Yes? If a boy needs a tampon, what else are you going to do? Let him bleed?
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Yes? If a boy needs a tampon, what else are you going to do? Let him bleed?
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Boys can get shot at school too, so, yeah, they will need tampons to soak up the blood. That’s what tampons are for, innit?
Oh, and my first wife was a paramedic, and she told me that paramedics always have plenty of tampons along with their other tools and supplies. ‘Cuz they regularly deal with people who are bleeding a lot. Republicans can look that up themselves, it’s under “D” for “Duh.”
I’d wager that the author of this ridiculousness has never – assuming it’s a dude, and assuming he has a woman in his life – bought (or had to get) a tampon for anybody. Not his wife, mother, sister, daughter or even an acquaintance.
Sad, is what it is. They come from where (and what) they think is some sort of macho position of power and this is what they arrive at.
Weird, is what it is.
The cruelty is the point. Always always always with Republicans.
“This is supposed to be negative ad…”
To a lot of sexist, transphobic Americans, this is high political art,
I mean I have no experience with them, but I understand they are designed to hold moisture. Depending on the shape there might be a host of applications that a smart man with at least one sister might find them handy for. But I’m just guessing. In my 80 years I have never seen one, which makes me wonder why not…
I consider myself fairly intelligent and on top of current events. On first read that did not make sense to me. Wonder what people less intelligent think when they read it. On the second read I got the tilt of it, but it comes across like a poorly tuned violin.
Retired nurse, yes tampons are designed for a specific purpose, but they can be repurposed for other uses, like to absorb fluids (blood) or used to control bleeding (surgical pad). If a boy in Minnesota needed a tampon it would because the school nurse ran out of gauze and/or band aids.
stuffin: Or because the injuries were worse than gauze and/or band aids could handle.
Ed: I have seen them on only a few occasions, but I was taught as a boy that it is unmanly to admit you know what they look like, or anything else about them. Also, a man who touches them unprepared will lose his mojo because of the Jezebel Spirit with which they are imbued (or so it has been told — it’s too dangerous to verify the lore).
PS: Whose phone number is that on the billboard? Some crank waiting to be asked why boys seeing tampons is so horrible? Or a bot/recording thereof?
…or because the boy was Assigned Female At Birth and is transitioning but still menstruates.
All those other uses are valid too, but I suspect this is the one they had in mind… and as someone said above, it’s about sheer cruelty, harming the most vulnerable as hard as they can.
I’m not Christian (they claim to be), but I’m pretty sure Jesus said a fair bit about how to treat the vulnerable and the hurting, and this ain’t it.
Gender anxiety on full display.
The phone number was the complaint line at the Minnesota Department of Health.
It’s a shocking pink display of sexist ignorance. I don’t think anyone mandated installing tampon dispensers in the boys bathroom or locker rooms, but how else would the bigots pretend they have been harmed by the mere mention of feminine hygiene products? Free tampons are obviously a Femi-Marxist plot to drain real manly men of their masculine essence.
I assume they think their dicks will fall off if they actually see a tampon or, gasp, understand the process of menstruation.
Yep, that Jezebel Spirit will getcha every time!
May Tampon Tim stop a red wave.
I’m sure that when you come right down to the core reasoning for the ad, somebody is sure that access to tampons in schools will lead to more sex.
In the old old days, they were used to plug the barrel of your musket to keep it dry in inclement weather. So I guess it’s a second amendment issue.
Stinkingly blatant trasnphobic sign here which also gives off strong whiffs of misogyny.
Y’know I reckon bigotry ought to be legally disqualfiying for political candidates for significant office since if one is bigoted then they won’t be able to fairly represent all the people in their electorates, counties, nation, constituencies, etc..
@15. Larry : Becoz nothing is sexier than tampons right? I mean I guess it was British
PrinceKing Charlies fantasy so.. (https://time.com/6226657/crown-charles-camilla-tampongate/)@10.bravus : “I’m not Christian (they claim to be), but I’m pretty sure Jesus said a fair bit about how to treat the vulnerable and the hurting, and this ain’t it.”
One of the most famous of all the instructions of the ancient Judaean preacher that Christians claim to worship as God was “Love thy neighbour” with thy neighbour being even the most despised and reviled minority which is what those heretical splitters the Samaritans represented to the local crowd he was addressing at the time. The modern meaning of the word ‘Samaritan’ has, as Isaac Asimov noted in an essay, been well and truly lost in non-translation.
@6. Ed Seedhouse :
Fixed it for you?
Of course, a cis-man without sisters or close female people in his life will almost certainly be much less likely to have tampons but still.
At the beginning of the 1950s Edwin Alonzo Boyd became a notorious Toronto bank robber. One version of his story I heard claimed that he hid some of his robbery money in packages of menstrual products, because he figured the average guy wouldn’t want to look in them.
Man, what a snowflake. Upset by a tampon dispenser. What’s next, nutricious meals in school cantinas?
The things that upset the reichwing are myriad times myraid times a multitude of multitudes and yet they accuse those on the left of being “snowflakes” becoz we empathise with others,and don’t like people just being jerks to each other.
Meanwhile transphobic hate such as that exemplified by the OP billboard is having awful consequences worsening real people’s lives :
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/texas-ban-on-youth-gender-affirming-care-pushes-family-to-cross-state-line-for-treatment
I wonder if this ad was from Texas – guess it could be from so many states sadly.
StevoR @ 17
I’ve come to the conclusion that most anti-LGBTQ+ attitudes boil down to misogyny. They hate cis non-heterosexual males because they don’t stereotypically act like the big, burly, tough guys the bigots think they ought to. They hate trans women because they were once assigned-at-birth males who “emasculated” themselves to become that which they see as weak and inferior.
I admit, it’s Armchair Psychology from a complete amateur, so feel free to pick it apart.
@21
You’re close enough. Trans women are gender traitors to them, trans men are seen as naive girls who refuse to accept their place. There’s also a bunch of lumping trans women in with old/ugly/barren women (i.e. women who are disposable), and forced birth crap towards trans men. Sure it’s not consistent; neither is standard misogyny.
I carried the as a corpsman in the field, very useful for plugging entrance wound. Nice small hole , it was the exit wounds that were ugly and took a lot of work.
i do not identify as a man. but i have a wife, a family, a full-time job. i provide for my family and pay my bills on time and i’m generally a productive, responsible member of society. i go to the gym three times a week. so i present this challenge to the transphobes: if i’m a man, treat me like a man and show a little respect. if i’m not a man, keep chirping!
An advertising art director’s viewpoint:
A billboard is like a 10 sec. TV commercial; You have 10 seconds to notice it (if you notice it at all,) understand the message—what it’s trying to say, be convinced to try the product.
The message of this billboard is a hodgepodge, the visuals disparate and cryptic, the type font, hard to read, the call-to-action, unclear. Now, imagine driving by this roadside clutter at 60 MPH. It’s nothing more than a blight on the landscape.
verumverum@16
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We French use champaign corks, only les cochonchien Anglais would misuse necessary sanitary products.
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fusilier, soldat Compagnie franche de Muy, de la Marine
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James 2;24
vereverum
My apologies for the mis-spelling
fusilier
James 2:24
What does it say about this country when of the two major parties is motivated by cruelty?
I should think it is ironic (but I don’t) that the law signed in Minnesota doesn’t say anything about tampons in boys’ bathrooms? (only that tampons be made available to all menstruating students)
nor could I find any citations of there being dispensers in boys’ bathrooms (vs girls’ and/or unisex ones)
these folks can’t even read. (or they just lie)
the conservative media ‘reporting’ on this story are lazy/liars