Posted on 08/05/2015 3:02:22 AM PDT by One_Upmanship
I think they’re both idiocy.
Never heard of such stupidity growing up, as I'm in my 6th decade nearly at the 7th, I've seen my share of the progress of feminine body function products. Our ancestors used moss, rags, and other such items long before standardized feminine products were produced.
Shut up and pay for your own feminine hygiene products. Because that is what it is HYGIENE.
Oh, and keep those strong smelly body washes, sprays, and perfumes in your own home, instead of polluting the air I have to breathe, because your over use of them I can smell 6 feet away and makes it hard for me to breathe.
Thank you for the link to the story of the Indian fellow. Fascinating!!
He's definitely changed their lives for the better.
When it comes to menstruation, leftwing women go to two extremes. They either rail against it as some unfair patriarchal curse, or they elevate it and worship it in a nutcase Gaia-inspired fashion.
Disposables came out around the time I went through puberty, but my mom, who was older when she had me, started me out with those uncomfortable elastic belts, LOL.
I hope each candidate, in the debate, is asked by Fox mods, their stance on this urgent need. ///sarc
Should be good for a few chuckles.
I don’t think she’s such a bad writer. The topic she chose, is the only thing I need to know about her.
Flaming radical left wing moonbat.
The author is correct: tampons are luxury items. Why else would MHP wear them as jewelry?
You need to tell us how you feel about underarm growth, to be au currant.
In the developing world, they found that in many areas, building enclosed, private outhouses and bathrooms for girls raised “secondary” school attendance 25%. While boys could pee in the bushes, girls were reluctant to wait all day for a private place to pee and poop (at home), and the start of menstruation made it literally impossible for many girls to attend school that week on top of everything else.
For older women, the expectation of privacy when going to the bathroom meant those without a private outhouse had to “hold it” until night, where they had some privacy but then were at risk of assault.
So yes, lack of menstruation products hinders girls in places where they have none such available - but lack of proper hygiene facilities for women and girls is a much greater problem and true “feminist” issue.
In the developed world, a woman with a cell phone and car who can’t afford feminine hygiene products has a problem with spending priorities, not equal rights.
What about us post menopausal women? Do we get nothing?
The guy did an amazing TED talk.
Coming up with an affordable alternative for women, cheap machinery to make it, and now there are women’s coops providing jobs that make an affordable product for women.
And if you don’t use it for feminine hygiene, it can be used as a diaper insert or incontinence pad.
Imagine if a woman went to the doctor for menopause symptoms and her insurer dumped the entire cost (about $1000 for a full workup) of the claim on her because the diagnosis noted that it caused problems in the bedroom?
The author doesn't have a clue what she's taking about.
If the Democrats think it will win them an election, you and I will be footing the bill for all the Tampax.
Mark my words.
Gee, before the invention of feminine hygene products women must have been dropping like flies as they were poisioned by their own bodies.
Every day our government grows bigger and more intrusive into our lives. What’s not to like about that?
The elite socialists actually believe the female sheeple are too stupid to manage their bodily functions by themselves and need the assistance of their friendly government. It’s their Constitutional “right” to be given free stuff cause men get free stuff too.
Everybody wins! Government further controls the design, manufacture, distribution, application, and disposal of tampons. Women get their “free” tampons. Men get “free” gun barrel cleaners and first aid for gunshot wounds. Homosexuals, Trans-sexuals, and Eunuchs get free “toys” to stick anyplace the government approves. And nobody pays a dime. It’ free.
Ain’t equality and Socialism great! /s
Jeb would, LOL.
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