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ladies of TUSCL, c'mere, i got a question...

gothamyte

from that Adam Westsiiiide of Gotham

would you rather a chick tell you that your cooch is stinking, or a dude?

(by the way, anyone can add their 2 scents...)

of course, i can guess the obvious answer. but....

but here's the actual real-life context to which this particular moment occurred: this happened at least a decade ago. i was at, let's say an artist retreat in a different state than mine, that pulled around a bunch of budding artists, all civilians, mixed with males and females, from all across the U.S. where none of us knew each other beforehand. one day, we were having class outdoors in this retreat and one 'soccer mom' type was wearing a long sundress. nice lady. but her cooch was craaaaaaaaazy ripe. we were all outdoors but it was like we were indoors because we could all smell her very clearly. honestly, i'm not the type to comment on folks hygiene; i don't focus on it. but this will still be memorable when i'm 90 years old. it was powerfully ripe...outdoors. ANY movement she made released a sharp whiff. very nice lady tho. through 80% of class, nobody said anything to her.

so, i was behind 2 girls. if 'soccer mom' is in her 40s, these 2 girls, like most of this retreat is in their 20s. these 2 girls, i overheard wanted to tell her, but they themselves didn't want to be the ones to tell her. they were discussing that they wanted to get a dude to tell her thinking that would somehow be less embarrassing. their reasoning: 'soccer mom' would be embarrassed if the dude told her, she'd end up 'hating him' but what would he care, he was probably in his 20s, and she'd get over it. but the girls felt if another female, especially these girls younger than her told 'soccer mom', it'd be somehow too embarrassing to be around her the rest of the retreat. or she'd take it wrong. like, yeah, she was ripe, but these girls couldn't wait to put her down.

keep in mind, this was a civilian retreat. maybe 50 random people thrown together. art was just a hobby for all retreat-ers, so folks weren't super artsy-fartsy. if this was an SC, it'd be different.

eventually the girls picked out a girl who was bold enough to tell 'soccer mom' after they couldn't find a suitable dude. why put a dude through that anyways. i dunno. i found the whole thing fascinating. because, yeah, what is the best answer? this isn't under-arm odor. if it's an SC, that's one thing. but out in civvie-world, where nobody "knows" each other. nobody really had an obligation to tell her anything--since it wasn't like we were all close friends, we're all simply random classmates for a week. never to see each other again.

so my question is, are there really situations, were you'd rather hear *this* from a dude?

i don't even know, outside of an SC, female-to-female in the civvie world, how one female would go about saying that to another woman she didn't know.

and i can't think of what the male equivalent for this would be...