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    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.

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          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.

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          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

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    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?

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

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      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.

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        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.”

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    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.

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          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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        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!

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    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)
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      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.

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        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

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    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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      This is true. As a former combat medic, I support all American school bathrooms having tampons and super glue… Well… Maybe not super glue.

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        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?

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      Wasn’t it that they aren’t dense enough to actually stop anything because they would just instantly get soaked?

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    “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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    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.

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    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.

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        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.

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    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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    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??

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    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.

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    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.