A 19 year old Twitter user, Ryan Williams, whose bio calls him a
politician and youth adults spokesperson from London, took to Twitter to
offer his opinion about the call to end the tampon tax in England. He
is against it and feels that women should learn to control their
menstrual cycle like men control their bladder if they want to urinate.
He even created the hashtags #SelfControl and
#StopTheBlob to publicize his case.
The 19-year-old photography student stated that tampons are a “luxury
item” and that if a woman “cannot hold in her period until she gets to a
toilet,” then it’s her personal issue and not the concern of her fellow
taxpayers.
Then he advised women to do the procedure his dog underwent when she was a puppy in order to end her periods. Adding:
“If your bladder is too weak … which clearly it is for most of you, then see a doctor and have the same procedure,” he wrote on Twitter.
“Is this a joke?” Suzanne Gilberg-Lenz, MD, a board-certified
obstetrician-gynecologist and a medical doctor from Beverly Hills said.
“Number one, any imbecile should know that urine comes from the bladder! And number two, babies — and menstrual blood — come from the uterus via the cervix and vagina, not the bladder.” Read his tweets below:
