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[–] [email protected] 39 points 2 months ago (11 children)

I like how right-wingers whole existence is being angry about net positive things in society.

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[–] [email protected] 26 points 2 months ago (11 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Why do people act weird when you get tampons for your girlfriend?

[–] [email protected] 14 points 2 months ago (2 children)

I think it's a US thing. I've often bought tampons and of course nobody cares.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 months ago (6 children)

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.

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 months ago

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!

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 months ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 months ago

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.

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[–] [email protected] 24 points 2 months ago

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!"

  • Mothers Against Lightbulbs and Diversity (M.A.L.D)
[–] [email protected] 23 points 2 months ago

Forced to be in the same room as a piece of absorbent fabric?!?! Literally fascism /s

[–] [email protected] 23 points 2 months ago (3 children)

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?

[–] [email protected] 14 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Don't worry the ~~female~~ body has ways to try to shut that down.

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 months ago (3 children)

You have to tell the tampon you don't consent, legally the tampon can't crawl in your butt then

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[–] [email protected] 21 points 2 months ago (5 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 months ago (7 children)

They're also good for bullet wound first aid which makes this a darkly practical thing for 2a fanatics

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago (11 children)

They probably think soap is a political statement.

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[–] [email protected] 20 points 2 months ago

I’d be more worried about my child saying “totally norms” than I would them being within arms reach of a tampon.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Oh no! They might learn vaginas exist! 😱 /s

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago

From what I gather, they won't if the vagina havers have anything to say about it.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (2 children)

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 male-to-female and intersex students who use boys bathrooms for persecution. Which is of course controversial to Republicans.

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Useful in a pinch of you get a nosebleed.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 months ago (2 children)

They can also be used to plug bullet holes  ¯_(ツ)_/¯

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 months ago (2 children)

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.

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 months ago

So in an elementary school bathroom is a logical placement.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 months ago (1 children)

"you ok with that?"

uh, yeah? they're just sitting there, no one's being forced to use them.

mind your own damn business.

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 months ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 months ago (1 children)

And this is why we can't debate nice things.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 months ago (1 children)

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.

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 months ago

Nobody's being "forced" to do anything.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Megan Kelly has the energy of a shitty cheerleader mocking a kid for needing an ADA bathroom stall.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago (6 children)

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.

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago (4 children)

"Being 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."

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago (5 children)

Honestly you guys are overlooking the utility of a tampon when used to plug bullet wounds. 100% necessary in American schools

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago (3 children)

Wait till they get on a plane and find the bathrooms are "bisexual". These motherfuckers will be jumping out.

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago

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??

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

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?

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