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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Reading back through some of these responses, I am kind of feeling a collective sadness for us. Everyone is saying "You're a moron" or "you're selfish" but I see so many people, including me, who clearly just never got a very good education in how to dispose of tampons. I also think when I was growing up (the 80s), there was so much shame/embarrassment around menstruating, and that a lot of women learned to flush tampons and applicators because of that shame. It's the least messy way, and the evidence just disappears. I am thinking back to my teenage self, and how so much of my goal around my period was simply to prevent anyone from knowing I was on it. I remember boys were so actively hostile about menstruating, and even older girls and women had internalized that and were mostly quite negative or even critical about it.

I stopped flushing tampons a while back (basically as soon as I learned you aren't supposed to, but I had to have it spelled out for me because I really didn't know -- glad I found out before I became a homeowner!) but a few years ago a younger friend was lobbying me hard to both give up plastic applicators and to try a cup. I get where she was coming from. I know the applicators are terrible for the environment, and I think the cup makes a ton of sense. But frankly, I'm too old to switch. You use one product for decades and then everyone decides it's terrible. I'm glad it's better for young women now, and I hope more women are getting a better education about how to use sanitary products and what the alternatives are. But those of us who came of age before... we need a little grace. [b]We aren't dumb or selfish, we just had TERRIBLE sex ed and were buried in misogyny for most of our adolescences.[/b][/quote]

Sorry, but I think you ARE "dumb" and selfish for acknowledging that plastic tampon applicators are terrible for the environment, but then claiming you are too old to change.  This is idiotic, dismissive drivel: "You use one product for decades and then everyone decides it's terrible."  It sounds as if you are likening plastic tampon applicators with something harmless and trivial, like a fashion for floral Laura Ashley dresses that "everyone" decides is "terrible" at one point, but which never really hurt anybody/thing.

You know the plastic tampon applicators are terrible for the environment.  You don't want to use a cup?  Fine.  Why not use OB tampons or buy a re-usable applicator, or cardboard applicators?  You are so selfish for insisting on the plastic, just because you don't want to get your finger near your own vagina.  It is truly obscene.  Saying you are too old to change and then blithely continuing as you were is disgusting.  [/quote]

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