Not a Womb to Call Their Own: VP Tim Walz’ Tampon Brouhaha

tampon dispenser

Conservatives latest scare tactic: Boy’s Bathroom Tampon Dispensers!

Tim Walz

If the results of the 2024 election hangs on the fact that Conservatives say VP Nominee Tim Walz signed a bill in 2023 as Governor of Minnesota for tampon dispensers to be in boy’s bathrooms – we’re in for a rude awakening on NOV. 6TH!

How many Transgender folks are in frigin’ Minnesota anyway? 

Is it a thing?  Have I been living under a rock?

What happened was – Conservatives spread misinformation taking a funding bill Tim Walz signed that covered 300 items – one of which was ‘Menstrual Supplies in school bathrooms’ & ran with it.  It never said, ‘Boy’s bathrooms’.

Of course, they clutched their pearls & latched on to this provocative tidbit with a Political Twofer:

Their Orwellian fascination with women’s reproductive organs & ‘The Noah’s Ark Syndrome’: Stay with your own kind…No Beavers with Aardvarks!

Even Marjorie Taylor Greene put her 3 cents in: “Now there’s a shortage of Tampons & that’s probably because men are buying Tampons”!

Me, I don’t have a dog in this fight – I haven’t seen blood since ‘Appomattox’!  Yeah, I’m that old!

Stick with me fellas – there’s a happy ending.  Not right away, but keep reading!  haha

On Christmas morning I got my ‘Period’ for the 1st time!

Come back here!

I wanted a Bike!

Since those days, I’ve been writing Jokes about the whole feminine condition & my husband got the brunt of it!

When we first met I told him, “I retain water 28 out of 30 days – as a matter of fact – right now I have PBS”!

So he had his own Calendar & he rated me every day: ‘Bitchy from 1 to 10’!

And, I had to stop asking him to buy supplies for me – we were going broke! 

With it he came back with macho things like razor blades, Tabasco & Drano!

No, my husband didn’t understand – he expected me to perform an Unnatural Act – Dinner!

Some of these I do just for me!  haha

The truth is, I really only used a tampon once.  In those days it was sort of an avant-garde product – used only by delicate flowers who went swimming, did the Tango or walked a block!

There’s a joke in there somewhere!

As I recall, I was a celebrity of sorts – the Insertion Process I experienced was written up in that year’s Medical Journal! 

That’s right – wearing it all day gave me a headache that made ‘Bayer’ a Millionaire!

Then I found out first you have to remove the Cardboard! haha

So I say, if you’re gonna put a Vending Machine in a school bathroom, it has to be a ‘Reese’s Peanut Butter Cup’ dispenser!

That’s right!  Every female who ever served time knows what we really crave during that time of the month is… Chocolate!

Reese's

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So – have I been living under a rock?  It looks like I have like so many others.  Having read what some boys did to those Dispensers, I think having them in boys bathrooms is not the answer – but finding other ways to have free Menstrual supplies available for everyone who needs it is!

I can’t list all the states, but in a 2022 U.S. Transgender Population Study, there seems to be a few apartment-seeking folk looking for a womb with a view!

California                150,000
MINNESOTA            26,000
Montana                       3,400

Marilyn Sands
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