Confirmed: state troopers are searching all bags and confiscating tampons and pads

[Blackford]

From a tweet:

Andrea Grimes ?@andreagrimes 16m

Confirmed: state troopers are searching all bags and confiscating tampons and pads. #hb2 #sb1

There's also this:

Jessica W. Luther ?@scATX 18m

DPS Galindo JUST CONFIRMED TO ME: if you have a concealed handgun license YOU CAN TAKE YOUR GUN INTO THE GALLERY. #HB2

So ladies cannot have tampons or pads in the Texas Senate viewing gallery, but guns are okay.

[The Straight Story]

1. That's just dumb. Period. (nt)

[longship]

8. Pun intended?

Oh. R&

[Iggo]

9. .

[octoberlib]

2. WTF?! This is insane! nt

[htuttle]

3. How about a gun that shoots tampons?

We had a similar experience here in the Wisconsin state capitol. Signs were prohibited and sign-carriers were subject to arrest, but guns in the capitol were just fine. One thought some of us had was attaching a sign to a gun...

[IADEMO2004]

7. Thinking like a pirate! LOL nt

[NickB79]

12. Rig up a NERF gun to shoot tampons?

I'm thinking something like this:

It would be epic

[firenewt]

4. Makes sense to me. They understand guns, but women and their 'special' stuff terrify the hell out

of them.

[Generic Other]

5. Isn't this where they do roadside body cavity searches of women?

"We'll find that tampon no matter where you put it, young woman!"

[Blackford]

10. The whole thing is so absurd it defies belief

But you have to believe it because they're Republicans.

[Coyotl]

6. "If My Vagina Was a Gun." Poem. Testimony before House Comm. in Texas.

[Luminous Animal]

28. + a zillion

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

11. Just the loaded ones? Aren't they kinda hard to aim?

[snooper2]

13. How about a Tampon Taser?

&nofeather=True

[Ian David]

17. I have but one, simple request.

And that's sharks with frickin' laser beams attached to their vaginas!

[CTyankee]

14. What is their reason to confiscate them? Do they think women will throw them at the legislators?

That's the only reason I can remotely understand.

[Blackford]

15. That's what Andrea Grimes and her fellow protesters surmise. n/t

[CTyankee]

16. I'm beginning to think these men are going insane over women's reproductive organs. They must

think about them day and night, as if it were some kind of creepy porn. And it's not just in Texas or the U.S. I just read that post about the female M.P. in Ireland who was grabbed by a male M.P. during a session debating abortion. These guys can't even talk about abortion without doing the strangest things...totally off the wall...

[Half-Century Man]

24. You just gave me the weirdest visual...

...A smallish woman with thick curly brunette hair who had been muttering to herself quietly about optometrists suddenly snaps. Springing to her feet she yanks a tampon out her pocket, lights the fuse and throws it stiff armed from the gallery to the senate floor screaming "INCOMING" as loud as she can. The entire gallery dives to the floor as legislators scream in terror and curl into the fetal position.
And the Texas State Patrol looks for old ladies to arrest.

[11 Bravo]

18. If I was a woman, I'm pretty sure I could figure out how to smuggle in at least one tampon.

(But why the FUCK I would ever need to resort to smuggling is a question that can only be answered by a misogynistic, dumber-than-a-bag-of-hair, Texas Republican.)

[Blackford]

19. MOLON LABE!

:large

[badtoworse]

20. Is this from the Onion?

[Blackford]

22. Nope, actual occurence in Austin Texas at the capital building. n/t

[winter is coming]

21. So I should toss my bloodstained underwear instead?

[bushisanidiot]

23. Texas women need to remember this!

they are specifically singling out women for punishment by MOCKING THEM!

[Skidmore]

25. Not about security but reducing women's voices

and access to the legislative process. Only women not having their periods could sit out a long debate. That'll larn 'em. You can bet this was cooked up by one of those backwards Teabaggers and with just this goal in mind.

[CTyankee]

27. They certainly think a lot about these things, don't they? VERY CREEPY.

[marions ghost]

30. Right -- they want to humiliate them and remind them

they are WOMEN (as opposed to men). I see it as a symbolic act of degradation to a type of woman they don't like. There is no other justification.

After reading this, this is my fantasy--

[Solly Mack]

26. My tampons were confiscated once and I had need of them.

So I dropped trousers and bled on their furniture. I was in a holding cell. They gave them back shortly after they noticed me sitting there with my bare ass.

True story. I had been arrested for a traffic violation. No, I wasn't drunk. I've never driven drunk.

I was a pissed off teen.

This kind of high-handed bullshit always pissed me off.

[Blue_In_AK]

32. Solly, I think I like you even more than I did before

after reading this post. Good job!

[Solly Mack]

34. lol! Thanks, Blue!

I don't recommend it under most circumstances but sometimes you just have to match the outrageous with the outrageous.

They couldn't wait to tell my Mom. She was not surprised.

[tanyev]

29. If only our constitution gave us the right to bear tampons.

[GiaGiovanni]

33. There are no words for how ridiculous (and insulting) this is

Great job with that appealing to women thing, Republicans.

[Rex]

35. WHAT FRESH HELL IS THIS?

I am so embarrassed to live in this state at times. I like to pretend that aliens have landed and taken over Austin. Otherwise I have to rationalize that these are real people with real minds and emotions.

Pick Perry = condom with a hole in it.

[Skidmore]

36. Rex, I'm going to assume that you are a male from your username.

If I am wrong, I apologize. I'm just wondering if there is any organized effort for men to step up and participate with the women of Texas in pushing back on this. I really think that men should step out and demonstrate that not all men agree with these throwbacks to another era.

I must add that the women who participate actively in pushing this agenda disgust me to no end.

[Rex]

37. Yes I am a male. Not a peep or word has been spoken about it.

It is very oppressive here where I live, I am constantly outnumbered 20 to 1. I don't know about the rest of the state, but here in south Texas - they are talking about any BUT this huge embarrassment to humanity.

I've brought it up a few times, only to get 'that look'. Only my immediate family will talk about it, we are about the only liberals in this county.

If you hear of ANYTHING going on, please let me know I want to participate!

[Blackford]

38. This is the Texas GOP overreaching in major way

Methinks Texas will go from red to blue much faster than many thought after these abominable actions by the old white man's club.

DISCLAIMER: I am an old white man who trusts his wife and all women to make informed decisions about their bodies while consulting their physicians. That requires zero governmental intervention, IMNSHO.

I am also the uncle of a ten year old mixed race child.

[Coyotl]

39. #TamponGate brings new meaning to 'Red State'

https://twitter.com/search?q=%23tampongate&src=typd

Arabella Stokes ?@romancemama 4h
Dear Texas: Thank you so much for making us look sane. Sincerely, Florida. http://ow.ly/1Z90fK #tampongate

Ahmed Awadalla ?@3awadalla 8h
Meanwhile, it seems they're confiscating tampons in the US. I think we should send troops to liberate their women. #HB2 #TamponGate

Eric Wolfson ?@ericwolfson 8h
Guns don't kill people. Tampons kill people.



Heather Marsh ?@GeorgieBC 10h
Meanwhile the senators are arguing over who loves god best.



Kit O'Connell ?@KitOConnell 11h
Bamdolier of tampons. #Tampongate #txlege


hyperlocavore ?@hyperlocavore 11h
I am laying a ring of tampons around the house as we speak to keep the male zombies away. Need a plan b for the lady zombies. #tampongate

GottaLaff ?@GottaLaff 13h
'Night all. There were tons of great #TamponGate jokes but this is serious. GOP degrading #WarOnWomen will reap consequences.

GottaLaff ?@GottaLaff 13h
"@UnrulyMobTX: #TamponGate brings new meaning to 'Red State.'"

GottaLaff ?@GottaLaff 16h
Only a good guy with a tampon can stop a bad guy with a tampon http://maddowblog.msnbc.com/_news/2013/07/12/19441556-only-a-good-guy-with-a-tampon-can-stop-a-bad-guy-with-a-tampon … v @MaddowBlog



#GOPWaronAmerica #GOPWaronSanity #bethechange #letfreedomring #FeministArmy #loudandproud #IfMyVaginaWasAGun

[DirkGently]

40. There really is no low they're not prepared to adopt, is there?