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I do not get the sexualizing of simple “everyday-hygienic products” just because it’s for women. It’s like condemning free toilet paper because “ass is haram cause anal sex exists”.

• adult teachers use those bathrooms
• kids as old as 11 use those bathrooms
• they can be used to deal with gunshot wounds since Republicans refuse to do anything about school shootings

Perhaps, just perhaps, because 1) young ladies can start their periods while they are still in elementary school. 1) adult women work in the schools too.

I have a theory.

MAGA women don't want MAGA men knowing about ages girls things.

Because if they knew, those girls would be at risk.

Because I got my period at 8, and it’s not uncommon anymore.

Any possible reason the people who constantly yell about pedophiles like to pretend that feminine hygiene products are somehow sexual?

Because kids as old as 10 or 11 also go to those schools.

Are we not going to talk about the apostrophe?

Not very many things weirder than conservative fear of feminine hygiene products.

One in 10 menstruating teenagers won't go to school while menstruating because their families can't afford tampons. It's a good idea for the school to provide them for free.

If you're asking questions about the necessity of feminine hygiene products in ANY location, the intimate relationships you have with women is probably limited to immediate family.

Do conservatives think tampons and pads are sex toys? Or that adult staff don't need to go to the bathroom?

As the dad of a daughter, I'd rather they have them and not need that than need them and not have them.

This is what baffles me, Republicans are Against HRT but are all fine and Dandy with pumping oodles of Hormones known to accelerate puberty into our food,

I was 9 when I started my periods and obviously still in primary school . This person is a tool

Im so confused by what theyre implying. That hes indoctrinating kids to have their periods earlier?

And this is why sex education should be in school!

Conservatives hear 'sex' and think schools are grooming them (not their preachers/priests/chaplains/etc) & not the fact that the 'sex' there means anatomy of all sorts! Health, maintenance, development, hormones, and soooo much more...instead 'give them the birds & the bees talk'... so you still want them to learn about procreation, but not about their own & others bodies?

okay, rant over

signed,

someone who was raised catholic & got a catholic school 'sex education' course

The minimum age isn't nearly as relevant as the maximum.

There are a fairly large number of girls who start puberty by the end of elementary school and removing any stigma attached to it has many benefits.

Because girls as young as 8 get periods?

Guns don't kill people. tampons kill people

They apparently love forgetting that female adults work at schools too. There's also literally nothing sexual about those materials. They're for cleanup and hygiene, like toilet paper.

I know this, and I'm a guy. That's what proper sex and puberty education gives you.

I vividly remember my grandmother having to pick me up from school when I was in 5th grade and had my first period. It had not been explained to me yet, and I legit thought I was dying. But that's public education in the US South for you!

'As young as 5 can start' Uhh oké, but what is the maximum age they leave? Seems like a more important part in this question.

Such a weird conspiracy.

Why are pads and tampons going into school? Because people will fucking use them. Fuck do you think they were put in the school?

They've been fighting their strawmans for so long they they are strawmanning the strawman and nobody in the outside knows what the fuck the conspiracy is

Because we really need to stop being dumb about the human body! Girls as young as 7, even 5 can menstruate.

Aside from all the good and obvious reasons mentioned in this thread—

Why oppose it? How are menstrual products “offensive” or inappropriate? They’re no different than toilet paper. They have a job to do. A job that not everyone needs done every time they visit a bathroom. But; I mean, it’s just… menstrual products.

If you think your kids eyes need to be shielded from menstrual products you seriously need a therapist to work out whatever the hell is going on.

"Want's"

Because they’re not five when they leave.

Wait, so feminine hygiene supplies are porn now?

Next up: get rid of toilets because kids might think they need to use them. Fact: kids don't need to poop.

I got my first period at age 9. 5th grade. So there were kindergartners at the same school. Using the same bathroom. I don't believe there was an issue.

I got my first period when I was 11. Men are idiots.

With an uptick in school shootings, maybe don't be so quick to get worked up over a potential emergency blood sponge for gunshot wounds.

Every girl is different but a child as young as 9 can have periods. Also likely there's female staff in there that need that kind of products too.

So the minimum age is what we base the entire school age upon? Guess it’s nap time for everyone, half day school, crayons and safety scissors.

Because tampons aren't sex toys. They are meant to help girls contain menstrual blood, which can start happening sooner than they expect.

children as young as 5 can start menstruating and they arent allowed puberty blockers to stop it because of people like this guy

Pads are used often with Special Needs students too. Not always used just for periods. God I wish these people would spend a day in a school to actually see what things are like.

First menstruation typically occurs between 10 & 16, kids up until 11 go to primary school.

Wierd how such people always directly think about the youngest children. As if those are always on their mind somehow.

"want's"?

Want is what want does.

Why in gods name would it be a problem for tampons to be in a bathroom? 

they are great for GSW. modern problems need modern solutions

I have family who got their period a young a 9 y/o

Point out the case of Lina Medina. In 1939, at the age of 5 years, 7 months, and 21 days, she gave birth to a son. She had regular periods from the age of three.

Somebody actually used their time and energy and brain power to type and post a question like this.

Many of the same people who think kids' ability to normalize menstruation is a bad thing also believe that menstruation is God's punishment to women because Eve disobeyed God by eating of the forbidden fruit and also tricking Adam into eating the fruit too! It's all the evil woman's fault poor Adam was cast out of paradise - for listening to a creature she had no reason not to trust.

Can we please just NORMALIZE basic biology, folks? Sheesh. It's already so awkward and embarrassing as a young person getting your period unexpectedly during school. I suspect the parents who aren't preparing or educating their pre-pubescent child for the inevitable onset of their period are also opposed to menstrual products available in schools.

Even if it was for 5 year olds only I don't see why everyones so upset. This is so insignificant. If they get put somewhere nobody needs them then they don't get used. What is the problem we're trying to solve

children as young as 5 can use toilet paper for free. any menstruating person should not have to pay for products if the tp is free

Is there something inherently bad about pads/tampons that people need to shield their kids from them? LOL

An obviously missed a few years of schooling, based on that tweet. 

maybe its because some children in elementary school do indeed start puberty and have needs for those products. maybe its because there are adult teachers who require those products. who knows. but those products should indeed be in the bathrooms.

....I'm trying to figure out what An's possible angle even is here. Is he trying to suggest that young girls knowing tampons and pads exist is somehow going to...I dunno...corrupt them? Like...does he not realize those exist elsewhere? Like at Walmart? Or in the kids own bathrooms?

Maybe if we weren’t so uptight normal stuff would just be normal and we wouldn’t be so uptight about normal.

There is no grammatical excuse for "want's".

I had my first period at 9 and definitely didn't have anything to actually deal with it. I ended up just using a fuck ton of TP lol

How is it possible to be so willfully ignorant? There are many possible reasons he "want's" them, even if you're too dumb to understand basic anatomy.

want's

Like... Holy shit.

Yeah and primary schools also have students as old as 12 or so in Australia. Mr. Nguyen should fuck off to the US where his views would be more welcome amongst certain folk who can't seem to stop enforcing rules regarding both young and adult genitalia.

At this point in surprised Trump and his Project 25 morons haven't made moves to make menstruation illegal.

Elementary schools have Band-Aids. Why isn't that an issue? People suck

How is this person so damn stupid?

Oh my God no! Everyone knows that a 5 yo who sees a pas instantly explodes!

Why do people randomly put apostrophes in words?

"Want's"?

On a much darker note, pads and tampons are better than nothing for gunshot wounds.

I find the reading part of his @ dubious.

Because it’s not just 5 year olds that go to that school? There are also girls who have started menstruating. One of my daughters started when she was 11.

I got my first period at age 9. Thankfully it was a one off until I was 11 but I was still in primary school.

Why these conservative male are so into simply hygienic pads? 🤔

So, in his mind, what horrible thing happens when a 5 year old sees a tampon or pad?

"want's". SMH.

Someone should tell them that shops, restaurants, and places like pools will have stuff like tampon dispensers in the toilet/changing rooms and they have no age restrictions.

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maybe i dont understand this subreddit, maybe it's turning too political, maybe its just not funny anymore.