[ SECRET POST #6200 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #6200 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.


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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

Not saying it didn’t happen because everyone has different experiences, but I legit never heard anyone talking about how cool girls only used tampons and I was a teenager in the early 2000s. I knew girls that used them ‘cause I’d get asked if I had a spare tampon, but nobody acted weird if I gave them a pad and I honestly don’t remember it coming up in any media I watched. I do remember when cups suddenly started getting popular and the cup people looking down on those who preferred pads or tampons.

[(Anonymous)]

Same. I only started using them because one of my friends went "You know you can go swimming when you have your period if you wear a tampon, right?" and that instantly made me interested because I hated having to sit out of swim class whenever I had my period.

[(Anonymous)]

I think you may be younger than OP (and me) because this really was a thing in the late 80s and early 90s. Pads were for uncool, religious or very young girls, cool teenagers took the whole thing in their stride and never ever showed they were bleeding or suffering.

[(Anonymous)]

I was a teen in the late 90s - early 2000s and from an immigrant family (eastern society to western society). I felt like I learned the social norms of teenhood from books and magazines I read. I recall a specific moment where I realized that cool girls use tampons was reading a IRL story about a girl who went to a new school halfway through her freshman year.
The storyteller said she went from a small town to a posh suburban school district where the cool girls smoked cigarettes, read women's magazines (NOT teen magazines) and could insert a tampon with their eyes closed. She wasn't going to fit in with cool girls at all. And then I recall she was picked on because she had big boobs and boys in her class kept grabbing and snapping her bra strap in class when they sat behind her. She realized her boobs could buy her some social cash but knew she wouldn't fit in because she wasn't as experienced as the Cool Girls.

My group of friends at that time (7th grade I think) and I were the more nerdy girls and we all used pads because we feared toxic shock syndrome. But after reading that article, I felt like any girl/woman who used tampons were more *elevated* than the rest of us. LOL