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.
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.
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.
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.
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??
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.
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.
Nobody's being "forced" to do anything.
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.
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 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.
I’d be more worried about my child saying “totally norms” than I would them being within arms reach of a tampon.
What the actual fuck is wrong with these weirdass republicans and their weirdass obsessions?
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.
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.
I'm a 56 DWcisM who lives alone on a sailboat with a cat, and even I have a small box of regular Tampax aboard for guests, just-in-case. So they are in the boy's bathroom, big woop. I hope condoms are in the both/all bathrooms too, but that would be asking too much.
I also have a larger box of generics I use to clean up spills in the boat.
Omg things to help us manage normal bodily functions exist, all our children are going to die!!!
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.
Do you screw in or push in tampons? This thread is like in a screw.
OMG! I posed a big question. Screwdriver or hammer? There are actually 2 types of threads. Is that how it works? It's about practice, not expert opinions.
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?
Everything is rooted in their hatred and fear of women.
yes, but Megyn was talking about boys' bathrooms in schools having tampons, not someone's house where a brother and sister share the same bathroom
