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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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        They’re really not, don’t stick anything in a penetrating wound, that’s a myth.

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        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.

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          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.

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        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.

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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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      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.

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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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      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?

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        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.

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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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    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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    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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    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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      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.

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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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            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.

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              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.

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                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.

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                  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.

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          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?”

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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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      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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      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.

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        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.

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          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

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            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.

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            “A school with tampons in case of bullet wounds” is not exactly a nice thing to think of…

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            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

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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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    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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    “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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      “Mind your business” was inscribed on the first official US coin, designed by Benjamin Franklin. Much better motto than “In God we trust”.

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    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.

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    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.

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    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.

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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.