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This was my question to the teacher during the boys only half of sex-ed classes when I was in 6th grade. We all listened intently as this perplexing problem was swiftly demystified. This is why we need decent sex-ed.

To be fair, he’s got a Ph.D in engineering… he’s not ever seen a naked woman irl.

I will say this though, he had a question and asked it to better himself, rather than assuming he knew.

The real question is, how do you poop with a tampon in?

The pee is in the balls

he's an engineer, should have just shown him a diagram.

I mean tbh there are many post of women themselves not knowing that had a second hole down there

Women have a separate super teeny hole to pee from.

I did IT at my university while getting my degree and let me fucking tell you:

A PHD means an extreme depth of knowledge... regarding one subject - and very often, only a particular part of one subject.

You do need a baseline intellect to acquire a doctorate, but it's not as high as people think. The complete and utter lack of anything resembling forethought or retention that some of these guys and gals displayed regarding the most basic infosec and accounting principles really dropped the scales from my eyes.

The easiest phishing targets were PHDs. I had to clean malware off the laptop of the head of the finance department at my school multiple times, and he got super asshurt when I made recommendations regarding his browsing habits. He kept forgetting that anything wit ".exe" after it was likely malicious. I knew exactly what kind of porn this idiot liked by the end of my tenure at the help desk, simply because I kept finding "weirdfetish.mp4.exe" in his downloads folder.

Maybe only tangentially related to the main thrust of the post, but it's still good to understand. Person has a doctorate in physics? They're good at physics. You have their level of competence in everything else.

To be fair, there are women who don't know this either. How, I don't know. Except maybe because it's traditionally been more taboo for women to explore their bodies.

Doesn’t matter if he has a phd, he was just trying to become more knowledgeable

I'll fuckin take the risk. And say what I know.
They pee from the urethra not from inside the vagina.
The tampon goes a little further inside the vagina so the urethra is not aligned with it since it's at the beginning so they aren't peeing the tampon. Also as afaik many change the tampon when they have to pee anyways.
It doesn't help that I know no woman around me that does use tampons all use pads.

2 of my ex girlfriends had no idea that the hole they pee out of was a different hole than the one where babies come out of until I told them.

The first one ran in to the bathroom with a mirror and came back out and said "omg you're right".

This is not just a man thing. This is a "I did not pay attention in biology/sex ed" thing.

Isn't it a fair question tho? Someone can know all the technicalities without knowing the details.

Like, does pee ever get on the string or anything?

What an idiot, everyone knows women dont pee/poo.

One man doesn't know.

This is proof that all men don't know.

People need to stop shaming others for not knowing stuff like this. This was very likely a genuine question, seeking knowledge, and was her opportunity to educate him - for which he would have probably been grateful. Instead her first thought is to try to humiliate him online for likes.

I know a girl who she actually had no idea that women pee from a different hole either until recently lol

I also wouldn't trust a guy with a PHD in engineering to design a website. Not without knowing if he has had experience with web design.

Anyone in any field could know about these kind of things. Its not guaranteed, but you definitely shouldn't assume they don't know shit about one thing just because they went to school for another. Don't let idiots like this create prejudice against others.

Okay maybe so.... but this is bad logic.

What if it were reversed and some man was making the argument against women making decisions on 'X' issue because "I know this one woman and she's really ignorant about 'X'"

It's just another generalization and those don't really help anyone TBH.

Had someone stop mid beej to ask if she could get pregnant from swallowing. Not made up.

I agree, but, you know, Kay Ivey, Kristi Noem, Sarah Huckabee Sanders, and Kim Reynolds all are women passing laws about what women can do with their bodies. This isn't a gendered issue. It's a political party issue.

I asked a woman with an MD how to write computer software and she didn’t even know what a compiler was.

Women shouldn’t be using technology if they can’t even write the software it requires

/s

Having a phd in engineering doesn’t really mean he observes, record and interpret woman peeing with tampon with a control set of another woman peeing with no tampon.

They DO NOT cover human female anatomy in any engineering class.

Well to be honest like do you have to like hold the string to the side, so doesn’t get paint on it. Yes paint.

This argument is stupidly flawed itself

There's a lot of women not qualified to make laws governing women.

I'm a 31 man. Just two weeks ago I learned the clitoris is not some small thing inside the vagina, but a whole sexual organ, and that its visible part is just a small portion of the whole thing. Now you tell me women have another orifice to pee? Any other surprises I need to be aware of?

I knew sex ed was crap in general, but man, now I feel like I know nothing.

I remember a politician asking a doctor about swallowing a pill with a micro camera to watch the fetus or something like that. And She respectfully holding Her laughter explained to Him the stomach is not connected to the uterus.

And this is why we need doctors that are not so stuck up and dunk on anyone with a seemingly obvious question. People wanna learn things. I bet this doctor knew all about her field before starting her schooling and didn't need any answers.

Ridiculing people for asking things they don't understand is a recipe for ignorant people.

So because a man whose field is completely unrelated to woman’s health asked a question about a women’s health and subsequently disqualified all men from being involved in the discussion around it. That sure makes sense and isn’t bigoted at all.