Do you flush tampons?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Of course not. Where you raised in a barn?

Those with menses in the 80s/90s were told to flush.

Ok. This person needs to stop saying “Menses” 😂

Sorry no. Only the ignorant taught this and even more ignorant never figured out it was wrong once they got out of teen years

It is weird to me to use "ignorant" as an insult when you are literally just talking about people who did not know something because they had been taught incorrectly from a young age. I'm curious about what other people you yell at and criticize for simply not knowing something.

I'm also curious what things you don't know, what things you are currently ignorant of. I am betting a lot, since you are human.

Yep. How many of you indignant posters are peeing out antidepressants, contraceptives and other pharmaceuticals into our waterways?

No one has answered this yet. Personally I think the very fixable problem of clogged pipes is far less problematic than the alteration of endocrine systems and brain chemistry of fish and amphibians. Seems like common sense some of you should be peeing in a bucket.

No one answered it yet because it isn't the topic of the thread. When someone throws up a straw man like this in the midst of an argument, it only solidifies the impression that the person knows they are wrong and cannot dispute the original argument at hand.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Of course not. Where you raised in a barn?

Those with menses in the 80s/90s were told to flush.

Ok. This person needs to stop saying “Menses” 😂

Sorry no. Only the ignorant taught this and even more ignorant never figured out it was wrong once they got out of teen years

It is weird to me to use "ignorant" as an insult when you are literally just talking about people who did not know something because they had been taught incorrectly from a young age. I'm curious about what other people you yell at and criticize for simply not knowing something.

I'm also curious what things you don't know, what things you are currently ignorant of. I am betting a lot, since you are human.

Yep. How many of you indignant posters are peeing out antidepressants, contraceptives and other pharmaceuticals into our waterways?

No one has answered this yet. Personally I think the very fixable problem of clogged pipes is far less problematic than the alteration of endocrine systems and brain chemistry of fish and amphibians. Seems like common sense some of you should be peeing in a bucket.

No one answered it yet because it isn't the topic of the thread. When someone throws up a straw man like this in the midst of an argument, it only solidifies the impression that the person knows they are wrong and cannot dispute the original argument at hand.

Ok, I’ll put you down for hypocrite.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:The instructions on the tampon box state don’t flush them. It’s not that hard.

No, but it's inconvenient. As we can see from this thread, there is a significant faction of women who know they shouldn't flush, but do it anyway in other people's homes or public places.

There is a special spot in hell reserved for the lady who flushes tampons in her friends' homes, but thinks flushing twice makes it all better. God.

You are bizarre and someone who struggles with nuance.

Someone can wrap and trash in 99% of circumstances and have the social skills to understand that occasionally it is necessary to flush because there is a host who doesn't provide a lidded, lined receptacle to wrap & trash. Occasionally you are somewhere with a non-lidded trash can and you can't control if other people leave the door to the bathroom open, there are dogs in the house, many of which will sniff out a bloody tampon and eat it, causing major medical harm.

If you can't understand circumstances where reasonable people take the risk of flushing, you are alarmingly rigid in your thinking.

YOU are bizarre and gross. Nobody wants you to flush a tampon down their toilet. Just have a quiet word with your host that you have disposed of it and have thus closed the bathroom door, or put it in a clean, disposable pouch in your purse (which you should be carrying anyway when you are having your period and are going to a friend's home, in preparation for a situation like this).

Nobody thinks it is OK for you to selfishly flush a tampon down the toilet in someone's house.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The instructions on the tampon box state don’t flush them. It’s not that hard.

No, but it's inconvenient. As we can see from this thread, there is a significant faction of women who know they shouldn't flush, but do it anyway in other people's homes or public places.

There is a special spot in hell reserved for the lady who flushes tampons in her friends' homes, but thinks flushing twice makes it all better. God.

You are bizarre and someone who struggles with nuance.

Someone can wrap and trash in 99% of circumstances and have the social skills to understand that occasionally it is necessary to flush because there is a host who doesn't provide a lidded, lined receptacle to wrap & trash. Occasionally you are somewhere with a non-lidded trash can and you can't control if other people leave the door to the bathroom open, there are dogs in the house, many of which will sniff out a bloody tampon and eat it, causing major medical harm.

If you can't understand circumstances where reasonable people take the risk of flushing, you are alarmingly rigid in your thinking.

YOU are bizarre and gross. Nobody wants you to flush a tampon down their toilet. Just have a quiet word with your host that you have disposed of it and have thus closed the bathroom door, or put it in a clean, disposable pouch in your purse (which you should be carrying anyway when you are having your period and are going to a friend's home, in preparation for a situation like this).

Nobody thinks it is OK for you to selfishly flush a tampon down the toilet in someone's house.

Please don’t have this conversation with me if you are a guest in my house.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Of course not. Where you raised in a barn?

Those with menses in the 80s/90s were told to flush.

Ok. This person needs to stop saying “Menses” 😂

Sorry no. Only the ignorant taught this and even more ignorant never figured out it was wrong once they got out of teen years

It is weird to me to use "ignorant" as an insult when you are literally just talking about people who did not know something because they had been taught incorrectly from a young age. I'm curious about what other people you yell at and criticize for simply not knowing something.

I'm also curious what things you don't know, what things you are currently ignorant of. I am betting a lot, since you are human.

Yep. How many of you indignant posters are peeing out antidepressants, contraceptives and other pharmaceuticals into our waterways?

No one has answered this yet. Personally I think the very fixable problem of clogged pipes is far less problematic than the alteration of endocrine systems and brain chemistry of fish and amphibians. Seems like common sense some of you should be peeing in a bucket.

No one answered it yet because it isn't the topic of the thread. When someone throws up a straw man like this in the midst of an argument, it only solidifies the impression that the person knows they are wrong and cannot dispute the original argument at hand.

Ok, I’ll put you down for hypocrite.

Oh, OK, you don't know what "straw man" means and can't understand how your own strategy in argument, which his avoiding the original argument, exposes your inability to discern and follow the line of reasoning at hand. Got it.

I'm not taking any hormonal contraceptives or other medication, thank you, but that isn't the argument here, and if it WERE the original argument, I would be annoyed if someone attempted to divert by insisting we all pause to talk about flushing tampons. I don't expect you to understand this.

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OP again

Holy sh*t y’all. I had no idea this would turn into such a thing. Sheesh

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:At lease some of the package inserts from mid- to late-eighties and on were clear not to flush the tampon itself. I remember.

I've seen one picture from the early 80s. Are you all basing claims about what the boxes stated after that on your memory, or what? I'm relying on memory, and I'm trying to tell if this is differing memories or something more.

I'm going from memory and not a very clear one, but this is from a booklet published by Tampax in 1987, under question 5 "only TAMPAX's paper applicator can be flushed like the tampon"


I do remember Tampax's whole shtick was that they were better than brands with plastic applicators, but clearly they say all tampons are flushed (at that point in time, and yes people with septic systems always had different rules). I'm not an applicator fan so this might not have been anything I saw, but my mother's advice distinguished tampons from pads by the fact that they were flushable. That was in the ads and the inserts for a long period of time so surely many people were told the same.
I no longer flush, but to say it was always common sense and anyone who did otherwise is the fool, is full on gaslighting.
Booklet is here: http://www.mum.org/qandag.htm

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:At lease some of the package inserts from mid- to late-eighties and on were clear not to flush the tampon itself. I remember.

I've seen one picture from the early 80s. Are you all basing claims about what the boxes stated after that on your memory, or what? I'm relying on memory, and I'm trying to tell if this is differing memories or something more.

I'm going from memory and not a very clear one, but this is from a booklet published by Tampax in 1987, under question 5 "only TAMPAX's paper applicator can be flushed like the tampon"


I do remember Tampax's whole shtick was that they were better than brands with plastic applicators, but clearly they say all tampons are flushed (at that point in time, and yes people with septic systems always had different rules). I'm not an applicator fan so this might not have been anything I saw, but my mother's advice distinguished tampons from pads by the fact that they were flushable. That was in the ads and the inserts for a long period of time so surely many people were told the same.
I no longer flush, but to say it was always common sense and anyone who did otherwise is the fool, is full on gaslighting.
Booklet is here: http://www.mum.org/qandag.htm

I consider people who flush flushable wipes stupid too. Tampon flushing was always dumb

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:At lease some of the package inserts from mid- to late-eighties and on were clear not to flush the tampon itself. I remember.

I've seen one picture from the early 80s. Are you all basing claims about what the boxes stated after that on your memory, or what? I'm relying on memory, and I'm trying to tell if this is differing memories or something more.

I'm going from memory and not a very clear one, but this is from a booklet published by Tampax in 1987, under question 5 "only TAMPAX's paper applicator can be flushed like the tampon"


I do remember Tampax's whole shtick was that they were better than brands with plastic applicators, but clearly they say all tampons are flushed (at that point in time, and yes people with septic systems always had different rules). I'm not an applicator fan so this might not have been anything I saw, but my mother's advice distinguished tampons from pads by the fact that they were flushable. That was in the ads and the inserts for a long period of time so surely many people were told the same.
I no longer flush, but to say it was always common sense and anyone who did otherwise is the fool, is full on gaslighting.
Booklet is here: http://www.mum.org/qandag.htm

OP asked if you flush tampons, not DID you flush them in 1980. To which many of women have responded yes, in 2021, they flush them stupidly. Sorry, no vintage tampon pamphlet from decades ago can excuse this level of ignorance

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:At lease some of the package inserts from mid- to late-eighties and on were clear not to flush the tampon itself. I remember.

I've seen one picture from the early 80s. Are you all basing claims about what the boxes stated after that on your memory, or what? I'm relying on memory, and I'm trying to tell if this is differing memories or something more.

I'm going from memory and not a very clear one, but this is from a booklet published by Tampax in 1987, under question 5 "only TAMPAX's paper applicator can be flushed like the tampon"


I do remember Tampax's whole shtick was that they were better than brands with plastic applicators, but clearly they say all tampons are flushed (at that point in time, and yes people with septic systems always had different rules). I'm not an applicator fan so this might not have been anything I saw, but my mother's advice distinguished tampons from pads by the fact that they were flushable. That was in the ads and the inserts for a long period of time so surely many people were told the same.
I no longer flush, but to say it was always common sense and anyone who did otherwise is the fool, is full on gaslighting.
Booklet is here: http://www.mum.org/qandag.htm

OP asked if you flush tampons, not DID you flush them in 1980. To which many of women have responded yes, in 2021, they flush them stupidly. Sorry, no vintage tampon pamphlet from decades ago can excuse this level of ignorance

Do you see this was a direct response to a secondary question? OPs question was settled on page one.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The instructions on the tampon box state don’t flush them. It’s not that hard.

No, but it's inconvenient. As we can see from this thread, there is a significant faction of women who know they shouldn't flush, but do it anyway in other people's homes or public places.

There is a special spot in hell reserved for the lady who flushes tampons in her friends' homes, but thinks flushing twice makes it all better. God.

You are bizarre and someone who struggles with nuance.

Someone can wrap and trash in 99% of circumstances and have the social skills to understand that occasionally it is necessary to flush because there is a host who doesn't provide a lidded, lined receptacle to wrap & trash. Occasionally you are somewhere with a non-lidded trash can and you can't control if other people leave the door to the bathroom open, there are dogs in the house, many of which will sniff out a bloody tampon and eat it, causing major medical harm.

If you can't understand circumstances where reasonable people take the risk of flushing, you are alarmingly rigid in your thinking.

YOU are bizarre and gross. Nobody wants you to flush a tampon down their toilet. Just have a quiet word with your host that you have disposed of it and have thus closed the bathroom door, or put it in a clean, disposable pouch in your purse (which you should be carrying anyway when you are having your period and are going to a friend's home, in preparation for a situation like this).

Nobody thinks it is OK for you to selfishly flush a tampon down the toilet in someone's house.

Please don’t have this conversation with me if you are a guest in my house.

+2...Wrap it and toss it. I will empty the trash. I will not examine it. I will just assume it is a used tissue.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:At lease some of the package inserts from mid- to late-eighties and on were clear not to flush the tampon itself. I remember.

I've seen one picture from the early 80s. Are you all basing claims about what the boxes stated after that on your memory, or what? I'm relying on memory, and I'm trying to tell if this is differing memories or something more.

I'm going from memory and not a very clear one, but this is from a booklet published by Tampax in 1987, under question 5 "only TAMPAX's paper applicator can be flushed like the tampon"


I do remember Tampax's whole shtick was that they were better than brands with plastic applicators, but clearly they say all tampons are flushed (at that point in time, and yes people with septic systems always had different rules). I'm not an applicator fan so this might not have been anything I saw, but my mother's advice distinguished tampons from pads by the fact that they were flushable. That was in the ads and the inserts for a long period of time so surely many people were told the same.
I no longer flush, but to say it was always common sense and anyone who did otherwise is the fool, is full on gaslighting.
Booklet is here: http://www.mum.org/qandag.htm

OP asked if you flush tampons, not DID you flush them in 1980. To which many of women have responded yes, in 2021, they flush them stupidly. Sorry, no vintage tampon pamphlet from decades ago can excuse this level of ignorance

Do you see this was a direct response to a secondary question? OPs question was settled on page one.

I was PP who asked, and I appreciate the answer!

If and when I discuss this issue, I will not be accusing people of not reading the package. Thanks!

Periods are hard. We don't need to be harder on one another than needed, but we do need to stop flushing tampons.

[Anonymous]

From 2001, last bullet

[Anonymous]

Now I’m wondering how many women are walking around with bloody tampons in their purses in a “clean disposable pouch”. So gross.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Now I’m wondering how many women are walking around with bloody tampons in their purses in a “clean disposable pouch”. So gross.

uh no one, please.