A woman has been shocked when her male colleagues admitted they were tracking her periods so they could avoid her at certain times when they believed she was moody.
The woman told News Limited that during a lunch break she burst into tears after an argument with a male colleague and was asked by him if she was having her period.
She said yes and then asked him how he knew, his answer - that he and the rest of her male work mates kept track of her cycle - stunned her.
She said “They want to stay away from me when I’m PMSing, because I get a bit moody,”
Initially she said she laughed it off but when she found out her colleague had not just tracked her cycles but shared with them other male colleagues she was shocked.
“I was shocked and said, ‘Yes. How do you know?’”
The man admitted to tracking her cycle on his work calendar, sending himself reminders of when her period was about to come up, and sending the reminders to other colleagues as well.
The male colleague said “it’s a good strategy to track her period cycle in order to avoid unnecessary situations”.
“I’m just trying to stay away from trouble.”
“iAmAMan” period tracker. Via ITunes.
The male workers isn’t the first to use technology to track a woman’s periods. Several apps on the market aimed at men allow them to pinpoint when women they are dating might be menstruating.
“iAmAMan” is a period tracker for creepy men. They can input the data of several women so they can track how to time their hook-ups or when to “avoid” their girlfriends.
Another bizarre App available is called “PMSing" where men can keep the cyles of up to 10 women in a neat little calendar.
His wife, his mother, the woman at the dry cleaning shop...
Another, PMS Meter helps alert the user to warning signs like “irritability.”
Not surprisingly the male colleague, when asked if he knew what he was doing was sexist replied “What’s sexist is how women are allowed to blame their volatile actions and unstable emotions on their ‘periods’, I just wish men had that option too.”
Now women just need an App to track when a man is being a jerk.
Top Comments
Well that's mature. Perhaps she should keep track of when he gets laid (or not) so she can avoid him when he has a case of "blue balls", and is being an arse (which is clearly most of the time). Imagine if there was another girl in office and periods synced - could the app handle that???? Methinks their heads would explode!!
Oh yeah, she acts like a moody, irrational cow making work really suck for others and you blame the guy?
I'm not "blaming" anyone for anything. But let's be grown ups here - we are human beings, we emote, we are not automatons. Tracking someone's period is creepy and weird and invasive, and then sharing with other colleagues? If it's that much of an issue perhaps he should address it in a non-subversive way?
So creepy...