• boonhet@sopuli.xyz
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      10 days ago

      Idk, I knew PMS was supposed to be unpleasant before I ever had my first girlfriend. It’s not exactly unknown information, there’s plenty of boomer humour of “wife bad, but especially when PMS” type shit.

      I think to have expectations like this you need to be from a super sheltered/religious upbringing.

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        10 days ago

        Even then, this idea has to come from somewhere.

        Unless being exposed to PMS in some way, why would a guy even think about it?

        So where does it come from?

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          My guess: the “primitive” go-back-to-manly-cavemen manosphere stuff.

          It sounds like some fantasy of what “should” happen to a pre-civilization woman.

          Mix it up with ovulation, and I bet there’s a distant grain of truth there. If I were an isolated guy listening to podcast bros all day, I might even buy it.