Good one You! Maybe a lot of guys think a male cashier will be all “this dude is whipped” or “what an embarrassing loser.” Nope. Cashiers don’t even look at half the shit they run across the scanner and absolutely don’t care. Don’t care - unless whatever it is requires an I.D.

Also, it’s kind of baffling. No, the cashier does not think they are for you. He or she thinks you are either in a serious relationship with a woman or have a teenaged daughter (depending on your age). Like, it should be more embarrassing for we women to buy the tampons for ourselves, since the cashier can, rightly or…

But but but exposure to vagina erodes our precious masculinity, think of the mens!

I realize this comment relates to one of the least interesting parts of this dog-and-pony show, but:

and you don’t ask a man, can you buy tampons for me?

I’ve been boycotting Oklahoma all my life.

If men got pregnant abortions would be available via drive-thru.

It’s funny how the conservatives are all about “states’ rights” until they don’t like the law the state made. Then all of a sudden they’re all about the “constitution.”

“I’ve always been raised as being currently a 26-year-old,”

I’m going to leave alone how comments like this smack of the same well-intentioned blather that might’ve surrounded a paper on eugenics back in the day. As a person with a chronic disease who has had well-intentioned people like you ask “why would you want to have kids?” I can tell you your sentiments are hurtful,…

oh my god stop talking before I put a cocktail fork through your temple.

Good article, Kara. Also, let's look at this impressive (nauseating) piece of academic jargon: "To call someone "basic" is to look into the abyss of continually flattening capitalist dystopia and, instead of articulating and interrogating the fear, transform it into casual misogyny."

I enjoyed this article.

being basic is mad chill IMO

JUST BE YOURSELF AND DON'T WORRY ABOUT IT, YO.

I'm basic. Help.