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    3 months ago

    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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        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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          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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    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’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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    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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    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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        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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          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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    “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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    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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      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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    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.