# To flush or not to flush... your tampons **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [August 29, 2010, 8:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/to-flush-or-not-to-flush-your-tampons/551915 "2010-08-29T20:54:21Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 116
**Author:** ![Shot\_From\_Guns](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ccd318/32.png) [@Shot\_From\_Guns](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shot_From_Guns)\ **Post date:** [September 1, 2010, 7:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/to-flush-or-not-to-flush-your-tampons/551915/116 "2010-09-01T19:18:31Z")
> [@Freudian\_Slit](#): > > But the women like **Sateryn** who have been told and whose attitude is basically, “I just feel like flushing them because it’s easier” just strike me as really self centered. 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. --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/to-flush-or-not-to-flush-your-tampons/551915)._