• iamericandre@lemmy.world
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    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

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    What do you all think the answer would be if you asked Trump and Vance the question “have you ever gone into a store to buy period products for a woman?”

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    What a weird way to highlight yet another way you suck, Republicans?

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      It is basically a bad faith argument.

      Tampon Tim is the name he got because he put tampons IN THE MEN/BOYS bathroom. Men don’t need tampons Snapz.

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        Many men have daughters and wives. Men need tampons. It’s a good idea to keep a tampon or two in your emergency/first aid kit.

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          Stop being so ignorant. The high school boys bathrooms aren’t for men with daughters. He did this for a very specific reason.

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            Sorry i didn’t mean to be ignorant. I was just using this as an opportunity to promote men carrying tampons. I guess it’s probably a good idea to provide tampons high school boys too. I didn’t think about that.

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    The GOP finds it as a point of ridicule because they don’t appreciate or understand concepts such as human dignity. God forbid you help do something helpful for kids, Jesus would be against helping children anyways

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    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.

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      The issue is they are twisting it and saying they forced schools to put them in boys bathrooms to ramp up the transphobia.

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        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.

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        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”

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          You are correct on multiple things. it’s all bathrooms and I, as a normal American, don’t care.

          Just funny to watch the straw grasping here from the GOP to attack rather than actually have a policy plan.

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      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.

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      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?

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    I was a kid when I learned about menstruation. As a kid, I said, “why do women have to pay for something that’s necessary?”

    As I got older, I started applying this logic to everything else.

    Long story short, I’m a communist now.

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    The Republican party is full of fuckwits who think women could just “hold it in” if they wanted to.

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    Maybe democrats should start removing all the tp from the men’s bathrooms at the republican rallies

    Not sure if it would teach them much though.

    Stuff like this is honestly such a stupid toxic hill to die on.

    It’s such a common sense policy (similar to having water fountains at schools)… There are only huge benefits

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    the party of “if you can’t afford it, then you deserve to suffer” never seems to have a problem with corporate bailouts

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        The harm in “boys have access to these” is basically zero; they might occasionally use a pad to bandage a skinned knee or something.

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          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.

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            Apply the period pad or tampon externally on a wound and apply pressure. The pressure controls the bleeding, the pad or tampon is a clean surface to not promote infection. It would be a temporary solution of course but that’s what first aid is. Probably not a great idea to insert anything like that in a puncture or bullet wound because I assume you want the flesh to come back together and don’t want to cause more damage pulling it out. Even removing a tampon when your period was too light to soak it can be painful and cause microtearing.

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          I’m assuming the parent post was referring to trans boys. Still a very small harm by the numbers, but a bit more important by personal impact.