<![CDATA[Flushing Your Tampon Should Be An Inalienable Right, Period. - Jezebel Comments]]> <![CDATA[Flushing Your Tampon Should Be An Inalienable Right, Period. - Jezebel Comments]]> <![CDATA[Flushing Your Tampon Should Be An Inalienable Right, Period.]]> I know this is very belated. But I just would like to share:

My current lease actually forbids flushing tampons.

YUPPPP. SUPER LANDLORD.

doryb

]]> <![CDATA[Flushing Your Tampon Should Be An Inalienable Right, Period.]]> i've never flushed mine. growing up in a house in the middle of nowhere with a septic system, it was never an option, and now im just in the habit of warpping em' up and putting them in the little basket.

i dont really see why thats such a big deal. are people really that icked by seeing their period blood? its not like its someone else's...

alltheteainchina

]]> <![CDATA[Flushing Your Tampon Should Be An Inalienable Right, Period.]]> I know this post is old, but once when I was a kid, I flushed a tampon down and clogged the toilet, and the whole bathroom had to be repaired, and my stepdad was furious with me, probably for an entire decade. I realize now, that you're supposed to FLUSH THE TAMPON SEPARATELY from everything else, like TP. But since I'm on Loestrin, I don't need tampons or pads anymore! Yay!

abigoogle

]]> <![CDATA[Flushing Your Tampon Should Be An Inalienable Right, Period.]]> Being Able To Jump Into The Air And Fly Should Be An Inalienable Right, Period.

See, I too can make stupid, self-centered statements as to how reality is failing to respect to my perceived "right" to do something retarded and not suffer the consequences, whether those consequences be backed up plumbing or ER visits. Just wishing real hard is not going to cut it. But maybe I'm just bitter from having to twice remove a tampon from the ejector at my grandparents that was causing their basement to flood. Both times, it was the same aunt that flushed the tampon, even though she was told even before the first incident that flushing anything more than TP would clog the ejector. I think I got the point across to her after the last incident, though. Graphically.

In summation, "should be" is not a definition for the word "is", and even Bill Clinton wouldn't try to argue that.

timmmahhhhh

]]> <![CDATA[Flushing Your Tampon Should Be An Inalienable Right, Period.]]> i totally ignore those public restroom signs about flushing them too. i don't flush applicators, but damn i'm not wrapping anything up in paper to sit and rot in a wastebasket.

franklindelanobluth

]]> <![CDATA[Flushing Your Tampon Should Be An Inalienable Right, Period.]]> I've always flushed my tampons, signs and prohibitions be damned! And I've yet to cause a toilet to back up because of it. I suppose I've been lucky...

@Piranha426: P.S. My turds are always larger than my tampons.

JRae

]]> <![CDATA[Flushing Your Tampon Should Be An Inalienable Right, Period.]]> Comment on Flushing Your Tampon Should Be An Inalienable Right, Period. I am astonished as to how self absorbed you guys sound. Taking responsibility for our actions is something that doesn't seem to exist these days. Overcome your ignorance and find out what is going on out there! As you are one of millions of people not giving a shit, your negative contributing can be easily overcome by not being lazy. The 2003 Marine Conservation Society Beach-watch Campaign collected over 21,000 items of SRD (Sanitary Related Debris) accounting for 7.8% of the total waste collected. This amounts to an average of 160 items per KM of coastline. To find out more, go to http://www.bagandbin.org/. Knowledge is power!

LilyEsplanade

]]> <![CDATA[Flushing Your Tampon Should Be An Inalienable Right, Period.]]> Tampons take about 6 months to biodegrade but they have lots of fun whilst they are doing it. Ever been surfing with them, nice! It's not that difficult to find a bin instead of flushing.

AuntFlo

]]> <![CDATA[Flushing Your Tampon Should Be An Inalienable Right, Period.]]> Grow up and put your fucking tampon in the garbage.

mariarox

]]> <![CDATA[Flushing Your Tampon Should Be An Inalienable Right, Period.]]> Why can you girls not get the concept of a trash can WITH A LID? They're in Tarjay, people!

galaxina

]]> <![CDATA[Flushing Your Tampon Should Be An Inalienable Right, Period.]]> Are you serious with this? What's so terrible about wrapping it in TP and chucking it in the wastebasket? They make wastebaskets with lids,you know.

anpantan

]]> <![CDATA[Flushing Your Tampon Should Be An Inalienable Right, Period.]]> @hexychick: My dog chewed used tampons too. So you know what? I bought a better trash can with a lid. Problem solved. No need to flush items which should not be flushed.

Mica

]]> <![CDATA[Flushing Your Tampon Should Be An Inalienable Right, Period.]]> My dad would never talk about lady parts when he was married to my mom. Then he met stepmother and turned into this new-agey, what-affects-you-affects-me twit who asked me if I was doing breast self-exams. (The answer: never again after that, Jesus God.)

I visited them at their tory downtown condo. Their toilet backed up.

DAD (looks concerned and disdainful): Did you flush a tampon?

ME (waits to ascertain that death will cruelly not come): Uh, no. It was a really big shit.

youfatduck

]]> <![CDATA[Flushing Your Tampon Should Be An Inalienable Right, Period.]]> Good grief. Maybe our modern world should be equipped with sewage capable of flushing plastic et al, but I've got news for you: it ain't. I don't like people who refuse to pick up dog shit, I don't know what people flying around in jets has to do with it, and I definitely don't understand what slaughtering cows and mutilating genitalia has to do with it, but there is a solution: Our advanced society has invented something called the garbage can. It's conveniently located near the toilet. If your boyfriend bitches about seeing a mess in the garbage can, then you have something to rant about.

plumbering

]]> <![CDATA[Flushing Your Tampon Should Be An Inalienable Right, Period.]]> wtf

wring

]]> <![CDATA[Flushing Your Tampon Should Be An Inalienable Right, Period.]]> wow...so i asked my coworkers if they flush, and they do! I never thought to, because growing up, my mom used tampons and sometimes the dog would dig them out of the garbage...so I always assumed they couldn't go down the toilet. I suppose it's the same as people from other countries who don't flush toilet paper...AT ALL.

americas beard is like clorox sunshine

]]> <![CDATA[Flushing Your Tampon Should Be An Inalienable Right, Period.]]> It might be important to know that however modern the sewage treatment system is where you live, if you flush a tampon there is some poor fool at the sewage treatment plant who has to pluck every damn tampon out of the system before the doo-doo starts to go into the treatment system. Disposable diapers are a no-no for that reason, too; condoms would be a flushing no-no in part because those would be a bit harder to catch flowing past you in the stream at the plant, though I guess some might settle to the bottom of the tanks but latex does tend to float, plus latex and other plastics don't break down for tens of thousands of years and I'd rather not see gray whales or sea lions or sea turtles or tuna with a condom in their digestive system, not that they don't have to deal with tons of plastic garbage already being dumped in the ocean.
It's pretty obvious when it comes to septic tanks- you would fill them too fast and would have to dig another one rather frequently if you kept doing that. All in all, it ain't ideal, but landfills seem to be the best option for this mess.

I realize it's very damned inconvenient, but this kind of shit does have very unpleasant consequences. So I do humbly suggest that you please don't flush'em; try to keep it to #2, #1, and puke if it's biodegradable.

PapaLegba

]]> <![CDATA[Flushing Your Tampon Should Be An Inalienable Right, Period.]]> @venessa: Wow, I am so glad I'm not the only one. :\

inkytwist

]]> <![CDATA[Flushing Your Tampon Should Be An Inalienable Right, Period.]]> @That_little_attention_whore: uh, that sentence shouldn't contain both "also" and "either."
That_little_attention_whore, please step up and receive your Certificate in Redundancy Certificate!

That_little_attention_whore

]]> <![CDATA[Flushing Your Tampon Should Be An Inalienable Right, Period.]]> @Political Party Girl: Ha! When I was in Albania, I found out the hard way that my toilet also couldn't handle T.P. either. I had to set up a little garbage can next to the toilet...the worst part was, I had to walk down to the end of my street to throw its contents into the dumpster. Ewwwwwwwwwwwwwww!

That_little_attention_whore

]]> <![CDATA[Flushing Your Tampon Should Be An Inalienable Right, Period.]]> Sorry, but I cannot handle the concept of the diva cup. I'm not a huge fan of blood, let alone pooled blood in a cup that I have to dump out and then shove the thing back inside me. It makes me sick to my stomach. I'll stick to tampons and stick to flushing until I live in a place that can't handle it. You try chasing your dog around with a chewed used tampon and see if you ever put one in the trash again.

hexychick

]]> <![CDATA[Flushing Your Tampon Should Be An Inalienable Right, Period.]]> everytime a roto rooter guy makes his yearly visit, they inevitably point out some whitish clump and refer to it as "feminine product"
at least they don't comment on our poo

jen673

]]> <![CDATA[Flushing Your Tampon Should Be An Inalienable Right, Period.]]> True story: When I was in high school, my boyfriend's DAD asked me not to flush tampons at their house. This was only a few weeks into the relationship and so far I hadn't even used any period items at their house at all. So embarrassing for my 15-year-old self.

thegreenman

]]> <![CDATA[Flushing Your Tampon Should Be An Inalienable Right, Period.]]> @scrizzlescrazzle, and those with the gay boyfriends who don't want to think about your vag-- try the combination of puppy who eats tampons in the living room and horrified gay roommates. pretty awesome.

pleppy

]]> <![CDATA[Flushing Your Tampon Should Be An Inalienable Right, Period.]]> Well, I'm posting really late on this, but I just paid a plumber $700 to clear out a clog in my home's waste line that turned out to be a three-foot thick buildup of tampons. So no more flushing for me.

mistress scorpio

]]> <![CDATA[Flushing Your Tampon Should Be An Inalienable Right, Period.]]> @Lowti: Diva Cup - pretty sure it's silicon. But don't quote me. It's genius. I just tried it for the first time this month, and I was an *instant* convert. Now I understand why anyone else I've met who's tried one sounds like an evangelist about them.

diamond_lil

]]> <![CDATA[Flushing Your Tampon Should Be An Inalienable Right, Period.]]> @stacyinbean: Ahh yes, thank you. Tampons are so much cleaner and easier. Who wants to sit around on a bloody diaper all day?

marybanjo

]]> <![CDATA[Flushing Your Tampon Should Be An Inalienable Right, Period.]]> Finally, news that I really care about! I now bin mine rather than flush them. Sometimes, when I'm feeling really passive aggressive with my male flatmates and their laissez-faire attitude towards cleaning the bathroom, I consider leaving a used tampon on the sink. I've never worked myself up to it, though.

Severine

]]> <![CDATA[Flushing Your Tampon Should Be An Inalienable Right, Period.]]> Here, here. Was in Austria at the weekend and encountered the continental European preference for non-applicator tampons. Dagnamit! I can nay do it captain! On another note, there's currently a campaign here in Ireland to get the government to lower the 13% tax on condoms...whatever about that tampons and the like are taxed as luxury goods..so us Irish lasses pay through the nose. (There's definitely a joke there about paying through the wrong oriface)

Deediddums

]]> <![CDATA[Flushing Your Tampon Should Be An Inalienable Right, Period.]]> Flushing your tampons works until the pipes back up and there's sewage all over your front yard on the night of the Homecoming dance and you're left with the decision between not saying anything to your date and hoping he doesn't notice the smell (unlikely) or explaining why he can't come pick you up.

Sewers are designed to deal with matter that breaks apart, and tampons expand. It may not be fair, but that's how it is, and flushing your damned tampons because you feel entitled is both selfish and stupid. Just wrap them up in toilet paper and throw them away, for christ's sake.

Anneth

]]> <![CDATA[Flushing Your Tampon Should Be An Inalienable Right, Period.]]> You know what's fabulous? My $3k plumbing bill because I have to have the massive waste pipe outside of my house dug up, punched through, and bits replaced because people don't understand what they're allowed to flush and what they're not. My plumbing isn't that old, nor was it improperly laid. It's just that the asshat previous owners thought it was okay to flush things like tampons and baby wipes. You're fiddling around in your bloody cooch to insert and remove, but it's somehow gross to have to throw it away instead of ruining someone else's plumbing?

The whole point of tampons isn't that you can flush them. Otherwise, that would be the main focus of the advertising they use to convince us to use them. The line would be "and you can flush away your problems" instead of "you can ski and play tennis".

As far as your end-argument that it's okay for you to ruin your home's plumbing because we're surrounded by other bad acts and atrocities, well, it's just bizarre. Equivocally, it's then okay for me to kick someone repeatedly in the head for flushing paper products that don't belong in my plumbing down the toilet because, y'know there are still mass murders and my neighbor leaves his trashcans out after pick-up for more than one day.

mahlookma

]]> <![CDATA[Flushing Your Tampon Should Be An Inalienable Right, Period.]]> I don't use tampons--pads.

ohno!

]]> <![CDATA[Flushing Your Tampon Should Be An Inalienable Right, Period.]]> When you purchase your own home ... and find a volcano of poo erupting from your front lawn that can only be fixed with a backhoe/a septic pumping truck/ and hundreds of dollars -- you'll find a way to live without flushing the damn things.

My neighbors still tell the tale ... the one about the city girl who jammed her pipes full of Tampax and caused raw sewage to flow freely down their sweet country lane.

Girl-O-Rama

]]> <![CDATA[Flushing Your Tampon Should Be An Inalienable Right, Period.]]> Tampons are meant to expand people. Not something you want in a pipe. It's INCREDIBLY rude to flush a tampon if you know it might clog the pipe.

You flush, it clogs... fine. You fix it. Totally your fault and you shouldn't rely on a super or poor boyfriend to fix it for you. It's sooooo not cute.

Plus, I'm sorry... but it's just period blood. It's your own blood. It's really not that gross to just put it in some TP. Get a trash can with a lid and get over it.

Mica

]]> <![CDATA[Flushing Your Tampon Should Be An Inalienable Right, Period.]]> How about this. Buy lube-less, spermacide-less condoms, stick the used tampon in that, and tie a knot in it to seal it up. No smell, no wasting tons of toilet paper, no, uh, bleeding of liquid (horrible pun not intended), and best of all, no clogged toilets.

cde

]]> <![CDATA[Flushing Your Tampon Should Be An Inalienable Right, Period.]]> When I first moved to Brazil, I assumed the tiny garbage can in the bathroom was, you know, for garbage, and I merrily flushed the toilet paper each time.

Until I saw a website on tips for visitors to Brazil that said very few pipes can handle toilet paper and that one is expected to place the toilet paper in the garbage can that is next to the toilet in every apartment.

Of course, I was grossed out by that and continued to flush it, figuring it'd had no ill effect thus far. Then one day, the toilet backed up, and the building super needed to fix it, but it was over a long weekend, so...

I never admitted to my roommate that it was my fault. I never admitted to anyone that I didn't know what the garbage can (or three seashells) were for. Nor did I admit that afterward, I continued to flush #2 TP because, ew.

Good thing I have an IUD and no period; otherwise, I probably would have flooded half of Sao Paulo.

BrancaDeNeve

]]> <![CDATA[Flushing Your Tampon Should Be An Inalienable Right, Period.]]> You know, its funny, I just had this argument with my super environmentalist roommates. I was informed you never flush tampons down the toilet. I was so shocked I googled for evidence regarding flushing tampons.

Tampon boxes and my mom say you can flush.
Every site on the internet says DONT.

I agree. I am pro flushing all the way.

alawrites

]]> <![CDATA[Flushing Your Tampon Should Be An Inalienable Right, Period.]]> I've been to several foreign countries where you were not supposed to flush even toilet paper, but put it in a garbage can next to the toilet.

Seemed weird and icky (esp re poo), but really wasn't that bad once you broke the habit of automatically dropping the wad in the water.

On topic - I've lived in homes with septic = no flush; homes with modern plumbing and city sewer = flush.

coochiemama

]]> <![CDATA[Flushing Your Tampon Should Be An Inalienable Right, Period.]]> a former (female)roommate kept putting her used tampons in the trash in the bathroom and we have two very pushy dogs who loooooooove period blood. (all dogs do, right?) and within the first two months me and the other female roommate had to sit her down and say "look. tampons can and SHOULD be flushed down the toilet. do NOT throw them away for our dogs to enjoy later in the afternoon while we are all at work." she argued with us for almost 30 minutes about how it was bad for the pipes. the only way i reasoned with her was by pointing out that the other THREE females in the house flush their tampons with no problem...

CKash

]]> <![CDATA[Flushing Your Tampon Should Be An Inalienable Right, Period.]]> @jenci838: Jezebel is opening new grounds for me too because I've always flushed and never given it a second thought. But now, thanks to y'all, I'm reconsidering. See, my mom never wore tampons, EVER, so they were something I started using as an adult with no instruction. So I just assumed you flushed 'em. That's why they say flushable on the box, right? But now hearing of septic tanks and all that, maybe I shouldn't flush? And I always thought "period trashcans" were for used pads and applicators; not used tampons. Huh. Learn something new every day. I love this site.

lonewolfer

]]> <![CDATA[Flushing Your Tampon Should Be An Inalienable Right, Period.]]> I try to read one thread a day to remind me that how badly anything vaguely feminist has degraded over the past two decades. Flushing anything, no matter how much it fucks with a system basically designed by the Romans with next to no improvement in the past 2,000 years is a right? Beautiful.

As a guy, tho, I gots to ask: what's so gross about using the trash? I never understood the wads of TP approach. I get it, you bleed. You know, it's hard to miss. So it goes in the trash. Cycle of life. Jeebus. I've gone down on plenty of women the rag (not that big a deal, BTW). Why would a tampon in the trash bother anyone?

ninety_nine

]]> <![CDATA[Flushing Your Tampon Should Be An Inalienable Right, Period.]]> I hate card board applicators because they're harder to shove up in there. Plastic is just much smoother.

amowls

]]> <![CDATA[Flushing Your Tampon Should Be An Inalienable Right, Period.]]> This whole post is a "Renter's Argument". As the homeowner, I guess I have the RIGHT to flush tampons, but I have the DESIRE to spend that $700 every 2 months on cute jackets and good books. Want to flush tampons? Best marry a plumber!

Mrs. DeLesseps To You, Dahling

]]> <![CDATA[Flushing Your Tampon Should Be An Inalienable Right, Period.]]> @groupie: Ha! My roommate who lived in Greece last year just told me that you can't flush your TP there earlier tonight. It's apparently because the pipes are very old and narrow and there is not enough water pressure to get it through the pipes and to the sewer/treatment plant/whatever. Since toilet paper doesn't decompose quickly, it can cause clogs. Some super luxury hotels in Athens will let you flush it, though.

Political Party Girl

]]> <![CDATA[Flushing Your Tampon Should Be An Inalienable Right, Period.]]> I don't know anyone who flushes their tampons but aside from the that there aren't many tampons in Australia that come with applicators. I have often thought that some women must be terrified of sticking their finger up their own cunt.

schteph

]]> <![CDATA[Flushing Your Tampon Should Be An Inalienable Right, Period.]]> "there is nothing more irritating to me than the male housemate who exclaims, once the first backup occurs, 'Oh my god you've been FLUSHING YOUR TAMPONS?!'"

why the hell would any sane person keep flushing items after they've back up the toilet once? comparing it to TP or poo is moronic because poo and TP are water soluble

tetracycloide

]]> <![CDATA[Flushing Your Tampon Should Be An Inalienable Right, Period.]]> 35 yrs ago my best friend found her mom's pads (back then they called them maxipads) in a box under the sink. the box had to have been the size of a carry on suitcase, those things were huge! so she thought, "hey, these things are cool!" and promptly took everyone of them and stuck them to the walls of her bedroom. she is still catching a ration over it.

randomthoughts

]]> <![CDATA[Flushing Your Tampon Should Be An Inalienable Right, Period.]]> @edgyspice: The DivaCup is the best thing to happen to feminine hygiene ever. Get one.

sinistrorse

]]> <![CDATA[Flushing Your Tampon Should Be An Inalienable Right, Period.]]> The only people who have ever mentioned to me that they thought tampons weren't supposed to be flushed were people who had never actually used them. Coincidence? I think not.

That_little_attention_whore

]]> <![CDATA[Flushing Your Tampon Should Be An Inalienable Right, Period.]]> if you have a septic tank, don't flush. if you do, you will regret it one day. that material doesn't disentegrate. it comes back. and boy, is it nasty.

that said, flushing them is one of the marvels of modern society and it should be an entitlement, dammit.

randomthoughts

]]> <![CDATA[Flushing Your Tampon Should Be An Inalienable Right, Period.]]> Holy crap. I didn't know anyone flushed their tampons. I had never even considered it. I don't really know why not. I guess you just always see the "period trashcans" in public restrooms, it was ingrained. Jezebel is opening new worlds for me.

jenci838

]]> <![CDATA[Flushing Your Tampon Should Be An Inalienable Right, Period.]]> @HOLmama: Whoa. The laugh is a nice touch...so romantic.

PICKLES_IN_MY_TUNA

]]> <![CDATA[Flushing Your Tampon Should Be An Inalienable Right, Period.]]> My husband and I got into a huge brawl two days ago because of this. I fanatized about murdering him, then cleaning up the blood with tampons and flushing them one by one while laughing sadistically.

HOLmama

]]> <![CDATA[Flushing Your Tampon Should Be An Inalienable Right, Period.]]> @DarlingMagpie: I would never want to deal with explaining a toilet backup with either a condom or tampon found as the cause.

I'd say both items are pretty much self explanatory.

PICKLES_IN_MY_TUNA

]]> <![CDATA[Flushing Your Tampon Should Be An Inalienable Right, Period.]]> I've never flushed tampons but would also not let a boy flush condoms either. Thats what the garbage can in the bathroom is for, garbage!

Also, I would never want to deal with explaining a toilet backup with either a condom or tampon found as the cause. I've already dropped copious amounts of beauty products down our GIANT GAPING drain in the sink, the toilet would be even more gross.

DarlingMagpie

]]> <![CDATA[Flushing Your Tampon Should Be An Inalienable Right, Period.]]> Ever since flushing tampons seriously fucked up the pipes of the first house I rented, I've been throwing them away. You might say that tampons are so much smaller than, uh, "human waste", but the difference is that said waste breaks down, as does toilet paper, and tampons remain wads of cotton that sit in your pipes and cause backups. If you live in an old building, you just can't flush them, and I don't know why people get so defensive about this. As soon as I get back to America I'm switching to the Diva Cup, though. Yay environment!

archipelagic

]]> <![CDATA[Flushing Your Tampon Should Be An Inalienable Right, Period.]]> I love my Diva Cup too!

jadelyce

]]> <![CDATA[Flushing Your Tampon Should Be An Inalienable Right, Period.]]> My old pre-war toilet can barely handle toilet paper so I'm not even going to think about flushing a tampon.

Also, I hate to sound like an uneducated American, but why can't you flush toilet paper in Greece?

groupie

]]> <![CDATA[Flushing Your Tampon Should Be An Inalienable Right, Period.]]> Divacup is seriously the greatest invention. It's blowing my f!cking mind that I never have to buy tampons or pads again. So awesome.

And seriously, what's so bad about wrapping your 'pon in some tissue and throwing it away. Get over yourselves, girls.

Dvizzl

]]> <![CDATA[Flushing Your Tampon Should Be An Inalienable Right, Period.]]> I flushed a bottle of saline solution down my toilet last week, forgot about it, and flooded my toilet during a cocktail party. I then blamed it on the cat when the plumber came. Needless to say, I flush my damned tampons. Every boy I've ever known uses half a roll of toilet paper every time he take a crap, which I'm certain is worse for the pipes than my Tampax, and there is no fucking way I'm letting used tampons sit in my trash can and marinate, covered in nothing more than toilet paper.

pomobabble

]]> <![CDATA[Flushing Your Tampon Should Be An Inalienable Right, Period.]]> Amen, damn it.

SBJ

]]> <![CDATA[Flushing Your Tampon Should Be An Inalienable Right, Period.]]> Moe, you are teh awesome.

fishlikesequins

]]> <![CDATA[Flushing Your Tampon Should Be An Inalienable Right, Period.]]> Fun story time! I NEVER KNEW that people flush their tampons until, like, a month ago. Ive been wrapping and throwing for about a decade...and then a month ago my roommate backed up our toilet and I was horrified. A few weeks later, I found myself in need of something to wrap with and...nothing. So I did it. I flushed. And it was GREAT. Freeing! Liberating! Easy! No mess! I have to say I'm having a hard time going back to my anti-flush ways.

Auffed_By_Heidi

]]> <![CDATA[Flushing Your Tampon Should Be An Inalienable Right, Period.]]> While I was moving into my last apartment they were doing some work on the plumbing. Said it was due to tampon flushing. I had always wanted to know what the huge deal was about this so I asked. They said it was more the string than the cotton. Apparently they create a net/knot kind of nastiness.

lainykai

]]> <![CDATA[Flushing Your Tampon Should Be An Inalienable Right, Period.]]> Well, it's true that periods are natural but it's not like bleached little wads of cotton are natural. It's a fact that they're environmentally wasteful and potentially dangerous (TSS anyone?)

So yeah, I'd agree that menstrual cups are an awesome solution and one of the best inventions ever :)

Courier

]]> <![CDATA[Flushing Your Tampon Should Be An Inalienable Right, Period.]]> Years ago I lived in Boston, and my BFF roomate (a guy) went to Mass. Art. One of his projects that year was a "Beach Party" in which he made stuff from things we found washed up on Revere Beach: he greeted folks with lei's made out of tampon applicators, the curtains were tampon applicators, the streamers, etc... We probably could have built a tiki bar out of the damn things. So, yeah: Give a hoot, don't flush your applicators.

As far as the tampons themselves go y'all have said it better before me but: there's a lot of pipes and septic systems out there that just can't handle them, no matter how much we wish they did.

harperleebowitz

]]> <![CDATA[Flushing Your Tampon Should Be An Inalienable Right, Period.]]> i just overflowed the toilet with mine a few minutes ago, but wutevz.

chile

]]> <![CDATA[Flushing Your Tampon Should Be An Inalienable Right, Period.]]> [divacup.com]

For purchase.

DramaClub

]]> <![CDATA[Flushing Your Tampon Should Be An Inalienable Right, Period.]]> what ever happened to O.B, btw? Who need a frikkin applicator anyways?

missything

]]> <![CDATA[Flushing Your Tampon Should Be An Inalienable Right, Period.]]> Haw haw. Check it:
1. Check it out:I am 17, I have a 23 y.o. b.f. ( don't even ask, he was an absolute doll though , not a creep in any way) Anyways, we go to his family house in Maine with his sister and her b.f. for the Big Romantic Weekend.. and I have the Biggest Period Ever- and there is no running water and only an outhouse. 30 feet away from the house, OUTHOUSE, people. Cramps, mess, horror, communal outhouse. yikes. Did I mention the outhouse?
I rest my case.

2, I can't even use tampons they give me killer cramps. I'd love to use a tampon. (although they are full of bleach and chemicals, and deeply uncool for the coochie- Id go organic if I did it) If I did use them I'd flush the fuckers. How much worse it it than every other damn thing we are doing ( diapers, cars, coal power, etc etc) to fuck up this planet?

missything

]]> <![CDATA[Flushing Your Tampon Should Be An Inalienable Right, Period.]]> Ladies please flush them. As an aside, when my sister first got her period and was using pads our family dog found them in the bathroom trash. So...I'm walking across the house -in the dark on the way to the shower-and I find something stuck to my foot. Arrrrrggggggghh!

bloodguy

]]> <![CDATA[Flushing Your Tampon Should Be An Inalienable Right, Period.]]> Our house was built in '48, and as far as we know, the plumbing has never been updated. For the first two years we lived here, we had problems off and on with clogs, and finally rented an electric pipe snake. My dad did the "snaking" while I watched in horror--tampons, and tampons, and more tampons. Learned that lesson. Compounding the problem, we had tree roots getting into the line, as well. Cotton+tree roots=snagging. Ew.

I only flush tampons if I'm in a public restroom with the super-suction toilets.

Ya'll might have sold me on the Keeper or Diva cup. Paying for tampons, even cheap o.b.s, kills my soul.

touchmyshoe

]]> <![CDATA[Flushing Your Tampon Should Be An Inalienable Right, Period.]]> Honestly? It never even occurred to me that you could flush them. Huh. I grew up with a septic system that would overflow if you breathed too hard. I guess I never thought that my apartment actually has proper plumbing.

I guess I don't think it's a big deal just to throw them away.

Canarybird

]]> <![CDATA[Flushing Your Tampon Should Be An Inalienable Right, Period.]]> Get a Diva cup. Problem solved.

meg9

]]> <![CDATA[Flushing Your Tampon Should Be An Inalienable Right, Period.]]> I'm SO GLAD we're talking periods today because yesterday I bought a Diva cup based on Jezebelles' recommendations! So far so good, and now there are 4 less used tampons in the world. Aw yeah, high five. Also, amusing: the first time I put it in it was sitting quite happily ON MY GSPOT so adjusting its location was a good time. TMI? TMI.

Although I can easily see why some women wouldn't be comfortable using the Diva cup - I have friends who aren't comfortable using the applicator-less tampons, I can't imagine them being ok with handling the cup on its way out.

lisas

]]> <![CDATA[Flushing Your Tampon Should Be An Inalienable Right, Period.]]> @TrixieFirecracker: no such thing as tmi on this site, doll. perhaps the new tampax sport ones? no se on slim tampons.

Le Kangourou de Kataroo

]]> <![CDATA[Flushing Your Tampon Should Be An Inalienable Right, Period.]]> omgdumb. I really like my empty political statements to clog my toilet. *eyeroll*

Meanmllemustard

]]> <![CDATA[Flushing Your Tampon Should Be An Inalienable Right, Period.]]> @hortense: Beautifully wicked!

AGreenEyeDevil

]]> <![CDATA[Flushing Your Tampon Should Be An Inalienable Right, Period.]]> When I used to see those signs that say "Dispose of feminine products in the trash," I always thought they meant the APPLICATOR, not the actual 'PON! My roommate was horrified when she leared that I was flushing them, but I didn't even understand what she meant at first. I said, "Of course I'm not flushing it," and she goes "then why are there never any bloody tampons in the trash?" (who digs through the trash??), and I go "UM, cuz you flush that part, duh." I just couldn't comprehend that the signs meant the actual tampon part! I mean, that thing is warm and slimy, and you're sure as shit not going to wrap it up in TP and throw that mother out. Yank and flush! You don't gift-wrap your shits for the garbage, do you?

JellyJams

]]> <![CDATA[Flushing Your Tampon Should Be An Inalienable Right, Period.]]> My health teacher in 4th grade took it upon herself to make us all hate every function of our new freakish bodies, and made sure we understood that we were 1) never allowed to wear white pants again and 2) should never ever flush tampons, because then we'd need to go find a plumber all by ourselves in the middle of the school day to fix it, and there is NOTHING more embarrassing than the fact that we all bleed uncontrollably every month.

Flushing tampons is like rebellion now.

belbel

]]> <![CDATA[Flushing Your Tampon Should Be An Inalienable Right, Period.]]> someone mentioned this earlier, but it realllllly ticks me off that there is sales tax on feminine products. there is no tax on anything medical or health-related--not on vitamins, not on aspirin, because these are considered necessities. who decided that tampons and maxipads are not necessities?

zahava

]]> <![CDATA[Flushing Your Tampon Should Be An Inalienable Right, Period.]]> I really had no idea that people flushed them. I am retroactively embarrassed for all the times (like, um... today) when I left a tampon wrapped up in the trash... what about at work? Where they leave the special trash cans? Ah... I am saddened and confused. Why do I have to flush it? On a side note... I thought it was really weird when my boyfriend flushed a condom for the first time. I am the child of hippies.

wednesdaywolf

]]> <![CDATA[Flushing Your Tampon Should Be An Inalienable Right, Period.]]> @jackimarie: Absolutely serious. Most bathrooms and bathroom stalls in public places have trashcans. However, another caveat for you: make sure you carry some tissue in your purse/backpack, as not all public bathrooms stock toilet paper. Dont' get me wrong, it's a beautiful country full of friendly and generous people, but the bathrooms are archaic.

HeliosHyperion

]]> <![CDATA[Flushing Your Tampon Should Be An Inalienable Right, Period.]]> I am so making a sign for my bathroom and making any women who come into my house sign an agreement before I let them use it from now on. My plumbing has proven itself to be unaccepting of the tampons, and since so many women seem to feel that it is their inalienable right to flush whatever they damned well please down every toilet on the planet, regardless of the consequences to anyone else, I'm not taking any chances. In your own home? They're your plumbing bills. If it's not your place? Be a grownup.

And if we want guys to be all into period sex, how can we be that squicked out by our own periods?

And keeping pets out of the trash takes a $20 investment. Or the sacrifice of a coffee table book on top of the trash can during that time of the month.

caffeine72

]]> <![CDATA[Flushing Your Tampon Should Be An Inalienable Right, Period.]]> I used to do a beach clean up in Sandy Hook, NJ every year. You would not believe the volume of used condoms and plastic tampon applicators. It was appalling. That being said, a few months ago I was out of harpoons and my bf brought me home the gentle glides. They truly are a beautiful thing. An ethical dilemma.

Here's a bigger environment vs our junk issue: plastic speculums (speculae?) allegedly bad for the environment. One of the docs at work won't use them, and my PCP tried that crap on me. You know what, I'm as big a tree hugger as anyone, but I'm willing to splurge on not using stuff that's been in other ppl's personal space. Of course, my PCP also used water as a lubricant. Umm, water is not a lubricant. I transferred my records.

MissDaisy

]]> <![CDATA[Flushing Your Tampon Should Be An Inalienable Right, Period.]]> and also yuck.

alphafemale

]]> <![CDATA[Flushing Your Tampon Should Be An Inalienable Right, Period.]]> [www.onweb.org]
"[in LA] At Hyperion, the incoming waste (which is 99% water) is first strained of the "big chunks" like condoms, cotton swabs, tampons, and everything else we flush down our drains."

I flush the plug and wrap the applicator. So either way, if it makes it thru the household plumbing, it goes to a treatment plant and gets strained out...

alphafemale

]]> <![CDATA[Flushing Your Tampon Should Be An Inalienable Right, Period.]]> "when there are people who still can't pick up..."

As adults, other people's actions should NEVER influence our own. First off because our actions are entirely our own responsibility and secondly because most people are idiots. Using them as an excuse for anything is weak.

JaneBadall

]]> <![CDATA[Flushing Your Tampon Should Be An Inalienable Right, Period.]]> seriosuly! what do they want to see/smell our beautiful used tampons in the garbage?! SUCK A DICK PUSSIES i always flush. but i use plastic applicators cuz cardboard ones hurt my chocha

BUTTERCUPJEFFERSON

]]> <![CDATA[Flushing Your Tampon Should Be An Inalienable Right, Period.]]> @Snaffles: i agree, and would also like to add that i feel no shame, no disgust, no desire to hide the various smells and fluids that secrete from my body.

plus, that always commercial about young girls in africa who cannot afford protection makes me feel privileged. reminds me to more conscience of my purchases, my impact, my freedoms.

MzSeJ

]]> <![CDATA[Flushing Your Tampon Should Be An Inalienable Right, Period.]]> @Gamaray18:
Word - lurve Paragard. I had to discover it for myself, even though I had begged my doc to get me off the hormones.

BrutallyHonestBabes

]]> <![CDATA[Flushing Your Tampon Should Be An Inalienable Right, Period.]]> @Dogtanian: I LOVE my IUD. Had it for about 2 years. Minor cramping when they put it in (but finding a doctor who would perform the insertion since I hadn't had kids yet was tricky!) I have the T shaped Paraguard one. Periods were already ridiculously heavy, so I haven't noticed much of a change. I don't understand why it's not a more popular form of birth control in this country.

golden-gama

]]> <![CDATA[Flushing Your Tampon Should Be An Inalienable Right, Period.]]> @niftypenguin:
OY - I stand a bit corrected. However, you still used said item technically. Savvy? You just didn't wear it. But yes, yucky of him and you were correct to say something!

BrutallyHonestBabes

]]> <![CDATA[Flushing Your Tampon Should Be An Inalienable Right, Period.]]> Funny you should post this. My toilet broke the other day - some machinery SNAFU between the tank and the bowl that was not a clog - and my landlord responded by telling me to stop flushing Tampax. I told him he was an offensive dick and slammed the door in his face.

quadrophenia718

]]> <![CDATA[Flushing Your Tampon Should Be An Inalienable Right, Period.]]> Someone would have a problem with this? Cause a big bloody mess (even wrapped in tissue) in the wastebasket is better? I'm really puzzled by this.
And fuck uncomfortable cardboard applicators. I hate them and only use them when I have no other choice. They aways stick to me on the way in or out and damn if that isn't uncomfortable!!

golden-gama

]]> <![CDATA[Flushing Your Tampon Should Be An Inalienable Right, Period.]]> I've never flushed a tampon. I just throw them in the garbage, or if I'm at someones house and I don't know them or their garbage-emptying habits, I just wrap them up in a wad of TP and put it in my purse until I get home, or to a safe tampon disposal area, hee. That's probably weird. Definitely weird, now that I think about it.

mstk

]]> <![CDATA[Flushing Your Tampon Should Be An Inalienable Right, Period.]]> @Le Kangourou de Kataroo: "Fat" tampons are the problem, unfortunately. (TMI?)

TrixieFirecracker

]]> <![CDATA[Flushing Your Tampon Should Be An Inalienable Right, Period.]]> I used to work at a place with a terrible toilet. It clogged almost daily after my first coffee-induced morning crap. Once, when the toilet overflowed, my (male) boss took me aside and asked if I was flushing tampons or "napkins" down (because, you know, you apparently weren't allowed to do that). It was of many horrible memories I have from that particular place of employment. Imagine if I really had been flushing tampons!

PoisonPixie

]]> <![CDATA[Flushing Your Tampon Should Be An Inalienable Right, Period.]]> @MilointheMeadow: no, we just have to register for the draft. i guess we're even.

n2tattoos

]]> <![CDATA[Flushing Your Tampon Should Be An Inalienable Right, Period.]]> I think I saw evironmentally safe tampons at Trader Joes.

redvwbug

]]> <![CDATA[Flushing Your Tampon Should Be An Inalienable Right, Period.]]> @TrixieFirecracker: I use Kotex. They're big fat suckers. I blame my mom for ridiculously heavy periods, which is why the Super-Plus kotexes are a blessing. Suck everything up.

Le Kangourou de Kataroo

]]> <![CDATA[Flushing Your Tampon Should Be An Inalienable Right, Period.]]> @westvillagegirl: Slow day at work, and I'm a fast reader. Skipping the long posts helps. Also gots to get my edumacation if I'm to be a fully enlightened male.

alaskanbrownbear

]]> <![CDATA[Flushing Your Tampon Should Be An Inalienable Right, Period.]]> @andBegorrah:@Blue Skies, Golden Sunshine:I've had an IUD for over 5 years now. I've got one of the T-Shaped ones. It hurt having it put in and I basically had to take to my bed for the night.

Periods are very heavy for about the first three months, but then it calms down.

Your partner might be able to feel it, but they soon get used to it.

However, it's done it's job (no babies) and it's great not having any artificial hormones (me and the pill don't work well together) or any mucking about with condoms.

If you have very heavy periods, an IUS or Minera might be better for you.

Dogtanian

]]> <![CDATA[Flushing Your Tampon Should Be An Inalienable Right, Period.]]> @Lowti: This site is the first I had ever heard of a diva cup. Where do you buy them?

redvwbug

]]> <![CDATA[Flushing Your Tampon Should Be An Inalienable Right, Period.]]> 100 year old plumbing filled with elm roots, a $250.00 bill from a smarmy plumber with a "told you so" look on his condescending face at 11:30 pm on a Sunday, a number of large holes cut out of one of my new walls in our family room in search of our plumbing stack and a ginormous job in cleaning up waste water all over the utility room floor made me come to the clear realization that flushing tampons down the toilet just isn't worth it. Anyone who flushes anything down the loo other than waste and flimsy one-ply is a dead person at my house.

TheBumbler

]]> <![CDATA[Flushing Your Tampon Should Be An Inalienable Right, Period.]]> Is this the appropriate forum for a tampon-related question that does not relate directly to the Great Flushing Controversy?
A while back Tampax changed its tampons, which used to be long and thin, to be more like Playtex, which are short and wide. I have anatomical difficulties with Playtex, and now I have them with Tampax too. Any other suggestions? (Please don't recommend the no-applicator kind like O.B. or one of the DivaCup type products - I've tried those, and I just can't deal.)

TrixieFirecracker

]]> <![CDATA[Flushing Your Tampon Should Be An Inalienable Right, Period.]]> Ew! Seriously? Flushing tampons is my #1 frustration with us ladies in the restroom--don't you just love when everyone avoids that 'one stall' that's filled with bloody waste and nobody will flush it? Yeah, those lines at the bathroom are GREAT.

inkytwist

]]> <![CDATA[Flushing Your Tampon Should Be An Inalienable Right, Period.]]> When my dad had a business (eff you NAFTA!) many of his employees came from countries where they couldn't flush the TP, so we had to do a lot of reprogramming and monthly hygiene meetings. My summer job was to clean the bathrooms. You can imagine the stink on a hot summer day.

ceejeemcbeegee

]]> <![CDATA[Flushing Your Tampon Should Be An Inalienable Right, Period.]]> @stacyinbean: Oh yuck.

Dashrashi

]]> <![CDATA[Flushing Your Tampon Should Be An Inalienable Right, Period.]]> Haha. I live near a nice midwestern city, a bit out in the country and I have a septic tank. Speaking from experience I can say our modern home does not support tampon flushing. That was one nasty mess. Alas, plumbing really is a series of tubes and can get clogged, despite any supposed modern advances.

Jys

]]> <![CDATA[Flushing Your Tampon Should Be An Inalienable Right, Period.]]> @hamburgerhotdog: The turd explosion has tears running down my face right now.

WaltzingMatilda...same McCain, less filling!

]]> <![CDATA[Flushing Your Tampon Should Be An Inalienable Right, Period.]]> I flush at home, 'cuz my loo can handle it. But I usually don't flush in public bathroons, esp it there's a sign at says not to.

Damn the applicators... it's all about the OBs baby!

ceejeemcbeegee

]]> <![CDATA[Flushing Your Tampon Should Be An Inalienable Right, Period.]]> Sing it, sister.

rosemarypepper

]]> <![CDATA[Flushing Your Tampon Should Be An Inalienable Right, Period.]]> i think my dad needs to read this article

adina

]]> <![CDATA[Flushing Your Tampon Should Be An Inalienable Right, Period.]]> I'm wondering if I could fashion some kind of biohazard pouch onto a utility belt so I can save used ones and pull a L7 when some seriously stabby-inducing shit goes down. I'd be like the Feminazi Bonerkiller Batman!

Okay, that's the most fucked-up thing I've written in awhile. Good night, ladies. Kisses.

andBegorrah

]]> <![CDATA[Flushing Your Tampon Should Be An Inalienable Right, Period.]]> @Lowti: Oh dear. Today Sponges are NOT for periods, they're for contraception! And not too reliable at that.

Onalee

]]> <![CDATA[Flushing Your Tampon Should Be An Inalienable Right, Period.]]> @Political Party Girl: Sister Act Fucking TWO??!?!? Say no more. Say no more!

I'm sure they'd love it over there. That fork was fucking delicious! (read the site, and you'll get it)

westvillagegirl (exiled in chicago)

]]> <![CDATA[Flushing Your Tampon Should Be An Inalienable Right, Period.]]> @charlotte corday: I guess it's OK if it's in the name of science, right?! haha

He seemed like a normal person, which was why I was perplexed.

westvillagegirl (exiled in chicago)

]]> <![CDATA[Flushing Your Tampon Should Be An Inalienable Right, Period.]]> I flush as long as there are no signs warning me against it. And, as someone currently on the rag, and using tampon after tampon, to all you DivaCup using jezzies... you convinced me. Next go round I'm shoving the plastic cup up my hooha.

Le Kangourou de Kataroo

]]> <![CDATA[Flushing Your Tampon Should Be An Inalienable Right, Period.]]> @kellbrite: But they're wrapped in plastic! :D

Lowti

]]> <![CDATA[Flushing Your Tampon Should Be An Inalienable Right, Period.]]> @TheGoodYears: I called my mom to ask her WHY OH WHY didn't she ever tell me not to flush tampons, and she said she had no idea either. She thought it only applied to septic tanks, so that's all she told me when I was growing up.

Political Party Girl

]]> <![CDATA[Flushing Your Tampon Should Be An Inalienable Right, Period.]]> Maybe it's just me, but we have a small trash can in our bathroom. I keep a liner in it, and I keep it on the back of the toilet, on top of the tank lid. The trash can is small enough to fit up there, and it keeps the doggy out, so he doesn't go digging for nastiness. Since he once devoured an entire box of new tampons, I don't really want to know what he would do with used ones. However, he has a real fetish about my, um, dirty underthings. He drags them out of the laundry basket and runs under the bed with them. He growls if you try to take them away. So, the small trash can on the back of the toilet is our solution to the doggie getting in the trash problem. And, if its that time of the month, I empty the trash at least every day, more if I need to.
I got kicked out of house I was sharing with roommates once for flushing. They had a septic tank, and I never knew. Their rage was an awesome thing to behold, and now I know.

flyoverstate

]]> <![CDATA[Flushing Your Tampon Should Be An Inalienable Right, Period.]]> K, we all know bad boyfriend's environmental concern was about the plastic applicator not the flushing, right? We all know every single piece of plastic takes between 500-1000 years to biodegrade, right? That's sum hell of a lot of applicators and wraps and condoms and diapers piling up. Where does it all go?
Me, I'm for no applicator tampons - flushed. You can't be afraid to stick your finger up there. I did try washable pads ([www.gladrags.com]) but wasn't so into it. I tried Instead based on Jezzie reviews but it was too big for me or something - I could feel it all the time. Bummer.

Onalee

]]> <![CDATA[Flushing Your Tampon Should Be An Inalienable Right, Period.]]> @westvillagegirl: LOVE that website. I have a two-page note (typed, single spaced) from an old roommate that needs to go up there. She wrote it and left it for us the day she moved out. Included in the note was an itemized list of "missing items" (read: stuff she thinks we stole from her). My fav items were (and I'm quoting here):
- 1 dark blue dishtowel from a set of 4 that my dad bought me
- 1 blue plastic fork
- 1 blue/green plastic plate
- DVD cases for "Sister Act 2" and "Best of 'Friends' Season 4"

Most of these things I cannot even replace without also re-buying something I still have -- the fork can't be bought individually, the DVD cases cannot be bought without the DVD's, etc.

Cry me a fucking river. Oh, I also blame HER for our tampon clog fiasco as it happened soon after she moved out, and since she's gone, she gets blamed for everything that goes wrong in our house.

Political Party Girl

]]> <![CDATA[Flushing Your Tampon Should Be An Inalienable Right, Period.]]> @westvillagegirl: anthropology? it's not something you can hear people discuss normally.

Charlotte Corday

]]> <![CDATA[Flushing Your Tampon Should Be An Inalienable Right, Period.]]> I remember going to the beach with a friend when I was a kid. Her younger sister built theis great big sand castle. The turrents were topped by the pink plastic tampon applicators that had washed up on shore. I was too young to know what they were but her mom had a fit. This was Ft. Lauderdale beach in the 70's. By the way you can't flush tampons when you have a septic system. I learned that the hard way. On my birthday one year.

iluvbacon

]]> <![CDATA[Flushing Your Tampon Should Be An Inalienable Right, Period.]]> @zivah: No, no, no. Diaphragms must be left in at least six hours (to assure all 180 million sperm involved in a single ejaculation are dead or sufficiently disabled) but no more than 24 hours. They do increase the risk of UTIs in some women, but not all.

Onalee

]]> <![CDATA[Flushing Your Tampon Should Be An Inalienable Right, Period.]]> @alaskanbrownbear: Mr. Brownbear, I'm not tossing tomatoes at you, but I'm wondering what the heck a dude is doing reading up to comment 200 on a thread about menstruation. I'm not attacking you or anything, it just seems a little strange, is all.

westvillagegirl (exiled in chicago)

]]> <![CDATA[Flushing Your Tampon Should Be An Inalienable Right, Period.]]> I have pets who like to get into the trash, so there is no way in hell I'm NOT going to flush them.

End of story!

PinkBox

]]> <![CDATA[Flushing Your Tampon Should Be An Inalienable Right, Period.]]> Ha ha! I flushed one just now! Na-na-na-na!

Ah, the wonders of high-rise plumbing!

westvillagegirl (exiled in chicago)

]]> <![CDATA[Flushing Your Tampon Should Be An Inalienable Right, Period.]]> @HeatherNumber1: Good tip. I'm not sure quite how to say this without seeming flippant or condescending, so please don't throw rotten cyber fruit at me for this. As a guy who does not work in the plumbing or waste management fields, I have never thought about this issue at all. My wife has tried various feminine products over the years, but I haven't paid much attention at all to how they are disposed.

alaskanbrownbear

]]> <![CDATA[Flushing Your Tampon Should Be An Inalienable Right, Period.]]> Seriously, until tampons and pads are free, I'm going to do whatever the fuck I want with them.

Although, to be perfectly honest, I do use the mooncup for convenience.

Lilytox

]]> <![CDATA[Flushing Your Tampon Should Be An Inalienable Right, Period.]]> All right. You've convinced me. Just ordered a mooncup!

Well, you and the nasty burning during my last period from, um, reverse flow absorbency? (drinking 2 litres/day of water and a light flow do not make for a pleasant experience)

LittleBlackFly

]]> <![CDATA[Flushing Your Tampon Should Be An Inalienable Right, Period.]]> Wrap it up in TP, put it in the trash. EMPTY the trash within 24 hours. This is key.

Unless your vadge is a dark hole of vile odors, I don't understand why a used tampon would smell bad so soon after use.

girlinterrupted

]]> <![CDATA[Flushing Your Tampon Should Be An Inalienable Right, Period.]]> I have never, ever considered that it was not okay to flush tampons down the toilet...I feel like my world is spinning out of control. Thanks, Mom, for never talking to me about these issues and letting me figure them out all on my own. Now I'm terrified I've totally screwed up the environment and the plumbing in my 1948 house.

NeverEver

]]> <![CDATA[Flushing Your Tampon Should Be An Inalienable Right, Period.]]> @stacyinbean: It's really awesome. My old roommates were big on the PA notes, and I wish that site had been around then.

But, enjoy. I also enjoy the mistaken apostrophe site, which can be found through [www.passiveaggressivenotes.com]

westvillagegirl (exiled in chicago)

]]> <![CDATA[Flushing Your Tampon Should Be An Inalienable Right, Period.]]> @pica: 'The bleaches in the tampons can affect the water supply.'

! Nice to know the FDA deems them safe for my insides.

One important note (especially for guys): If you receive guests and don't have the good sense to keep a trash can in the washroom, you're ASKING for a plumbing problem. I'm also not a fan of public/office washrooms that don't have tampon dispensers.

HeatherNumber1

]]> <![CDATA[Flushing Your Tampon Should Be An Inalienable Right, Period.]]> Shouldn't we be saving our tampons for the Bloody Tampon Catapult anyway?

syneblue

]]> <![CDATA[Flushing Your Tampon Should Be An Inalienable Right, Period.]]> @petuniacat: How did you hear that story? Was it one of those events that the whole family never stops talking about?

Poor guy.

BeAgrestic

]]> <![CDATA[Flushing Your Tampon Should Be An Inalienable Right, Period.]]> My husband's folks have a "camp" which is apparently Upstate New Yorkese for "trailer near a lake." It's got a septic tank. Not only can't you flush tampons, you can't flush toilet paper. I HATE HATE HATE going there.

whoneedslight

]]> <![CDATA[Flushing Your Tampon Should Be An Inalienable Right, Period.]]> i get the feeling that if men were the ones who bled every month, tampons and the like would be federally subsidized. i hate spending money on something i don't even want to deal with in the first place. seems kindof unfair.

MilointheMeadow

]]> <![CDATA[Flushing Your Tampon Should Be An Inalienable Right, Period.]]> ...there is nothing more irritating to me than the male housemate who exclaims, once the first backup occurs, "Oh my god you've been FLUSHING YOUR TAMPONS?!"

Irritating? Or embarrassing?? I rent a circa 1950 house with 2 other women. I had NO IDEA you shouldn't flush tampons down the toilet. One day, while my roommate was doing laundry, our tub started filling with sudsy laundry water. Then our toilet started to overflow, and the bathroom flooded.

We called a plumber who brought in this gigantic snake-like drilling machine. When he was done, we asked him what the problem was. The big, burly plumber looked down at he shoes and said, "It was, um... feminine products..." I nearly died. Turns out I was the ONLY ONE flushing my tampons! The plumber said they're one of the main causes of back-up in older plumbing systems and it had probably been building up for a while. He was really nice and understanding... until it flooded again 2 days later.

When I saw him on his way out the second time, he just looked at me, seemingly irritated and said, "More feminine products." Like it's MY FAULT he didn't get them all the first time?? I've never seen anything about not flushing tampons on the box! Maybe I'm to blame because I grew up with modern plumbing! I already felt guilty and stupid, like one of those spoiled Laguna Beach girls who doesn't know you have to change the oil in your car. Thank God the plumber was the one who told our landlords the cause of the problem (and stuck them with the $660 bill.) My landlady called me later that week to let me know she never knew not to flush tampons either, so I shouldn't feel too guilty.

Thanks, Moe, for reaffirming that I'm not alone! (Sorry guys, for this novella-length comment.)

Political Party Girl

]]> <![CDATA[Flushing Your Tampon Should Be An Inalienable Right, Period.]]> @westvillagegirl: oh man, I wish I knew about this before! I have gotten some amazing pieces of passive agressive bullshit in my life, I need to go home to see if I can find any of them.

stacyinbean

]]> <![CDATA[Flushing Your Tampon Should Be An Inalienable Right, Period.]]> @wlynn: But, the ugly ones, go ahead and let them die.

westvillagegirl (exiled in chicago)

]]> <![CDATA[Flushing Your Tampon Should Be An Inalienable Right, Period.]]> @LAGirl: Wow! I think water shot out of my nose by the time I got to the word "feasted." It's amazing what those little tummies will digest.
Tennis Ball fur . Nuff' said.

BeAgrestic

]]> <![CDATA[Flushing Your Tampon Should Be An Inalienable Right, Period.]]> @sovereign_state: what took you so long, girl??? This is no debate at all. ok, if we want to debate whether to flush the APPLICATOR, well then that's one thing. yes, that could be a problem. but the tampon itself- come on!! commence with the swishing ladies! i've lived in septic and sewer and trust me i've taken dumps that have caused worse problems. this is a woman's right. next discussion...

jerriblank

]]> <![CDATA[Flushing Your Tampon Should Be An Inalienable Right, Period.]]> @Lowti:
Since we're chatting on this, get a Paragard non-hormonal IUD. Best. Thing. Ever!

BrutallyHonestBabes

]]> <![CDATA[Flushing Your Tampon Should Be An Inalienable Right, Period.]]> @thatsrealbutter: Ohh... did you take a picture of that note? I bet it would be worthy of one of my favorite sites:

[www.passiveaggressivenotes.com]

westvillagegirl (exiled in chicago)

]]> <![CDATA[Flushing Your Tampon Should Be An Inalienable Right, Period.]]> @RyanB: Bless your heart, I'm really sorry. Honestly, that's the saddest thing I've heard all day.

friedeggsammich

]]> <![CDATA[Flushing Your Tampon Should Be An Inalienable Right, Period.]]> @scrizzlescrazzle: DUDE ME TOO!!! i told this story on Jez a few months ago! haha, my doggie would always strew our used pads all over the upstairs and my dad couldn't even use the word 'tampon' would just say 'girls... you need to go clean up your... mess'

jewess

]]> <![CDATA[Flushing Your Tampon Should Be An Inalienable Right, Period.]]> and one time, i came home to find my puppy had gotten into the bathroom trash and FEASTED upon my used, bloody tampons. it was one of the most disgusting things i've ever seen. called the vet and they said as long as she passed whatever she ate, she'd be okay.

spent the next week watching her run around with a tampon string hanging out of her ass and pooping tampons. not. pretty.

LAGirl

]]> <![CDATA[Flushing Your Tampon Should Be An Inalienable Right, Period.]]> @hortense: Best. Comment. Ever. Haha! And yes, I do flush and have yet to have a back-up!

britainm3

]]> <![CDATA[Flushing Your Tampon Should Be An Inalienable Right, Period.]]> @DatRoroKid: you have a truly profound grasp of the obvious.

Charlotte Corday

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