• The Assman
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    1961 month ago

    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.

    • Angry_Autist (he/him)
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      211 month ago

      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.

    • @CharlesDarwin
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      21 month ago

      That’s most narratives from most of these goofballs that get their conversation-starters from the likes of Faux, hate radio, Breitbart (does that still exist?) for several decades now, and I’m all too happy that many people of prominence are now acknowledging just how weird that truly is.

  • @[email protected]
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    1741 month ago

    Well he is going to help stem the red wave so I don’t know how this is actually an insult…

    • AmidFuror
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      871 month ago

      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.

        • @TrickDacy
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          161 month ago

          I almost got whooshed by this one.

        • @P1nkman
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          Eating yoghurt is like eating a out a woman in her period - you never know when the klumbs will appear.

            • @P1nkman
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              51 month ago

              It’s fucking disgusting, and I hate myself for remembering it.

      • @[email protected]
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        371 month ago

        Like what the fuck does tampon availability have to do with trans kids? These people are deranged.

        • MisterCrisper
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          361 month ago

          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.

        • @[email protected]
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          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.

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          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.

        • @shalafi
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          61 month ago

          The tampons were available in the boy’s rooms as well.

              • @barsquid
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                151 month ago

                Adult Repubs probably would never touch one out of terror, so they couldn’t have thought of this.

                • @[email protected]
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                  141 month ago

                  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.

                • @[email protected]
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                  91 month ago

                  Exactly. It’s also a great way to normalize the female body in a non sexual way. So of course they hate it

            • @GunValkyrie
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              141 month ago

              That’s their point. They don’t want that.

            • The Quuuuuill
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              111 month ago

              And republicans hate that because it means not torturing trans kids

        • @jj4211
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          21 month ago

          “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”

          They got all pissy because the law didn’t explicitly say “girls bathrooms” and didn’t use any pronouns.

      • @Wogi
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        101 month ago

        Personally I prefer comma jokes. Maybe a good hyphen pun.

      • Angry_Autist (he/him)
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        41 month ago

        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.

    • Angry_Autist (he/him)
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      71 month ago

      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.

      • @Rakonat
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        11 month ago

        Some remind me of this in 3 months.

  • @barsquid
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    1141 month ago

    “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.”

    • Schadrach
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      21 month ago

      Eh, it’ll work well with the TERF-y types, and the general right wing transphobes.

      • @webadict
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        121 month ago

        “Democrats are polling real bad with the fascists.”

        Damn, can’t win 'em all.

      • @jj4211
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        Yeah, but only because they had to really stretch to manufacture outrage.

        “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”

        That doesn’t scream “pro-trans”. It certainly allows for it, but the wording is so neutral that you really have to be thinking to explicitly hate on trans to think this is explicitly out to support trans people.

      • @[email protected]
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        31 month ago

        The Terfs seem to mostly concerned about biological men in the woman’s room, I don’t think they will even care that tampons are in the men’s room as long as they are in the women’s room as well.

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          11 month ago

          Eh, that’s fair. They tend to have some small upset about trans men insofar as trans men make trans women more socially acceptable but you’re right - the primary target of TERF anger is trans women being in women’s spaces because they believe trans women are men, all men are predators, that the purpose of women’s spaces is to keep women safe from predatory men, and that trans women being a thing essentially allows predatory men to put on a costume to gain access to victims in vulnerable positions.

  • @Tylerdurdon
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    761 month ago

    More weirdness. You’d think they would be mindful of how they come off at this point…

    • Nougat
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      311 month ago

      They must want high school students who have a uterus to free bleed all over the place.

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          I think their long-term goal is to just quietly do away with the whole “women being allowed to get an education” thing

      • peopleproblems
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        81 month ago

        “free bleed”

        The nightmare I will now have. Just casual dried blood randomly throughout the places people are

          • peopleproblems
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            41 month ago

            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

    • @[email protected]
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      51 month ago

      They know. It’s just that this is all they have left to try. They’ve alienated all the decent folk.

    • @Rakonat
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      41 month ago

      Their entire brand is being brash and unwashed hatred. They just haven’t quite figured out they are the minority and the swing/independent voters who prevously supported them were hoping they’d do more than talk. Now that they are starting a new offensive on their war on women Im waiting hopefully that it’ll just give Dems a safe majority in both houses so they can finally enact legislation.

  • Jo Miran
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    611 month ago

    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?

    • @takeda
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      431 month ago

      I feel like they were trying to have a response to Diaper Don and this was their best.

    • Schadrach
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      11 month ago

      The other ones I’ve seen going around are that he doesn’t own any major stocks or investments outside pensions and that he got arrested for DUI and speeding…30 years ago. They’re really trying hard and failing.

  • @[email protected]
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    311 month ago

    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!

  • don
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    231 month ago

    Weirdass fucking rightists fantasizing over the creepiest weirdass shit.

  • @hperrin
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    231 month ago

    Tampon Tim is meant to be an insult?

    • @[email protected]
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      221 month ago

      Right?

      One time I had some friends over, one of the gals suddenly got very anxious, and privately asked if I had tampons in the house. Luckily an ex had left a box, and seeing the relief was incredible. If helping others in that way gets him the nickname Tampon Tim, I’m celebrating that shit.

      The ones who think it’s a pejorative are the ones that refuse to buy feminine products for their partners because they’re so “manly”.

  • @reddig33
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    131 month ago

    Just makes them sound like they have the IQ of a six year old. Which might be true.

    • @jeffwOP
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      31 month ago

      IQ is stable throughout your life though

  • @CharlesDarwin
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    71 month ago

    LOL, is that supposed to be some kind of sick burn?

  • @snow_bunny
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    41 month ago

    This is the “logical” conclusion of purity culture.

  • @[email protected]
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    11 month ago

    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