Boys respond to 'Menstrual Dignity Act' in boys room

 Stephen Green:

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You might already have read earlier this week about the protest/vandalism going on at Lakeridge High School in Oregon, but there might be more going on here than meets my bemused eye.

In accordance with Oregon’s 2021 “Menstrual Dignity Act,” which is a real thing that I did not make up at all, Lakeridge installed “free” tampon dispensers in the boys’ room. Some unknown boy or boys did what they felt must be done to stop this unwanted intrusion: They pulled the dispenser off the wall and stuck it in a toilet.

More than once.

Normally I despise vandalism. But there’s a boyish charm to this particular protest, one that reveals the absurdity of mandating menstrual products in the boys’ room. My hat’s off to these kids for protesting in a way the Left has for years.

The school sent an email to parents complaining that “In the last weeks, we have been combating vandalism in the boy’s bathrooms. Students have been taking the tampon dispensers down and placing them inside the toilets. We would like your help in stopping this form of vandalism.”

The school is merely complying with the Menstrual Dignity Act, which “requires schools to provide menstrual products in gender-neutral, male and female restrooms, making them available to more than 552,000 K-12 students,” among many others.

Let’s talk about two things: the obvious fallacy and the dog that didn’t bark.

The fallacy here is anything called a Menstrual Dignity Act. There’s nothing dignified about any of our bodily functions, male or female, and that’s why there’s a door on the bathroom. It’s also the reason we segregate, or at least used to, into separate rooms for the ladies and the gentlemen. When we have to do something unladylike or ungentlemanly in a semi-public space, we generally prefer the company of our own sex.

Now, about that dog that didn’t bark. I mean no disrespect with the word “dog,” but where are the young ladies in all this mess?

It’s a bit silly to put a tampon dispenser in the boys’ room, although it is certainly symbolic of the radical Queer/Trans movement’s effort to destroy sexual distinctions under the guise of fighting for civil rights. But what young women have had to endure — up to and including sexual assault — in order to give male predators the “dignity” of using the girls’ room is far more egregious.
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I suspect the machine's chances of being used for its intended purpose were remote.  It is possible that the boys might use them for cleaning their shotguns.