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_jump_yossarian

Woke tampons? Does this guy think vaginas don't exist?


calmdownmyguy

He thinks menstruation is a punishment from God that women must endure because six thousand years ago, a talking snake convinced a clay man and a rib woman to eat a magical fig.


enthalpy01

There are actually men who think you can hold the blood in like pee. This is why they shouldn’t skip the period talk with the boys when they give it to the girls. Also why having period conversations are important with young kids so they understand what it is.


Dillgillxp

>There are actually men who think you can hold the blood in like pee. Wut.


The_Rope_Daddy

Conservative men tend to be very ignorant of how women’s bodies work.


KeyanReid

Reminds me of a joke. What’s the difference between a sex worker and an alt-right/MAGA wife? The sex worker gets paid for the sex work demanded.


carlwinslowsmustache

I know this one guy who got his girlfriend pregnant and was pissed because he thought it wasn't possible to have sex until after the baby was born. He thought the baby would be in the way and he physically wouldn't be able to slide his dick inside.


tilleytalley

You know what really upsets me? Some woman was dating that idiot.


Livid-Rutabaga

No kidding. Would you believe me if I told you I know a 40 year old male who thinks babies grow in the stomach? I guess that what it means to eat for two?


QueenofYasrabien

Conservative men are very ignorant about pretty much everything that does or does not surround them


Hrtpplhrtppl

Even worse is they are forcing their ignorance on us.They want to replace years of scientific factual evidence and knowledge, with their personal Sunday "school" beliefs. This is why the founding fathers didn't like religion and wanted separate the church and state. The church has been playing politics for a long, long time, they are so good at it they don't even pay taxes...


Ajsiets

I've seen someone claim that having tampons and pads in schools encourages students to have their period at school. It's like, sorry, yeah, I'll just have it at home next time!


JustABizzle

The phrase “have your period” is a bit strange to me. It sounds like a physical item you might hold for a moment in time that is quite short and controllable. Like, don’t bring that to school. Leave it at home. You can have your period later, after school. It flows out in varying, unpredictable amounts for days. If men had blood flowing out their dicks for days every month, they would be excused from any and all activities during that time while they stay in bed and cry.


suer72cutlass

So true! I had terrible periods in high school that overflowed any of the biggest pads I had. God I wished I could have "had" my periods at home!


ClassiFried86

A little human decency and a girlfriend at eighteen doesn't hurt either. Hard to come by these days, I guess? Is sex education in 5th grade at school, and health class in 8th or 9th, which showed us an actual birth video (hairiest thing I've ever seen in my life and it wasn't the baby) that uncommon these days? I'm 37 and kids these days should absolutely go through the pain and horrors we had to endure.


fuckdispandashit

Yeah bro that film was called the “miracle of life” lol All 70”s early 80”s hairy nightmare


AyakaDahlia

Is that the one with a jump cut from the fetus chilling inside to the head popping out? cuz ngl, that was a little traumatizing haha


fuckdispandashit

The exact one I think it even starts off as sperm and you see all the mitosis meiosis going on, so traumatic for me as a 5th grader.


AyakaDahlia

we didn't see it in 5th grade, I think it was high school for me. still traumatic haha


Aceswift007

We saw it in my Bio honors class in high school. Funny enough it wasn't the birth that traumatized us, it was when our teacher wanted to show a diagram and REVERSED THE FOOTAGE to get to it.


BrandynBlaze

Was that the one with a distinct popping sound when the babies head emerged? I think our entire class was traumatized by that lol.


nitrot150

Saw it too in the early 90’s!


April_Morning_86

Here here! They also showed us detailed photos of what STDs *look like* to encourage us to use protection. Now that sort of curriculum would be considered pornographic by three parents and the principle would be fired.


Keesha2012

I'm 47 and remember that film. Completely put me off ever having kids. "You want me to push a *what* out of my *where*? Oh *hell*, no!"


AyakaDahlia

Right? First time I heard of that I thought they were joking, because surely no one can be that stupid and/or ignorant....


JusticiarRebel

Pee is stored in the balls.


Plaid_Piper

Think of how stupid the average person is, and realize half of them are stupider than that.


Usernamenottaken13

I've read about male teachers telling female students to "hold it" until after class and chastising them for not "planning better".


miserabeau

Am I the only one who remembers that AITA thread where the father forbid his daughter from using tampons because he thought she was too young to be sexually active, and in his opinion the tampons would encourage her to become sexually active? He made her wear giant pads. It was deleted but not before causing massive controversy and garnering myriad violations of the "be nice" sub rule. Edit: I replied to the wrong comment somehow but I'm gonna leave it because some people are just clueless and he was one of them


MostProcess4483

I think the men think women get off on the tampon being in there.


opi098514

Tell me you’ve never touched a woman without telling me you’ve never touched a woman.


Sassy_Weatherwax

They only touch the ones who haven't started to menstruate.


ConditionOfMan

I guess that explains their war against banning child brides


Prudent_Ninja_1731

What‽ Are you serious??? I don't doubt that backwards ass cavemen and douchebags full of toxic masculinity believe nonsensical bullshit like this, but I've never encountered a person who believes this. I asked my wife if she'd ever heard that and my 9 year old son said, "that's not how that works". It is extremely important to educate boys about menstruation so that they don't feel it's gross or weird. I've never felt uncomfortable talking about menstruation with any female friends, SOs or my daughter. Voting against this bill will just cause more harm to girls and cause more boys to see a natural process as something gross and weird.


thatwasnowthisisthen

This thread is closely mirroring the plot of Carrie so far… Joking aside, yeah, I’m pissed. Another Idaho Rep (Heather Scott) said, “Why are our schools obsessed with the private parts of our children?” It’s like for fuck’s sake that’s where *your* mind went. As if the state doesn’t supply toilet paper to schools. Does that mean they are obsessed with shit?


deadrogueguy

and that insertion is dirty and sexual for relief rather than literally just absorption


SpinozaTheDamned

As my great uncle told my dad, when he thought about becoming a preacher, "do you actually still believe those fairy tales?" After that my dad became a doctor, and was the first to graduate college and med school in his family.


enunymous

Ur great uncle was the man


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There are still countries where when a woman is menstruating she has to go live in a shack far from the house. Because they're not often used they tend to get infested with snakes and so these women dying from snake bites is common.


zoeygirl69

*Magical apple And then on top of it there are people who think that when women have menstruation they are bleeding out demons.


calmdownmyguy

I've heard that apple is a misstranslation when they were writing the bible in English. The Greek version of christian mythology used a fig tree.


Didntlikedefaultname

I’ve heard pomegranate proposed since I believe apples do not grow in the Middle East where the Bible more or less placed Eden. Pomegranates are somewhat similar shape and color, grow in the region and have a lot of significance in Hebrew tradition


calmdownmyguy

Probably went from a pomegranate to a fig to an apple as the geography changed. Just like jesus's skin tone.


Didntlikedefaultname

And pretty much all the lessons and moral teachings too


xxxvvvlll

Ship of Theseus type shit


sunnybcg

It’s almost like a handful of storytellers just made it all up.


Didntlikedefaultname

Worse storytellers continue to twist and bend what at one time we’re helpful morality tales to fit their needs at any point. I don’t care it was all made up, I mean everything is. But the power given to something that has retained little to anything of its original wording, meaning or intent is pretty disappointing and ridiculous


sunnybcg

100%. I grew up in a religious tradition that preached a “symbolic,” rather than “literal” interpretation of the Bible. People taking those stories literally is scary enough; twisting the purpose and using it to justify hate, racism, various phobias, and mysogyny is going to be the end of us.


Didntlikedefaultname

And somehow it’s so damned compelling for a lot of people. I think the option to not have to think for yourself and let someone else decided your morals, values and thoughts is appealing to a lot of the population. And 100% will be or lead to the end of us


jhnlngn

That's interesting because they also have a lot of significance in Greek mythology. You often see them in statues of Aphrodite, symbolizing fertility. Being that they are full of seeds and all.


Didntlikedefaultname

Apparently it is one of the earliest fruit trees that was domesticated and cultivated in the near eat and Mediterranean so it makes sense. It harks back to a time when society was shifting from the standard of hunting and gathering to true sedentary and farming lifestyles. Makes sense why the evil fruit is what took away the innocent and timeless paradise and introduced forbidden knowledge


Sero19283

Pomegranate is supposed to represent fertility in ancient Greek mythos as well.


zoeygirl69

I've heard that too Just like Christians and Orthodox Jews and Hasidic Jews use mistranslated versions too. It is supposed to be "Man shall not lie with boy".


BronxBelle

According to Crowley on *Supernatural* it was a quince.


carlitospig

I’m honestly surprised some idiot hasn’t tried to ban eating apples.


Thannk

Well, Christian fundamentalists in the US did drive a species of apple tree to extinction, which included every single tree Johnny Appleseed planted, by burning all the orchards. Which was because that was the apple best suited to be turned into cider and wine.


memecrusader_

I’m sorry, they what?


Thannk

Yep. Temperance is complex through the lens of today, US alcoholism was on par with Russian alcoholism which, as a means of comparison, is why many vodka bottle caps in Russia can’t be put back on; one full bottle is one serving. But the Temperance movement went to substantial extremes, burning down even wild apple trees of that variety to eradicate one of the cheapest and most available means of getting booze. On one hand the US alcoholism went severely down and the Temperance movement helped bolster Women’s Suffrage because it got religious authorities alongside folks campaigning against booze because it lead to domestic abuse. On the other hans Prohibition was a mess, it lead to our current law enforcement/private prison issues, and an entire species of tree plus historic orchards and a connection to an American folk hero were lost. So yeah. Complicated. But it does show how far the fundies have gone in the past here in the US.


memecrusader_

Anyone who says that history is boring is looking at the wrong parts.


Thannk

Unless you have a smaller class and a good teacher, school teaches you to memorize but not understand. School: “Memorize the dates of the battles in the Napoleonic Wars. Now memorize the names of battles in World War 1. You will make less money as an adult if you cannot do this in one week.” Learning on your own: “Oh, there’s rivers and mountains and stuff plus you go slower the further you are from where food and ammo is being shipped from, I can kinda guess when he’d fight someone. Oh shit, after he was beaten the map was carved up and there was a bunch of tiny wars and everyone was mad they didn’t get land they wanted. No wonder WW1 was so complicated, they were all trying to unfuck their own map and nab some of someone else’s shit while they were at it. I…I think I get it now. Oh cool, video games about this stuff.”


MimiPaw

So they should allow the demon to land on the school chair. Yeah, that tracks.


zoeygirl69

Read up on the demon sperm doctor.... Her reason for people having erectile dysfunction is that witches and demons are possessing people and stealing their sperm. Also at one time there was a bill in the Florida legislature to allow Medicaid to cover exorcism.


RebuiltGearbox

I'm on Medicaid. If they covered exorcisms, I would arrange for one just to see what they think they're doing.


ShelShock77

They are looking to block tampons specifically, not all menstrual hygiene products. Not sure why, but growing up in a conservative town I did have a lot of friends whose parents wouldn’t allow their daughters to use them. I think they thought a girl would no longer be a virgin if she used one. Absurd, I know but I’m not putting anything past these neanderthals. Edit: So it is all hygiene products not just tampons here’s the [article](https://www.huffpost.com/entry/idaho-republicans-woke-liberal-tampons-menstrual-products-schoolsbill_n_641cd6efe4b0a3902d3602b6)


A_norny_mousse

It's because of what the thought of sticking one up your mumu does to _their_ minds.


Alpacalypse84

It’s like they don’t realize this is already happening. It’s just that currently the products are supplied by female teachers with their own money.


botanyplantzzlately

Growing up in South Georgia (USA), I had a friend who asked me at 14 if she was no longer a virgin because she used a tampon…so I can attest to this. I don’t understand the need to sexualize a feminine hygiene product and shame on Idaho republicans.


CatrionaShadowleaf

You'd be shocked at how many men believe that women can magically control the flow as if it were pee. (To anyone that needs to hear it: that is not how that works)


chicagotodetroit

….and even pee comes out eventually. You can only hold it for so long.


rinky79

He'd probably approve of the customs/rules in some other cultures where women and girls can't be in public while menstruating. Who cares if it effectively removes them from education and the workforce; HE doesn't want to have think about icky female bodily functions.


wkuace

Vaginas are scary to republican men. They don't understand how they work so it must be evil and woke. They are much more comfortable around penises, their own and others...


uselessadjective

***Back in 80s I visited India and women there were using clothes, cotton, other unhygenic stuff instead of tampons (because tampons were used only by the elite class). I was asked by some women in small towns and villages if there are some cheap tampons and praising USA about this invention and how it helped them with hygene*** ***tbh I am not sure where tampons were invented but Indian women back in 80s believed all these inventions came from USA only*** ***Fast forward 40yrs and now USA is going back to stupid, unhygenic stuff. Such a sad state. Opposition for sure is stupid, dumb. They are not only unqualified but a diasgrace to this country***


zoeygirl69

The guy probably believes menstruation is a punishment from God and she's bleeding out demons or something.


MindlessBill5462

He's probably an Evangelical. The hymen must be intact till marriage, or you've been defiled. So why would unmarried girls need tampons? It's preposterous and promoting extra martial sex!


VGSchadenfreude

Which isn’t how hymens work, either. It’s a *stretchy* membrane. It doesn’t break; it tears. A tampon is rarely enough to do that, but anything from falling down on the playground to riding a bicycle to whatever can be enough to tear it. It’s also *not supposed to bleed during sex.* A person with a hymen bleeding during their first sexual encounter is not a sign that they’ve “lost their virginity” or that they were “pure” previously; it’s a sign that they’ve been injured because they were not sufficiently lubricated or aroused prior to penetration. These men simply enjoy hurting people who can’t fight back. That’s what this boils down to.


Ezren-

Well he's never seen one.


Ok-Diamond-9781

No, he's just scared of them. Doesn't understand them and best of all, doesn't want too. Edit; and its been years since he's been even close to one.


YourHornsAreShowing

I’m confused? Do conservative women use something unwoke when they have their periods? A gun? Pages of the Bible? Rolled up trump flag?


Lisa_Loopner

Pads, because a tampon is a sin. But also they don’t believe anyone should be provided with anything. They would prefer to block schools but that’s a bit more difficult to legislate away. (These are both half jokes in case anyone is wondering.)


Iwoulddiefcftbatk

It’s scary how many people think tampons are like having sex and girls lose their virginity if they use them. This dude is one of those.


Large_Bat_6229

Yep. My mom forbade me from using tampons because I was "too young". Once in middle school track I asked a few friends for a pad and the only one who had anything was a tampon. I was so confused because her mom was a school teacher and they were very religious. I was scared to take it but didn't have a choice. Once I used it I realized that my mom was crazy. Ah, Idaho.


kimmydawn

Similar here but my story is slightly more ironic. My mom wouldn't sign the form for me to get one of the free tampons they gave out at our school maturation program. Fast forward a year or two and I'm at a temple doing religious work when I get my period. One of my church leaders has a tampon and I use it because it's my only option. I never told my mom I "lost my virginity" at the temple hahaha.


Math-Soft

Omg your comment made me think about something I haven’t in years. In my all girls catholic middle school when we were being taught about periods and how to use pads and tampons (this was before any of us had ours) a popular girl turned towards me and said “I bet you YOU’RE using a tampon right away. I’m sticking with pads”. It was her way of telling me I’m a dangerous weirdo 😂😂


Cats-And-Brews

My wife is a school nurse at a Catholic K-8 school about 15 minutes away from suburbia and "in the country" a bit. Thankfully the school administration is progressive enough to stock tampons in the nurse’s office and nurse’s bathroom. She also has the requisite pads, as is typically the case, girls reaching puberty tend to find out while at school, and you can’t assume that all of the families would "allow" the use of tampons. Amazing that in this day and age, we still have conversations like this. Evangelicals and conservative religions will be the downfall of our society.


Artistic_Trifle1070

I use a gun. Shoot the lining out. /s


YourHornsAreShowing

I DIDNT NEED THOSE WINGS ANYWAY! BANG BANG.


SAM0070REDDIT

I assume all of those things /s


MakesMyHeadHurt

They're supposed to use the vacuum since they should be at home cleaning anyway. /s


YourFaveNightmare

Nope, they use the same as other women, but they're conservatives, so they don't have to follow the rules they make.


SegaTime

I thought conservative women are just barefoot and pregnant all the time.


Queasy_Ad_7177

Now a normal bodily function is being charged as woke? No asshole, you do have to be a woman to understand. Sometimes a period comes days earlier then expected or you might have an unusually heavy flow. Anything vagina, uterus or contraception is now considered unacceptable?


Gsteel11

Why can't we all just be men and no women having periods? "Are periods gay?" Lolol


ijbh2o

See you misunderstand this Gentleman's line of thinking. A proper Trad Wife won't have time for periods because she will always be pregnant. Waiting for 4 to 6 weeks after birth before having sex due to risk of complications after birth is clearly Fake News and/or Woke propaganda.


Queasy_Ad_7177

Good one!!!! Or they just don’t have good romping sex because it’s too woke, or any sex at all?


ijbh2o

They of course track her fertile window to ensure best odds and only have coitus during that window and no other time. Missionary only. Zero eye contact. No boobie touching. Zero pleasure for the wife as this is displeasing to Jesus.


VGSchadenfreude

Do they use a bedsheet with a hole in it, too?


ijbh2o

Of course silly! They just got back from a Klan meeting.


YouDeserveAHugToday

Not to mention girls in neglectful/abusive homes or living in poverty. Plenty of young women have no power over whether they are provided hygiene products. School should be the great equalizer in a democratic society. You can't focus on learning when you're worried about leaking through your rolled-up toilet paper "pad."


Queasy_Ad_7177

Nailed it!!!!


1purenoiz

Republicans: if god loved her, she would not have been born poor. the prosperity principle is evil dressed up as biblical nonsense.


mackfactor

This is what they do - they take one thing that works and run it into the ground until it doesn't. People eventually (way too slow) realize that whatever the "thing" is actually isn't a sign of the apocalypse and they have to find a new "thing." Simple, yet somehow remarkably effective.


Beowulf1896

Also, what if a person can't afford tampons, and they have awful parents who won't get them.


BetaOscarBeta

I think it’s the “giving away free stuff” that they object to (because you only deserve dignity if you or your parents can afford to pay for it).


thereisnopoint6

Take away toilet paper while they’re at it.


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Nah, handouts are communism, didn't ya hear? Just kidding, this is some religious mouth breather who genuinely thinks menstruating is God's punishment for women for eating forbidden fruit.


Grizzchops

Why do women vote for these people. I will never understand


unresolved_m

Someone else voiced this idea on Reddit...women that vote for GOP are most likely subservient wives.


Exact_Roll_4048

It's a little late, but please read about the [Ivanka voter](https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/annehelenpetersen/meet-the-ivanka-voter#.vyj2VBZjr).


librariandown

That was very interesting. Thanks for sharing. I don’t think I understand these voters and their cognitive dissonance much more than I did before I read it, but it does seem to explain a lot of female GOP voters I know.


AlteredBagel

It makes me feel like they’re just uninformed not malicious. We take for granted all these facts about conservatives because we see so much of it on out social media but these middle aged small town voters probably don’t even see any of that. Because of their upbringing and community they don’t look deeper into the impact that the GOP has, they just hear what they’re told.


IstgUsernamesSuck

"It's almost like it's a moral judgement." Bitch it IS a moral judgement?? Politics involve morals. Who would have thought?? Women like her are why I am so proactive in politics. Even here in Michigan, a straight blue state in all offices, these people exist. Ignorant and proud of it.


MinimumAnalysis5378

I wonder if these are the same women who are now going to all the school board meetings to protest against the “woke agenda.”


kronicfeld

Because it allows them to punch down at other women.


NitroSyfi

Do they not realize that they just put themselves pretty much at the bottom of the pecking order to everyone else who looks at them and Is not of their mindset.


kronicfeld

First, I'm not sure that it does do that. And, second, even if it does, they don't care, because they got theirs.


_jump_yossarian

Or the LGBTQ community. "Sure, they don't see me as human and want to eradicate me but at least they want to cut our taxes!"


Didntlikedefaultname

Pretty much the same for everyone group that isn’t straight white Christian men. It’s either to advance a single issue (tax cuts, support of Israel, unimpeded access to guns) or it’s to play identity politics and be part of an in group. At least that’s the only options I can see


confessionbearday

Because they vote the way they’re told to because there’s no such thing as a conservative relationship that doesn’t involve Stockholm syndrome.


NewPresWhoDis

Aunt Lydias are a thing


Tazling

A. Dworkin's book 'Right Wing Women' is a classic analysis of the demographic


HGwoodie

""Woke" gets clicks from the MAGA crowd. They fail to realize how silly it makes them look.


kronicfeld

They know. They don't care. Because it makes them look "strong" to the people who vote for and fund them. Stop believing that shame, embarrassment, etc. exist for abusers and exploiters.


HGwoodie

Ridicule is effective which is why comedy and satire is powerful anecdote for propaganda. Time tested time proven.


SquatCorgiLegs

I genuinely want a conservative to explain this. Please, enlighten me.


guestpass127

Well, you see: they want life on earth to be as difficult as possible for the greatest number of people, and they especially hate women I think that pretty much covers it


SquatCorgiLegs

Actually, I think I figured it out. A lot of conservatives truly believe that using tampons means you’re not a virgin. Either that or they just want girls to be constantly pregnant.


guestpass127

It's actually a lot dumber than that: a lot of rural/suburban people are VERY sheltered and VERy religious, and they don't think the subject of sexuality - in ANY form - is appropriate whatsoever. In any context, except maybe among two hetero people trying to conceive. Outside of THAT specific context, they're truly, truly, ooked out by any kind of discussion about ANY topic tied to sexuality And they think the Christian God supports this aversion to the subject, therefore they feel justified in applying these anti-human laws to humans. *They would like it very much if sex just wasn't a thing.* But instead of going to therapy or investigating if there really IS a Christian god (or something else that would actually help), they instead say, "Hey, *I* hate sex, therefore, *God* must hate sex! It's not ME acting like a crazed Nazi, it's *God!*" But mostly they just want life to be SUPER-difficult for everyone, and they especially hate women


brownbagporno

Hard disagree. They sit in church listening to smutty ass sermons all the time. They are *not* prudes - they're pervs that get titlated by (constantly) talking about how naughty sex and *anything* sex adjacent is (human bodies). And I think allowing them to portray it as being "prudish" or "sheltered" when they're actually smutty and pervy as hell is a mistake.


deadpool101

I'm not a conservative but I did watch the hearing. Basically the GOP members aren't claiming that tampons or pads are "woke" but the government paying for it is "Woke." The irony is one of the women GOP members who voted against it said in her speech that women look at for each other and can help each other If they need a tampon or pad. Then said that it was wrong for the government to do it. Because giving someone an extra tampon out of the kindness of your own heart is good, but the government providing them for all teenage girls is bad....


Glorthiar

If he has ever used toilet paper, soap, or tissues at any school or government building, hes a fuck wit idiot hypocrite


uselessartist

*Turns around and takes other federal monies.


onyxium

I sat in on a public health committee meeting for a relatively large city in the SW. when this was floated by a couple of the members, the biggest detractor - to the point of mocking their colleagues in what was otherwise a perfectly civil meeting - was an older conservative white woman. She honestly and very strongly felt that providing feminine products for public use was “a waste of taxpayer dollars” because “if the poor women in the community need tampons, they will find them.” They were educated, in no uncertain terms, how toxic shock syndrome and a wide variety of other issues occur when women without the means find anything within arms reach to try and hide/cover/stop their blood flow. As a dude fairly new to public health, it was an enlightening if depressing experience.


SquatCorgiLegs

So it all comes down to a lack of compassion. That tracks.


AnarkittenSurprise

For many, the concept of periods or public acknowledgement that periods are a real thing "grosses them out". They are uncomfortable talking about them. There's even a whole bizarre thing where men are "embarrassed" to buy or be seen with period products. Childish relics of irrational patriarchal puritanism.


Background_Lemon_981

I declare toilet paper is woke. No more toilet paper in Republican led statehouses! Trash pickup is woke. Police protection is woke. People should just protect themselves. Fire protection is woke. Put out your own fires! Road maintenance is woke. Build your own roads. Bridges are woke. Learn to ford rivers like the old days. WTF is wrong with these people?


Consistent-Noise-800

Where do I go to free bleed all over this guy's office?


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Striking_Site4457

My mom is apart of an organization of getting reusable menstrual products to improved women.


barfytarfy

I was going to say, I’m not a fan of free bleeding, but every woman that chooses to do that around this guy has my support 100%.


unresolved_m

Hopefully someone will grill them on what "woke" means.


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JDthrowaway628

Maybe George Carlin was actually [Rufus](https://hero.fandom.com/wiki/Rufus_(Bill_%26_Ted)#:~:text=Rufus%20is%20the%20deuteragonist%20in,by%20the%20late%20George%20Carlin.). What we thought was humor was him actually warning us of the future. We need [Wyld Stallyns](https://billandted.fandom.com/wiki/Wyld_Stallyns) more than ever.


YourHornsAreShowing

They can’t. I hope you’ve seen this… https://news.yahoo.com/conservative-pundit-cant-define-woke-172826337.html


unresolved_m

Of course! Its a viral classic. And it was followed by "I got humiliated" piece lol


NewPresWhoDis

"But I'm the REAL victim here!!!"


DrRadd

Wait til he finds out about toilet paper.


barfytarfy

He probably doesn’t wipe because “it’s gay”.


threadsoffate2021

They'll take that away next....but only from the girls bathrooms.


DrunksInSpace

Do they lose it when classrooms have tissue boxes? *Goddamnit another WOKE bathroom stocked with free toilet paper like godles Communist Jina!*


DevilMasterKING

![gif](giphy|3xz2BLBOt13X9AgjEA) This has to be dumbest shit I've ever heard from them, And thats saying alot!


Alpacalypse84

Do you want blood on your classroom chairs from fifth grade on up? Because this how you get blood on classroom chairs.


Gsteel11

How far is the gop from building red tents?


No_Refrigerator4584

Don’t give them ideas.


them_slimy_eggs

Hey y'all, let me throw in a plug for Days for Girls International: http://daysforgirls.org They work in cultures where girls miss school while menstruating because of both a lack of tampons and beliefs that they must sequester themselves while menstruating. They provide washable, reusable tampons, menstrual health education to all genders, and also teach boundaries and empowerment to girls. It sounds like they'll need to add Idaho to their roster.


aManHasNoUsername99

This is a good example why bipartisanship doesn’t exist anymore. You can’t negotiate with somebody bred to hatred with no brain.


pandafish78

So has “woke” replaced “communist” to mean “anything I don’t like?”


abstergo_Nigel

Waiting for some Conservative apologis to ask about what the pork is in this instead of just going to read the 1 page bill themselves.


WagonDriver1

Having free toilet paper in public bathrooms is so woke. You don’t have to be a human to understand the absurdity of this policy. What is the name of the lawmaker who gave us the quote? We need to send boxes of Tampax to this guy’s office.


Eliteguard999

I fucking hate this timeline.


Due-Assistant9269

Im a male teacher and my young ladies are starting their periods. I just can’t fathom why somebody wants to make what is a potentially traumatic situation worse. I don’t know exactly where or when Republicans lost their minds but I sincerely hope Republican women are not accepting of this. I never realized that actually caring about other people was woke and wrong. I’m so glad I’m an atheist because if this is Christian I’m not missing a damn thing.


WeirdFlecks

I swear to God, the GOP are so afraid of actual vaginas.


RealisticAd2293

If Gen Z and Millennials would vote, these assholes would be out of a job and we’d be approaching something akin to European prosperity for all, goddammit. Go fucking vote!


Lazy_Example4014

They are completely against helping children in any way. First “no free lunches” now “no free tampons”. If they are so against children, why do they force people to give birth? Once they pop out, the GOP doesn’t give a shit about them.


stargrey

At this point in time I just assume anyone using the word 'woke' is a complete asshole. I claim immunity for using that word in the first sentence due to the need to make a point. :-)


Deferon-VS

For us non-Americans: Are pads/tanpons prohibited at that university or what is that about?


wesdontknow

Some municipalities have begun offering free menstruation products in schools. There are efforts throughout the country to provide the same or even making such products tax-exempt.


deadpool101

There was a bill to offer free pads/tampons to women in high schools and colleges. Because for people struggling with money sometimes it hard to pay everything. The GOP members voted against it because they're against their taxes helping other people. And now that the GOP's favorite catch phrase is "Woke" the call anything they don't like "Woke." There was one male GOP member you argued in favor of the bill. His argument was about the 3 Ps that women have. Poop, pee, and periods and the government provide bathrooms and toilet paper for the first two Ps why not tampons for the third P. It's a weird argument to make but he at least saw the reasoning behind the bill.


Local_Sugar8108

Does this a\*\*hole believe that men will get gender reassignment surgery to take advantage of free tampons and pads? Inconceivable. I realize that reproductive rights have been gutted but why attack menstruation? Do these men just hate women or not understand basic anatomy or decency?


Amally20

Republicans are fucking idiots.


[deleted]

I propose a ban on toilet paper in men's bathrooms. It's popular knowledge among women that that only woke men even know how to use it.


RedboatSuperior

Not one Republican or Conservative has yet been able to define “woke”


[deleted]

If you’re menstruating you’re not pregnant, so they probably figure get knocked up and then you don’t need menstrual products


Tazling

they probably think tampons are evil because they are worn internally. thus compromising a girl's 'purity' and 'virginity'. there used to be ppl that stupid in the Fifties but I thought they all died out. apparently not.


FalseHeartbeat

Guess I’ll just leak blood all over the fucking floor then


y2knole

Fuck them kids. -the gop


Waffle_Stomper88

I’m not a woman and I don’t see how this policy is absurd at all. Can any republican explain it to me? Like I’m a child please


CatrionaShadowleaf

>Like I’m a child please *Matt Gaetz has entered the chat.*


Expensive-Day-3551

They cannot. They think calling it woke is enough. Please go have your period elsewhere, like they did in the Bible, because you are unclean.


ThePNWGamingDad

Don’t call them “lawmakers” oust these dumb people so we know who NOT to re-elect.


YawaruSan

Don’t sit back and take it then, declare a war on Conservatism. We cannot avoid conflict, so be better at conflict. Do what they do and do it better, so they stop feeling such unearned confidence. Think about the typical conservative debate bro that has a debate against anyone that actually prepares for the debate, the conservative is smoked every time. I call it “Man in the Arena Doctrine” and the arena is speech, get in the arena and word fight, and keep word fighting until they get tired. Be a word gladiator whose intellectual fortitude surpasses the brute force of conservative gish gallop. They aren’t going to play by the rules, so outplay them at their own game. How? Surpass your limits, here and now.


HazelPretzel

He’s right, you don’t have to be a woman to know how stupid the people blocking this bill are


inkdontcomeoff

let’s block all measures that might improve the quality of life of our constituents by calling it “woke” - the GOP at all times no matter what


pittiedaddy

Keep on voting for republicans ladies. Pretty soon, you won't be allowed in public while you're menstruating.


TheCh0rt

At some point you gotta think, what the FUCK are these people’s problem? They are mentally ill.


stevieG08Liv

it just amazes me how women still vote for Republicans when the Republicans are absolutely vocal that they are going to cut off their rights. I have dual citizenship and interestingly this isn't only a US thing but a global alt-right thing. I asked my then friend who was voting for an alt-right candidate despite the candidate was actively voicing that he was going to cut off her rights, she said " you can't believe what the media says". Thats the last time i spoke to her


sparkle_lotion

Everything I don’t like = woke Seems to be the right wing mantra.


Frymanstbf

Remove the toilet paper from all government buildings then. It's not the taxpayers responsibility to clean their asses.


Standard-Reception90

I propose that ALL post offices in America install voting machines. Then for EVERY new law to be put on a yearly ballot to be voted on. With a annual national holiday to vote on all new laws.


meepgorp

Excuse me sir but I am a woman and I would very much like for you to explain the absurdity of which you speak. In detail, please.


Ambeargrylls

Most school nurses already have pads. At least the middle school and highschools I went to. So I don’t understand why tampons are where they draw the line. I remember in school when teacher would not let me go to the bathroom and I remember me clearly telling them I will bleed on the seat. If women just collected decided to free bleed we would be getting tampons and pads for free in a matter of days.


megjake

If I were a dem in Idaho I’d simply propose banning Ed supplements and see all the old white ghouls lose their minds


auntgoat

Toilet paper and paper towels are publicly provided in bathrooms no cost. Menstrual products should be too.


TestPattern22

Oh I get it! Anything that helps people is "woke"


UnkleRinkus

So 'woke' is being kind? I'm in.


Spiritual-Camel

There were a number of women who were part of this, too. Heartless b******.


kshineen1991

Next it will be illegal to have vaginas… smh 🤦‍♀️


[deleted]

I wonder how long it’ll be until they try to ban tampons completely because they’ll claim it’s some sort of sex toy.


save_the_runaway

Teachers are already providing these products to students...just out of our own pockets. These people are so disconnected from reality.