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this post was submitted on 07 Aug 2024
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They’re just tampons. New, not used. What’s the problem?
This eschewing of acknowledging basic body functionality as relates to reproduction is very juvenile. They are VERY willing to discuss abortion which most know very little about in regard to how abortion, spontaneous or otherwise, actually works and how abortion is actually defined in a medical chart, but then shy away from a basic item found in every grocery store.
Let’s dig in on private matters but then treat a sanitary item like a taboo(ish) insult and giggle a little on the topic.
It is, dare I say it? Weird.
Some religions to this day decree when a female is "unclean" and should be isolated. The problem are people with that mentality.
The same "yuck" factor lies at the root of not thinking rationally about tampons, abortions, childbirth, lactation, etc. Controlling a population's approach to inherent bodily functions, has been an effective way of brainwashing for ages. Stuff like vote of celibacy, vote of silence, vote of reclusion, fasting, and similar. Convincing people to sacrifice for a doctrine, gets them invested and pulls them into a sunken cost fallacy.
I'd call it Evil... but that is going onto their territory, so laughing it off with Weird, is probably a better strategy.