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.
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.
They probably think soap is a political statement.
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
Oh no! They might learn vaginas exist! 😱 /s
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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.
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You are just now realizing this?
It can difficult to realise patterns like that when you grew up with them in your life.
Dafuq does trap-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.
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From what I gather, they won’t if the vagina havers have anything to say about it.
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)
I like how right-wingers whole existence is being angry about net positive things in society.
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.
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
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.
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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.”
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?
Honestly you guys are overlooking the utility of a tampon when used to plug bullet wounds. 100% necessary in American schools
This is true. As a former combat medic, I support all American school bathrooms having tampons and super glue… Well… Maybe not super glue.
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?
Wasn’t it that they aren’t dense enough to actually stop anything because they would just instantly get soaked?
A soaked tampon is better than nothing in 100% of cases.
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.
Why do people act weird when you get tampons for your girlfriend?
I think it’s a US thing. I’ve often bought tampons and of course nobody cares.
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.
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.
yes, but Megyn was talking about boys’ bathrooms in schools having tampons, not someone’s house where a brother and sister share the same bathroom
Not every school is designed perfectly where boys and girls bathrooms are right next to each other. So that’s one reason to have them in both. Also, girls bathrooms usually have the longest line. If a girl is having a emergency she’s going to go to the first available room. Another reason right there… Oh and some girls may feel more comfortable in the boys bathroom for a number of reasons. (bullies, girls bathroom dirty/unusable for some reason, etc.) the fact that we have separate gender bathrooms in the first place is laughable at best. We should be teaching kids to respect bathroom etiquette regardless what everyone else’s genitals look like.
So? Do you think boys will not be able to handle something in a public restroom that they can at home?
So? What harm is it doing?
Best case: personal products become more available so kids who need something harmless can get it. Oh no, societal collapse.
Worst case: you’re all right, it’s a huge performative stunt meant to push some ideology, and you all are falling for it hook, line and sinker by getting outraged.
Either way, outrage here is dumb. People trying to make people question it are dumb. The fact that we have literally millions of public, gender-neutral bathrooms across the country that have vending machines that dispense condoms, tampons, mouthwash, cologne and other personal products, and nobody has said SHIT about those, should be all you need to understand that any negative engagement you’re feeling here is a trick, a scam, a grift or manipulative tactic for some rich fucks to win an election.
I wonder what’s more likely here… I wonder…
So? What harm is it doing?
it’s not doing any harm, it’s just pointless.
It isn’t pointless. Boys can menstruate. Gender is not biological sex.
Unless you have friends who menstruate. :b You sound like you have no clue what it’s like to need a tampon and not have one. It’s truly a miserable experience and a friend with any sort of menstrual product on hand is a gift.
It’s so easy to do this and everyone benefits. Boys and men can help girls and women with issues and vice versa, it doesn’t have to be weird. Not to mention trans people exist.
You sound like you have no clue what it’s like to need a tampon and not have one
yeah, because I’m a guy. It’s an issue that doesn’t affect someone like me.
Did you really skip my very first sentence to make a brain-dead gotcha comment? Oof.
Male friend of mine had a sister in a lower year at school. She hadn’t gotten her period yet but she had an emergency pack with her in the event it started for the first time at school. As a good big brother he also kept stuff in his back pack in the event it was easier or more discreet for her to go ask him.
I remember him telling us and some of our other male friends asking if we’ve every gotten caught out without any products - when we said yes, a few of them said they were happy to carry some around in the event we needed it.
There are all kinds of reasons to normalise natural bodily functions so that all children can grow up less ignorant and with more compassion for their fellow human being.
Are they gender neutral bathrooms?
Because if your gender is a boy, you can’t menstruate?
The law was generic and provided access in all bathrooms. Having them in a men’s room can be useful trans folks, guys that need to grab something for a woman in their life, or women that need to use the men’s room in an emergency.
Didn’t even consider trans folks. I was thinking back to when I was in 4th grade (a very very long time ago). Trans people weren’t exactly common place in the 70s.
I would argue that they were just as common, they were just not allowed to be out and visible in most places.
But yeah, America’s far right is currently obsessed with bathrooms and where a trans kid might need to take a leak.
Well yeah, it’s not like trans people were invented in the last 40 years :)
But the funny thing is I’d say almost all of these conservatives have gender neutral bathrooms at home stocked full of feminine products.
How do you filter subreddits in lemmy? I came from reddit to get away from this politics bullshit.
Ahh yes because nothing says apolitical like a platform made out of ideological spite
Do you realize how little your vote matters? Or do I need to enlighten another one of you naive gullible fucks?
Cry more
About what?
