OK, here’s a question: Why is that the mainstream media completely gave up on calling Florida’s Parental Rights in Education bill by its name and instead accepted the opposition’s term, the “Don’t Say Gay” bill, but we don’t have a good nickname for Oregon’s “Menstrual Dignity Act”? We’ve been around long enough to remember when MSNBC’s Melissa Harris-Perry wore tampon earrings on her show and have covered Toronto’s celebration of “menstruators” on Menstrual Hygiene Day. Feminist Jessica Valenti asked her Twitter friends if they knew of a country where tampons were free or at least government subsidized.
All Valenti needs to do is show up at an Oregon public school and she can score free tampons in the boys’ restroom.
'Menstrual Dignity Act' requires menstrual products in boys bathrooms https://t.co/BdUNGzjDFI pic.twitter.com/cqs4yUWvld
— New York Post (@nypost) May 6, 2022
The New York Post reports:
In March, the state Education Department also issued a “Menstrual Dignity for Students” tool kit containing instructions on how to use menstrual products and tips for “menstruation-positive” language for families.
“Importantly, [the Menstrual Dignity Act] affirms the right to menstrual dignity for transgender, intersex, nonbinary, and two spirit students by addressing the challenges that some students have managing menstruation while minimizing negative attention that could put them at risk of harm and navigating experiences of gender dysphoria during menstruation,” part of the kit’s introduction read, Fox News reported.
“Research also connects gender-affirming bathroom access to supporting student safety at school,” it added.
Libs of TikTok recently posted a video of the tampon machines installed in the boys’ restroom:
Schools in Oregon have begun adding menstrual products to men’s restrooms after the Governor signed a law requiring schools provide free period products in all elementary, middle, and high school bathrooms. pic.twitter.com/nECnP4SbL7
— Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) May 5, 2022
In elementary school bathrooms too?
"We're pro-science"
– People who think men can have periods
— Dark Southerner KPSS (@DarkSoutherner) May 5, 2022
Have you ever walked into a public restroom, and as you walk in you begin to wonder whether you accidentally walked into the wrong one, desperately look for the urinals to confirm you're in the right one?
Well that won't work in one of these…
— Heino van den Berg (@HeinoVandenberg) May 5, 2022
Plumbers in Oregon looking at those civil contracts rising after this like pic.twitter.com/gUhlu4dO3j
— D-Pad Chad (@chad_pad) May 6, 2022
I would have loved this. I'd imagine my friends and I would get them wet and throw them at the walls. Perhaps we would have made nunchakus out of them and twirled them over our heads while screaming "Cowabunga Dude!"
"I wish they had these when I was a kid."
— Ken (@H5isaCrime) May 5, 2022
Who's got the contract to sell & install those machines?
— Billy Scrimshaw (@BillyScrimshaw) May 5, 2022
I wonder who is getting the donations and bribes from Evogen, the dispenser company?
— CrotchityCat (@Artowarrior) May 5, 2022
At least they won't have to stock them more than once.
— Azderathos (@azderathos) May 6, 2022
$100 says Middle school and high school dudes are going to get the tampons wet and then throw them at the ceiling so they stick
— David Fancher (@DavidFancher55) May 5, 2022
Would be disappointed if they didn’t honestly
— Trevor Nicely (@TrevNicely) May 5, 2022
I’m guessing the next thing will be wall urinals in the girls restrooms?
— Frank Munoz (@SoCal67) May 6, 2022
They were installed in the mens' bathrooms at Boston University in 2019-2020. At the time I thought it was weird they weren't installing urinals in the womens' rooms, but I try to ignore these things 🙃
— J.H. Snyder (@thyjhsnyder) May 5, 2022
I love the replies saying boys can stock up for both their moms and/or dads.
There are better ways of getting sanitary items than asking their kids to stock up on them at school.
This is ridiculous
— Pathog3n (@Pathog3nic) May 5, 2022
Total waste of taxpayer money
— James Rice (@LWVH81) May 5, 2022
Related:
Oregon Gov. Kate Brown suspends state’s proficiency standards for reading, writing, and math in the name of ‘equity’ https://t.co/GAfVDqFsxS
— Twitchy Team (@TwitchyTeam) August 10, 2021
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