Texas woman cries after trooper seizes Maxi-Pads: ‘I’ve never been so humiliated in my life’

[Tx4obama]

Texas woman cries after trooper seizes Maxi-Pads: ‘I’ve never been so humiliated in my life’

Video taken by a demonstrator at Friday’s protest of an anti-abortion bill at the Texas State Capitol showed a woman saying she was publicly embarassed by Republican senators’ ban on tampons and sanitary pads from the premises.

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“She was crying when she came in crying, talking about how someone had confiscated her sanitary pads and was waving them around like a trophy,” Hughes said. “(The woman said) the state trooper was chasing her to the elevator, yelling at her that if she didn’t like it, she could get out of the Capitol.”

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“This is too much,” the woman says in the video. “This is like some kind of third-world country that we’re in all of a sudden.”

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“They’re taking water, hand sanitizer, lotion, cosmetics,” Hughes said in a telephone interview. “They’ve stopped taking tampons and sanitary pads, though, thankfully.”

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Full article here: http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2013/07/12/texas-woman-cries-after-trooper-seizes-maxi-pads-ive-never-been-so-humiliated-in-my-life/

[dgibby]

1. Fascist thugs.

I hope theese police officers who are sworn to" serve and protect"+ have their faces plastered all over the internet, complete with name, addresses, phone #s, emails, every bit of identifying info available, and all the rethugs with them. Where is Anonymous when we need them?

There is absolutely NO legitimate reason to do this to women except to shame and humilate them. Did men have their condoms confiscated? If not, why not?

Every woman in America(and the men who care about them) should inundate the Texas State Troopers and the Rethugs in the State House with tampons and pads!

[sheshe2]

6. Now this is a great idea!

inundate the Texas State Troopers and the Rethugs in the State House with tampons and pads!

The entire country should inundate these assholes with pads. They can use them so that the pain of their collective asses getting kicked out of office won't hurt so much!

[Moonwalk]

2. They probably feared that protesting women would throw pads and tampons at the congressmen....

...seriously. Unless they suspected something could be hidden in pad or tampon that the x-ray machine wouldn't see

Of course, the actions of the trooper are a different story. I hope she got a name and number on the guy--or that someone did. Those in small positions of power take their cues from those in big positions of power, most especially men. From the governor on down, Texas men are making it clear that it's all right to treat women this way, and other men are clearly following their lead.

[pacalo]

3. A tv commercial should be made out of this video.

[Half-Century Man]

4. Remember when the cowboys with the white hats saved the women?

Instead of being the ones tying them to the railroad tracks.


John Wayne would so kick your ass, deputy douche bag.

[jtuck004]

12. No. Marion Robert Morrison, aka John Wayne, was a Republican. n/t

[Half-Century Man]

14. Republican or not, JW would not forgive the swore-to-protect for abusing

the objects of that protection. He really believed in old school machismo.

[jtuck004]

19. One can, of course, assign any fictional behavior to a fictional character that they wish.

But maybe we are past the time for women to think some man needs to save them, and save themselves.

[sheshe2]

5. This is just sickening!

“(The woman said) the state trooper was chasing her to the elevator, yelling at her that if she didn’t like it, she could get out of the Capitol.”

There are some people in this country that are flat out embarrassing in their stupidity and hatred. That trooper was shamelessly cruel to that woman. He wore his ignorance on his sleeve like it was a badge of honor!

Thanks Tx for hi-lighting the pure ignorance of the GOP.

[AsahinaKimi]

7. What reason would someone

confiscate sanitary pads? This is the most stupidest thing I have ever heard. WTF is wrong with the GOP in Texas? Are they all idiots? Sonna baka na!

[Half-Century Man]

15. Baka ja nai

Aku no karera deus.

[AsahinaKimi]

17. It is totally stupid.

Totemo baka na!

[William769]

8. Those fucking assholes running Texas are out of control.

Karma's going to come back & bit them all in the ass.

[sheshe2]

18. Unfortunately it's not just Texas, William.

And yes, it will come back to bite them. They have yet to take our voting rights away.

It's GOTV 2014!!!!!

[Voice for Peace]

9. this must be grounds for some kind of lawsuit

it's tempting to call it sexual abuse.

[Iliyah]

10. Its not just TX

it majority of the GOPer run states. They are so paranoid that they think "fear" is the reason to go back to the past . . .

Not forward but in slow motion back in time while the rest of the world moves forward. I always learned that GOD gave mankind the ability to pursue critical thinking. He/she gave us the reasoning with compassion and that inorder for humans to survive we must do it together.

Therefore, if the lawsuits can't stop these backward thinking scared sobs, then a change of governorship with legislation is coming. Count on it. It won't be another 2010.

[Judi Lynn]

11. Hard to believe people would get this openly raw and primitive in their official positions.

It's so ugly it seems impossible it could have even happened. These people are sub-human.

It was good to see the suggestion this can be used for campaigns.

[blkmusclmachine]

13. CRAZY, even by TX standards.

Shows you how desperate, and unhinged, the GOPee has become under the influence of the lunatic Tea Party/Evangelicals (A.K.A., The Talibangelicals).

[Aristus]

16. Texas has been a third-world country since it fastened like a parasite

to the underside of an otherwise great country.

And I say that born-and-raised in San Antonio!

God, what the f**k is wrong with Texas?!?

I'm so glad I live in a sane part of the country...

[ZRT2209]

20. Don't Tread on Me

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