“I never thought I’d have to explain my underwear to hundreds of strangers,” the 25-year-old shyly admitted, “but there’s a first time for everything, I guess.”
A young woman turned to the Internet for advice after an awkward fight with one of her roommates over tampons and previous menstrual bleeding.
The story, posted on an anonymous forum, took a turn after commenters expressed disbelief over one element – leading the original poster (aka “OP”) to provide an update that she clearly found embarrassing (even in spite of all the contrary data that were released).
No matter how true this story involving a house full of female roommates was, Redditors flocked to the comments section to give their opinion.
Read on to see how it all worked.
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The authentic Reddit post
“This is such a silly post and I’m still so embarrassed and surprised that this even happened in the first place,” OP wrote to start the post.
“For context: I (25 F) live with roommates, all of whom are female. We all became close in the two years we lived together, except for one roommate. (Let’s call her Emma, 23 years old.) It’s not that I don’t like Emma, but we never got along like my other roommates,” she explained, giving the backstory.
Then she got into her own drama.
“The other day, Emma called us all into the living room, where she was folding laundry,” OP recalled. “She held up a pair of panties and asked if they belonged to any of us, and I recognized them as mine, so she said yes. I apologized for the combination and she immediately started yelling at me about how disgusting I am and how she wanted to ‘soothe in the fire’ after touching them.
However, the dramatic demonstration did not have the specified impact.
“Because I live with all women, this happens all the time and none of us are weirded out by it,” she explained. “I can’t even begin to count how many times someone’s bras, socks, underwear, etc. have been stolen. they were matched to my outfit by mistake.
My man, it’s actually just a piece of COTTON to stick into the VAGINA of a person that I practically didn’t have.
She then provided even more information about the aforementioned underwear: “It’s a little embarrassing to admit, but I realized that it was actually an old pair of underwear that had (I can’t emphasize this enough) SMALL blood stains from years ago. the past after I got my break for the first time.
After all, this wouldn’t be a viral Reddit post if it simply ended there.
“Emma once again decided to loudly announce how disgusting she thought I was and how ashamed I should be for not throwing them away, and tried to get my other roommates to look and join in on her outburst.” OP.
“Luckily I live with some advanced women, so no one even took a look, even though I was absolutely horrified that someone I live with would do something like that,” she wrote. “Everyone was quick to reassure me that it’s no big deal and that this happens to all of us. They tried to tell Emma to sit down, but she wouldn’t have it. She just went to her room and slammed the door.”
Then came a week of cold conflict techniques.
“The following week, Emma didn’t speak to me. She spoke loudly to all of our other roommates without any problems, but the minute I tried to talk to her, she would just walk away,” OP said.
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“A few days ago I was lying in bed and Emma was the only person who was different,” she recalled. “She knocked on my door and after I opened it, she shyly asked me for a tampon, saying she woke up from a nap and was bleeding through her shorts. How ironic. I laughed and advised against it. (I didn’t have anything else and I knew our different roommates had somewhere, so it wasn’t like she had nothing.)”
Extra requests for favors followed.
“Yesterday she asked all of us if she could borrow a shirt because her clothes were in the washing machine. We all said no, and I even stated that I wouldn’t want her to ‘calm down’ after touching any of my ‘nasty’ things,” OP wrote.
“She rolled her eyes and gave me a stupid apology, and I told her I didn’t want her touching or borrowing my stuff if that’s the way she acts in a natural physical way that SHE ALSO follows,” she continued, approaching its conclusion. “She called me childish and said she didn’t see the big deal. Now there’s a bizarre, passive-aggressive vibe whenever we’re in the same room, and I’m wondering if I should just apologize or not. I talked to some friends, they said I have nothing to apologize for, but I’m wondering if I overreacted.
“So AITA (I’m the idiot)?” OP has completed his submission.
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Critical Questions Raised
While OP has garnered overwhelming support on the platform, several Redditors have expressed doubts about at least one (small) detail in her story.
This prompted the young woman to update her original post with an “edit”: “My God, since so many people seem so fascinated by my so-called ‘unimaginable’ panties, which are over 10 years old, let me say this here at instead of claiming the same thing 10 times in the comments, like I did: My mom bought them for me when I was 14 and they were too big for me, so I’ve only worn them a few times out of desperation, until the current years. I never thought I’d have to explain my underwear to hundreds of strangers on the internet, but there’s a first time for everything, I guess.”
She also, in keeping with similar comments, noted elsewhere that she had recently fallen on hard times and had not bought new clothes for many years.
This update was appreciated by some readers, with one noting: “I had to laugh at my espresso in ‘Edit: My God, since so many people are apparently so fascinated by my well-known pair of “unimaginable” underwear that it can be more than 10 years old.” Good quality underwear can LAST. Bless your mother for buying high quality for your woman.”
Range Shamers (will) discover they are no longer subject to the Range Product Sharing Code
Some, however, seemed to think OP was covering up the hygiene of it all – to which the woman responded, “I completely understand that and would never have made the statement, or felt anything about it if she just came and separated me and explained whether this was the case. The shit she pulled in front of everyone made it clear that this was more of an attempt to embarrass me than a conversation about how she felt.
Elsewhere, she also explained in more detail her “refusal” to provide Emma with a tampon after another online stranger criticized her: “Well, let me just get a tampon out of my ass since I said I didn’t have one.” a to provide does not imply something apparently. Tampons are expensive and I didn’t even have the money to buy enough to last me a week, let alone someone else’s. I said in two different reviews that I ran out and needed to order one for different roommates.
She continued, in the same response, to react to being called “superior” in her point of view: “My guy, it’s actually just a piece of COTTON to stick in someone’s VAGINA that I didn’t really have. Clearly you didn’t pay much attention to my long-winded post since I actually said I feel BAD about not having one to offer her. I didn’t know that having human feelings meant believing that I was superior to others. But everything is fine. Like you said, it’s a shitty tampon.
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Of course, others read the post more carefully — like this one, which ended up being the top-rated response: “Didn’t you have a tampon to hand in? So that you have not violated any codes. I’m confused why you’re nervous about not giving a lady something you didn’t actually have?
While others took a more humorous approach: “Look, interval shamers (like Emma, from the laundry comments) can easily find out that they are no longer subject to the Interval Product Sharing Code because of their own actions. I was always happy to share with anyone, including random strangers, if the need arose and I had a tampon or pad with me, but if someone shamed me for my breakout panties, I would allow them to drown in their own blood until that they sincerely apologized.
Other readers have noted that stained underwear mixed in with everyone’s clothing is a common occurrence in crowded homes.
“She would be a laughing stock in my house,” noted one such commenter, who claimed there are 10 people under her roof.
What do you suppose?
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