My last first aid course didn't mention tampons specifically, but if you need to stop heavy bleeding, anything is on the table.
We were told that the general practice with a major wound was essentially to use a rolled up bandage to wipe the worst of the blood away so you can see where it's coming from, then put said bandage over the probable artery and apply lots of pressure.
Your job as first aid is to keep someone alive until paramedics arrive. Tissue damage from a tampon gluing itself in can be fixed. Total blood loss less so.
They did say they're an option for a major nosebleed though.
We explain how improvised tourniquets, wound dressings, splinting and traction devices can be fabricated using items from the high street: nappies, tampons, cling film, duct tape and tablecloths.
There are situations where you need to pack a gsw with gauze but a tampon is a terrible thing to use for that and you’d be better off using a tshirt or something.
My understanding is that this often causes more harm than it prevents. It's a popular concept, and has been taught by many people, but it's not a good idea. It makes sense that it would work, but when actually tested it isn't. Check for yourself though.
FWIW I've seen little single use packs of blood clotting powder in the camping section at both Target and Walmart recently (in the last few months) probably worth grabbing a few first aid kits.
I don't think Megyn even buys into her positions very much. She seems more like just another soulless ghoul like Tucker, happy to stoke the culture war for fame and wealth.
You joke, but around when covid started I swear a fox news host announced he doesn't wash his hands cause he doesn't believe in germs. At this point I wouldn't be surprised if "soap is evil" became the new conspiracy
ha, found it. It was some guy named Pete Hegseth: “My 2019 resolution is to say things on air that I say off air,” Hegseth began. “I don’t think I’ve washed my hands for 10 years. I don’t really wash my hands ever. I inoculate myself. Germs are not a real thing. I can’t see them, therefore they are not real,” Hegseth added.
I'd hope he was joking but this was on fox so who knows
FFS that's not what Tim Walz did, at all. He signed (as opposed to vetoing) a bipartisan bill to provide free menstrual products to students, after a years-long campaign by students who had to pay for these at school.
The law doesn't say anything about boys bathrooms or genders. At most it can be argued that by not specifying that only girls bathrooms are included, it avoids singling out female-to-male and intersex students who use boys bathrooms for persecution. Which is of course controversial to Republicans.
Who gives a shit if it is what he did? Why would anyone fucking care if there are tampons in boy's bathrooms? They're not sex toys, they're small pieces of absorbent fabric meant for soaking up blood. Are we supposed to keep them away from bandaids too?
I'm not a former combat medic but I fully support super glue in bathrooms. How else will people have easy access to gluing their friends butts to toilet seats?
Don't you realize that they wouldn't be this close minded in the first place if they were traveling and meeting other walks of life? They're incurious people.
There's also the fact that many can't afford to travel. This is why Republicans are so against college. Because it's often the first time people get outside their hometown and meet people from different walks of life.
It's also why Republicans complain about real-life having a "liberal bias."
All of y'all suckers walking around being “Man that is born of a woman is of few days, and full of trouble." (Bible, Job 14:1) and I'm like Shakespeare's MacDuff, circumventing prophecy by being born cesarean and... um.... not being full of trouble?
And my brother was adopted, so he was dropped off on our doorstep and we fostered him for a few years prior to adoption. So, extrapolating from my rigorous sample size of 2, no one was vaginally birthed by their mother.
This just made me realize that I've never bought pads for my wife. I wouldn't have any issue doing it, and I'm guessing she knows that, but she's never asked me to.
Just look at the box, then grab the same one on your next grocery run. Do the same with her other feminine products. Put them in the cabinets where they go. Act like it was nothing. Make her wonder how long it was since she bought them herself.
Advanced mode: Figure out her clothing sizes and what colors work for her, what fabrics feel nice, then get her a cute blouse or dress. Don't make it a big deal.
See what happens. One of my best friends mastered this. Dude cleaned up in college.
After 24 years of marriage if she isn't interested in me buying her pads, I don't think it's the best surprise present. I've bought far more embarrassing things for her regarding body stuff when she's needed them, so I think she just doesn't want me to do it. It's not like she hides them. I mean, she's also never asked me to buy shampoo or soap or whatever for her. She would rather get exactly what she wants than rely on me to do it for that sort of thing.
I'll probably screw it up and buy the wrong ones even if I look at the box. And she'd probably be right with my memory.
And to be fair, I haven't gone out of my way to ask her to buy hygiene stuff for me either. We both got in the habit of shopping for ourselves for those sorts of things and it's working out for us.
Honestly, it's so inconsequential that, as I said, I didn't even realize I'd never done it until I thought about it.
She's his wife. It's their bathroom. He's being considerate.
If you mean my friend, that was in reference to buying his girlfriend a cute blouse now and then. He did the same for friends, his sister, and mom. He wasn't a fuckboy buying tampons to pick up women. Word got around that he was top shelf. He was funny, charming, considerate, honest, and knew his way around the women's rack at Goodwill. If a relationship stopped working, he was seldom single long.
Yeah, I was just joking about the college friend, I knew what you meant but combining the two stories so the guy is going in and putting tampons in college girls private bathrooms would be a bit of an absurd thing.
I too have purchased feminine products for my wife :P it was weird the first time, mostly because I had no idea what I was looking for.
Nah its not just the US. I've run into similar in Ireland. I went into the supermarket to pick up pads and a tub of ice cream. Passed them to the young fella behind the counter who then leans over and whispers "do you need me to put them in a paper bag for ye?"
Heck, I once had to go get my mom AND my grandma tampons, and since there was a promotion I got like 3 of the granny ones, no one cared and I only remember because I was like a teenager and thought everyone would care, but no one did!
Work for nose bleeds if small enough, and they were originally made for bullet wounds, and everyone knows the schools are where these nuts like to start their rebellions. I assume they just think they need to level up like in a video game. Fn assholes
I remember my health teacher had mentioned this actually. She was a cross country coach I think and she used pads for a guy's bleeding leg. Something like that, at least
The first time I was getting pads for my GF was pretty traumatizing. Mostly because my-then Gf had given me hyper specific instructions on where to find the pad she needed, and the pads at the spot weren’t that
(They had changed the placement.)
What made it traumatizing is having to call the GF while being screamed at by some karen screeching fundie Christian things at me (as if I were demon possessed,) while also trying to get any staff she could to arrest me; while following me to my car and refusing to let me leave.
Fun fact- it’s illegal to force exorcisms on cops because you’re being arrested. Apparently.
That's what I don't understand about these attacks, I didn't even have a sister growing up but my mom would have a box of tampons next to the toilet. I remember wondering what they were..... And that was it. For years I used the bathroom next to tampons and it had zero impact on life.
Even aside from the absurdity of objecting to tampons, the idea that boys were "forced" to do anything is ridiculous. The tampons are just there. She makes it sound like Walz held boys and gunpoint and made them go to a convenience store, buy tampons, and then put them in the school restrooms.
But I guess that's what I should expect from a professional liar.
The Right's obsession with genitals is so weird. If ever there was an issue that could benefit one group of people with absolutely no impact on another it would be access to hygiene items. I mean, no one's forcing you to jam them into your sons, they're just there for those that need them! I would totally be okay with them available in all restrooms nationwide.
I don't know that it's net positive, probably closer to net neutral at best. A very small minority benefits from tampons in the boys room (trans and girls that ask boys to fetch one for them) and the cost is probably low, but definitely not free.
hey, I agree that there should be tampons in bathrooms. It just seemed like you were misunderstanding each other, so I tried to help out. I also think that we should be able to cover the, idk, 500k per year to outfit schools with tampons.
How? Like that's saying a town should not get water because they don't have that many residents. Every paid for tampon is for the same reason no matter where it is placed. This is just a convoluted rationalisation for discrimination
Like that’s saying a town should not get water because they don’t have that many residents.
More like a water company not being willing to run pipes out to service that one house up the hollow past where the state stops bothering to pave the road. And you know what? Water utilities don't run those pipes, because it would cost a bunch of money for very little public benefit. You don't have to get too rural before you start seeing people with well or spring water because it stops being worth it to run city water.
Extra tampons, dispensers, installation and maintenance on those. Like I said, a low but non-zero cost for a small benefit (tampons in the boys bathroom) utilized by a tiny minority (trans girls and girls that send boys to fetch them tampons in an emergency). It might actually be a net positive (compared to what you could do by taking the funding used to include boys bathrooms in the tampon program and spending it on something else), but if it is it's not going to be much of one just because of how small the total benefit is.
You could, doing so would likely increase utilization of the tampon policy meaning it would have a larger benefit for the same cost.
I suspect if you tried to in schools you'd end up with a weird Title IX ruling that claimed that not having a girls room (regardless of availability of a unisex restroom) is sex discrimination in a way that not having a boys room isn't, because equity. They have a bad habit of taking that kind of approach, see school sports.
"The products must be available to all menstruating students in restrooms
regularly used by students in grades 4 to 12 according to a plan developed by the school
district"
That's all the law specified. It didn't state any the about "boys rooms" or "girls rooms". If a school determined that a "boys room" will not be regularly used by menstruating students, they didn't seem to need to stock them.
The law was neutral and didn't seem to even be thinking of trans one way or another.
Isn’t this the same Megyn Kelly who Trump blasted at saying “Nasty woman with blood coming out of her whatever” during 2016 primary debates when she asked her tough question.
Do us all a favor and sit this one out, Mesogyn Kelly.
To be clear: that’s basically a myth. While it’s often repeated and sounds logical - they’re the right shape, size and made to absorb blood - they’re not the right solution for that particular job.
Tl;dr: tampons only absorb about 10ml of blood and don’t really stop the actual bleeding by cutting off the source. You’re better off using a tourniquet, packing the wound with hemostatic dressing, regular gauze or even a shirt or other clothing. Those have a better chance of actually providing enough force to actually plug the artery.
Obviously. But you want to be sure there’s someone left to save before that medic does show up. Which might be a while.
In first aid, doing the wrong thing can be quite detrimental. So people should at least be aware that there’s better options at hand even if they don’t have an actual tourniquet or other medical supplies.
Imagine being Megyn here, thinking you can convince everyone you care enough about 4th grade boys to be outraged at their overexposure to inert cotton or rayon objects. Well, she's convinced me! She's convinced me she's a shit-stirring cunt.
I also wonder how many of these pearl clutchers who are actually convinced by this rhetoric are confusing tampons with dildos or something. I cannot think of a better explanation than they think these elevated cotton swabs serve some darker/more sinful purpose than sopping up blood and menstrual bits.
My grandma in the 30s had to hide all evidence of menstruation from just one of her two younger brothers, the explanation being he was intended for the priesthood. I'm not saying it makes sense.
This is frustrating because menstruation, while obviously playing a roll in having children, does not equal sex (which is, I assume, why their panties are in a bunch) and plenty of women and trans men who are abstaining from sex or childfree still get periods. We should not be having a moral panic about fucking tampons. Arrrrrrgggghhh
As a male I feel very confident in saying that if you're male and afraid of tampons then you're a fragile little bitch who needs to learn to stop being such a pathetic piece of shit.
if you're a male an afraid of tampons/pads, it means you wouldn't lift a finger to show some empathy if you have a person with a uterus as a partner and they need something.
It's funny to me because the recent press conference made it pretty clear that the Trump/Vance campaign is aware they have massive problem with women. This is why he came out and attempted to rewrite the narrative around the repeal of Roe.
So, it was really important that he get out and find a way to win with women and escape his past on Roe. Meanwhile someone else at the campaign is pushing all this tampon attack line garbage.
Tell me you don't support or understand women's issues without telling me you don't understand women's issues. It's comical how poor his campaign and the wider GOP strategy is being handled. He forced out all the reasonably competent GOP strategists and he is left with clowns.
The Walz stolen valor attack line is the same thing.... It opens up harder on Vance way than Walz. Their military records aren't favorably comparable for Vance.
I have a few veterans friends who were big Trump supporters. Two of the three have decided to bow out this round. They say they can't vote for Harris which I get. They are hard 2nd amendment advocates and I can respect that. Now they feel like they can't vote for Trump because of the swift boating on Walz. I'm surprised, but both of them are just planning to sit this one out now. The third is desperately trying to get them to reconsider. They were already on the edge based on Trump's "last time you need to vote" comments. I think the disrespect to Walz was the final straw.
It's crazy to watch this guy find new and innovative ways to implode.
As a veteran, I'd like to throw out a few more reasons. Captain bone spurs is a draft dodger, and on top of that, called McCain (an American hero) a loser for getting caught. Also essentially called all POWs losers, and all soldiers/veterans suckers. During his time in office, he didn't help us AT ALL. Beyond that, many of my fellow veterans are homeless. Way too many of us. And now they're targeting the homeless as an entire group as being illegal, just so they can be rounded up and be made into slave labor. It's abhorrent that ANY currently active or separated veterans could EVER support that POS.
says a lot about conservatives that they'd rather set up a task force and spend budget money to scrutinize and micromanage every tampon dispenser instead of just putting them in every bathroom and being done with it.
"Being in the presence of tampons will literally force boys to transition to girls. I spoke with several scientists that told me this. The penis and testicles will literally shrink and go back up into the boy and transform into a vagina."
I really wish the courts would make them strip the news title from their stuff if they are going to use the excuse that they aren't a need company and are purely for entertainment. Bag of dicks I tell ya. Wait, if I put tampons in the bathrooms in government facilities those toxic dumb nuts could just... Leave?
"They forced 4th graders to be in a room with LIGHTBULBS..... those kids arent electricians!! What are they gonna do with all those lightbulbs in the ceilings?? Disgusting!"
Mothers Against Lightbulbs and Diversity (M.A.L.D)
I assume her point here is to stoke transphobia for clout. There are lots of phobic/ignorant parents who think queer is contagious or a conscious decision people make. They fear that exposure to queerness will make their kids queer. She’s further farming for outrage by making the restroom the boys’ room and the age (4th grade) one that is typically pre-pubescent.
The takeaway here is this is cynical propaganda that plays on the fears of the ignorant, for no purpose other than grabbing eyeballs.
Just carry useful items around with you, because that's a cool thing to do. If somebody else doesn't need the items, maybe you will. Keep a few granola bars in case somebody's having a sugar crash, etc.
I used to have nosebleeds a lot, and my mother and I did that experiment once. Didn't really work that well, because it swole up too much and streched my nose uncomfortably. I prefer rolled up toilet paper.
Clearly Megyn Kelly is clearly concerned about boys being exposed to unnecessary lead and other toxic metals. Got to look out for the health and safety of tomorrow's men.
Now just here me out: What if the girls' bathroom is full up on people, or broken down for some reason. Wouldn't it be nice if a girl had to go into the boys' bathroom in an emergency, that they would have access to those things.
Boys don't have special requirements to use the bathroom. I can go anywhere just about. I can take leak on the side of the road with only a car door for privacy in ten seconds. Boom, I'm done.
And any stupid dumb cunt trying to turn it into a issue to drive wedges and to try and make a group of people the "other" just need to be slapped in the mouth with a 20lbs sledge.
And any stupid dumb cunt trying to turn it into a issue to drive wedges and to try and make a group of people the “other” just need to be slapped in the mouth with a 20lbs sledge.
You'd have to start with breaking into foxnews and fuck them all up. Just sue their asses for misinformation until they start talking about the minimum wage and single-payer healthcare.
I’m curious why there are tampons in the boys bathrooms? The only “problem” I see with it is that boys might play with them, stuff them in toilets, and make a big expensive mess.
Not need to be attack-y, they quite legitimately might not have had that on the top of mind when they asked.
They weren't judgemental or aggressive, they just said they didn't know.
It's okay to not know something and ask.
If it wasn't your intent to come across as judgemental or aggressive, then a tone indicator might serve you well next time. :)
I mean, dude… fundies exist and we can’t deprogram their biases when they’re willing to learn unless we explain it to them. They’ve never been challenged to consider this point of view.
If you just shit on them like they should have always known, they’ll just dig in harder in opposition.
And yeah, sometimes it’s concern trolling but take the bait and let them reel before calling it a hook and then spitting, or they’ll just keep the worm for someone else. And, if they’re genuinely curious, you might make a real difference.
There aren’t hard and fast rules when it comes to sex and gender.
And people should understand that by now. And if they don't, I see no reason to be sensitive to their feelings on the matter any more than I would any other sort of implicit bigotry.
You can be mad at me if you want; that’s your decision to make. I don’t know what I don’t know, and when I don’t know something I will (in good faith) ask for clarification. It’s how I learn.
And I won’t let people like you deter me from learning, so I shrug off your negativity. Why you feel the need to attack me or otherwise when we — in good faith — are out here trying to be a part of the conversation, I do not know.
Some people are just super sheltered and it's ok to be part of the lucky ten thousand.
The first time my brother encountered a black person IRL he asked my mother "what's wrong with his skin?" She didn't yell at him for his ignorance. She apologized to the man in front of them in line at the grocery store, then explained that skin comes in more colors than "white". Now, he was like 6 at the time. But still. He was part of the lucky ten thousand that day.
No, there is no excuse. It's something that people should know and is generally pretty common knowledge.
That has nothing to do with how you act towards people who don't know who are otherwise well intentioned.
When you react to ignorance with hostility, you don't teach people not to be ignorant, you teach them not to ask, that it's better to be confused because people who know are angry and will make you feel bad.
You can't shame someone into being better. Shame only tells people what not to do. When someone asks a question out of ignorance, reward them with kindness and information. We want people to educate themselves on what they don't know.
It's good to be vigilant for ignorance and implicit bias, and it's better to handle it in a way that sticks.
You want the person you're informing to say "d'oh! 🤦", not "I'm sorry. 😔"
My only concern would be that 9th graders do some shit with them that they find hilarious. I can totally see a 10 year old shoving one up his nose, try how many they can flush down the toilet until it clogs or soak it with red ink and leave it somewhere for a teacher to find.
Uh, you can do all of that with toilet paper. And tampons are useful for bloody noses, which teenage boys get sometimes. This is a weird distraction from actual issues and anyone who cares about this is probably a nut.
The law was generic and provided access in all bathrooms. Having them in a men’s room can be useful trans folks, guys that need to grab something for a woman in their life, or women that need to use the men’s room in an emergency.
Didn't even consider trans folks. I was thinking back to when I was in 4th grade (a very very long time ago). Trans people weren't exactly common place in the 70s.
Male friend of mine had a sister in a lower year at school. She hadn't gotten her period yet but she had an emergency pack with her in the event it started for the first time at school. As a good big brother he also kept stuff in his back pack in the event it was easier or more discreet for her to go ask him.
I remember him telling us and some of our other male friends asking if we've every gotten caught out without any products - when we said yes, a few of them said they were happy to carry some around in the event we needed it.
There are all kinds of reasons to normalise natural bodily functions so that all children can grow up less ignorant and with more compassion for their fellow human being.
Not every school is designed perfectly where boys and girls bathrooms are right next to each other. So that's one reason to have them in both. Also, girls bathrooms usually have the longest line. If a girl is having a emergency she's going to go to the first available room. Another reason right there... Oh and some girls may feel more comfortable in the boys bathroom for a number of reasons. (bullies, girls bathroom dirty/unusable for some reason, etc.) the fact that we have separate gender bathrooms in the first place is laughable at best. We should be teaching kids to respect bathroom etiquette regardless what everyone else's genitals look like.
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They're also good for bullet wound first aid which makes this a darkly practical thing for 2a fanatics
They're really not, don't stick anything in a penetrating wound, that's a myth.
My last first aid course didn't mention tampons specifically, but if you need to stop heavy bleeding, anything is on the table.
We were told that the general practice with a major wound was essentially to use a rolled up bandage to wipe the worst of the blood away so you can see where it's coming from, then put said bandage over the probable artery and apply lots of pressure.
Your job as first aid is to keep someone alive until paramedics arrive. Tissue damage from a tampon gluing itself in can be fixed. Total blood loss less so.
They did say they're an option for a major nosebleed though.
Abstract lists tampons as one of the things it would teach how to use in an emergency
To show the quote:
There are situations where you need to pack a gsw with gauze but a tampon is a terrible thing to use for that and you’d be better off using a tshirt or something.
https://youtu.be/soiku6XyXvQ?si=dJMXjqyttJqsHoJM
My understanding is that this often causes more harm than it prevents. It's a popular concept, and has been taught by many people, but it's not a good idea. It makes sense that it would work, but when actually tested it isn't. Check for yourself though.
FWIW I've seen little single use packs of blood clotting powder in the camping section at both Target and Walmart recently (in the last few months) probably worth grabbing a few first aid kits.
They probably think soap is a political statement.
I don't think Megyn even buys into her positions very much. She seems more like just another soulless ghoul like Tucker, happy to stoke the culture war for fame and wealth.
Megyn may not. But the people she’s making money off do.
You're washing your hands? Eeew gaaaay
I suspect a lot of them were probably drinking hand sanitizer during covid
“It says 90% alchohol! If not for drinking then what?!?”
Bleach. Their dear leader told them to drink bleach.
He also told them to stick a light bulb up their asses. I'm sure a lot of them did all 3 of these things
Mmm yeah, boof me some horse dewormer!
We know how they feel about vaccines
Soap is just "vaccine-lite". /s
You joke, but around when covid started I swear a fox news host announced he doesn't wash his hands cause he doesn't believe in germs. At this point I wouldn't be surprised if "soap is evil" became the new conspiracy
ha, found it. It was some guy named Pete Hegseth: “My 2019 resolution is to say things on air that I say off air,” Hegseth began. “I don’t think I’ve washed my hands for 10 years. I don’t really wash my hands ever. I inoculate myself. Germs are not a real thing. I can’t see them, therefore they are not real,” Hegseth added.
I'd hope he was joking but this was on fox so who knows
The best part about all of this is that it's not even true. They're not in the boys bathroom. Not by rule, and not commonly, anyway.
Totally norms though? ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
The moisty naps in KFC takeout is an abomination!
Oh no! They might learn vaginas exist! 😱 /s
From what I gather, they won't if the vagina havers have anything to say about it.
Purely out of curiosity, how long ago was this? Cause if your cousin had access to the internet, there's a 200% chance he already knew what sex was.
You are just now realizing this?
It can difficult to realise patterns like that when you grew up with them in your life.
Yeah my parents went the "don't ever ever talk about it and pretend it doesn't exist" route.
The internet taught me quite a bit before my school even bothered. And my school was the Bible-belt abstinence-only kind of education.
Dafuq does trap-neuters-release programs have to do with the GI Joe movies*?
*If this involves me understanding something from the plot of GI Joe the movie, imma also need a thorough recap.
FFS that's not what Tim Walz did, at all. He signed (as opposed to vetoing) a bipartisan bill to provide free menstrual products to students, after a years-long campaign by students who had to pay for these at school.
The law doesn't say anything about boys bathrooms or genders. At most it can be argued that by not specifying that only girls bathrooms are included, it avoids singling out female-to-male and intersex students who use boys bathrooms for persecution. Which is of course controversial to Republicans.
Who gives a shit if it is what he did? Why would anyone fucking care if there are tampons in boy's bathrooms? They're not sex toys, they're small pieces of absorbent fabric meant for soaking up blood. Are we supposed to keep them away from bandaids too?
I mean I figured it was more if women used the men’s they have access. Kinda weird to jump to other conclusions but thems the republicans.
Honestly you guys are overlooking the utility of a tampon when used to plug bullet wounds. 100% necessary in American schools
This is true. As a former combat medic, I support all American school bathrooms having tampons and super glue... Well... Maybe not super glue.
I'm not a former combat medic but I fully support super glue in bathrooms. How else will people have easy access to gluing their friends butts to toilet seats?
Wasn't it that they aren't dense enough to actually stop anything because they would just instantly get soaked?
A soaked tampon is better than nothing in 100% of cases.
🦅🇺🇸🦅🇺🇸🦅🇺🇸
Wait till they get on a plane and find the bathrooms are "bisexual". These motherfuckers will be jumping out.
Don't you realize that they wouldn't be this close minded in the first place if they were traveling and meeting other walks of life? They're incurious people.
There's also the fact that many can't afford to travel. This is why Republicans are so against college. Because it's often the first time people get outside their hometown and meet people from different walks of life.
It's also why Republicans complain about real-life having a "liberal bias."
Yeah, but, like... they probably only have one bathroom for everyone in their trailer...
I'm currently taking a shit mere inches from a box of my wife's tampons and I'm scared, you guys. What if one finds its way into my butt?
Don't worry the
femalebody has ways to try to shut that down.I got that reference!
You have to tell the tampon you don't consent, legally the tampon can't crawl in your butt then
So it's like a vampire? You have to invite it in?
Well, it does want to suck your blood...
Nah, they don't want to, they are non consenting lol
You're already compromised
Are you aware that our mothers -- most of them anyway -- pushed each of us out of their VAGINAS??
You're good with that? Totally norms?
Seriously. Are these fuckwads still telling their kids that a stork delivered them as baby or some other fairy tale bullshit?
All of y'all suckers walking around being “Man that is born of a woman is of few days, and full of trouble." (Bible, Job 14:1) and I'm like Shakespeare's MacDuff, circumventing prophecy by being born cesarean and... um.... not being full of trouble?
And my brother was adopted, so he was dropped off on our doorstep and we fostered him for a few years prior to adoption. So, extrapolating from my rigorous sample size of 2, no one was vaginally birthed by their mother.
Boys may play with them. Which is probably for the best actually. Removing stigma from basic hygiene products can only be a positive thing.
It's not the point of them being there but a nice side effect.
Why do people act weird when you get tampons for your girlfriend?
I think it's a US thing. I've often bought tampons and of course nobody cares.
This just made me realize that I've never bought pads for my wife. I wouldn't have any issue doing it, and I'm guessing she knows that, but she's never asked me to.
Just look at the box, then grab the same one on your next grocery run. Do the same with her other feminine products. Put them in the cabinets where they go. Act like it was nothing. Make her wonder how long it was since she bought them herself.
Advanced mode: Figure out her clothing sizes and what colors work for her, what fabrics feel nice, then get her a cute blouse or dress. Don't make it a big deal.
See what happens. One of my best friends mastered this. Dude cleaned up in college.
After 24 years of marriage if she isn't interested in me buying her pads, I don't think it's the best surprise present. I've bought far more embarrassing things for her regarding body stuff when she's needed them, so I think she just doesn't want me to do it. It's not like she hides them. I mean, she's also never asked me to buy shampoo or soap or whatever for her. She would rather get exactly what she wants than rely on me to do it for that sort of thing.
I'll probably screw it up and buy the wrong ones even if I look at the box. And she'd probably be right with my memory.
And to be fair, I haven't gone out of my way to ask her to buy hygiene stuff for me either. We both got in the habit of shopping for ourselves for those sorts of things and it's working out for us.
Honestly, it's so inconsequential that, as I said, I didn't even realize I'd never done it until I thought about it.
By buying women tampons and hiding them in their bathrooms? :p
She's his wife. It's their bathroom. He's being considerate.
If you mean my friend, that was in reference to buying his girlfriend a cute blouse now and then. He did the same for friends, his sister, and mom. He wasn't a fuckboy buying tampons to pick up women. Word got around that he was top shelf. He was funny, charming, considerate, honest, and knew his way around the women's rack at Goodwill. If a relationship stopped working, he was seldom single long.
Yeah, I was just joking about the college friend, I knew what you meant but combining the two stories so the guy is going in and putting tampons in college girls private bathrooms would be a bit of an absurd thing.
I too have purchased feminine products for my wife :P it was weird the first time, mostly because I had no idea what I was looking for.
Nah its not just the US. I've run into similar in Ireland. I went into the supermarket to pick up pads and a tub of ice cream. Passed them to the young fella behind the counter who then leans over and whispers "do you need me to put them in a paper bag for ye?"
Heck, I once had to go get my mom AND my grandma tampons, and since there was a promotion I got like 3 of the granny ones, no one cared and I only remember because I was like a teenager and thought everyone would care, but no one did!
Yeah, like 99% in the boys room would be used for random shit.
Actually, one of the gals at work made a spooky ghost with a tamp from the dispenser and it's been hanging on a desk since last halloween.
My old roommate dipped tampons in black cherry kool-aid, answer the door and look the person in the eyes while putting it in his mouth.
Good times.
It's a bit wasteful though.
Kids will waste anything they get their hands on, but they'll learn a bit as well
I forsee some being wasted at the beginning and then them eventually becoming the backup supply when the girls restroom runs out.
That is provided you don't have some loser administrator just never refilling the boys room because of the waste.
Free tampons usually suck, so most people prefer to buy their own but are glad they are there in an emergency.
Work for nose bleeds if small enough, and they were originally made for bullet wounds, and everyone knows the schools are where these nuts like to start their rebellions. I assume they just think they need to level up like in a video game. Fn assholes
Hate to be that guy but they never were and shouldn't be used for bullet wounds. They were originally made to stop minor bleeding, though.
"A school with tampons in case of bullet wounds" is not exactly a nice thing to think of...
I remember my health teacher had mentioned this actually. She was a cross country coach I think and she used pads for a guy's bleeding leg. Something like that, at least
Oh yes my sister loved it when my older brother stuck pads on her vanity mirror.
Stigma gone!
So. Fun story time.
The first time I was getting pads for my GF was pretty traumatizing. Mostly because my-then Gf had given me hyper specific instructions on where to find the pad she needed, and the pads at the spot weren’t that
(They had changed the placement.)
What made it traumatizing is having to call the GF while being screamed at by some karen screeching fundie Christian things at me (as if I were demon possessed,) while also trying to get any staff she could to arrest me; while following me to my car and refusing to let me leave.
Fun fact- it’s illegal to force exorcisms on cops because you’re being arrested. Apparently.
Anyways, Megyn here. She has the same vibes.
Wait, so she was screaming at you for buying pads? I'm so confused
Yup.
Apparently, men aren’t allowed to even go down that aisle.
It was strange.
Mostly, the only coherent thing she was saying is “IN THE NAME OF JESUS!!!” complete with a gesture like catholic priest use to sprinkle holy water.
https://youtu.be/mSbWXnRMSb4
That's what I don't understand about these attacks, I didn't even have a sister growing up but my mom would have a box of tampons next to the toilet. I remember wondering what they were..... And that was it. For years I used the bathroom next to tampons and it had zero impact on life.
"you ok with that?"
uh, yeah? they're just sitting there, no one's being forced to use them.
mind your own damn business.
"Mind your business" was inscribed on the first official US coin, designed by Benjamin Franklin. Much better motto than "In God we trust".
Even aside from the absurdity of objecting to tampons, the idea that boys were "forced" to do anything is ridiculous. The tampons are just there. She makes it sound like Walz held boys and gunpoint and made them go to a convenience store, buy tampons, and then put them in the school restrooms.
But I guess that's what I should expect from a professional liar.
The Right's obsession with genitals is so weird. If ever there was an issue that could benefit one group of people with absolutely no impact on another it would be access to hygiene items. I mean, no one's forcing you to jam them into your sons, they're just there for those that need them! I would totally be okay with them available in all restrooms nationwide.
I saw a tampon once. Crying, I had to call my mom and tell her I was now gay. I had no idea the sight of feminine hygiene products could do that.
Same. This is the side of tampons the left doesn't want you to see.
Like, are you snorting tampons in there, boys? You getting high? Maybe you are turning gay on them, I don't know, but I do know I don't like it.
... "Forced". Lol.
They aren’t snorting them, but knowing fourth grade boys, they are definitely sticking one in each nostril.
But hey, if it helps a boy who has periods, good.
You have something against kids snorting tampons?
What sort of narc are you?!?
No problem at all. Having been a fourth grade boy, I encourage that sort of comedic genius.
Now I feel like I missed out in fourth grade.
Hmmm maybe starting fires... I wouldn't know though.
Forced to be in the same room as a piece of absorbent fabric?!?! Literally fascism /s
I like how right-wingers whole existence is being angry about net positive things in society.
I don't know that it's net positive, probably closer to net neutral at best. A very small minority benefits from tampons in the boys room (trans and girls that ask boys to fetch one for them) and the cost is probably low, but definitely not free.
What is the cost?? That boys learn about things they should not know about? And don't tell me the extra tampons, that's not how that works
I think someone has to pay for the tampons.
If they're not getting used, nobody's having to pay very much for them. It's a stupid thing to worry about.
hey, I agree that there should be tampons in bathrooms. It just seemed like you were misunderstanding each other, so I tried to help out. I also think that we should be able to cover the, idk, 500k per year to outfit schools with tampons.
How? Like that's saying a town should not get water because they don't have that many residents. Every paid for tampon is for the same reason no matter where it is placed. This is just a convoluted rationalisation for discrimination
More like a water company not being willing to run pipes out to service that one house up the hollow past where the state stops bothering to pave the road. And you know what? Water utilities don't run those pipes, because it would cost a bunch of money for very little public benefit. You don't have to get too rural before you start seeing people with well or spring water because it stops being worth it to run city water.
No, they already have the pipe and try to remove them
You do see the difference
Extra tampons, dispensers, installation and maintenance on those. Like I said, a low but non-zero cost for a small benefit (tampons in the boys bathroom) utilized by a tiny minority (trans girls and girls that send boys to fetch them tampons in an emergency). It might actually be a net positive (compared to what you could do by taking the funding used to include boys bathrooms in the tampon program and spending it on something else), but if it is it's not going to be much of one just because of how small the total benefit is.
You simply eliminate gendered bathrooms all together and save a bunch of money.
You could, doing so would likely increase utilization of the tampon policy meaning it would have a larger benefit for the same cost.
I suspect if you tried to in schools you'd end up with a weird Title IX ruling that claimed that not having a girls room (regardless of availability of a unisex restroom) is sex discrimination in a way that not having a boys room isn't, because equity. They have a bad habit of taking that kind of approach, see school sports.
I really don't have anything to say here that hasn't been said already.
I'm just genuinely disappointed and tired of this nonsense. The statement isn't accurate and even if it was, that's a complete non-issue.
"don't feed the trolls" is all that comes to mind
I agree a bit but at the same time these beliefs and misstatements have to be confronted at some point.
Thankfully some people have much more patience than I do. I'll just throw my support behind them.
I was under the impression that the statement was accurate, what is incorrect? Just the word "forced?"
"The products must be available to all menstruating students in restrooms regularly used by students in grades 4 to 12 according to a plan developed by the school district"
That's all the law specified. It didn't state any the about "boys rooms" or "girls rooms". If a school determined that a "boys room" will not be regularly used by menstruating students, they didn't seem to need to stock them.
The law was neutral and didn't seem to even be thinking of trans one way or another.
So they're crying about unisex bathrooms again then? How pathetic.
Basically yeah. He's not a dictator nor did he even do any strongarming as governor.
The bill passed through the state house of representatives with some Republican support even.
Seriously, fucking Jesus Christ, what is it with fucking Republicans and their constant obsessions with genitals and the reproductive cycle?
You fucking pieces of shit, will you leave women the fuck alone already??
Isn’t this the same Megyn Kelly who Trump blasted at saying “Nasty woman with blood coming out of her whatever” during 2016 primary debates when she asked her tough question.
Do us all a favor and sit this one out, Mesogyn Kelly.
Sounds like a free tampon could benefit her!
Useful in a pinch of you get a nosebleed.
They can also be used to plug bullet holes ¯_(ツ)_/¯
So in an elementary school bathroom is a logical placement.
To be clear: that’s basically a myth. While it’s often repeated and sounds logical - they’re the right shape, size and made to absorb blood - they’re not the right solution for that particular job.
https://emj.bmj.com/content/35/8/516.responses
Tl;dr: tampons only absorb about 10ml of blood and don’t really stop the actual bleeding by cutting off the source. You’re better off using a tourniquet, packing the wound with hemostatic dressing, regular gauze or even a shirt or other clothing. Those have a better chance of actually providing enough force to actually plug the artery.
I don't think anyone was suggesting medics jam one in a bullet tract and be like, "go home, boys. Our job is done"
Obviously. But you want to be sure there’s someone left to save before that medic does show up. Which might be a while.
In first aid, doing the wrong thing can be quite detrimental. So people should at least be aware that there’s better options at hand even if they don’t have an actual tourniquet or other medical supplies.
Imagine being Megyn here, thinking you can convince everyone you care enough about 4th grade boys to be outraged at their overexposure to inert cotton or rayon objects. Well, she's convinced me! She's convinced me she's a shit-stirring cunt.
I also wonder how many of these pearl clutchers who are actually convinced by this rhetoric are confusing tampons with dildos or something. I cannot think of a better explanation than they think these elevated cotton swabs serve some darker/more sinful purpose than sopping up blood and menstrual bits.
They don't want 4th-grade boys to know what menstruation is. That's the only thing I can think of.
My grandma in the 30s had to hide all evidence of menstruation from just one of her two younger brothers, the explanation being he was intended for the priesthood. I'm not saying it makes sense.
In what denomination do priests not know what menstruation is?
This was Catholicism. He's a smart guy and I'm pretty sure he figured it out. Did not become a priest, though, so maybe his mom was right.
I went to a catholic school in the 80s/90s. I’m fairly certain we were taught about anatomy and human reproduction. We knew what menstruation was.
This is frustrating because menstruation, while obviously playing a roll in having children, does not equal sex (which is, I assume, why their panties are in a bunch) and plenty of women and trans men who are abstaining from sex or childfree still get periods. We should not be having a moral panic about fucking tampons. Arrrrrrgggghhh
I grew up with 3 sisters, am I running a risk of turning gay?
It's amazing you're still alive after being under the same roof as small pieces of absorbent fabric. However did you survive?
I have no idea, it was very traumatic.
Only if you have sex with a woman.
That's the gayest thing you can do.
I feel worse having read that.
Thanks I hate it.
There's a weird correlation that the first boy born after 3 female siblings has an extremely high chance of being gay
Yeah, I read about it, unfortunately I'm straight.
Having 3 older brothers would be more likely to make you guys than having 3 sisters
I think it's something to do with the oven you got baked in after there's been 3 chicks in there.
I've never heard of that, but that is the reason when it's older brothers
If you are male and afraid of tampons/pads, you are clearly in the wrong
As a male I feel very confident in saying that if you're male and afraid of tampons then you're a fragile little bitch who needs to learn to stop being such a pathetic piece of shit.
if you're a male an afraid of tampons/pads, it means you wouldn't lift a finger to show some empathy if you have a person with a uterus as a partner and they need something.
The fucking badge of honor a guy wears going into the pharmacy to pick up some feminine products.
Being afraid of inanimate objects, especially useful hygiene products, is pretty weird tbh
It's funny to me because the recent press conference made it pretty clear that the Trump/Vance campaign is aware they have massive problem with women. This is why he came out and attempted to rewrite the narrative around the repeal of Roe.
So, it was really important that he get out and find a way to win with women and escape his past on Roe. Meanwhile someone else at the campaign is pushing all this tampon attack line garbage.
Tell me you don't support or understand women's issues without telling me you don't understand women's issues. It's comical how poor his campaign and the wider GOP strategy is being handled. He forced out all the reasonably competent GOP strategists and he is left with clowns.
The Walz stolen valor attack line is the same thing.... It opens up harder on Vance way than Walz. Their military records aren't favorably comparable for Vance.
I have a few veterans friends who were big Trump supporters. Two of the three have decided to bow out this round. They say they can't vote for Harris which I get. They are hard 2nd amendment advocates and I can respect that. Now they feel like they can't vote for Trump because of the swift boating on Walz. I'm surprised, but both of them are just planning to sit this one out now. The third is desperately trying to get them to reconsider. They were already on the edge based on Trump's "last time you need to vote" comments. I think the disrespect to Walz was the final straw.
It's crazy to watch this guy find new and innovative ways to implode.
Just insane.
As a veteran, I'd like to throw out a few more reasons. Captain bone spurs is a draft dodger, and on top of that, called McCain (an American hero) a loser for getting caught. Also essentially called all POWs losers, and all soldiers/veterans suckers. During his time in office, he didn't help us AT ALL. Beyond that, many of my fellow veterans are homeless. Way too many of us. And now they're targeting the homeless as an entire group as being illegal, just so they can be rounded up and be made into slave labor. It's abhorrent that ANY currently active or separated veterans could EVER support that POS.
Don't forget about refusing to visit the American WWII cemetery in France because they were also "losers"...
Nobody's being "forced" to do anything.
says a lot about conservatives that they'd rather set up a task force and spend budget money to scrutinize and micromanage every tampon dispenser instead of just putting them in every bathroom and being done with it.
"Being in the presence of tampons will literally force boys to transition to girls. I spoke with several scientists that told me this. The penis and testicles will literally shrink and go back up into the boy and transform into a vagina."
You joke but that's the kind of shit fox "news" feeds the cult.
I really wish the courts would make them strip the news title from their stuff if they are going to use the excuse that they aren't a need company and are purely for entertainment. Bag of dicks I tell ya. Wait, if I put tampons in the bathrooms in government facilities those toxic dumb nuts could just... Leave?
Oh I know, I remembered Jesse Waters talking about men that vote for women will transition into women and that "scientists told him".
They're so fucking stupid.
Me buying 1000000000 tampons right now
such a weird thing to be mad about
"They forced 4th graders to be in a room with LIGHTBULBS..... those kids arent electricians!! What are they gonna do with all those lightbulbs in the ceilings?? Disgusting!"
I assume her point here is to stoke transphobia for clout. There are lots of phobic/ignorant parents who think queer is contagious or a conscious decision people make. They fear that exposure to queerness will make their kids queer. She’s further farming for outrage by making the restroom the boys’ room and the age (4th grade) one that is typically pre-pubescent.
The takeaway here is this is cynical propaganda that plays on the fears of the ignorant, for no purpose other than grabbing eyeballs.
Exposure makes kids aware that it's okay to be different, to be who they feel like they are, and to explore who they may be.
Bigots don't like this.
Yeah. It doesn't make kids queer, it just makes queer kids more comfortable expressing themselves, and they want people to just repress.
I think that gets conflated with "making them gay", because "no dang kid of mine could possibly"
I’d be more worried about my child saying “totally norms” than I would them being within arms reach of a tampon.
i wonder if her viewers see this as a solid attack
The types of viewer she has are the types that need to be outraged over something, anything. So probably.
I don't love this take. It feels opportunistic.
I really want to believe that "my tampons bring all the girls to the yard" guy is a somewhat clever troll or really bad at telling shitty jokes.
Troll or bad joke teller is better than someone actually believing that so maybe I'm just in denial about how manipulative some people can be.
Have I got some bad news for you.
Carrying menstrual products around as a ploy to get laid is creepy, no matter how you look at it.
"Does anyone around here have a tampon I can borrow?"
"Well... Menstrual Bob definitely has one, but trust us, he will try to sleep with you"
Heyyyyy I gots yer tampons lady. You wanna put em in yer vagina? I gots loaaaads a stuff heeeere.
It doesn't sound like a "ploy to get laid". More like a "ploy to be attractive". That's the main goal of almost all people under like 25.
This may shock and amaze you, but attractive people get laid more often.
Just carry useful items around with you, because that's a cool thing to do. If somebody else doesn't need the items, maybe you will. Keep a few granola bars in case somebody's having a sugar crash, etc.
This is like a 101-level lifehack.
Yes it is like the if we respect workers we will make more money, or pink, green washing
This is a creepy take and it just seems like you only objectify women and see them as people you can have sex with and nothing else.
Teaching young men to be manipulative and fake empathy to get laid is really messed up dude.
In fact this advice is so bad I actually want to believe you're a troll.
Maybe if I give you the benefit of the doubt here the Poe's Law phenomenon ruined what could be a joke?
When we were kids my brother spontaneously got a bleeding nose in the car and all my mother had on hand was a tampon.
She screwed him up real good
I used to have nosebleeds a lot, and my mother and I did that experiment once. Didn't really work that well, because it swole up too much and streched my nose uncomfortably. I prefer rolled up toilet paper.
Thanks for your research
What the actual fuck is wrong with these weirdass republicans and their weirdass obsessions?
Clearly Megyn Kelly is clearly concerned about boys being exposed to unnecessary lead and other toxic metals. Got to look out for the health and safety of tomorrow's men.
Now just here me out: What if the girls' bathroom is full up on people, or broken down for some reason. Wouldn't it be nice if a girl had to go into the boys' bathroom in an emergency, that they would have access to those things.
Boys don't have special requirements to use the bathroom. I can go anywhere just about. I can take leak on the side of the road with only a car door for privacy in ten seconds. Boom, I'm done.
And this is why we can't debate nice things.
Cause we dont need to debate them.
Cause they should just be
And any stupid dumb cunt trying to turn it into a issue to drive wedges and to try and make a group of people the "other" just need to be slapped in the mouth with a 20lbs sledge.
You'd have to start with breaking into foxnews and fuck them all up. Just sue their asses for misinformation until they start talking about the minimum wage and single-payer healthcare.
I’m curious why there are tampons in the boys bathrooms? The only “problem” I see with it is that boys might play with them, stuff them in toilets, and make a big expensive mess.
So they can take them home for e.g. family that needs them
Because boys can have periods. You understand that biological sex and gender are not the same thing, right?
Not need to be attack-y, they quite legitimately might not have had that on the top of mind when they asked.
They weren't judgemental or aggressive, they just said they didn't know.
It's okay to not know something and ask.
If it wasn't your intent to come across as judgemental or aggressive, then a tone indicator might serve you well next time. :)
I disagree that it's okay to not know that. It's like not knowing that some black people don't like fried chicken.
This is 2024. I don't think there is any excuse at this point to not understand the difference between sex and gender.
I mean, dude… fundies exist and we can’t deprogram their biases when they’re willing to learn unless we explain it to them. They’ve never been challenged to consider this point of view.
If you just shit on them like they should have always known, they’ll just dig in harder in opposition.
And yeah, sometimes it’s concern trolling but take the bait and let them reel before calling it a hook and then spitting, or they’ll just keep the worm for someone else. And, if they’re genuinely curious, you might make a real difference.
Oh there’s plenty of excuses…
Denial is a common one.
Fair play though, gender theory is just a theory.
There aren’t hard and fast rules when it comes to sex and gender.
And people should understand that by now. And if they don't, I see no reason to be sensitive to their feelings on the matter any more than I would any other sort of implicit bigotry.
You can be mad at me if you want; that’s your decision to make. I don’t know what I don’t know, and when I don’t know something I will (in good faith) ask for clarification. It’s how I learn.
And I won’t let people like you deter me from learning, so I shrug off your negativity. Why you feel the need to attack me or otherwise when we — in good faith — are out here trying to be a part of the conversation, I do not know.
But ignorance works both ways my friend.
Some people are just super sheltered and it's ok to be part of the lucky ten thousand.
The first time my brother encountered a black person IRL he asked my mother "what's wrong with his skin?" She didn't yell at him for his ignorance. She apologized to the man in front of them in line at the grocery store, then explained that skin comes in more colors than "white". Now, he was like 6 at the time. But still. He was part of the lucky ten thousand that day.
No, there is no excuse. It's something that people should know and is generally pretty common knowledge.
That has nothing to do with how you act towards people who don't know who are otherwise well intentioned.
When you react to ignorance with hostility, you don't teach people not to be ignorant, you teach them not to ask, that it's better to be confused because people who know are angry and will make you feel bad.
You can't shame someone into being better. Shame only tells people what not to do. When someone asks a question out of ignorance, reward them with kindness and information. We want people to educate themselves on what they don't know.
It's good to be vigilant for ignorance and implicit bias, and it's better to handle it in a way that sticks.
You want the person you're informing to say "d'oh! 🤦", not "I'm sorry. 😔"
I guess this is American? I know no other country with that level of prude. Poor kids, actually surprising there aren't more STDs over there.
It is indeed. Megyn Kelly is a right-wing pundit who used to try to appear to be reasonable but has lately given up that pretense.
Omg things to help us manage normal bodily functions exist, all our children are going to die!!!
My only concern would be that 9th graders do some shit with them that they find hilarious. I can totally see a 10 year old shoving one up his nose, try how many they can flush down the toilet until it clogs or soak it with red ink and leave it somewhere for a teacher to find.
I've been told, but I can't confirm, that girls also have a sense of humor.
Uh, you can do all of that with toilet paper. And tampons are useful for bloody noses, which teenage boys get sometimes. This is a weird distraction from actual issues and anyone who cares about this is probably a nut.
I (male) get frequent bad bloody noses. Tampons make great stoppers
Also true.
My comment was meant as "this trivial thing is the worst thing that probably happens here" not as if this was a real issue.
But feel welcome to be offended. Its an american pasttime after all.
They're just cotton cylinders. Unless they're giving out used ones, which seems a tad unlikely.
What? Why would tampons be an issue?
Boofing
Good point, but personally I'd remove the alcohol from the school toilets instead of the tampons xD
why? are they afraid they'll grow up to be conservative justices?
Because "not real boys."
Megan Kelly has the energy of a shitty cheerleader mocking a kid for needing an ADA bathroom stall.
Gotta have something to plug the bullet holes.
Why is he upset? I hear they're great for packing bullet wounds!
I have six sisters. There was always a mega box in sight.
I mean yeah though, right?
Are they gender neutral bathrooms?
The law was generic and provided access in all bathrooms. Having them in a men’s room can be useful trans folks, guys that need to grab something for a woman in their life, or women that need to use the men’s room in an emergency.
Didn't even consider trans folks. I was thinking back to when I was in 4th grade (a very very long time ago). Trans people weren't exactly common place in the 70s.
I would argue that they were just as common, they were just not allowed to be out and visible in most places.
But yeah, America’s far right is currently obsessed with bathrooms and where a trans kid might need to take a leak.
Well yeah, it’s not like trans people were invented in the last 40 years :)
But the funny thing is I’d say almost all of these conservatives have gender neutral bathrooms at home stocked full of feminine products.
Because if your gender is a boy, you can’t menstruate?
So? Do you think boys will not be able to handle something in a public restroom that they can at home?
It isn't pointless. Boys can menstruate. Gender is not biological sex.
Male friend of mine had a sister in a lower year at school. She hadn't gotten her period yet but she had an emergency pack with her in the event it started for the first time at school. As a good big brother he also kept stuff in his back pack in the event it was easier or more discreet for her to go ask him.
I remember him telling us and some of our other male friends asking if we've every gotten caught out without any products - when we said yes, a few of them said they were happy to carry some around in the event we needed it.
There are all kinds of reasons to normalise natural bodily functions so that all children can grow up less ignorant and with more compassion for their fellow human being.
Not every school is designed perfectly where boys and girls bathrooms are right next to each other. So that's one reason to have them in both. Also, girls bathrooms usually have the longest line. If a girl is having a emergency she's going to go to the first available room. Another reason right there... Oh and some girls may feel more comfortable in the boys bathroom for a number of reasons. (bullies, girls bathroom dirty/unusable for some reason, etc.) the fact that we have separate gender bathrooms in the first place is laughable at best. We should be teaching kids to respect bathroom etiquette regardless what everyone else's genitals look like.
How do you filter subreddits in lemmy? I came from reddit to get away from this politics bullshit.
Ahh yes because nothing says apolitical like a platform made out of ideological spite
Do you realize how little your vote matters? Or do I need to enlighten another one of you naive gullible fucks?
Cry more
About what?
If you're on the default web interface, you have to go to the community want to block. The block button is in the sidebar. Many of the apps or alternate web interfaces have the ability to block a community from a menu on each post.
Much appreciated bud. I don't understand why people VOLUNTARILY want to lose hair over something as inevitable as politics but more power to them.
No wonder the people who make politics their entire personality look exactly like how you expect them to look like.