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phan-is-sempiternal:

mousathe14:

gehayi:

profeminist:

Tampons are a “luxury item”

Once I worked as an intern in the state capital. One of the representatives I worked for was this middle-aged guy. And he hated the tampon and napkin machines in the women’s bathrooms. Hated them. He insisted that they weren’t necessary.

I found out why after I’d been working there, oh, about a month. My period started suddenly, as it sometimes does, and I asked to excuse myself to go to the ladies’ room. He wanted to know why. I told him.

He started ranting about how lazy women were. How we wasted time. How we were so careless and unhygenic, and that there was no call for that. He finished by telling me that I certainly was NOT going to the ladies’ room and that I was just going to sit there and work. He finished this off with a decisive nod, as if I’d just been told and there could be no possible argument.

“If I don’t go,” I said in an overly patient tone, “the blood is going to soak through my pants, stain my new skirt that I just bought, and possibly get on this chair I’m sitting in. I need something to soak up the blood. That’s why I need to go to the bathroom.”

His face turned oatmeal-gray; an expression of pure horror spread across his face. He leaned forward and whispered, “Wait, you mean that if you don’t go, you’ll just keep on bleeding? I thought that women could turn it off any time that they wanted!”

I thought,  You have got to be kidding.

Several horrified whispers later, I learned that he wasn’t. He actually thought a) that women could shut down the menstrual cycle at will, b) that we essentially picked a week per month to spend more time in the bathroom, i.e. to goof off, and c) that napkins and tampons were sex toys paid for by Health and Human Services. I didn’t know the term then, but he believed that tampons were dildos. Which was why he and a good number of his friends considered them luxuries.

And that’s how, at twenty, I had to give a talk on menstruation to a middle-aged married state representative who was one of my bosses. American politics, ladies and gentlemen.

That’s.., that’s insane.

what the fuck did i just read

theconcealedweapon:

But anywhere else besides college campuses, the opposite is true. Kids are forced to say the pledge of allegiance. Police officers refuse to protect people who protest against police brutality. Athletes have been punished for kneeling. Simply wearing a hat that says “America was never great” is met with death threats. If you wear a shirt that says “stomp my flag, I’ll stomp your ass”, it won’t even be seen as political, but if you wear a shirt that says “punch Nazis”, you’ll be labeled as a thug.

Also, if those “other ideas” involve treating certain groups of people as if they’re subhuman, then maybe they don’t deserve to have their ideas tolerated.

frog-president:

nyehs:

when you got banned from all social media for harassing women so you got no place to vent except Microsoft Word and a printer

favoritelatina:

hadntve:

fierce-katzchen:

weavemama:

weavemama:

okay????? but this is like,?….. messy in a good way???? imagine confronting racist ass trump supporting trolls??? leaving them as shook as ever,????¿¿¿ catfish is truly making shit happen bless their hearts

I also wanna confront all these damn question marks smh why am I like this

Can you imagine traveling all the way to north Carolina to confront a white guy in jeans, a button up and the make america great again hat . he is so visibly uncomfortable repeating what he said on camera for the world to see he’s a racist sexist asshole.

I would live for it. Without anon or hiding behind the internet these asshole trolls would be nothing. And I would honestly drink their tears

THIS THE KIND OF CATFISH I WANNA SEE

Bitch lmaoooooo