Anyone who continues to flush tampons in a bathroom where (a) they’ve been told, either personally or through signage, that the toilet/plumbing/septic tank can’t handle tampons and (b) there is a receptacle provided to dispose of them in is being very rude. We’re in 100% agreement there.
What *I *object to is the insistence that the onus is on *me *to not flush my tampons anywhere, as opposed to *on the people responsible for the maintenance of a system *to *tell *me when it’s not okay to flush something ostensibly flushable.
To make another analogy, if I were to forget to tell someone that I’m a vegequarian* and they served me meat, I’d be kind of an asshole to get pissed off at *them *for not guessing that I didn’t adhere to a standard diet. Your average person in the U.S. eats meat, and a modern toilet and sewer system in the U.S. can accomodate tampons.
*Lacto-ovo vegetarian + fish.