Anonymous wrote:Bigger question:

Will you hold DW's purse when she's in the fitting room, and if so do you hold it normally or do you hold it like it's an explosive device ready to detonate?

I'll cop to the latter, though it's a very infrequent occurrence.

Dude. You hold it like a football. Every man knows this.

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Anonymous wrote:I've done it. I was neither embarrassed nor humiliated. They're menstrual products. So what?

It's a sure sign that you have a permanent female partner. It's one of the most heterosexual things a guy can do.

Never understood being humilitated by this.

Buying menstrual products and holding purses means you're pretty deeply in the friend zone -- so not all that heterosexual.

Seriously? I cannot IMAGINE asking a male friend to buy me tampons. DH I wouldn't think twice, and he wouldn't be embarassed either.

Anonymous wrote:I have always thought that was humiliating/degrading, too.

I would never ask DH to buy that stuff.

You must not be an emasculating woman. Props to you.

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It's a sure sign that you have a permanent female partner. It's one of the most heterosexual things a guy can do.

Who gives a shit? I don't love my wife for the status and I surely don't give a shit if people believe I have a "permanent female partner."

I have always thought that was humiliating/degrading, too.

I would never ask DH to buy that stuff.

OP here. I win! I've been texting with my friend as we watch these answers. She concedes: "Oh crap realizing its just me hating everything associated with my own period."

Bonus: turns out the friend who had the baby (hi K!) was reading along and is happy to know she isn't evil but cried anyway because she is hormonal.

Anonymous wrote:I think the truth is somewhere in the middle between embarrassment and humiliation. I'd do anything for DW but would really HATE doing that...

Guy here, I wouldn't do it.

I'm fine with holding a purse. But our diaper bag is way too fashionable, so I move the stuff into my backpack.

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Anonymous wrote:I've done it. I was neither embarrassed nor humiliated. They're menstrual products. So what?

It's a sure sign that you have a permanent female partner. It's one of the most heterosexual things a guy can do.

Never understood being humilitated by this.

Buying menstrual products and holding purses means you're pretty deeply in the friend zone -- so not all that heterosexual.

No a period isn't something to be embarrassed about.

No, wearing a dress is

My HS boyfriend had to buy them for me once and wasn't the least bit embarrassed. It's so strange that grown-ass people would potentially be humiliated by it.

Anonymous wrote:Friend and I visited another friend who recently had a DS and asked if we could do any errands/shopping for her but she said her DH was keeping up with it. She joked that he even had run out to get her the monster size pads one needs postpartum. When we left my friend was mortified and said she would never "humiliate" her DH like that. I said a man might be embarrassed by it but that's not the same as humiliation. We argued it out over the car ride back and agreed to pose it to DCUM for arbitration. Thoughts?

My husband never had a problem with it! I mean, it's obvious they aren't for him....

The only reason I wouldn't ask my husband to do it is because I'm afraid he would come back with the wrong thing. If they didn't have the exact tampon or pad that I had at home, he wouldn't know what to do or he would call/text me pictures so I could tell him what to buy. At that point its just easier for me to do it myself.

For men who are doing their wives/girlfriends a favor, I don't get why this is humiliating. You are a man, presumably with a wife or girlfriend, running an errand for her. You are buying tampons along with the Advil and toothpaste. What is the big deal?

Anonymous wrote:I've done it. I was neither embarrassed nor humiliated. They're menstrual products. So what?

It's a sure sign that you have a permanent female partner. It's one of the most heterosexual things a guy can do.

Never understood being humilitated by this.