Bathroom tampons.

Are you okay with tampons in boys' washrooms?!
Yyyes. And it's weird that republicans are not. They're hygiene products, not a political statement.
- They're also good for bullet wound first aid which makes this a darkly practical thing for 2a fanatics
  
  They're really not, don't stick anything in a penetrating wound, that's a myth.
  
  My understanding is that this often causes more harm than it prevents. It's a popular concept, and has been taught by many people, but it's not a good idea. It makes sense that it would work, but when actually tested it isn't. Check for yourself though.
- They probably think soap is a political statement.
  
  I don't think Megyn even buys into her positions very much. She seems more like just another soulless ghoul like Tucker, happy to stoke the culture war for fame and wealth.
  
  You're washing your hands? Eeew gaaaay
  
  I suspect a lot of them were probably drinking hand sanitizer during covid
  
  We know how they feel about vaccines
  
  Soap is just "vaccine-lite". /s
- The best part about all of this is that it's not even true. They're not in the boys bathroom. Not by rule, and not commonly, anyway.
  
  Totally norms though? ¯(ツ)/¯
- The moisty naps in KFC takeout is an abomination!

Oh no! They might learn vaginas exist! 😱 /s
- From what I gather, they won't if the vagina havers have anything to say about it.
- Purely out of curiosity, how long ago was this? Cause if your cousin had access to the internet, there's a 200% chance he already knew what sex was.
  
  Dafuq does trap-neuters-release programs have to do with the GI Joe movies*?
  *If this involves me understanding something from the plot of GI Joe the movie, imma also need a thorough recap.

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.

Honestly you guys are overlooking the utility of a tampon when used to plug bullet wounds. 100% necessary in American schools
- This is true. As a former combat medic, I support all American school bathrooms having tampons and super glue... Well... Maybe not super glue.
  
  I'm not a former combat medic but I fully support super glue in bathrooms. How else will people have easy access to gluing their friends butts to toilet seats?
- Wasn't it that they aren't dense enough to actually stop anything because they would just instantly get soaked?
  
  A soaked tampon is better than nothing in 100% of cases.
- 🦅🇺🇸🦅🇺🇸🦅🇺🇸

Wait till they get on a plane and find the bathrooms are "bisexual". These motherfuckers will be jumping out.
- Don't you realize that they wouldn't be this close minded in the first place if they were traveling and meeting other walks of life? They're incurious people.
  
  There's also the fact that many can't afford to travel. This is why Republicans are so against college. Because it's often the first time people get outside their hometown and meet people from different walks of life.
  It's also why Republicans complain about real-life having a "liberal bias."
  
  Yeah, but, like... they probably only have one bathroom for everyone in their trailer...

Are you aware that our mothers -- most of them anyway -- pushed each of us out of their VAGINAS??
You're good with that? Totally norms?
Seriously. Are these fuckwads still telling their kids that a stork delivered them as baby or some other fairy tale bullshit?
- All of y'all suckers walking around being “Man that is born of a woman is of few days, and full of trouble." (Bible, Job 14:1) and I'm like Shakespeare's MacDuff, circumventing prophecy by being born cesarean and... um.... not being full of trouble?
  And my brother was adopted, so he was dropped off on our doorstep and we fostered him for a few years prior to adoption. So, extrapolating from my rigorous sample size of 2, no one was vaginally birthed by their mother.

I'm currently taking a shit mere inches from a box of my wife's tampons and I'm scared, you guys. What if one finds its way into my butt?
- Don't worry the ~~female~~ body has ways to try to shut that down.
  
  I got that reference!
- You have to tell the tampon you don't consent, legally the tampon can't crawl in your butt then
  
  So it's like a vampire? You have to invite it in?
- You're already compromised

Boys may play with them. Which is probably for the best actually. Removing stigma from basic hygiene products can only be a positive thing.
It's not the point of them being there but a nice side effect.
- Why do people act weird when you get tampons for your girlfriend?
  
  I think it's a US thing. I've often bought tampons and of course nobody cares.
  
  Heck, I once had to go get my mom AND my grandma tampons, and since there was a promotion I got like 3 of the granny ones, no one cared and I only remember because I was like a teenager and thought everyone would care, but no one did!
- Yeah, like 99% in the boys room would be used for random shit.
  Actually, one of the gals at work made a spooky ghost with a tamp from the dispenser and it's been hanging on a desk since last halloween.
- My old roommate dipped tampons in black cherry kool-aid, answer the door and look the person in the eyes while putting it in his mouth.
  Good times.
- It's a bit wasteful though.
  
  Kids will waste anything they get their hands on, but they'll learn a bit as well
  
  I forsee some being wasted at the beginning and then them eventually becoming the backup supply when the girls restroom runs out.
  That is provided you don't have some loser administrator just never refilling the boys room because of the waste.
  Free tampons usually suck, so most people prefer to buy their own but are glad they are there in an emergency.
- Oh yes my sister loved it when my older brother stuck pads on her vanity mirror.
  Stigma gone!

So. Fun story time.
The first time I was getting pads for my GF was pretty traumatizing. Mostly because my-then Gf had given me hyper specific instructions on where to find the pad she needed, and the pads at the spot weren’t that
(They had changed the placement.)
What made it traumatizing is having to call the GF while being screamed at by some karen screeching fundie Christian things at me (as if I were demon possessed,) while also trying to get any staff she could to arrest me; while following me to my car and refusing to let me leave.
Fun fact- it’s illegal to force exorcisms on cops because you’re being arrested. Apparently.
Anyways, Megyn here. She has the same vibes.
- Wait, so she was screaming at you for buying pads? I'm so confused
  
  Yup.
  Apparently, men aren’t allowed to even go down that aisle.
  It was strange.
  Mostly, the only coherent thing she was saying is “IN THE NAME OF JESUS!!!” complete with a gesture like catholic priest use to sprinkle holy water.

"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".

That's what I don't understand about these attacks, I didn't even have a sister growing up but my mom would have a box of tampons next to the toilet. I remember wondering what they were..... And that was it. For years I used the bathroom next to tampons and it had zero impact on life.

Even aside from the absurdity of objecting to tampons, the idea that boys were "forced" to do anything is ridiculous. The tampons are just there. She makes it sound like Walz held boys and gunpoint and made them go to a convenience store, buy tampons, and then put them in the school restrooms.
But I guess that's what I should expect from a professional liar.

I saw a tampon once. Crying, I had to call my mom and tell her I was now gay. I had no idea the sight of feminine hygiene products could do that.
- Same. This is the side of tampons the left doesn't want you to see.

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?!?
  
  Now I feel like I missed out in fourth grade.
  
  Hmmm maybe starting fires... I wouldn't know though.

Forced to be in the same room as a piece of absorbent fabric?!?! Literally fascism /s

The Right's obsession with genitals is so weird. If ever there was an issue that could benefit one group of people with absolutely no impact on another it would be access to hygiene items. I mean, no one's forcing you to jam them into your sons, they're just there for those that need them! I would totally be okay with them available in all restrooms nationwide.

I like how right-wingers whole existence is being angry about net positive things in society.
- I don't know that it's net positive, probably closer to net neutral at best. A very small minority benefits from tampons in the boys room (trans and girls that ask boys to fetch one for them) and the cost is probably low, but definitely not free.
  
  What is the cost?? That boys learn about things they should not know about? And don't tell me the extra tampons, that's not how that works

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.
- "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.
- I was under the impression that the statement was accurate, what is incorrect? Just the word "forced?"
  
  "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.
  
  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.

Seriously, fucking Jesus Christ, what is it with fucking Republicans and their constant obsessions with genitals and the reproductive cycle?
You fucking pieces of shit, will you leave women the fuck alone already??

Isn’t this the same Megyn Kelly who Trump blasted at saying “Nasty woman with blood coming out of her whatever” during 2016 primary debates when she asked her tough question.
Do us all a favor and sit this one out, Mesogyn Kelly.
- Sounds like a free tampon could benefit her!

Useful in a pinch of you get a nosebleed.
- 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.

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.
  
  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 grew up with 3 sisters, am I running a risk of turning gay?
- 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.
- Only if you have sex with a woman.
  That's the gayest thing you can do.
  
  I feel worse having read that.
  Thanks I hate it.
- 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.

If you are male and afraid of tampons/pads, you are clearly in the wrong
- As a male I feel very confident in saying that if you're male and afraid of tampons then you're a fragile little bitch who needs to learn to stop being such a pathetic piece of shit.
- if you're a male an afraid of tampons/pads, it means you wouldn't lift a finger to show some empathy if you have a person with a uterus as a partner and they need something.
- The fucking badge of honor a guy wears going into the pharmacy to pick up some feminine products.
- Being afraid of inanimate objects, especially useful hygiene products, is pretty weird tbh

It's funny to me because the recent press conference made it pretty clear that the Trump/Vance campaign is aware they have massive problem with women. This is why he came out and attempted to rewrite the narrative around the repeal of Roe.
So, it was really important that he get out and find a way to win with women and escape his past on Roe. Meanwhile someone else at the campaign is pushing all this tampon attack line garbage.
Tell me you don't support or understand women's issues without telling me you don't understand women's issues. It's comical how poor his campaign and the wider GOP strategy is being handled. He forced out all the reasonably competent GOP strategists and he is left with clowns.
The Walz stolen valor attack line is the same thing.... It opens up harder on Vance way than Walz. Their military records aren't favorably comparable for Vance.
I have a few veterans friends who were big Trump supporters. Two of the three have decided to bow out this round. They say they can't vote for Harris which I get. They are hard 2nd amendment advocates and I can respect that. Now they feel like they can't vote for Trump because of the swift boating on Walz. I'm surprised, but both of them are just planning to sit this one out now. The third is desperately trying to get them to reconsider. They were already on the edge based on Trump's "last time you need to vote" comments. I think the disrespect to Walz was the final straw.
It's crazy to watch this guy find new and innovative ways to implode.
Just insane.
- As a veteran, I'd like to throw out a few more reasons. Captain bone spurs is a draft dodger, and on top of that, called McCain (an American hero) a loser for getting caught. Also essentially called all POWs losers, and all soldiers/veterans suckers. During his time in office, he didn't help us AT ALL. Beyond that, many of my fellow veterans are homeless. Way too many of us. And now they're targeting the homeless as an entire group as being illegal, just so they can be rounded up and be made into slave labor. It's abhorrent that ANY currently active or separated veterans could EVER support that POS.
  
  Don't forget about refusing to visit the American WWII cemetery in France because they were also "losers"...

Nobody's being "forced" to do anything.

"Being in the presence of tampons will literally force boys to transition to girls. I spoke with several scientists that told me this. The penis and testicles will literally shrink and go back up into the boy and transform into a vagina."
- You joke but that's the kind of shit fox "news" feeds the cult.
  
  I really wish the courts would make them strip the news title from their stuff if they are going to use the excuse that they aren't a need company and are purely for entertainment. Bag of dicks I tell ya. Wait, if I put tampons in the bathrooms in government facilities those toxic dumb nuts could just... Leave?
  
  Oh I know, I remembered Jesse Waters talking about men that vote for women will transition into women and that "scientists told him".
  They're so fucking stupid.
- Me buying 1000000000 tampons right now

says a lot about conservatives that they'd rather set up a task force and spend budget money to scrutinize and micromanage every tampon dispenser instead of just putting them in every bathroom and being done with it.

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.

such a weird thing to be mad about
"They forced 4th graders to be in a room with LIGHTBULBS..... those kids arent electricians!! What are they gonna do with all those lightbulbs in the ceilings?? Disgusting!"
Mothers Against Lightbulbs and Diversity (M.A.L.D)

I’d be more worried about my child saying “totally norms” than I would them being within arms reach of a tampon.

i wonder if her viewers see this as a solid attack
- The types of viewer she has are the types that need to be outraged over something, anything. So probably.

When we were kids my brother spontaneously got a bleeding nose in the car and all my mother had on hand was a tampon.
She screwed him up real good
- I used to have nosebleeds a lot, and my mother and I did that experiment once. Didn't really work that well, because it swole up too much and streched my nose uncomfortably. I prefer rolled up toilet paper.
  
  Thanks for your research

- I don't love this take. It feels opportunistic.
- Carrying menstrual products around as a ploy to get laid is creepy, no matter how you look at it.
  
  Yes it is like the if we respect workers we will make more money, or pink, green washing
- This is a creepy take and it just seems like you only objectify women and see them as people you can have sex with and nothing else.
- Teaching young men to be manipulative and fake empathy to get laid is really messed up dude.
  In fact this advice is so bad I actually want to believe you're a troll.
  Maybe if I give you the benefit of the doubt here the Poe's Law phenomenon ruined what could be a joke?

What the actual fuck is wrong with these weirdass republicans and their weirdass obsessions?

Now just here me out: What if the girls' bathroom is full up on people, or broken down for some reason. Wouldn't it be nice if a girl had to go into the boys' bathroom in an emergency, that they would have access to those things.
Boys don't have special requirements to use the bathroom. I can go anywhere just about. I can take leak on the side of the road with only a car door for privacy in ten seconds. Boom, I'm done.

Clearly Megyn Kelly is clearly concerned about boys being exposed to unnecessary lead and other toxic metals. Got to look out for the health and safety of tomorrow's men.

I’m curious why there are tampons in the boys bathrooms? The only “problem” I see with it is that boys might play with them, stuff them in toilets, and make a big expensive mess.
- So they can take them home for e.g. family that needs them
- Because boys can have periods. You understand that biological sex and gender are not the same thing, right?
  
  Not need to be attack-y, they quite legitimately might not have had that on the top of mind when they asked.
  They weren't judgemental or aggressive, they just said they didn't know.
  It's okay to not know something and ask.
  If it wasn't your intent to come across as judgemental or aggressive, then a tone indicator might serve you well next time. :)

And this is why we can't debate nice things.
- Cause we dont need to debate them.
  Cause they should just be
  And any stupid dumb cunt trying to turn it into a issue to drive wedges and to try and make a group of people the "other" just need to be slapped in the mouth with a 20lbs sledge.
  
  And any stupid dumb cunt trying to turn it into a issue to drive wedges and to try and make a group of people the “other” just need to be slapped in the mouth with a 20lbs sledge.
  You'd have to start with breaking into foxnews and fuck them all up. Just sue their asses for misinformation until they start talking about the minimum wage and single-payer healthcare.

I guess this is American? I know no other country with that level of prude. Poor kids, actually surprising there aren't more STDs over there.
- It is indeed. Megyn Kelly is a right-wing pundit who used to try to appear to be reasonable but has lately given up that pretense.

Omg things to help us manage normal bodily functions exist, all our children are going to die!!!

My only concern would be that 9th graders do some shit with them that they find hilarious. I can totally see a 10 year old shoving one up his nose, try how many they can flush down the toilet until it clogs or soak it with red ink and leave it somewhere for a teacher to find.
- I've been told, but I can't confirm, that girls also have a sense of humor.
- Uh, you can do all of that with toilet paper. And tampons are useful for bloody noses, which teenage boys get sometimes. This is a weird distraction from actual issues and anyone who cares about this is probably a nut.
  
  I (male) get frequent bad bloody noses. Tampons make great stoppers
  
  My comment was meant as "this trivial thing is the worst thing that probably happens here" not as if this was a real issue.
  But feel welcome to be offended. Its an american pasttime after all.

What? Why would tampons be an issue?
- Boofing
  
  Good point, but personally I'd remove the alcohol from the school toilets instead of the tampons xD
  
  why? are they afraid they'll grow up to be conservative justices?
- Because "not real boys."

They're just cotton cylinders. Unless they're giving out used ones, which seems a tad unlikely.

Megan Kelly has the energy of a shitty cheerleader mocking a kid for needing an ADA bathroom stall.

Gotta have something to plug the bullet holes.

Why is he upset? I hear they're great for packing bullet wounds!

I mean yeah though, right?

I have six sisters. There was always a mega box in sight.

Are they gender neutral bathrooms?
- The law was generic and provided access in all bathrooms. Having them in a men’s room can be useful trans folks, guys that need to grab something for a woman in their life, or women that need to use the men’s room in an emergency.
  
  Didn't even consider trans folks. I was thinking back to when I was in 4th grade (a very very long time ago). Trans people weren't exactly common place in the 70s.
- Because if your gender is a boy, you can’t menstruate?