Tampons to be provided for men at US university.(mod warning in op.)

Jimmy Garlic · 11-09-2016 02:17AM #1

I thought this was a joke at first, but apparently it is real.

Viet Nguyen, President of the Undergraduate Council of Students, announced the initiative in a campus-wide email Tuesday, saying he wants to communicate the message that not all people who menstruate are women,

By putting menstrual products in women’s, men’s, and gender-inclusive bathrooms, Nguyen aims to “set a tone of trans-inclusivity, and not forget that they’re an important part of the population,” but is under no illusions that the effort will be universally popular.

http://www.campusreform.org/?ID=8105

When did men start menstruating?

Mod-Thread reopened. Going forward there will be zero tolerance for abuse of trans people or jokes at their expense. Consider this your one and only warning.

Fleawuss · 11-09-2016 02:24AM

The toilet is the 21st century battleground. The days of the quiet dump are over.

longshanks · 11-09-2016 02:32AM

This is what happens when successive generations of idiots nobody ever said no to are allowed an opinion.

SeanW · 11-09-2016 02:33AM

Jimmy Garlic wrote: »

I thought this was a joke at first, but apparently it is real.

Indeed any person would.

http://www.campusreform.org/?ID=8105

When did men start menstruating?

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Jimmy Garlic · 11-09-2016 02:34AM

Do you put the tampon in your arse or what

Vic_08 · 11-09-2016 02:44AM

Yet another Gender war topic, how original.

The title and opening post is misleading as well, tampons are being put in men's toilets for use by f-m transgender, nobody is confused about who needs to use them.

Then again maybe that is the problem, did Jimmy get himself in a situation where he was confused about someone's gender and is now butthurt over it?

Honestly, who cares about this sort of frivolous nonsense? A college wants to put a tampon vending machine in a toilet, what of it?

I'm guessing that most people using a male public bathroom that may need a tampon probably bring their own and would not want to draw attention to themselves by taking one from a dispenser anyway.

gctest50 · 11-09-2016 02:47AM

Jimmy Garlic wrote: »

........

When did men start menstruating?

Looking back on some of the threads here, 'bout 2011 maybe

mansize · 11-09-2016 03:29AM

Tampons are great for stopping nosebleeds also

suicide_circus · 11-09-2016 03:50AM

This issue must affect a lot of people

Grayson · 11-09-2016 03:55AM

They're putting them in all bathrooms. The reason is that they should be free like toilet paper. They're a product people need. They put them in the mens bathrooms too because there may be women-men trans people. It's not a bad idea to put them in every bathroom. Every woman under a certain age required them on a regular basis.

They're not all men to use them or want them. They're expecting a very small number to. It doesn't seem that bad. there may be some trans people who go to mens bathrooms who need them. It's not like it's a huge deal to put them in there.

Sunflower 27 · 11-09-2016 04:25AM

Bloody ridiculous

Jimmy Garlic · 11-09-2016 04:29AM

Grayson wrote: »

They're putting them in all bathrooms. The reason is that they should be free like toilet paper. They're a product people need. They put them in the mens bathrooms too because there may be women-men trans people. It's not a bad idea to put them in every bathroom. Every woman under a certain age required them on a regular basis.

They're not all men to use them or want them. They're expecting a very small number to. It doesn't seem that bad. there may be some trans people who go to mens bathrooms who need them. It's not like it's a huge deal to put them in there.

They should put urinals in the ladies in case any genderfluid or genderqueer people want to go in there and piss standing up. It's only fair.

blinding · 11-09-2016 04:31AM

Good marketing.....

Sand for Arabs....anybody

Charging Irish people for water......It doesn't fall from the sky in Ireland and pretty much constantly attempts to drown you ...Irish men could use the soakage (of the tampons )

Special Circumstances · 11-09-2016 06:48AM

Jimmy Garlic wrote: »

They should put urinals in the ladies in case any genderfluid or genderqueer people want to go in there and piss standing up. It's only fair.

Indeed, seems only logical once one starts on this line of thinking.

Furthermore, obviously if "not all people who menstruate are women" then manufacturers of menstruation products should be compelled to show people other than women as the central characters of their ads. It's surely discrimination otherwise, right?

Gillette should start showing strong brave beardy ladies shaving their faces, and Always can show how their product gave a gang of lads the confidence to win the rugby match and tackle a load of pints afterwards?

mr_edge_to_you · 11-09-2016 07:06AM

Ah here. The world has gone mad anyway at this stage some anything is possible.

Male student: I'm going to the toilet. Does anyone need anything?

Female student: Ye, would you grab me a tampon please. Good lad!

suicide_circus · 11-09-2016 07:16AM

Would tampon dispensers in the ladies bathroom not be a source of shame spiral trigger for m-f trans people as they don't get to use tampons?

dr.bollocko · 11-09-2016 07:18AM

mr_edge_to_you wrote: »

Ah here. The world has gone mad anyway at this stage is possible.

Male student: I'm going to the toilet. Does anyone need anything?

Female student: Ye, would you grab me a tampon please. Good lad!

Yes the possibility of such a zany conversation happening truly means the end of the world is nigh.

qo2cj1dsne8y4k · 11-09-2016 07:27AM

Be more in their line lowering the tax on an essential product

PowerToWait · 11-09-2016 07:28AM

blinding wrote: »

Good marketing.....

Sand for Arabs....anybody

Charging Irish people for water......It doesn't fall from the sky in Ireland and pretty much constantly attempts to drown you ...Irish men could use the soakage (of the tampons

What in the fūck are you on about?

You get to Irish Water from TG issues in the United States, in under 15 posts. Get a life.

harry Bailey esq · 11-09-2016 07:30AM

Jimmy Garlic wrote: »

Do you put the tampon in your arse or what

So it would seem jimmy,i can see the Cohen brothers writing a script about this and putting it on the big screen. A bunch of drunken frat boys armed with tampons,low brow hilarity ensues.

Tordelback · 11-09-2016 07:40AM

No-one's forcing you to use them, OP. It seems like a simple bit of consideration to me, especially in an environment where which bathroom you can use can become a political issue.

May make someone else's life easier + affects me in no way whatsoever = good.

mr_edge_to_you · 11-09-2016 07:53AM

Tordelback wrote: »

It seems like a simple bit of consideration to me, especially in an environment where which bathroom you can use can become a political issue.

Using the bathroom shouldn't be a political issue. It's a very simple thing.

storker · 11-09-2016 08:48AM

Fleawuss wrote: »

The toilet is the 21st century battleground. The days of the quiet dump are over.

If it's a battleground, then perhaps a loud, smelly one is called for...

Mongfinder General · 11-09-2016 09:02AM

I've heard that Years of bum sex can loosen the 'ol anal pipe. Maybe the tampons are being used to keep an untimely load at bay.

Curly Judge · 11-09-2016 09:21AM

Tordelback wrote: »

No-one's forcing you to use them, OP. It seems like a simple bit of consideration to me, especially in an environment where which bathroom you can use can become a political issue.

May make someone else's life easier + affects me in no way whatsoever = good.

By the same logic we should have jock-strap dispensers in every female toilet?

El_Duderino 09 · 11-09-2016 09:21AM

Jimmy Garlic wrote:

They should put urinals in the ladies in case any genderfluid or genderqueer people want to go in there and piss standing up. It's only fair.

Good suggestion.

Tordelback wrote:

May make someone else's life easier + affects me in no way whatsoever = good.

Why would it cost a non transgendered man a second thought? I see lots of services that I don't use and I don't get stroppy about them existing.

mr_edge_to_you wrote:

Using the bathroom shouldn't be a political issue. It's a very simple thing.

You're right. It should never have been an issue for anyone let alone a political issue.

Mongfinder General wrote:

I've heard that Years of bum sex can loosen the 'ol anal pipe. Maybe the tampons are being used to keep an untimely load at bay.

Yeah. It's probably best not to take the bike shed sex ed classes seriously.

Wibbs · 11-09-2016 09:39AM

Tordelback wrote: »

especially in an environment where which bathroom you can use can become a political issue.

Now there's a sentence I never thought I'd read… I suppose it shows that western society and a chunk of its citizens have so little to actually be concerned about that they go looking for concerns and inflate them to the point of overreaction. A culture that's become that dawny wheezy kid in glass allergic to harmless stuff in the environment.

LexieOnRale wrote:

Be more in their line lowering the tax on an essential product

Ahh here, don't be daft Lex. That would be something practical that would positively affect 50% of the people, rather than a teeny minority*. Plus it would cost more money. Can't have that. And it wouldn't get nearly so many column inches and people tipping over themselves to condemn it/praise it from their skyscraper steeds. Better to craw thump on the cheap, and loudly, to our Church of the Culturally sensitive.

I fear history in black face may gaze upon this daftness in western society as Ben Stiller in such a fashion

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oAKG-kbKeIo

*who themselves aren't particularly vocal. It's the craw thumpers being offended and self flagellating on their behalf who whine the most and loudest.

thee glitz · 11-09-2016 09:46AM

blinding wrote: »

Sand for Arabs....anybody

Saudi Arabia import sand, camels too, from Australia.

Harvey Normal · 11-09-2016 11:09AM

suicide_circus wrote: »

Would tampon dispensers in the ladies bathroom not be a source of shame spiral trigger for m-f trans people as they don't get to use tampons?

Its clearly triggering.

podgeandrodge · 11-09-2016 11:15AM

I thought I was in Bargain Alerts for a minute.

padd b1975 · 11-09-2016 11:21AM

If they want to be taken seriously as real women,they should start behaving like real women do once a month.

They should become completely irrational and take to the bed in 10 year old smalls.

Problem solved.

Tampons to be provided for men at US university.(mod warning in op.)

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