“JD, I’ve been shot in the ear and I’m bleeding like a paper-cut pig. I used all my tampons applying bronzer. There may not be any in the Secret Service limos, and that’s all Biden’s fault. Bring me one or you’re fired!”
I’ve heard of people inserting tampons in their nostril to stem a bloody nose, though I never did this.
My son’s wrestling team always had a supply just for this purpose.
Check any men’s hockey (ice) broadcast. The pro women wear full cages. Heck, probably the other type of hockey (field), too.
This thread has already diverged into something of a side-track to freakouts of the right, but if I may continue for just one post…
When I was much younger, I used to carry both condoms and tampons (I am male) in my wallet (well, one of each) because I knew a) what happens at teenage parties, and b) what happens to teenage bodies.
I was lightly mocked for it, which was fine, because on a few occasions - only probably 3 or 4 times - I was asked for condoms.
FWIW, it took me until my early 20s to actually need a condom for myself. Late bloomer, I guess, but I followed the “be prepared” philosophy.
Tampons, on the other hand… I handed out quite a few, extremely discreetly. Bikinis (at pool parties, beaches etc) don’t conceal much, and while girls would usually canvas their friends first, before asking me, I was a last resort.
Sounds a bit weird now when I type it out nearly 30 years later!
But I am almost 100% certain that this well-intentioned* behaviour would draw some serious freakout response from the right, if I had lived in the USA. You guys have the weirdest right wingers. Such broad methodology, yet so narrow minded.
- I mean, sure, I was going for some form of teenage reputation, for typical teenage reasons.
And even though that specific strategy did not work for me, it allowed several of my friends to get laid, and many more to avoid embarrassment.
I hope that you changed condoms and didn’t just carry the same one for all that time, for obvious reasons, but still, good on you!
I mean, in teenage language, “eewww”.
No, condoms were free, Zimbabwe, my home at the time was one of the serious hotspots of AIDS.
So they were easy available at police stations (!), hospitals, some nightclubs we were too young to sneak into, and elsewhere where we could sneak into. They are still a feature in most public toilets, in a free vending machine.
Most supplied, free, by various forms of US aid charities, so thanks guys!
That last phrase seems a little glib. “Thanks, guys”.
The promotion and popularisation of condoms especially, and the follow-up education provided, in main, by US based charities did miracles for the treatment of HIV patients, both medically and socially.
So a genuine thank you.
But, heaven forbid we actually give them out in our own country, because that would be promoting sex!
Its actually promoting health!
Back in the 90’s there was a clinic in Milwaukee that would hand out condoms to anyone that walked in and asked. I also remember groups handing out condoms to high school kids (just off the school property) every Valentine’s day.
Trying to see if that clinic is still around, I found there’s plenty of places in the area that give out free condoms, including many city health departments, clinics, bars, and for reasons I’m unsure of, quite a few barber shops.
@scudsucker That was my work in the late 90s - early 00s for USAID and UNAIDS. Social marketing for condoms in African cities…making them seem cool and hip. Amid plenty of homophobic Right Wing Freakout stateside.
So…you’re welcome and thank YOU.
Obviously, that’s where men and boys congregate.
And discreetly offered via the phrase “Something for the weekend?”
I recently noticed they are free in lots of hotel bathrooms as well.
During my time on the ambulance, we kept a supply for gunshots and other injuries that tend to bleed a lot.
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The white guy tacos shit.
Is THAT what that phrase means! Ignorance fought.
That expression comes up in an episode of Endeavour (season 1, episode 1, “Girl,” if anyone is interested) set in Oxford in the early 1960s. A barber asks a patron. We don’t hear the patron’s answer.
Carry on.
Gonna say that JD Vance jizz cups automatically qualifies for entry in the list: