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Was This Acceptable? [W:110]

Was confiscating feminine hygrene products acceptable in this case?

  • I am a liberal and I thini it is ok

    Votes: 2 4.4%

  • I am a liberal and I think it was wrong

    Votes: 8 17.8%

  • I am a conservative and I think it is acceptable

    Votes: 10 22.2%

  • I am a conservative and think it is wrong

    Votes: 2 4.4%

  • I am other and think it is ok

    Votes: 9 20.0%

  • I am other and think it was wrong

    Votes: 9 20.0%

  • Other/Do not know.

    Votes: 5 11.1%
  • Total voters
    45
Re: Was This Acceptable?

Guns are allowed, so I recommend a compromise. Invent a gun that shoots tampons. Then when they try to take it, scream about the 2nd Amendment.
 
Re: Was This Acceptable?

Superfly said:
I understand that you, being a guy, don't understand a lot about menstruation, but the need to "change" is not set by somebody's watch. What happens if a woman needs to change during the setting? Is she supposed to get up and ask for a tampon? Or wait 'til the end, and hope for the best?
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She would leave the room regardless, and in this case retrieve her property.
 
Re: Was This Acceptable?

I think it was justifiable given the rumor and speculation that they were going to use them to throw at the legislature.
 
Re: Was This Acceptable?

digsbe said:
I think it was justifiable given the rumor and speculation that they were going to use them to throw at the legislature.
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So if they were going to use them as weapons, they're "arms." Don't people have a right to bear those? The 2nd Amendment says arms, not guns.
 
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rocket88 said:
So if they were going to use them as weapons, they're "arms." Don't people have a right to bear those? The 2nd Amendment says arms, not guns.
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That's a far stretching argument. You have the right to bear "arms" but not to disrupt a legislature. Tossing tampons and pads during a legislature is not acceptable and it's reasonable for them to confiscate them.
 
Re: Was This Acceptable?

digsbe said:
That's a far stretching argument. You have the right to bear "arms" but not to disrupt a legislature. Tossing tampons and pads during a legislature is not acceptable and it's reasonable for them to confiscate them.
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But if they brought guns and brandished them just before the vote, that would be OK?
 
Re: Was This Acceptable?

digsbe said:
I think it was justifiable given the rumor and speculation that they were going to use them to throw at the legislature.
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Feces have no expectation to be used in a healthy manner, but tampons do. Any protester or woman in general around would have been presumed to have thrown unused (important there as well) products at the legislature before the event. There is some discrimination that could have been employed here.
 
Re: Was This Acceptable?

rocket88 said:
But if they brought guns and brandished them just before the vote, that would be OK?
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If they had a legal carry license why not? If they planned on tossing their guns or shooting people then of course the should be confiscated.
 
Re: Was This Acceptable?

digsbe said:
If they had a legal carry license why not? If they planned on tossing their guns or shooting people then of course the should be confiscated.
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So lethal force is OK, but non-lethal force isn't?
 
Re: Was This Acceptable?

Fiddytree said:
Feces have no expectation to be used in a healthy manner, but tampons do. Any protester or woman in general around would have been presumed to have thrown unused (important there as well) products at the legislature before the event. There is some discrimination that could have been employed here.
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It isn't so much about danger, no one will be hurt by having an unused tampon thrown at them. But it does disrupt things and is not appropriate for protesters. There is a legitimate reason for a woman to have tampons and pads on her, but I don't find it unreasonable for them to take them when entering the legislature and allowing them to use them outside. If they were planning on tossing them at the legislature and they had reason to believe that this was going to be done it's better that they confiscate.

rocket88 said:
So lethal force is OK, but non-lethal force isn't?
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I said if there was reason to believe that they were going to shoot their guns or throw them at people they should be confiscated.
 
Re: Was This Acceptable?

a351 said:
Nope.
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Well, you kinda are. I mean, the way your post read, it was like, "Well if they can bring tampons, we should be able to bring cameras, knives and guns. If one thing should be illegal, all should be illegal."
 
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The taking of women's rights to decide what they will do with offspring is moving ahead, is it not? This in M'erica, the land of "I do what I will with me for it is the land of the free." A place the castle doctrine is applied for homes but not it seems with peoples' bodies.
 
Re: Was This Acceptable?

digsbe said:
I said if there was reason to believe that they were going to shoot their guns or throw them at people they should be confiscated.
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Maybe, but then we'd just have thread after thread about "infringing my rights."
 
Re: Was This Acceptable?

digsbe said:
It isn't so much about danger, no one will be hurt by having an unused tampon thrown at them. But it does disrupt things and is not appropriate for protesters. There is a legitimate reason for a woman to have tampons and pads on her, but I don't find it unreasonable for them to take them when entering the legislature and allowing them to use them outside. If they were planning on tossing them at the legislature and they had reason to believe that this was going to be done it's better that they confiscate.
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I am all for law and order, but I did not make an argument for danger. I made an argument that tampons themselves are expected to be on a woman's personal items and are to be used without the invasion of privacy. There is no need to escalate the insult to every woman that happens to be in the capital. The order was meant to include used products, not unused products. The legislature later rescinded the order at least in part due to the miscommunication. There is no need to defend it.
 
Re: Was This Acceptable?

Superfly said:
Well, you kinda are. I mean, the way your post read, it was like, "Well if they can bring tampons, we should be able to bring cameras, knives and guns. If one thing should be illegal, all should be illegal."
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You read wrong. I never claimed any of the above should be allowed, or that all should be treated as equals. The poster I was replying to cited the mere legality of the item as if that warranted its allowance (or so I thought), I expanded on that thought.
 
Re: Was This Acceptable?

a351 said:
Water bottles were confiscated, as were food and other objects that could be used to disrupt the proceedings and not usually considered to be dangerous. I'm not aware of the limitations placed upon the items they can legally confiscate. It seemed you were basing your argument upon the legality of the item, hence the curiosity.
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Those things should not have been confiscated either. The legality of the item is one factor, but not the only one.
 
Re: Was This Acceptable?

nota bene said:
According to CNN, the DPS confiscated used feminine hygiene products as well as jars/bottles of paint, urine, and feces. Feminine hygiene products among items confiscated at Texas Capitol – CNN Political Ticker - CNN.com Blogs
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So there are now directly contradictory articles on what the officers found.

DPS officers outside the Senate gallery and at each entrance to the Capitol told The Texas Tribune they had not seen or found jars containing feces or urine, and multiple officers throughout the Capitol said they had not heard of any jars being found until a reporter mentioned it. Several officers also said they had not heard anything on the DPS radio system about jars of any excrement.
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Protesters Question Report on Confiscations | The Texas Tribune

Yet you choose to believe the story in which the finding of feces is true over the story in which the officers were asked to comment on that story. Why is that, I wonder?
 
Re: Was This Acceptable?

Redress said:
So, the story is going around, you probably have heard about it. Big abortion debate/vote in Texas yesterday, and on fears that some protesters might throw them into the assembly, tampons and pads where being confiscated before people could enter the viewing area.

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Supposedly the Texas legislature heard from somewhere that they might be possibly used to disrupt the proceedings. So my question is, do you find this action justifiable?
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Re: Was This Acceptable?

I think it's "acceptable", since they have a right to regulate whatever products they wish with regard to what enters the building, but I also think it's incredibly stupid, and not just because of the appearance it gives.

They are soft, cottony things. They are not a real threat. Granted, it makes some sense to confiscate them because the people involved in that decision look like a bunch of giant ****ing ******s for being worried about it.
 
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I can't help but wonder if men had any packs of condoms they may carry in their wallets confiscated also?
 
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Re: Was This Acceptable?

rocket88 said:
But if they brought guns and brandished them just before the vote, that would be OK?
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Seriously? How ****ing stupid is this question?
Did you THINK before asking it?
 
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