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[–] [email protected] 184 points 3 months ago (8 children)

So they call him Tampon Tim for having provided sanitary products? Do they think this is somehow insulting or belittling? I'd call myself that and act like it's my superhero name any day. WTF kind of mindset are these people in?

[–] [email protected] 150 points 3 months ago (3 children)

He is going to stop the red wave.

[–] [email protected] 52 points 3 months ago

Oh fucking bravo.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Isn't red associated with communism in the USA? It just gets more confusing.

[–] candybrie 41 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Yeah, but since 2000, it's been the republican color. We were pretty over the whole communism thing at that moment in time.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Valid. It still confuses me regularly though, because I remember "the reds" to be the enemy of the USA.

Having said that, it's probably true either way.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Red is the color of the Republican/Conservative party in the US

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago

Free IUDs! Hell ya.

[–] [email protected] 29 points 3 months ago (1 children)

They hate women.

If you help women, you are worthy of scorn. You might as well be a woman if you like them so much, amirite?

[–] Angry_Autist 4 points 3 months ago

There's only one party that wants to force teen rape victims to give birth, only one.

[–] BetaBlake 25 points 3 months ago (1 children)

He really should start calling himself that at events and interviews, they'll all stop calling him that immediately.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Absolutely, just own up to it. Have the interviewers ask him why that's become his nickname, he can share some background, maybe some anecdotes if he has any. Suddenly, Tampon Tim is a badge of honor.

[–] Thebeardedsinglemalt 1 points 3 months ago

Hopefully not a red-badge

[–] badhops 18 points 3 months ago (2 children)

i have been told that they are also available in the boys bathroom. Having feminine products placed the boys bathroom confuses / emasculates them.

The same group that removes their children from what limited sex education. Same guys that don't wipe their ass because it is too gay

[–] tburkhol 9 points 3 months ago (2 children)

The relevant text of the law is

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.

so, I think "boys bathroom" only in the case where a school has trans-boy without puberty blockers or hormone therapy. Clearly a very edge case, but right-wing propaganda depends on blowing up rare events or special circumstances, pretending they're happening everywhere, all the time, and therefore an immediate threat to the way their audience has always done things.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 months ago

Remember when they were trying to say there was kitty litter boxes for the "Furry kids who identified as cats"

It was only in schools in one specific area, and in order to have a way for students to shit during a school shooting because they were THAT common

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I think I can understand how it would be confusing to someone to have female sanitary products in a male bathroom at a school. I can understand that these people feel like this is part of what influences youth to develop a certain way, and they want to prevent this development at all costs.

But it is really hard to stomach that there are people who think the existence of a tampon in someone's surrounding makes them question their gender, and removing the tampon restores order somehow.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago

I know if I were a kid, I'd just be confused but that's about it. I mean, worst case scenario this is just an excuse for schools to double up on tampons and have more supplies for female students, a demographic that often has its needs ignored.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago (2 children)

I can understand how that would be confusing to someone, but access to a place where you can change a child's diaper, or get a necessary product for your daughter, should not be exclusive to places that are designated for women. Every conservative father should be able to relate to that. But I obviously am unable to relate myself.

[–] Death_Equity 5 points 3 months ago

I would imagine a conservative man does not deal with dirty diapers in public, possibly not in private either. The child would remain with the mother until toilet trained.

The general theme of the conservative meta is not understanding that others have needs different than their own.

[–] CoffeeJunkie 1 points 3 months ago

That's not the conversation, as I've heard it. The real rub is tampons in the boy's bathrooms, in schools, for 4th graders through high schoolers. Not involving diaper change stations or grabbing necessary product for daughters.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Can someone PLEASE make a Tampon Tim shirt already??? I'm ready for the "FUCK Joe Biden" and "Say no to the ho" crowd to tell me my shirt is inappropriate around children.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago

I don't think we should encourage stigmatizing periods

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 months ago

They never progressed or have regressed to a middle school mentality. Literally an insult a kid who just learned about and is skeeved by menstruation would use.

[–] Angry_Autist 5 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

To a regressive, it is an absolute effective mock because they think women things are icky and men associating with them are weak.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 months ago

He should just take that name and run with it haha