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    Image of par3 par3
    07/01/09

    In reply to OCD Patient Forced To Deal With Period Blood In All-White Home
    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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    Image of cirocco cirocco
    06/30/09

    In reply to OCD Patient Forced To Deal With Period Blood In All-White Home
    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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    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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    Image of Yurpdod 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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    Image of cirocco 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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    Image of paloma loves a wild rumpus paloma loves a wild rumpus
    06/30/09

    In reply to OCD Patient Forced To Deal With Period Blood In All-White Home
    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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    06/30/09

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

    In reply to OCD Patient Forced To Deal With Period Blood In All-White Home
    Don't they do this sort of thing in Gitmo?
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    Image of saintbernadette saintbernadette
    06/30/09

    In reply to OCD Patient Forced To Deal With Period Blood In All-White Home
    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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    Image of Kaehoku Kaehoku
    06/30/09

    In reply to OCD Patient Forced To Deal With Period Blood In All-White Home
    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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    Image of Hana Maru Hana Maru
    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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    Image of lilchica lilchica
    06/30/09

    In reply to OCD Patient Forced To Deal With Period Blood In All-White Home
    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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    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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    Image of HuckleberryFriend HuckleberryFriend
    06/30/09

    In reply to OCD Patient Forced To Deal With Period Blood In All-White Home
    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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    Image of rocknrollunicorn 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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    Image of AmericanSplendor AmericanSplendor
    06/30/09

    In reply to OCD Patient Forced To Deal With Period Blood In All-White Home
    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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    06/30/09

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

    /kidding
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    Image of cirocco 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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    Image of bananastand bananastand
    06/30/09

    In reply to OCD Patient Forced To Deal With Period Blood In All-White Home
    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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    Image of Hana Maru Hana Maru
    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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    Image of PreposterousHypothesis PreposterousHypothesis
    06/30/09

    In reply to OCD Patient Forced To Deal With Period Blood In All-White Home
    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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    Image of PhillyLass PhillyLass
    06/30/09

    In reply to OCD Patient Forced To Deal With Period Blood In All-White Home
    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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    Image of Tart of Darkness Tart of Darkness
    06/30/09

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

    In reply to OCD Patient Forced To Deal With Period Blood In All-White Home
    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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    Image of merv merv
    06/30/09

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

    In reply to OCD Patient Forced To Deal With Period Blood In All-White Home
    I never knew endometriosis came out during my period.
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    Image of Hana Maru Hana Maru
    06/30/09

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

    In reply to OCD Patient Forced To Deal With Period Blood In All-White Home
    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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    Image of CurtCole 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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