Imagine, you’re sitting in a coffee shop enjoying a latte and a guy comes up and says “did you hear about tampon tim?” No one can imagine that. It’s fucking weirdo abnormal behavior.
I’d love that opportunity to grab him by the ear and explain why it’s so beneficial for our society to actually cater to the needs of humans.
Well he is going to help stem the red wave so I don’t know how this is actually an insult…
From the article:
And finally, as Walz reminds us—anyone who thinks that period jokes are appropriate or funny is just plain, well, weird.
Nah. Period jokes can be funny. The problem here isn’t a joke. It’s the anger they’re trying to stir up about the Boogeyman of transgender students.
Menstruation jokes aren’t funny, period.
I almost got whooshed by this one.
Like what the fuck does tampon availability have to do with trans kids? These people are deranged.
He made tampons available in all bathrooms (boy’s and girl’s) to accommodate trans kids. You are right, these people are deranged - and weird as hell.
Because they also may or may not have been available in the boys room. I think that was initially the intention but, well, some teenage boys are going to be dumbasses with menstrual products.
EDIT:
As for the latest round of name calling, it seems the aspect of the Minnesota law that has conservatives most agitated is its language: the law states that pads and tampons must be available to “all menstruating students” and “in restrooms regularly used by students in grades 4 to 12.” A failed attempt to amend the bill to only name “female restrooms,” did not keep it from passing as is with bipartisan support.
The tampons were available in the boy’s rooms as well.
? Someone in the middle of transitioning could still require period products.
Or could grab them for their female friend, sister, etc.
Adult Repubs probably would never touch one out of terror, so they couldn’t have thought of this.
I never understood why men would be embarrassed to go to the store and buy tampons/douches/random female products.
It means you have a woman who trusts you, which seems like something a straight guy wouldn’t mind signaling.
Exactly. It’s also a great way to normalize the female body in a non sexual way. So of course they hate it
That’s their point. They don’t want that.
And republicans hate that because it means not torturing trans kids
Or even “the women’s room is out-of-order, it’s an emergency, use the men’s room”.
Period jokes can be bloody hell
And the parties misogyny views for all woman that aren’t barefooted babymakers at home waiting on their “man”.
Personally I prefer comma jokes. Maybe a good hyphen pun.
The colon is also a great source of humor.
Meh. Semi.
Any joke focused around a kernel of hate will fall flat with normal people. Humor is one of the places that intention is really easy to discern.
Jokes made in shared struggle or out of affection FEEL different from those crafted to hurt.
Ok if Harris and Walz win I am going to memeify a picture of Tim heroically stopping the ‘Red Tide’ with a massive sanitary product. I’m sure others are planning the same.
More weirdness. You’d think they would be mindful of how they come off at this point…
They must want high school students who have a uterus to free bleed all over the place.
They want them to get pregnant and drop out
I think their long-term goal is to just quietly do away with the whole “women being allowed to get an education” thing
Yes. Them first. Then the lower classes as a whole
“free bleed”
The nightmare I will now have. Just casual dried blood randomly throughout the places people are
All over the place.
Look man. I can handle some blood. Heck maybe even a small dride pool of blood. But I can’t handle the idea of it everywhere like some Prototype inspired world
“Hey guys we’re polling really poorly with women after we stripped them of their rights in several states. How can we smear this guy to gain back ground?”
“Let’s highlight how he made schools provide menstrual products to children that need them. That’s a bad thing. Women won’t like that.”
“Brilliant! It’s curtains for this guy’s career.”
We’re definitely not going to outlaw abortion, though.
Texas eliminated taxes on menstrual products. Utah provides them for free in schools.
Is that really all these unimaginative and pathetic bullies have to throw at Waltz?
Wow… that’s the best they can come up?
I feel like they were trying to have a response to Diaper Don and this was their best.
Weirdass fucking rightists fantasizing over the creepiest weirdass shit.
I’m a Pro Life Republican trying to Save The Children and it’s SOCIALISM to use MY Tax Dollars giving Girls TAMPONS! MY Tax Dollars should ONLY be used for Billionaire’s YACHTS and Millionaire’s ABORTIONS! NOT Poor Girl’s TAMPONS!
Just makes them sound like they have the IQ of a six year old. Which might be true.
Tampon Tim is meant to be an insult?
This is the “logical” conclusion of purity culture.
It’s not ironic. This is politics at this point… You can feel however you want about it (I’ve personally lost all faith in humanity), but ultimately this is the current META
Fyi, the reason it’s noteworthy is he put them in boys toilets and boys don’t menstruate. Which is weird
Transmasc students who use boys toilets still menstruate unless on some serious hormone therapy.
Really this country should gave gone to unisex toilets generations ago
Really this country should gave gone to unisex toilets generations ago
The reality of this is that it would end up like divisions in sports and other competitive activities and we’d have a women’s restroom and a unisex restroom. Because some women want to avoid the opposite sex and society will broadly respect that because they are women.
If schools did switch to all unisex toilets, then we’d just be a complaint and a lawsuit away from official Title IX policy being that girls toilets are mandatory regardless of whether or not there are unisex toilets but boys toilets are not if unisex toilets are available and to do otherwise is sex discrimination because of some arbitrary excuse containing the word “historic” to explain why discrimination is not discrimination so long as it benefits girls.
Instead of stalls put proper walls and doors on the toilets like you have at home. Boom. Unisex toilets with no issues.
Other than capacity, space, and expense retrofitting issues. Single occupancy toilets take up more room which means being able to handle less people in the same space and space is not an unlimited resource in most building designs. Especially if you are talking about doing it to an existing building.
My comment about Title IX (a law that says that any educational program receiving federal funding may not discriminate with respect to sex) is specifically in reference to them taking exactly that stance with sports - if a girl wants to play a sport that has a boys team but not a girls then a school is required to let her try out for the boys team (and cannot consider her sex and gender as far as whether she makes the team) under Title IX policy, but if a boy wants to play a sport that has a girls team but not a boys team, he’s SOL under current Title IX policy. To do otherwise is sex discrimination. Equity.
In fact, one of my favorite theaters around here is all unisex bathrooms. You shut a door and you have a dedicated toilet and sink. It’s fantastic.
Work has a selection of “unisex” bathrooms and I use them all the time, much preferred over the mens room.
So I’m personally benefitting from this brand of “wokeness”, even if I’m not trans.
In fact, one of my favorite theaters around here is all unisex bathrooms. You shut a door and you have a dedicated toilet and sink. It’s fantastic.
That dramatically reduces capacity though. Which is fine if you don’t need that capacity, and/or aren’t trying to retrofit existing facilities without spending a fortune.
There’s a pizza place nearish me that has two single occupancy unisex restrooms, for example. But before they moved to unisex they had two single occupancy gendered restrooms, so they were just changing signage rather than having to do any kind of construction to make it happen. As opposed to say a local theater that has 6 toilets, 4 urinals and 4 sinks in one restroom and not remotely enough space to have 6 separate rooms with a toilet and sink each in the same space - but they expected to need higher throughput in a smaller footprint (less so now, but they were pretty busy pre-COVID).
That is a fraction of a fraction of a percent of people. Making all toilets wheelchair accessible would probably help more.
Problem is, women hate it when men use their toilets
Wow your post history is weird.
Cis this cis that, election fraud, echo chamber, echo chamber, echo chamber! ( and it goes on )
Pointing out people are crazy? Guilty
This guy also doesn’t support free lunches for kids in school. Says the majority don’t need them, so we shouldn’t provide them at all.
I gotta say, you sure have some terrible takes, my friend.
Been researching me. Dishonestly representing my opinions. Poor.
I am totally in favour of free school lunches for those in need.
Do you support buying rich peoples kids lunch with tax money?
Rich people’s kids go to schools that provide free lunches dingbat.
It’s not weird if you have non-binary kids using the boys restroom.
Here’s the Republican logic:
Trans kids shouldn’t exist.
Trans kids shouldn’t be allowed to transition.
Trans kids shouldn’t be allowed puberty blockers.
Trans kids shouldn’t have access to basic health products necessary for human dignity.Republicans want to do everything they can to marginalize trans kids, make life difficult for trans kids and, ultimately, make it even more likely that trans kids will try to kill themselves than they already do, and that rate is damned high enough as it is.
Let me put it to you another way maybe you can understand…
Are you going to tell Buck Angel he’s not allowed to have tampons in the men’s room? 'Cause I have news for you…
Non binary is a fad that we will not hear about in 15 years
I’m not a republican.
There will be a different name for it, but non-binary people have been around as long as there have been people.
One of the more famous examples:
Perhaps,.there are still goths out there
some boys do.
No. Those are not boys
How about people that are born with both sets of sexual organs? Should those people not have access to the products that they need regardless of which bathroom they go in to?
They are intersex. That’s a complicated biological situation unique to the individual. I suppose ideally we would change all bathrooms to accommodate 1.7% of the population? If so, I can propose some larger groups who may want representation in public facilities
So you agree that it is a problem, just not as big of a problem as others? If you look on the bright side that’s still a win, even if you can think of bigger ones. Are you actively campaigning for the other changes you can think of?
Should I be campaigning for anything?
I’m one of them. your opinion is irrelevant.
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