Post by howard lee on Aug 11, 2024 9:56:53 GMT -5
I don't understand what the outrage over this Minnesota law is all about. It is an act of kindness and support directed at young women who may not be able to afford feminine hygiene products, lack of access to which could impair their academic lives, causing lateness or absenteeism and falling behind in their studies. If some schools offer bathrooms shared by young people of both genders, and those bathrooms are stocked with such products, so f*cking what? It's not going to turn boys into girlie men. This is the best thing the GOP has to smear Tim Walz? Pathetic.
I lived in a house with one bathroom with my family until I was 18, when my parents purchased a larger house with two bathrooms, and all those years I shared a bathroom with my younger sister (d. 1977). There was a plethora of feminine hygiene products in those shared bathrooms. If anything, it served to enlighten me to the natural biological process that women experience each month and made me more sensitive to their discomfort and pain. When I was a bachelor in my own homes, I always kept a variety of those products in my bathroom for female guests or girlfriends, which I purchased for them at the pharmacy. Out of, you know, kindness and courtesy, a concept the conservative media I see doesn't seem to have embraced.
Despite those things being in my family's and my bathrooms all my life, I am still male and, by Thor's hammer, I am alive and well.
Quite simply, it's the predisposition to outrage.
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More's the pity.
