Yep, It took less than 20 minutes for a tampon dispenser in a boy’s restroom at a Connecticut high school to be ripped from the wall and tampons scattered all over the floor. Was it an act of defiance against woke insanity or a meaningless prank? It's hard to say, but let's see if we can figure it out.
The tampon dispenser was installed on January 24 in response to an upcoming new state law, according to CT Insider. "A student or students" was (were) subsequently disciplined, according to the school's principal, who called it an “egregious instance of vandalism and destruction of property.”
Perhaps the perpetrator(s) thought installing a menstrual products dispenser in a boys' bathroom was an egregious instance of woke insanity. Just sayin'.
So here's part of an email sent the same day to the school's staff and students. See if you can figure out where this guy's coming from.
Brookfield High Principal Marc Balanda sent an email on the same day to the school’s staff and students titled, “I am feeling ‘dis-’ right now,” and saying that he’s “disgusted” and “dismayed” by the behavior.
“A dispenser with menstrual products was installed in the boys bathroom near the (main office),” Balanda said in the email. “The installation was completed at 9:30 (a.m.). By 9:52 (a.m.), tampons were on the floor, the newly installed distribution box was ripped off the wall along with the masonry anchors, and the distribution box itself was destroyed.”
Oh, the humanity!
Balanda said students shouldn't resort to vandalism when they "don't understand something."
Ask for more information. Use your words to start a dialogue rather than using your hands to destroy something. In this particular instance, if you have questions, please let me know.
What's to understand? That makes biological sense, I mean.
The aforementioned new state law goes into effect on September 1, 2024. It reads, in part:
On and after September 1, 2024, each local and regional board of education shall provide free menstrual products, as defined in section 18-69e, in women's restrooms, all-gender restrooms, and at least one men's restroom, which restrooms are accessible to students in grades three to twelve, inclusive, in each school under the jurisdiction of such boards and in a manner that does not stigmatize any student seeking such products.
Raise your hand if you're aware of a third-grade boy in need of menstrual products — or any boy or man.
In the most hilarious line of Balanda's email, he said the acts of vandalism and destruction of property “were the work of immature boys, not men.”
Um, Principal Balanda? Men don't menstruate.
The reaction from Brookfield Schools Superintendent John Barile was just as delusional as Balanda's. He said, in part:
Brookfield High School is approaching this matter from a restorative perspective in that they are providing both education on the issue and work[ing] to remediate this issue with students.
A "restorative" perspective? To what? And please explain to me how education can remediate the issue of the need for tampon dispensers in boys' bathrooms, Mr. Superintendent.
Finally, Brookfield Board of Education Chair Wendy Youngblood's response was classic woke, saying if the person(s) who destroyed the tampon dispenser "wants to make a point about some aspect of life at school, this is not an effective way of doing it. …Most importantly, it overruns the law and the rights of some people who need tampons.”
One. More. Time. Boys do not need tampons.
If having menstrual products in a boys' bathroom is “confusing or unsettling for some in the school community," Youngblood said, there should be a “civil, open, constructive conversation.”
My head hurts. This is a good place to stop.
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