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Re: The thread of Campus Crazy Hijinks

Post by Forty Two » Tue Apr 18, 2017 11:09 am

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pErvin wrote:Its amazing the shit that bothers you. Who cares?
You really don't get it, do you? Behind the seemingly innocuous and insignificant decision to provide tampons for free in all toilets lurks the gravest of dangers. It is the thin end of the wedge. If left unchecked, it will eventually but inevitably result in women's tyranny over men!

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One, not every interesting article about a silly thing "bothers" me. It's silly. It's funny.

And, no, it's not an "injustice." If you don't find it funny that there are tampons in a restroom where it's highly unlikely that a menstruating person will ever go, that's your view of it, and you're entitled to that. However, to me, it seems both silly and like a waste of money. How long will a machine full of tampons sit in the men's room before someone gets a tampon from it? 43,000 students -- far less than 1 in 100,000 people have vaginas and identify as a male -- of those, they menstruate probably 1/5 of the time -- so, the odds of anyone needing a tampon from the machine in the men's room on the fourth floor of Fuckwittery Hall is a tad bit better than winning the lottery. Moreover, tampons have expiration dates, and thus, if there are 100-odd tampons in the dispenser, most of them will inevitably have to be thrown away because of the absolute miniscule demand for men's room tampons.... I'd prefer they dedicate that additional resource to cleaning the place more often -- that way, someone in need of taking an emergency dump between Gender Identity in Pulp Science Fiction of the 1930's 301 and Postmodernist Critical Analysis of Capitalist Colonial America 312, won't go running in there to find a pristine, untouched tampon machine and a row of completely destroyed crappers waiting to be cleaned.... :prof:
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Re: The thread of Campus Crazy Hijinks

Post by Forty Two » Tue Apr 18, 2017 11:15 am

Animavore wrote:
JimC wrote:
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Brian Peacock wrote:Where did you come across that link?
He entered "college co-eds" into his search engine.
Surely that would be 99.9% porn...
Yup. :tea:
...and the problem with that, were it true, would be.....?

...and please, come on now...I'm a woke human here...I would never, ever use a sexist term like "coed." Men are college students, and women are "coeds?" Come see the CIS-normative, misogynist, capitalist, patriarchal, systemic oppression inherent in the system! Help, help, I'm bein' repressed!
“When I was in college, I took a terrorism class. ... The thing that was interesting in the class was every time the professor said ‘Al Qaeda’ his shoulders went up, But you know, it is that you don’t say ‘America’ with an intensity, you don’t say ‘England’ with the intensity. You don’t say ‘the army’ with the intensity,” she continued. “... But you say these names [Al Qaeda] because you want that word to carry weight. You want it to be something.” - Ilhan Omar

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Re: The thread of Campus Crazy Hijinks

Post by NineBerry » Tue Apr 18, 2017 11:59 am

Tampons are great when you suffer from nose bleeding. It would be a discrimination to only allow women free tools to deal with nose bleeding.

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Post by pErvinalia » Tue Apr 18, 2017 12:11 pm

Let's be honest. Some drunk douche-bros will throw them in the dunnies and have a laugh as they inflate and block the sewer.
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Re: The thread of Campus Crazy Hijinks

Post by Hermit » Tue Apr 18, 2017 12:23 pm

Forty Two wrote:it seems both silly and like a waste of money. How long will a machine full of tampons sit in the men's room before someone gets a tampon from it?
Not long at all. Universities have not become a pit of barely human left wing freaks. Most of their students are ordinary hopefuls who are bled dry by the education system while they try to enhance their career prospects by obtaining some formal, generally recognised qualification or other. Many of the males are also conventional, heterosexual, sexually active young things with girlfriends. Put the three factors – sexually active, strapped for cash, easy availability of free condoms – together and ... you may be able to connect the dots yourself.

I still think this particular "hijink" has you worried, though. ;)
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Re: The thread of Campus Crazy Hijinks

Post by Forty Two » Tue Apr 18, 2017 12:58 pm

LOL - that summary makes my point. Most students who are "ordinary hopefuls" with girlfriends are not going to be getting their girlfriends their tampons from the men's room. The girlfriends, if they are in the vicinity, have access to them in the ladies' room, and if they are mostly "ordinary hopefuls" then that's where they will go. If the girlfriend is not in the vicinity, then the male ordinary hopeful doesn't need to get them their tampon, since they're not around anyway.

So, again, who needs the tampons in the men's rooms? It's like making sure there is men's after shave liquid dispensers in the ladies' rooms, in case a guy goes in there who identifies as a woman but still splashes Old Spice After Shave on her face. Certainly, there might be someone, somewhere, who does that, but is it really important?

In the case of tampons, they're available in the ladies' room. They are available in the nurse/health office. They are available in the school store. They are available in the local drug store. Was this really a problem?
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Post by pErvinalia » Tue Apr 18, 2017 1:00 pm

It's now a problem for middle aged white guys..
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Re: The thread of Campus Crazy Hijinks

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Forty Two wrote:Most students who are "ordinary hopefuls" with girlfriends are not going to be getting their girlfriends their tampons from the men's room. The girlfriends, if they are in the vicinity, have access to them in the ladies' room...
You're assuming that the girlfriends are in the same vicinity and could be bothered to go to the uni's toilets to get free tampons. If they are "in the vicinity" but not actually a student there, it would be rather more convenient for boyfriend to snaffle a few before or after having a piss in the immediate vicinity of the vending machine.
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Post by NineBerry » Tue Apr 18, 2017 1:07 pm

In this case, it is one men's bathroom and this one is directly where the LGBTTI center of the University is located...

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Post by Brian Peacock » Tue Apr 18, 2017 1:13 pm

Men can pee sitting down, or standing at the bowl btw. You may find this video informative...
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Re: The thread of Campus Crazy Hijinks

Post by Hermit » Tue Apr 18, 2017 1:56 pm

Brian Peacock wrote:Men can pee sitting down, or standing at the bowl btw.
rEv mentioned that some time ago, btw.

Brian Peacock wrote:You may find this video informative...
Or find the presenter to be an unbearably annoying self-promoter. It's even in her description of the clip: It includes "PLEASE HELP ME GET TO 900K SUBS" (her allcaps). Seems to work for her. She has 1.2 million now, and over 600k views for this particular offering, assuming she has not manipulated the numbers somehow.

After listening to 90 seconds of her not getting to the subject I switched it off.
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Post by Brian Peacock » Tue Apr 18, 2017 5:00 pm

Hemrit wrote:After listening to 90 seconds of her not getting to the subject I switched it off.
Misogynist enabler. :tea:
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Hemrit wrote:After listening to 90 seconds of her not getting to the subject I switched it off.
Misogynist enabler. :tea:
Her fault! BITCH :irate: Lucky she was not within reach. I would have stuck something in her mouth to shut her up.
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Re: The thread of Campus Crazy Hijinks

Post by Forty Two » Tue Apr 18, 2017 6:30 pm

Hermit wrote:
Forty Two wrote:Most students who are "ordinary hopefuls" with girlfriends are not going to be getting their girlfriends their tampons from the men's room. The girlfriends, if they are in the vicinity, have access to them in the ladies' room...
You're assuming that the girlfriends are in the same vicinity and could be bothered to go to the uni's toilets to get free tampons. If they are "in the vicinity" but not actually a student there, it would be rather more convenient for boyfriend to snaffle a few before or after having a piss in the immediate vicinity of the vending machine.
No, I'm assuming that if the girlfriends' are not in the vicinity, then the boyfriends can't physically get a tampon and give it to them, given that they are in two different vicinities.

If they are in the vicinity, they are allowed to use the restroom themselves. Why is it more "convenient" for a boyfriend to go get a tampon from a men's room, then for a girlfriend to get a tampon from a ladies' room?

And, is this what it's coming down to? We all have hygiene issues in life. Aren't we mostly required to handle them? They don't have band-aids in the bathroom either, or combs, or whatever. They have paper to wipe an ass or other area, running water and soap to sanitize one's hands, and a drying mechanism. They aren't filled with hygiene products in general. Just seems weird.
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