All this brainstorming for a offensive nickname and they end up with one that points out his efforts to help school children afford essential medical products. Well played GOP.
This is literally just telling people about a cool thing he did. Like, how many people wouldn’t have known about this if not for the GOP?
You should stop being friends and family with them. Trust me, you will live your best life if you do.
The name isn’t to point out his efforts but a way to signal to conservatives that, because he cares about tampons, he cares about girls in a way that is “unnatural”.
The goal is to try to label him, put him in a box that the right can point at and say, “SeE?! He MuSt Be A PeDoFiLe!1”
The people who are building the narrative are trying to paint him as worse than “Hide your sofa” Vance, which is a tough sell right now.
I’m actually sort of proud of the Democrats right now. They have, effectively, pulled the mic from the hands of Trump and Fox, name called them to the point that the Republicans are scrambling, actually panicking, about the election.
The issue is they are twisting it and saying they forced schools to put them in boys bathrooms to ramp up the transphobia.
Boys should be reminded that menstruation is a normal thing every time they use the bathroom.
They will probably mess around with them, and learn how they work. Having their own to play with is better than breaking into girls’ lockers and messing up their precious supplies as happened to me in middle school.
If the school provides a boxful that has instructions, they’ll get the benefit of the diagrams. (Tampax could do us all a favor and label the clitoris, please!)
But even just seeing how small they are might be reassuring to boys whose only ideas of sex come from porn.
If I recall the law was all bathrooms. And some trans men need tampons.
And sane, normal americans don’t care beyond “yeah. Menstrual products should be available for any who need them”
Republicans are weird like that. Always trying to keep tampons from women.
The harm in “boys have access to these” is basically zero; they might occasionally use a pad to bandage a skinned knee or something.
I swear I read somewhere that tampons are actually bad for first aid. They just soak the blood up and try to plug the exit. I think actual gauze or bandages are designed to promote coagulation and protect the wound.
Tampon Tim
Stopping the red from flowing. County by county, state by state.
the party of “if you can’t afford it, then you deserve to suffer” never seems to have a problem with corporate bailouts
Not that long ago, I met a lady asking for money on the side of the road. I stopped to ask her what she needed.
She needed tampons.
It was clearly the most embarrassing thing she was forced to endure. I will never forget her smile when I got her a supply and some other things that a lady might need/want when going through that time of the month. I have sisters and nieces, so it is something I have been around my whole life. To think of how many of my classmates might have been suffering this issue is heartbreaking. The free items at school is a true caring and wonderful thing. Even putting it in the boys bathrooms, such a good idea. I would not be surprised to know that a boy brought some home to share with someone in need.
What a thoughtful thing to do. I am actually 1000% on board with having menstrual supplies in the men’s room, even knowing that probably a good percentage of them will be used by boys just messing around. I went to college with young men that acted like I kicked a puppy when I mentioned menstruation. Whole grown men who could not stomach even a mention something so common that it happens to half the population once a month. I firmly believe that having those supplies available to them will not just help the people who need them. It will also make them better parents and partners because they will actually have some basic understanding of what is involved in menstruation and how to help someone in need.
