Opinion
Connecticut high school kids flexed their rebellious teenage muscles by ripping a tampon machine from their bathroom walls. Thanks to state law, public schools in the State of Constitution must install a tampon dispenser in at least one boys’ restroom.
To the surprise of no one who has ever been a teenager, kids at a Connecticut high school took matters into their own hands and ripped the vending machine off the wall in an act the principal called “massive vandalism.” Luckily, these teenage heroes aren’t facing prison time… yet.
Some might argue that the school was asking for it; after all, teenage boys aren’t known for their innate maturity. However, this generation of young people, especially this group of young Nutmegs, may be wise beyond their years.
Record time
It took about twenty minutes after the installation of a state-mandated tampon dispenser to be ripped from the walls of the boys’ bathroom at a Connecticut high school. The installation of a menstrual product in the men’s bathroom is due to a state law requiring its inclusion.
The law states:
“…each local and regional school board shall provide free menstrual products available in women’s restrooms, all-gender restrooms, and at least one men’s restroom, which restrooms shall be accessible to students in grades three through twelfth.”
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Although men use pads in cases of extremely bloody nosebleeds, the main use of a pad or other menstrual products is to reap the effects of menstruation, which is a uniquely female process.
Brookfield High School Principal Marc Balanda wrote:
“I am aware that the law says ‘men’s room,’ but today’s actions that led to vandalism and destruction of property were the work of immature boys, not men.”
It is interesting how quickly the principal kneels down to identify the alleged culprits of this vandalism. Who’s to say that the people who tore down the gas station weren’t transgender kids (otherwise known as girls) exercising their lived reality of teenage rebellion? What AND a boy, and how do they have unique characteristics like immaturity?
Vandalism or protest
Principal Balanda continued to berate those involved, telling them they should:
“Use your words to start a dialogue rather than using your hands to destroy something.”
That’s easier said than done in this climate of cancel culture. Time and again, those who speak out against gender ideology are labeled sexist, homophobic, transphobic, and even racist.
Labels like that tend to follow you throughout your life, probably not a burden that young people about to embark on their journey into adulthood want to carry. Wendy Youngblood, president of the Brookfield Board of Education, attacked the young people, claiming responsibility for their actions:
“… violates the law and the rights of some people who need tampons.”
The people who need sanitary pads are women. Don’t take this 41-year-old woman’s word for it that she has been experiencing the menstruation cycle for many moons now; take the word of Merriam-Webster, who defines menstruation as:
“A cyclic discharge of blood, secretions, and tissue debris from the uterus that recurs in nonpregnant reproductive-age primates females at approximately monthly intervals and is believed to represent a readjustment of the uterus to the non-pregnant state following the proliferative changes that accompanied the previous ovulation.”
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The National Institute of Health defines menstruation as:
“Menstruation is the normal discharge of blood and tissue from the uterine lining through the vagina that occurs as part of a that of the woman monthly menstrual cycle.”
These young men were simply exercising their civil disobedience by pointing out the sheer idiocy of an unjust state law intended to infringe on what should be private and safe places for biological men.
Naturally misogynistic
Alex Harris, a resident and member of the Ridgefield Connecticut Pride advisory board, said of the incident:
“Schools have the task of transmitting knowledge and understanding of reality to our young people. Menstruation and trans or non-binary people are simple facts of reality that threaten no one.”
Mr. Harris went on to say:
“Just as racism is socialized and not innate, so is anti-LGBTQIAA+ misogyny and bigotry. All of these feelings arise from a socialized fear of “otherness.” There is no reason why teenage boys should fear period products… people who ask for them or the use of such products anywhere.”
The kids who demolished the tampon dispenser didn’t do it out of an act of “socialized misogyny” or because they were “scared” of period products. Undoubtedly, they did so out of an innate sense of silliness of young male adolescents and perhaps because even in their young and immature state, they are sufficiently aware of actual reality to understand that only women menstruate.
Ergo, menstruation products do not belong in men’s spaces. I congratulate these young boys and hope they continue to remind the good people of Connecticut that boys will be boys, humorously illustrating the reality that boys will never be girls and girls will never be boys.
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