The 15-year-old feminist icon. (Picture: Instagram/falloutbooty99)

Who’d have thought a 15-year-old boy from Miami would be the face of one of the loveliest feminist movements on the internet at the moment?

Joss Garcia from Miami posted a snap of him holding two sanitary pads on Instagram in an attempt to urge his male classmates to carry a couple of tampons or pads around so they can help out if a female friend gets caught out by her period – and to make the point that we shouldn’t be embarrassed to talk about menstruation.

*Cue every woman reading having a flashback to that one fateful time it happened to them…*

Jose – above. Sweet, isn’t he?




The caption on Jose’s photo reads: ‘TO EVERY BOY THAT FOLLOWS ME AND CALLS HIMSELF A MAN OR SIMPLY A GOOD HUMAN BEING. Petition for all of us to start bringing a couple of pads or tampons to school to help our girl friends.

‘If you have a girlfriend or are friends with a girl, you should know that they do not always have tampons or pads on them, and that sometimes their period just hits them without notice and have a bit of a problem finding one.

‘We should support them with this, after all, we don’t have to go through all they they do because of menstruation, so it’s just logical that we help them. You should already know to give them your sweater and not question when they wrap it around their waist.

‘To every girl that follows me. You are completely welcome to ask me for a pad at any time without receiving a negative response or a dirty look. We should all help each other out like this so you don’t have to thank me at all.’

Speaking of what inspired him, Jose told the Daily Dot that he wanted to remove the stigma around menstruation.

‘I believe that asking for a pad or a tampon shouldn’t be such a taboo thing to boys,’ he said. ‘It’s a natural thing that happens to women.’

Jose’s now famous Instagram post, with over 18,000 likes, finished with the hashtag #realmensupportwomen, which has already been tweeted hundreds of times.

#realmensupportwomen Bless the guy's soul that came up with that.?? — Allison Damuth (@allison_damuth) April 29, 2015

#realmensupportwomen is my new favourite thing — the coolest (@alexratsgarth) April 24, 2015

Where can I find w guy like this? #realmensupportwomen https://t.co/Rp9BlVPPJD — Julia Rose ✨ (@xoxo_juls_xoxo) April 23, 2015

Of course, with every ounce of internet success comes a tonne of hate, and Jose has received his fair share.

He spoke out against the haters in the best way possible, posting a photo with the caption: ‘My only regret is not checking my grammar’

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