@wendynather Ah, but I've taught my cis male chassis offspring that even if one doesn't have the need for such, one may have friends who sometimes do so best to keep an "emergency friend" bag in the backpack.
Which goes back to 1, which I completely agree with.
@wendynather I have to do SOMETHING to counter the toxic masculinity crap in this country!
(I have also warned about how insecure guys, which is a LARGE number of them, will likely react on finding out and how to respond. ("Because I have female friends, duh." "Well so do I and I don't carry those!" *stare at idiot with both eyebrows raised, indicating idiot has missed a VERY OBVIOUS THING*) Anything we can do to normalize "being a friend to other people regardless of plumbing" and "not assuming guys won't need a tampon".)
@wendynather Then I pointed out that UNscented ones are probably best, as scented ones are problematic for nosebleeds... and tbh other parts. "But why would someone want to scent their trash? Ohhhh. Or their..." "...because some marketing would have us believe that clean healthy bodies are not supposed to smell like.. clean healthy bodies." Kidlet pondered, then said "sucks to be them."
I refused to explain my reaction until both offspring are much much older, but the kids are all right.
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