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.
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Work for nose bleeds if small enough, and they were originally made for bullet wounds, and everyone knows the schools are where these nuts like to start their rebellions.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 They were originally made to stop minor bleeding, though.
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
“A school with tampons in case of bullet wounds” is not exactly a nice thing to think of…
Why do people act weird when you get tampons for your girlfriend?
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!
I think it’s a US thing. I’ve often bought tampons and of course nobody cares.
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?”
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.
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.
Oh yes my sister loved it when my older brother stuck pads on her vanity mirror.
Stigma gone!
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.
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
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??
Useful in a pinch of you get a nosebleed.
They can also be used to plug bullet holes ¯_(ツ)_/¯
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.
So in an elementary school bathroom is a logical placement.
Also great for cleaning up small spills in the engine compartment on my boat. Tape one to the end of a stick and go.
Megan Kelly has the energy of a shitty cheerleader mocking a kid for needing an ADA bathroom stall.
Oh no! They might learn vaginas exist! 😱 /s
One time I was talking about the importance of trap-neuter-release programs in the car back from the GI Joe movie and my uncle aggressively shushed me because my cousin was 12 and they hadn’t told him about sex yet. It took me until like literally this year to realize my family are all fundies because until the last few years they’d been very pro education.
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.
No because that branch of the family didn’t allow internet at all and he didn’t even start laughing at ball jokes until 14. Honestly I never even really heard him talk about friends outside his siblings. Like I’m steadily realizing that my family was actually literal fundies.
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 traps 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.
From what I gather, they won’t if the vagina havers have anything to say about it.
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.
The moisty naps in KFC takeout is an abomination!
They’re also good for bullet wound first aid which makes this a darkly practical thing for 2a fanatics
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’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.
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.
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.
They probably think soap is a political statement.
You’re washing your hands? Eeew gaaaay
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
We know how they feel about vaccines
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.
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!
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)_/¯
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.
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.
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
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…
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.
Gotta have something to plug the bullet holes.
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.
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.
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. 😔”
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.
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.
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.
So they can take them home for e.g. family that needs them
What the actual fuck is wrong with these weirdass republicans and their weirdass obsessions?
Omg things to help us manage normal bodily functions exist, all our children are going to die!!!
