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Regarding the uproar over a New York school's ban on bags and purses, and what followed from that ban (synopsis: "School officials quickly realized that banning backpacks and purses left female students with no way to carry pads or tampons, so [the principal] and his clown show amended the policy [...]. Female students would be allowed to carry bags, but only during their periods -- meaning that every female student carrying a bag would be subject to questioning about whether or not that was the case."), Slacktivist reader Raka wrote:
I'm very disappointed in all of you. I can't believe you'd put silly abstract principles above the safety of the children. Any policy that's intended to protect children cannot be wrong.
And in that spirit, I'd like to propose an amendment to the bag-ban. I remember smuggling any number of things hidden in loose-fitting pants when I was younger. The obvious solution is to mandate Spandex. Boys will be allowed to carry their books in front of their... fronts, but only when experiencing certain socially awkward physiological reactions. Any boys with books so positioned may be examined to ensure that they aren't abusing their privileges.
I can't foresee any reasonable objection to this proposal.
-- Raka, 2007-10-01
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I am going to presume arguendo that the school is one of the ones that actually (still) uses lockers, because otherwise I'm not seeing how the logistics works -- you bring the stuff that went home with you the night before to school in a bag, and then do what we all did and park the bag and the stuff in your locker while you're off at class. Unless you're one of these morons who wears pants made of body paint, Chapsticks and lipsticks and even tampons (let alone thin maxi-pads) fit in pants pockets, and are considerably less conspicuous there than in even the tiniest of micropurses.
I guess my argument here is that I don't even get why this rule is inconveniencing anyone, because it seems to me as though it should be a nonexistent problem, let alone a huge issue.
If it is absolutely for some reason de rigeur these days to carry a purse with you to class in high school, I don't want to speculate on what other weird notions of performative gender the current cohort of girls has absorbed...
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did you ever get hold of ER Ultram? I started mine today and it seems to be not doing nearly enough. Same dosage, but extended release, and I'm not sure why that should change things. Wondering what your experience is.
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If it's the same total dosage but delivered over a longer period, you'd never get as much of it at one time as when you take the regular version, right? (I know that Oxycontin packs several doses-worth of Vicodin into one pill, which is why i's such a popular drug to abuse -- folks crush it and get all of the drug in one blast. I'm assuming other time-release drugs, including other pain meds and antihistamines but probably not including antidepressants, would work pretty much the same way...)
Er, I'm doing a lot of guessing here.