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.
They aren’t snorting them, but knowing fourth grade boys, they are definitely sticking one in each nostril.
But hey, if it helps a boy who has periods, good.
You have something against kids snorting tampons?
What sort of narc are you?!?
No problem at all. Having been a fourth grade boy, I encourage that sort of comedic genius.
Now I feel like I missed out in fourth grade.
Hmmm maybe starting fires… I wouldn’t know though.
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.
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?
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.
I grew up with 3 sisters, am I running a risk of turning gay?
Only if you have sex with a woman.
I feel worse having read that.
Thanks I hate it.
It’s amazing you’re still alive after being under the same roof as small pieces of absorbent fabric. However did you survive?
I have no idea, it was very traumatic.
There’s a weird correlation that the first boy born after 3 female siblings has an extremely high chance of being gay
Yeah, I read about it, unfortunately I’m straight.
Having 3 older brothers would be more likely to make you guys than having 3 sisters
I think it’s something to do with the oven you got baked in after there’s been 3 chicks in there.
I’ve never heard of that, but that is the reason when it’s older brothers
“you ok with that?”
uh, yeah? they’re just sitting there, no one’s being forced to use them.
mind your own damn business.
“Mind your business” was inscribed on the first official US coin, designed by Benjamin Franklin. Much better motto than “In God we trust”.
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.
I was under the impression that the statement was accurate, what is incorrect? Just the word “forced?”
Basically yeah. He’s not a dictator nor did he even do any strongarming as governor.
The bill passed through the state house of representatives with some Republican support even.
“The products must be available to all menstruating students in restrooms regularly used by students in grades 4 to 12 according to a plan developed by the school district”
That’s all the law specified. It didn’t state any the about “boys rooms” or “girls rooms”. If a school determined that a “boys room” will not be regularly used by menstruating students, they didn’t seem to need to stock them.
The law was neutral and didn’t seem to even be thinking of trans one way or another.
So they’re crying about unisex bathrooms again then? How pathetic.
“don’t feed the trolls” is all that comes to mind
I agree a bit but at the same time these beliefs and misstatements have to be confronted at some point.
Thankfully some people have much more patience than I do. I’ll just throw my support behind them.
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.
I went to a catholic school in the 80s/90s. I’m fairly certain we were taught about anatomy and human reproduction. We knew what menstruation was.
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
I assume her point here is to stoke transphobia for clout. There are lots of phobic/ignorant parents who think queer is contagious or a conscious decision people make. They fear that exposure to queerness will make their kids queer. She’s further farming for outrage by making the restroom the boys’ room and the age (4th grade) one that is typically pre-pubescent.
The takeaway here is this is cynical propaganda that plays on the fears of the ignorant, for no purpose other than grabbing eyeballs.
Exposure makes kids aware that it’s okay to be different, to be who they feel like they are, and to explore who they may be.
Bigots don’t like this.
Yeah. It doesn’t make kids queer, it just makes queer kids more comfortable expressing themselves, and they want people to just repress.
I think that gets conflated with “making them gay”, because “no dang kid of mine could possibly”
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I mean yeah though, right?
Megan Kelly has the energy of a shitty cheerleader mocking a kid for needing an ADA bathroom stall.
Why is he upset? I hear they’re great for packing bullet wounds!
They’re just cotton cylinders. Unless they’re giving out used ones, which seems a tad unlikely.
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Useful in a pinch of you get a nosebleed.
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They can also be used to plug bullet holes ¯_(ツ)_/¯
So in an elementary school bathroom is a logical placement.
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.
