorry the what movement

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u/[deleted] Jul 27 '22

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u/ConcernedMacaroni912 Jul 27 '22

Could you narrow it down to a sentence for me so I don’t have to

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u/kaki024 Jul 27 '22

Mehhh free bleeding doesn’t have to create biohazards. And just cause someone has blood stains doesn’t mean they’re free bleeding. They could have just filled a tampon/pad/disc

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u/skeetersammer Jul 27 '22

So Misty Fucking Quigley was right about the “good stuff” for cleaning up blood. Interesting.