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PUBLICIST Diana Ziskin writes to alert us that "The creators of MyPeriod Tracker App are five typical guys who were tired of the drama, discourse and sometimes absurd fights they would come home to with their wives and girlfriends when they had no idea it was 'that time of the month'."
An attached advert for the phone app, in which women can share their cycle with their partners so that "your relationship can once again run more smoothly... yes, even during that week!", has the guys saying that it "was borne [sic] out of our need for survival and to better understand and be able to support our wives". Some readers may visualise a pause after "survival", followed by the blenching of a man who realises he had better backtrack, entirely unconvincing though this ...
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