men b like ‘im gonna use math to sound like an intellectual while telling u how to use tampons u fucking bitch i never graduated elementary or learned how to respect women’
Just leave each tampon in for 24hrs straight!! What do you mean toxic shock syndrome exists?!
it’s the 9 periods a year that rlly gets me
Does this fucking moron think that you just stick a tampon in and suddenly it’s full of your 5ml of designated blood and then you put another one in and repeat the next day?? It’s continuous you dumb piece of shit.
The ideal amount of tampons you’d use in 24 hours is 4 or so, assuming none slip and have to be replaced. Assuming you don’t take yours out when you shower to replace it after you get out. Assuming you don’t keep them in longer to save money or energy like many do.
The average period lasts 7 days or something. 7x4=28
You account for mishaps as mentioned, that uses up that bigass box in two cycles. I looked up boxes of tampons on Amazon and in the US I’m seeing what looks like at least ten bucks for every 50 tampons. If you’re using up 60+ every two months, that’s over 360 tampons for the year, aka ~$70 not including shipping. Now because most of us can’t afford to drop all that money at once just to save on shipping, let’s add $5 shipping to each 50 as well and thats + $25.
Because there’s also that margin of use for when you use more than 4 in a day, that’s over $100 every year. That doesn’t even fucking take into account that many people have periods nearly twice as long as that which can mean spending $150-$200 instead.
Oh but wait! There’s more!
Another thing this fucking moron forgot to take into account is liners. Cause so many people use them. Tons of people use liners because, without them, they’ll leak into their underwear and destroy them. Granted, these are cheaper than tampons, but you still have to account for the extra ~$20 a year that adds on.
Period cramps? Add on pain relievers.
Destroyed underwear? Add on a fucking absurd amount of money for those because the underwear industry likes to charge out the ass for a stupid piece of fabric for between your legs.
Add all this up and the average yearly cost for someone with a period is over $200 a year.
$200 a year for the necessities, yes, but after all of that suffering we go through, don’t forget that you get one extra, priceless thing added on, completely for free
Complete derision, disrespect, and disgusting treatment from Cis Men TM. Because HA HA HA you have mood swings and cry over everything and get angry over things they don’t have enough braincells to comprehend being upsetting due to their complete lack of empathy for anyone different from them. For the very low price of the very fabric of your dignity, you can be accused of being on your period the moment any little thing slightly offends you.
So yeah, this guy can go take his twenty fucking dollars a year that he doesn’t have to spend on tampons and invest in getting a fucking clue.
I won’t pretend I am not horrified by what this man said, but instead of crucifying him, maybe we should view this as a teachable moment. In the United States, we are failing our young people by not educating them about how human bodies function. Everyone has a right to and should be given access to information that will help them not just understand their own bodies, but the bodies of others as well.
We need to advocate for mandatory comprehensive sexuality education in ALL of our schools.
