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One or two words in particular. A recent CBS2 article about an Indiana high school's ban on purses and backpacks is basically an exercise in avoiding the words "tampon" or "maxi pad." Let's see....
- "Female students are upset about the changes."
- "Kathryn Griffin has to return to her locker to get things she normally keeps in her bag, including personal hygiene items.
'We have that time of the month, so you know we need our purses,' Griffin said.
With purses, they say they don't have the embarrassment of disclosing that information."
- "'Those types of organizational skills will transfer when she goes to college. Very important,' said Kim's mother, Denene Reppa. 'And then she can keep her other things in there as well that kind of relate to her being a female.'"
What kinds of things might those be?
The ban on bags, designed to prevent students from carrying guns or drugs into class, has been in place for three years but had apparently gone unenforced. Tampon tampon tampon tampon tampon. [CBS 2]
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tampon!
maxi pads!
Then they should stock free pads and tampons in the bathrooms for the students.
Carry guns in their purses? What is this, Murder She Wrote?
Girls need to get brave and just lay them out on their desks on top of their books. Conversation starters. Then if they need to go, just hold it up and ask the teacher if they can go insert a new tampon. Build a new kind of confident teen.
I'm totally with you rcltrh! If the media is too embarrassed to say TAMPON or MAXI PAD then the students can protest by carrying them out in the open. They aren't breaking any rules. Wave them around, be proud of being a girl who is menstruating. Embarrass the school officials and teachers into allowing them to have some sort of purse.
Margaret, you crack me up.
TAMPONTAMPONTAMPON
"other things in there as well that kind of relate to her being a female"
I assumed she was referring to silk gloves, hand-held fans, and perhaps pretty pressed flowers.
What are these tampons you speak of?
And smelling salts. Can't forget those.
They're not allowed to use backpacks at school? How does one get by in high school without a backpack? Where do you get around with your books, cell phone and chapstick? I suppose next they'll ban pockets...or gun sized pockets.
And they had definitely better stock feminine hygiene items in the bathrooms.
You really need an entire purse just to carry small feminine products around for a few days a month?
What this creates is bullshit for the dudes. Guys will now have carry around tampons in addition to keys and money/ID for the chicks. Next thing you know we'll have a woman as a VP. Then they will want to have jobs and college educations. Then guys will stay at home and raise the kids. Testicles will become key chains (that guys will have to carry in their "woman pocket"). Wars will stop and we will all pee sitting down.
No, no, no, this is all wrong.
Joe Blow: It's more for getting the "small feminine products" from A (in this case, the locker) to B (the bathroom). Sometimes those extra-exorbitant pads just don't fit in the jeans pocket.
I'm kind of amazed this happened at Hanover. I would have expected this in East Chicago or something - not a rinky dink town like Cedar Lake. hahahaha.
Tampons also, just due to their length, dont' typically fit in a pocket without getting all smooshed, which is no good.
also: TAMPONS! MAXIS WITH WINGS! MENSTRUATION!!!
"....the students can protest by carrying them out in the open. They aren't breaking any rules. Wave them around, be proud of being a girl who is menstruating..."
I say YES. Proclaim your menstruation like a Vadge of Honor.
These girls need to discover the wonders of O.B.
ob *is* great, however ... the 'other things' ... like a clamshell (man, there's no getting out of that one) pack of birth control pills, guys! although, it's sort of weird that kim reppa is already gearing up for her daughter to be sexing it up at college. you -can- use bcp's for acne, but let's face it, it's really the way to go if you don't want yourself some unwanted accidents.
i guess i can see the usefulness of hiding a gun in a backpack or purse (!?), but drugs? everyone knows you keep that shit close to the vest. duh.
So from my understanding, bookbags are okay but purses aren't? What the fuck?
You really need an entire purse just to carry small feminine products around for a few days a month?
I hope you're kidding. If not, you really need to get a girlfriend.
Girls need to get brave and just lay them out on their desks on top of their books.
Great idea for a non-violent protest. I would go one step further and suggest getting the boys involved too, but I doubt that more than a minority of them would care.