Are you okay with tampons in boys’ washrooms?!
Yyyes. And it’s weird that republicans are not. They’re hygiene products, not a political statement.
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.
To show the quote:
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.
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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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.
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.
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
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.
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.
