I live in CA, so #TamponTim's inspiration is our public school system. Last year my child's high school put pads and tampons in the boys bathrooms, for all those "people who menstruate." You won't be surprised to hear what happened next...1/
The maxi pads were the first casualties. Boys have an idea what they do/where they go, but when they're actually holding one in their hands they realize something amazing-these things stick 2/
In short order maxi pads were everywhere - stuck to lockers, chairs, the floor. Boys were sticking them to each other's backs or phones. Some even used them to spell out messages. The janitors - who already rightly hate public school teens - were furious 3/
If you're working as a janitor, you're probably a pretty practical person already. Clearly the janitorial team sensed putting maxi pads in a high school boys bathroom was a bad idea. Clearly they understood the reality of that bad idea was literally theirs to clean up. 4/
They spent days unsticking maxi pads from every corner of the school 5/
Tampons were a bit different, seemed more of a curiosity. They even have some practical applications for athletes. Mostly dumb boys just tried to gross each other out with them, bc teenage boys are dumb and the mere notion of girl anatomy makes them dumber 6/
I have heard the school eventually removed the products. It is a sad testament to our modern culture that an institution tasked with educating our children had to learn the hard way that teenage boys are stupid and you have to mitigate their opportunities for stupidity 7/
In typical Marxist fashion a group of powerful Karens made up a problem that didn't exist, "solved" the problem and created a bunch of new ones to which the only solution is to return to the original design. #TamponTim is funny, but its the result of a lot of dangerous thinking
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