Random men carrying tampons is weird

[Ikeasucks]

Just seen a conversation on twitter with men talking about carrying tampons and pads to be helpful if they come across some woman who might need one. I thought it was weird - or am i the weird one?

Is he also going to carry spare tights, hair band, tweezers etc.

I can't remember (because I have never) the last time I asked anyone- man or woman for a Tampa. What is this obsession men and trans women have with menstruation? Is it just a public but hidden sexual fetish?!

Apparently so. But not so hidden any more, it would seem.

It's all a bit too Prince Charles for me.

I might at some points in my life have asked a close male friend to carry a couple of tampons for me on a night out, let's say if I had a dress with no pockets and tiny evening bag and he's wearing cargo pants and lugging a manbag and none of the other women had a bag. But those would be tampons out of a pack I bought, of the brand and style and absorbancy I normally use. (And no, I'm not likely to forget that I need them and count on a white knight to arrive on a unicorn with a Tampax for a horn.)

This guy says he has no wife (read: he has no spouse who menstruates) but he doesn't say these are for his friends or flatmates or hypothetical future girlfriends or whatever ... just, you know, in case "people" might need them. I think dudes that post this kind of thing, assuming they're serious, have never really had extensive contact with any women, or haven't been paying attention when they did.

Being inclusive and not purposely offending people is hardly a red flag

Total red flag to reduce women to a single biological function.

Particularly one for which they have been culturally shamed for hundreds of years. And still are in some societies including our own in the UK.

Bog roll and spare knickers in all sizes for that menstrual diarrhoea?

He's not being inclusive. He's looking for a pat on the head and most likely sex for being a good boy. When it doesn't happen his true colours will show through.

WOMEN

We are WOMEN. Have respect for how women on this site feel FFS.

Hiding in plain sight, I think.

Most women would just go to a nearby shop rather than asking a male stranger.

I do not believe that it is normal even today for school boys to carry tampons with them in case a female pupil needs it.

I was 17 the last time I needed to borrow sanpro fro a friend. Period had come early and I was on a residential trip. There is absolutely no way I would have expected a male friend to carry some, just in case!

14 YO dd recently went away without packing sanpro as it wasn't due for another week, but unfortunately it came on the first day of the trip! Male teacher who was also dd's subject teacher, was the leader of the trip but instead of asking him, dd went to the female teacher who she didn't know to explain her situation and ask whether they can go to the shop to get some. She has a male best friend as well but there is no way she would ask him either or think he would carry any just in case!

As a grown woman, I rely on myself to be prepared for my period, not a random. If I am caught short, I simply go to the shop myself or improvise with some loo paper. It's not somebody else's responsibility.

You can't identify as female or male. You either are or you aren't.

You memstruate via a sexed body not an.identity.

Are you even able to define what these identities are? If you expect others to pretend words mean something other than what they do the least anyone can do is actually provide a non circular definition of what the word means.

He sounds like a virtue signalling idiot.

I do think it’s some weird over excitement about periods themselves being displayed. Definitely not “just being helpful”. It’s REALLY unusual in a young male, but fairly commonplace in prepubescent girls. Part of that Judy Blume, first bra, first period, fluster.

I'm early 40s, I think once a work colleague asked me if I had any San pro (about 15 years ago) and I think I might have asked (a woman) once when I was a teenager on a residential camp. So I'm not sure where the idea comes from that sharing San pro supplies is a regular thing?

Yep, definitely weird - as PPs have said, why would a woman ask a man if he had a spare tampon?! Also, I remember Jonathan Yaniv boasting about his desire to help out young girls when they first started menstruating, so it seems like a fetish to me.

So I'm not sure where the idea comes from that sharing San pro supplies is a regular thing?
Can't you remember? It's when we do sleepovers, have pillow fights, do each others hair and practise kissing on each other.

I think that’s quite a charitable view

This twat refers to women as a person who menstruates. That tells me all I need to know about him.

No but only women do.

I'm a teacher, and I work on a split campus so the first aid room is a 10 minute walk on the other one. Girls who get caught out on my campus ask their female friends, and then female teachers. Not male teachers and not male friends! It is not a thing that boys carry san pro.
The occasional lovely boy might get his mum to add a pack onto the supermarket shop for his close female friend or girlfriend who can't afford them but then he gives them to her, he doesn't carry them round!
Men keeping/carrying san pro in a first aid kit - great idea.
Male bosses making sure female toilets are stocked - good boss.
Man having some in his car for wife/DDs - practical.
Man having some in his bathroom for female visitors to help themselves - thoughtful hospitality.
Man carrying them round for random women (sorry, menstruating people) in case of need - weird.
Also, note to men who do these things: unless it is for stab wounds or nosebleeds, get pads not tampons.

A man would literally be the LAST person I'd ask for a tampon. And as for some random man I didn't know? Absolutely no way on earth.

Saying that, I've had a period for... 26 years. In all that time, I don't think I've EVER even needed to ask a friend for emergency sanitary protection, let alone a stranger, let alone a random man.

But only women who menstruate need tampons or pad.

Maybe that's where they all went in lock down

The teenage boys had them?

I find it predatory, standing there with things designed to go inside my vagina.

Not a random man but dp has sanpro in his motorbike tank bag, admittedly I put it there but if he was out he could offer I suppose