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?

Are women not people now?

Think about these statements:

There was a lot of stigma against people during the AIDS crisis in the 80s.

Black Lives Matters was designed to help some people in the US.

The suffragettes worked to get the vote for people.

Erasing class analysis for groups of people only seems cool and inclusive when it's women being erased. Words have meaning.

That's click bait by a very odd person. Twitter is awash with them 🙈

That really surprises me. I work in a secondary school, you'd be amazed how many kids are so forgetful they come to school without a pen very regularly and yet they boys are routinely purchasing period products and carrying them around in their school bags just in case a female friend needs them?

Totally true, but hey, disbelieve all you like

My first thought was 'Bet I'm following this cool woman giving the creepy blokes hell' and look at that, I am!

Yes women menstruate and are people. In fact women are the only people who menstruate so why not use the word women?

Erasing WOMEN by using allegedly inclusive language IS offensive whether it's intentional or not and several posters here have said as much so why would you dismiss how we feel about it. I'm telling you I find it offensive. You might not but do not tell me what I am allowed to find offensive.

I share the view expressed by this poster.

Bitter experience has taught me that people who feel the need to bang on about tolerance and inclusion are often the most judgemental and bigoted.

That really surprises me. I work in a secondary school, you'd be amazed how many kids are so forgetful they come to school without a pen very regularly and yet they boys are routinely purchasing period products and carrying them around in their school bags just in case a female friend needs them?

Oddly doesn't happen in my DD's school either. Weird...

The world has well and truly gone mad. Virtue signalling and made up caring is now the way to go. Some batshit people will go so far as to show how caring and sharing they are.

This weirdo thinks that there would ever be a scenario where a woman needed a tampon and there would be no other woman around to offer one - not at work, not on a train, not in an educational setting, not at a party. And if some woman was unfortunate enough to find herself in his home alone, she couldn’t of course roll up some tissue and use as a pad. He has to be the saviour - of ‘people who menstruate’ - no less.

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@Deepclean

Give over.

That would be like carrying around spot cover up when you don’t have spots. No one does this. The people that need tampons/cover up carry it, and if they forget they ask other people who have periods/spots.

Please don’t leave the thread. The uncultured, uncouth, untravelled MN crowd needs a few enlightened progressives among us.

When I need one, I am in a stall in a loo and say, "oh bugger, has anyone got a tampon?". If a male voice answered, "yes" I'd be very very freaked out.

Now male-run businesses with a basket in the women's loos? Thanks very much. Carrying them around? Yeah bro, I'm literally never going to ask you.

I agree.

In theory it’s a good thing to do but completely unnecessary.

I do appreciate men taking notice of the things we have to deal with though and trying to make a positive difference.

My DH carries them, but that’s because he’s prone to nosebleeds. I very much doubt he’d offer one to a random woman!

my brothers usually had them in their backpacks at school but that’s because they had 3 sisters and we were were forever shoving stuff in their bags so we didn’t have to carry stuff around

And it is never the boys who have extra pencils to give to their pals, it is always the girls.

just imagining boys carrying tampons to be helpful when i was at school early/mid 80s 😒. Have boys really changed that much?

Have boys really changed that much?

No. Poor DD counts the non-sexist boys in the class on one hand. I've told her to remember who they are for future dating advice for her friends.

Tampons make good fire lighters as well. Maybe it's a cover for when they go camping or something 

No teenage girl asks “the boys” in her class for sanitary products, don’t be ridiculous. At that age many won’t ask their girlfriends.

All these people who need “help” from boyfriends/dads/mr whoever, why can’t you stick a tampax in your glovebox/bag/desk???

If there are men walking round with tampons they are probably for them because they have piles or other similar difficulties.

Just to add - my DB has female employees in his small company and he does provide tampons and pads, hair elastics, face wipes and deodorant available in the work bathroom, but that’s at the direct suggestion of his bossy sisters. He’s a single dad to a 6 year old girl so there are also Jojo bows, and a million scrunchies but I think that’s more of a coincidence

It's normal in my kids' secondary school for the boys to carry period products around in case their female friends need them

No it is not.

Well I was glad one of my male colleagues carried a box of tampons in his glove box last week.
He has a wife and daughters, so maybe not so weird.
I only work with men though so I've no qualms about asking if I'm stuck for one.

I can just imagine my son's face if his twin sister had asked him to carry her tampons. Mind you I wouldn't have liked to use anything which came out of his bag.

Why did you delete the name? You know if you search for the conversation Twitter brings it up, standard.

So, was this some attempt at bringing trans people into a conversation given the original poster is he / him but biologically female? Yawn.

Accurate but insufficiently specific and hence not meaningful as a statement.