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    They don’t think kids should be fed if their parents can’t afford it. They literally would rather children go hungry than have a functioning government that works for its people.

    Y’all really surprised they aren’t fans of giving out tampons?

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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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    Is it a sequel to Tampon Trump? You know the guy who got his ear slightly pierced and then went on to wear a big ass tampon on his head? And idiots were wearing them too?

    Tampon Trump! Tampon Trump!
    Bleeds from his ear and shits with his mouth!

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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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        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.

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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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    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 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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      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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        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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        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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      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 mean - the “psychology” behind it is to try and apply a childish playground nickname that damages him. Sleepy Joe, Lyin’ Chuck Schumer, Low Energy Jeb Bush. The template isn’t complicated. huRr DuRr tampons are gross and icky, and for ladies, let’s try and make people think Walz is gross and icky. While the number of MAGAts is never going to be zero, there doesn’t seem to be quite as much childish frenzy around his name calling as there once was.

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    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.

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      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.

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    6 months ago

    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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    Well, the Almighty smote women with the Curse to punish them for the thing with Eve and the apple and remind them of their subordinate role, and it would be blasphemous to undermine His will. Note that these are completely normal, mainstream beliefs, and should not be considered in any way “weird”

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      Didn’t ya know, women are supposed to hide in the bleeding shed during that time of the month!

      What a hill for those misogynistic shitfucks to die on…

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        Also, women are faking it for attention and could just “hold it in” if they really wanted to.