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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.
Oh gee I thought the party trying to control women’s bodies and send their rights back to the 40’s would be allllll about providing free menstrual care products
1340’s? 1940’s would probably be way too progressive for the majority of modern conservatives
I would write a text wall describing how right you are, but I am too damn tired now.
weak sauce attack
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 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”
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.
