what if the daughter has her period? shed have to ask one of the men to buy her pads that would be embarrassing
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This is also a reason why you should never have single fathers (whether due to him being divorced from a negligent, abusive, or incompetent mother, or due to being a widower). Go raise hell with those folks too, while you're at it.
Yeah, being gay would be pretty embarrassing, I can see how that would be awkward.
Having to get pads. Yeah. Awkward.
Never mind the... The actual.. y'know.
The actual being gay part. Yeah I'm sure the pads just fucking ruin it for them.
"Hey daddy, I'm on the rag!"
"K, I'd better go to the drugstore to get you some Tampax."
I'm pretty sure a gay man isn't gonna be like "EWWW! VAGINA BLOOD!" like most STRAIGHT men are . . .
Really, I know it's a loving, caring, family environment and all but ... whoa, embarrassment. No thanks, I'll take this cold, sterile orphanage any day.
"The site is fundy, but the statement is just ignorant."
So that would be... a fundie... saying a 'darndest' thing?
Does the poster think that gay men wouldn't know about periods? They cover that in sex-ed in school, so most mature adults won't be bothered by it.
Can't the girl go to the drugstore and buy them herself? If she needs advice, she can always ask a female store clerk.
Then again, if she's a fundie, she'll probably try to use a bible to make the "curse" go away.
What the hell? One of my aunts left my poor cousin woefully underprepared for her period. (Fundie, of course.) A gay man can't do that much worse. And to be blunt, it's much less embarrassing for a girl to ask Dad to take her to CVS than it is to not have pads/tampons at all.
I'm gay, and I've had to buy tampons for my mother and for a female houseguest. Was I supposed to have had some sort of issue (no, not that kind of issue!) about doing so?
ETA: Women are supposed to be put apart during their curse anyway. Haven't you ever read the Bible?
I'm pretty sure a gay man isn't gonna be like "EWWW! VAGINA BLOOD!" like most STRAIGHT men are . . .
I resent that. I'm straight, single, and I have 2 daughters and I have no problem with any of it.
What a perfect excuse to go to the store in drag! As long as one of the dads doesn't trot out the old, "I don't trust anything that can bleed for five days and not die" chestnut, I can't think of a reason for anyone to be embarrassed.
Stupid Fundie, thoughts are for adults.
You're joking, right? So then the girl will feel more comfortable waking up in the middle of an overcrowded orphanage bleeding, being subject to the humiliation of how many other kids? Yeah, that's certainly better than having to subject her to asking Dad to get her some tampons, you betcha.
Um...my husband does that all the time and has no issue with it whatsoever.
But I can see how in a fundie world (the one in which women and our vaginas are both deemed icky and unclean), there would be a problem with embarrassment when the man is faced with such an innocuous request.
Comes from being stupid and all, don'tcha know.
I have never understood why some men find it embarrassing. Are they afraid people might think they're buying them for themselves? I buy them for my wife quite often, and find it no more embarrassing than buying a pack of gum.
So, no, I don't think that would be much of a problem.
Holy fucking shit!
OK, since the age of 16 (old enough to drive), I have bought pads/tampons for:
-my mom
-my sister
-my stepmom
-female cousins
-college friends
-my wife
Basically, if you spend any amount of time on a regular basis with females, invariably a time will come when they might like help with that (in case they have run out).
It was awkward for probably all of 10 seconds the FIRST TIME I did it at 16, and then when I found out it was just fine and normal it didn't bother me at all.
I wonder why my aunts and grandmother used to always say I was so "mature" for my age?
The sheer ignorance of these fundies disgust me. Menstrual cycles are not a disgusting, unspeakable thing!!! It is normal human physiology! Then again, an adequate public education would have taught you that.
I think it's meant to be embarrassing for the daughter, not her Dad. I hated asking my mother to buy pads when I was a teenager, but I think that was because of who she was. If the parent is cool about it, it wouldn't matter what gender they were.
I'm 19, and I'd die before asking my dad to get my tampons. I'd rather make a pad out of tape and toilet paper.
But, yeah. Dumb reason to say gays can't adopt.
Girls experience the same thing when our parents are divorced. Sure, it's embarrassing to have to ask your father to buy you tampons when you're still a squeamish 15-year-old, but if I managed to survive it, I'm sure anyone else can too.
Apparently, no straight father buys those sorts of things for their daughters, or husband for their wives, or boyfriends for their girlfriends.... </sarcasm>
Why is it embaressing to have and acknowledge normal bodily processes?
Do fundie boys have to pretend they don't shit and be mortified if they have to ask their mothers to buy toilet paper?
Oh, wait, in your mind, only girls should have shame about their bodies. Boys should just fart and laugh about it.
I can't believe you people who are saying that girls who are old enough to menstruate are old enough to buy their own pads!
Average age of menarche in the US = 12.5 years.
So what, 12 year olds and younger are supposed to get a job so they can buy their own pads? Or do they use their allowance? What if they don't get one? What if they live in an area where the nearest supplier was not within walking distance?
"Where are you going?"
When it comes down to it, they will have to ask a parent for money or a ride at some point. Or they could just add it to the grocery list. If the parent makes a big deal about it, then it will be embarrassing. If they are casual and cool about it, no problem. Parent's gender is irrelevant.
I empty garbage cans in a hospital for a living, which includes a number of gynecological offices. I don't have a problem handling used tampons or pads, let alone buying clean ones. (And I'm not even gay, so there you go.)
I have bought pads for my mother, 2 sisters, 3 wives, 4 girlfriends, 2 nieces, assorted female friends, and an UNCLE who's doctor recommended them for leakage after hemmoroid surgery and I am fifty year old male, so I'm going to say WTF are you talking about?
The daughters of lesbians will have no problem with that, then, can they adopt? But the sons might think it embarasing to ask one of his mothers to buy condoms for him. Oh, well, the first time you ask any parent for pads or condoms is very embarasing, whether the parent is male or female.
But surely, in the paranoid, topsy-turvy dark fundie-verse where gays get married and adopt children, surely such an embarrassment would never arise, as gay men would only adopt boys, "recruiting" them into the lifestyle.
As the proud father of a beautiful girl, I'm sure I'll have to deal with the embarassment of having to get her her big girl pads. It's something I'll just have to get over.
Also, WHAT THE FUCK is your point?
Oh noes! Embarrassment! Clearly this is the end of the world!
I've asked my dad to buy me pads on occasion, it's not that big a deal.
Seems to me a girl old enough to have a period is old enough to go to the supermarket by herself anyway.
I have never understood why it should be embarrassing for a male to buy pads or tampons. Should a woman be embarrassed if she buys razor blades* of aftershave?
A few years ago I helped with the annual inventory at a supermarket owned by the parents of a good friend of mine. I had to count the aisle with the female hygiene products and you know what? It was no problem at all, it was not embarrassing, I did not catch fire spontaneously or anything else.
So what is the big deal?
Also, if you count that as a reason to deny gay couples the right to adopt, you are really scratching the bottom of the barrel, aren’t you?
*and for the smart alecs: It should be obvious that I mean blades for razors designed to shave male faces and not the ones for female (or male, I’m not judging) legs and bikini zones
;-)
Yeah, tell that one the to the supreme court when they finally deign to address the issue of same-sex marriage. After siting through hours of bible thumping, blatant propaganda sheets disguised as "research papers" and frantic wails of, "won't someone PLEASE think of the children?!?" They will be ready for a good laugh.
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