Many women make use of ‘period apps’ to help remember their period dates while juggling a busy schedule and other things. However if recent news reports are to be believed, men are also making use of similar apps to keep track of the menstrual cycles of their female colleagues. Their weird justification for doing so is that it helps them avoid potential fights and confrontations when the women are PMSing.
A woman revealed that she came to know that her male colleagues were tracking her periods on their calendars after they had an argument at work, reports news.com.au. In fact apps like iAmAMan and PMS Buddy were specially designed to help men stay on the ‘good side’ of their partners and colleagues and avoid any PMS-related damage. Thankfully both of them have been scrapped after receiving severe backlash.
There’s also another app called uPMS that markets itself as ‘an application for all guys out there suffering the monthly Psychotic Mood Shifts from their better halves’. Most of these apps enable men to keep record of the menstrual cycles of as many as ten women at a time. Not surprisingly, many people find this idea not just creepy but also a gross invasion of privacy. An irate blogger even sarcastically commented that an app that warns women when the “men in our lives are going to be jerks” needs to be urgently invented.
