Yeah ... I know ... this was jest TOO much for you to resist. Soooooooooo, yer majesty ... do I have your attention, now?
http://twitchy.com/gordon-k/2024/03/28/tampon-tantrum-takes-terrific-turn-n2394508
It started innocently enough. A largely privileged group of Vanderbilt students did the typical campus activist thing and stormed the building where chancellor's office is, demanding that the school divest from "Apartheid Israel" as drones for the BDS (Boycott, Divest and Sanction) movement.
Great Twitter thread if you need some background before we get to the fun stuff.
Steve McGuire (@sfmcguire79) ~ NEW: Yesterday Vanderbilt students pushed their way into a campus building to conduct a sit-in in the lobby of the chancellor’s office:
Video ~ http://twitter.com/i/status/1772954523549520220
Done? Welcome back. So ... one of the "highlights" of these white, affluent wannabe Nelson Mandela's was the crisis of not being able to change a tampon. You see, just like in a real-life concentration camp, our heroes were denied bathroom and food access.
Bari Weiss (@bariweiss) ~ Anti-Israel protestors at a sit-in at Vanderbilt called 911 because a young woman was “being denied the right to change her tampon.” This is a real story.
http://www.thefp.com/p/tale-of-a-tampon
... I HAVE A QUESTION!
Why didn't one of the guys in her group ride to her rescue and offer her a finger? You know ... like the lil' Dutch boy who plugged the leak in the dyke?
Oh ... I see. Woketards aren't too bright. Right. Nevermind.
Link to the article. It's worth your time.
We know you're here for the snark, so let's get on with it!
Ken Thomas (@1kenthomas) ~ In which a very privileged and sheltered young woman claims that she is protesting a genocide, and that the most "depraved shit" she has ever seen in her life is not being provided with a free bathroom to change a tampon while attempting to occupy a building. And Panera. Not being given free Panera food.
We are thankful that these self-important kids can't hear themselves, otherwise we wouldn't have such great material.
LAWYERGONEROGUE (@lawyergonerogue) ~ $90k/ year and these intellectual giants can’t choose between Hamas or changing their own tampons.
We're not optimistic for future generations.
TheMorningSpew2 (@TheMorningSpew2) ~ “I’ll change it.” - Bill Clinton probably.
Students of history will get this.
O Honey, Bless Your Heart (@mirabiledictu86) ~ If only the women being held hostage in Gaza had thought of this one simple trick! College makes you really smart.
Dr Brian of London (@brianoflondon) ~ Congress shall pass no law restricting the change of tampons in a protest. Get the amendment passed.
JayJay McMaster, CD (@tantrumblue1) ~ If she really cared about the Palestinians, she’d get TSS {Toxic Shock Syndrome} in solidarity.
(tampon in fist emoji here)
So in summary ...
Laissez Voltaire (@LaissezVoltaire) ~ Everything about this is so embarrassing.
We couldn't agree more.
mbt216 (@mbt216) ~ I read this article to my husband when I got the email this morning and he told me to fact check it because there was no way that this was real. Yes way, it's real. It's sad, scary, pathetic and all too real. 😐
Dr. Logan Levkoff (@LoganLevkoff) ~ This Vanderbilt Tampon-Gate situation proves that the trigger warning generation is without a doubt the most ill equipped group of people to deal with real life. Also they’ve clearly never been to camp and forgotten to remove their tampon for over 24 hours.
Foster (@foster_type) ~ Daddy didn't open the biggest chain of Chevy dealerships in the Chattanooga area for this.
LOL!
Anyway, life is absurd and no one gets out of here alive, so you might as well enjoy the insanity of it all.
I don't know, ribit ... based on what I'm seein' here ... maybe we should just give Vandy to the Big 10 and be done with it, eh?
The essential American soul is hard, isolate, stoic, and a killer. It has never yet melted. ~ D.H. Lawrence
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