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Some asshole can't even buy Kotex, he's a douchebag by Tansin A. Darcos (TDARCOS) 10/15/2011, 7:01am PDT On the History Channel TV program American Restorations the guy has been hired to proved a restoration of an old 1960s Kotex vending machine, the kind they put in ladies' restrooms to sell them tampons. So to test it, they need to load it. With tampons. So the guy sends one of his employees to the supermarket to buy some tampons, so that he can concentrate on more important things, like, say, actually doing the restoration. Yet for some reason, this embarrasses the guy who has to go to the store. What the fuck kind of idiot is he? First, anyone who sees a man buying either tampons or sanitary napkins realizes that he ain't buying them for himself (unless he likes to keep sanitary napkins to absorb blood from gunshot wounds when he gets shot from time-to-time), he's getting them for some woman who is either busy or too embarrassed to buy them herself. That presumes anyone even notices him buying them in the first place. I mean, I can understand someone feeling self conscious about buying condoms in a store, but a man being bothered by buying a woman's product? He needs to get some therapy. What was also amusing was that the guy didn't realize that there are over a dozen different kinds of tampons, including "super thin" and "body shaped." I didn't know that myself, but I wasn't surprised. Even the movie Mr. Mom from 1983 showed Michael Keaton that when you go into the delicatessen at a supermarket and ask for a pound of cheese they have at least two dozen kinds. And that was over 25 years ago; this was, for example, before Coca-Cola fucked up and created New Coke. Just in cola drinks alone there are probably eight different varieties (Regular, vanilla, cherry, no caffeine, one calorie, zero calorie, no caffeine no calories) for each major brand. (I lucked out here, I just made a wild-assed guess that it was eight, and I just happened to hit it.) I was about 8 or 10 years old, my sister gave me the money and had me go into the grocery store to buy a box of Kotex. I went in, bought it and came back. It wasn't until many years later that I realized what I was buying, and as far as I can see, I don't see where it's any reason for a man to be self-conscious about it, any more than if a woman's boyfriend stopped at the store to get her prescription for birth control pills. Clearly, he isn't going to be using them!

Some asshole can't even buy Kotex, he's a douchebag by Tansin A. Darcos (TDARCOS) 10/15/2011, 7:01am PDT