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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]FFS how many ways to people need to say “I didn’t know this was a problem, no one told me, I was a kid who had to learn to use a tampon on my own, now that I know I don’t flush them”????

Like those of you who have zero empathy for the fact that many of us not only had inadequate (or wrong!) sex Ed when we were young just come off as entitled brats. You really think a young woman should intuitively know what a tampon can do to a plumbing system, especially if her mother, friends, and others have all told her to flush tampons? That’s incredibly unrealistic.

And do really not understand how much shaming young women used to receive around their periods. My number one concern as a young woman regarding my period was hiding it. This was the universal message I received from my mom, teachers, friends, and advertising — that the worst thing that could happen would be if other people, but especially any male, found out you were on your period. So the last thing most of us wanted to do was leave evidence of our period anywhere. Thus, we were encouraged to flush tampons to eliminate evidence.

Basically, women have been treated like disgusting cretins for the mere act of memstruating for decades, and now we are [b]being shamed by younger women f[/b]or not standing up to that wall off shaming we received as kids and magically understanding material absorbency and indoor plumbing from a young age. Maybe one day you will learn that this is a hateful (and misogynist) behavior, perhaps when you are on the receiving end of it.

- signed, a woman who has not flushed a tampon in a decade and really wishes someone had taught me this much sooner [/quote]

Lady, I'm 48 years old, my mom never taught me how to use a tampon, she only used pads, yet somehow I have never flushed a tampon. I can read signs in public bathrooms and I have common sense.[/quote]

[b]Way to miss the point. I’m with PP! Well said, all of it. There’s still a lot of period shaming all over this very website.[/b][/quote]

PP said she hadn't flushed on in over a decade. And she might be older than 48. It all boils down to frequency younger women shame and judge older women for not having been raised the same way as they were. Or frankly, shaming and judging about just about anything.

Frequently, I find women to be other women's worst enemies, not men. [/quote]

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