The Irony of Republicans' 'Tampon Tim' Insult
Far from being mocked, menstrual equity enjoys broad bipartisan support in the U.S., writes Jennifer Weiss-Wolf.
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.
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.
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.
Well he is going to help stem the red wave so I don’t know how this is actually an insult…
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.
Period jokes can be bloody hell
And the parties misogyny views for all woman that aren't barefooted babymakers at home waiting on their "man".
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.
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.
Some remind me of this in 3 months.
"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."
We're definitely not going to outlaw abortion, though.
Eh, it'll work well with the TERF-y types, and the general right wing transphobes.
"Democrats are polling real bad with the fascists."
Damn, can't win 'em all.
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.
More weirdness. You'd think they would be mindful of how they come off at this point...
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.
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?
Wow.. that’s the best they can come up?
I feel like they were trying to have a response to Diaper Don and this was their best.
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.
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!
Weirdass fucking rightists fantasizing over the creepiest weirdass shit.
Tampon Tim is meant to be an insult?
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".
Just makes them sound like they have the IQ of a six year old. Which might be true.
IQ is stable throughout your life though
Accidentally complimenting your opponent when you really wanted to burn and bury him.
LOL, is that supposed to be some kind of sick burn?
This is the "logical" conclusion of purity culture.
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
Fyi, the reason it's noteworthy is he put them in boys toilets and boys don't menstruate. Which is weird
Transmasc students who use boys toilets still menstruate unless on some serious hormone therapy.
Really this country should gave gone to unisex toilets generations ago
Really this country should gave gone to unisex toilets generations ago
The reality of this is that it would end up like divisions in sports and other competitive activities and we'd have a women's restroom and a unisex restroom. Because some women want to avoid the opposite sex and society will broadly respect that because they are women.
If schools did switch to all unisex toilets, then we'd just be a complaint and a lawsuit away from official Title IX policy being that girls toilets are mandatory regardless of whether or not there are unisex toilets but boys toilets are not if unisex toilets are available and to do otherwise is sex discrimination because of some arbitrary excuse containing the word "historic" to explain why discrimination is not discrimination so long as it benefits girls.
This guy also doesn't support free lunches for kids in school. Says the majority don't need them, so we shouldn't provide them at all.
I gotta say, you sure have some terrible takes, my friend.
When my kids were in elementary school so many of the students were on free or reduced price lunch they just decided to give every kid a free breakfast and lunch. And even though I could afford the lunches it was great because I didn't have to get them breakfast before school and I didn't have to make sure their lunch money account was topped up.
So even if you don't need them they're a really nice thing to have, IMHO.
Who actually gives a shit? Not the least because transboys do exist, but also because having people reduce the stigma around feminine hygiene products is a net benefit to everyone.
If women know you always have a tampon or pad you will meet so many more women.
Actually, he didn't explicitly do so.
"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 distric"
That sounds like a perfectly reasonable phrasing.
There is no particularly pro-trans wording or explicitly declaring mens rooms to also have it, the phrasing is supremely neutral.
Fair enough
Back at my school, we use to have fight club in the bathroom. If we had tampons it would have saved a bunch of TP to stop bloody noses. We weren't so forward thinking back in the 90s sadly.
Thank you for revealing your transphobia so I can block you.
Go crazy
I'm not deleting your comment just so you see how many people disagree with you and keep reading the replies. It's 2024, not the nineteenth century, and transphobia and misoginia only makes you and everyone else worse off.
Am I supposed to take this as a kindness or some kind of threat? I couldn't give a rats fart what any of the loonies on this site think anything I say
I came here thinking it may me a more sane alter to Reddit, holy shit I was wrong.
This is like 2016 tumbler, but you all think then world is like this
It's not weird if you have non-binary kids using the boys restroom.
Here's the Republican logic:
Trans kids shouldn't exist.
Trans kids shouldn't be allowed to transition.
Trans kids shouldn't be allowed puberty blockers.
Trans kids shouldn't have access to basic health products necessary for human dignity.
Republicans want to do everything they can to marginalize trans kids, make life difficult for trans kids and, ultimately, make it even more likely that trans kids will try to kill themselves than they already do, and that rate is damned high enough as it is.
Let me put it to you another way maybe you can understand...
Are you going to tell Buck Angel he's not allowed to have tampons in the men's room? 'Cause I have news for you...
