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par3
07/01/09

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wazzam he'd really flip out if they were in europe where non-applicator tampons are more common- then he'd REALLY freak.
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cirocco
06/30/09

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How can someone with that great a fear of contamination have a tattoo? Having ink driven under your skin with a needle (that's also been used to drive ink under others' skin!) is far riskier than touching a hand towel that a woman dried her hands on after changing a tampon. There's definitely some gynophobia at play here.
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OneTwoPunch
06/30/09

@cirocco: Hepatitis anyone? Obv. this guy hasn't looked at the book "Gay Stereotypes and Clichés: How Not to be One." A fear of women and their "gross" parts just speaks to homophobia. IS it a mother issue with this guy or what? Possibly sex abuse? What can turn a man off to a woman and her body so much that he's reduced to this. And having to do this sort of revulsion therapy. Ew!
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Yurpdod
07/01/09

@OneTwoPunch: In his defense, he never once mentions any kind of revulsion or fear of vaginas in this episode. The topic doesn't even come up until the therapist announces that she's on her period and is going to need to dispose of her tampon in his sterile, immaculately clean house.

Good job boiling him down to a stereotype and trying to blame it all on some underlying misogyny though.
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cirocco
07/01/09

@Yurpdod: I didn't say misogyny, I said gynophobia. They're not the same thing.

Thanks for the compliments on my good job!
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paloma loves a wild rumpus
06/30/09

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this is a repeat right? i definitely saw this guy on the first episode...and I thought jezebel had discussed it and his relationship with his long-suffering partner...maybe not though.
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saintbernadette
06/30/09

@paloma loves a wild rumpus: Yeah, this is a repeat. New episode next week.
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Pizza!Pizza!Pizza!
06/30/09

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Don't they do this sort of thing in Gitmo?
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saintbernadette
06/30/09

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A friend's son is undergoing exposure therapy for compulsive hand-washing, especially after using the bathroom.

The therapist apparently had the kid use the bathroom at the office, not wash his hands, and then shake hands with every employee in the office.

I'm not OCD, but that grossed me out.
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Kaehoku
06/30/09

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I was watching something recently (maybe 20/20 or something), where they had an OCD camp, and exposed people to all their fears. They made them do the grossest stuff, like go to dumpsters in the city, open the lid, wipe their hands on the inside of the lid, and then lick them. Apparently it's a real breakthrough therapy. Yet watching, I thought, "hmm I must have OCD, and I must have it bad, because I would never do that".
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Hana Maru, used up old slutbag on the pole
06/30/09

@Kaehoku: WTF! So, people who are scared of things that are normal and not harmful are made to do things that are genuinely not safe?
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lilchica
06/30/09

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OMG this is my teen years, I am the only one in my household that get the periods. My dad freaks out if he see's blood or even the pads wrapping paper. So I go out of my way to hide the fact that I am on my period and the pads.
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Hana Maru, used up old slutbag on the pole
06/30/09

@lilchica: A lot of men are so weird about period blood, yet they get excited about action and horror movies with fountains of blood.
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HuckleberryFriend
06/30/09

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For some reasons tampons really don't bother me. I refuse to flush public toilets with my hands but I'm pretty ok with vaginal secretions. I blame feminism.
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rocknrollunicorn
06/30/09

@HuckleberryFriend: Thank god. Sometimes I think I'm the world's dirtiest girl, but then I'm like, well this is super-convenient for me. Not being afraid of bodily secretions and all.

I have to say, in a pinch, I'd take another ladies' used tampon for her and dispose of it with little to no revulsion. I'm not sure what this "pinch" would be. Possibly it involves the wilderness and a shark attack. Everyone can feel free to judge this.
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AmericanSplendor
06/30/09

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Let's establish this for the rest of the commenting:

SHE DIDN'T RUB THE WASHCLOTH ON HER NEENER, SHE USED IT AFTER WASHING HER HANDS. THE WASHCLOTH WENT NO WHERE NEAR HER BUSINESS.

HANDS =/= VAGINGO

That is all.
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formergr
06/30/09

@AmericanSplendor: So just to be clear...she used the washcloth to clean her girlie-bits?

/kidding
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cirocco
06/30/09

@AmericanSplendor: Thank you... I don't know why the other commenters are misunderstanding this. It's even in the dialogue:

"You're going to need something to wipe your hands on, I assume?"

"Oh, that'd be great. Do you have some of the towels?"

The second line is even captioned onscreen, and the towel has no visible stains, as it would if the doctor had used it to wipe her genitals. I guess people are confused by Tracie's mistakenly referring to the towel as a "washcloth," which it obviously isn't... washcloths are much smaller and have rounded edges.
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bananastand
06/30/09

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Wouldn't it be funny if he was all, "Let me take this opportunity, doctor, to tell you about the DivaCup (tm)."
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Hana Maru, used up old slutbag on the pole
06/30/09

@bananastand: Haha, I wish. My sister, who has no boundaries, used to wash her Diva cup and leave it next to the faucet in the shared bathroom all the time.
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PreposterousHypothesis
06/30/09

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That is pretty extreme, though maybe the method is that she goes all the way to the other side of the gross spectrum, so he can handle things in the middle? Like if he can deal with vaginal secretions on his face, he could probably deal with some dust on the windowsill?
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PhillyLass
06/30/09

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Is this an appropriate therapy? Can any phychologist jezzies help here? This sounds bizarre to me-- I'm not OCD and I'm pretty firm on never wiping someone's period residue on my face.
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Tart of Darkness
06/30/09

@PhillyLass: I think it is highly unethical and inappropriate.
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merv
06/30/09

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There certainly exists a common heteronormative repulsion against vaginal functions not specifically related to penal pleasure (common distaste of public hair, aversion to talk concerning periods etc.)
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merv
06/30/09

@merv: That causes many men (gay and straight) to be irrationally disgusted and behave cruelly.
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marshmallory
06/30/09

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I never knew endometriosis came out during my period.
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Hana Maru, used up old slutbag on the pole
06/30/09

@marshmallory: The more you knoooow!
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CurtCole
06/30/09

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Gay or straight, that is a fucked up thing for a doctor to do. Aren't there other methods of exposing people to germs? Like, I don't know, a door handle.
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CurtCole
06/30/09

@CurtCole: Also, as a gay man vaginas don't bother me, but I don't have any desire to go inside one or handle anything that has, unless it has been thoroughly washed, and even then handle it yourself.
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