The Current FReepathon Pays For The Current Quarter's Expenses?
Posted on 08/16/2014 1:58:29 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
The cost of a product that half the world’s population needs multiple times a day, every month for approximately 30 years, is simply too much.
When I got my first period, I was in the most embarrassing place my then-11-year-old self could have imagined: my grandparents’ house. I wasn’t sure what to do, so I just put on extra pairs of underwear and threw them away one-by-one, scrunched at the bottom of the bathroom trash bin, as I bled through them. Finally, with nary a pair of panties in sight, I was forced to tell my mother. I have never been so thankful for pantyliners as I was for the ones she gave me.
But what if I’d been in school that day, like so many other girls are – without an extra pair of underwear or a quarter in my pocket to plug into the vending machine? Or what if my family’s weekly budget hadn’t been able to stretch far enough to accommodate replacing a few blood-soaked undergarments and those pantyliners?
I was lucky. For too many girls, the products that mark “becoming a woman” are luxuries, not givens. And for young women worldwide, getting your period means new expenses, days away from school and risking regular infections. All because too many governments don’t recognize feminine hygiene as a health issue....
(Excerpt) Read more at theguardian.com ...
Reminds me of the movie Carrie,
Y’know, another thing, too... Tampons aren’t always necessarily safe. A childhood girlfriend of mine back in the ‘80s popped up on a local tv news report after she’d used them and suffered dreadful toxic shock syndrome and issued a warning about them. After all, for women, you’re having to insert a foreign object inside of your body.
If she wants free tampons for that time of the month, I want free aspirin to deal with her ....
———I want free deodorant, bar soap and tooth paste and if I don’t get them, I’ll quit using them!——
How would we know if you did.....?
just kidding....:)
If a woman demands free contraceptives and feminine napkins or tampons, a very routine, one time outpatient procedure can be performed so she won’t need either.
Excellent point...
They're not like sanitary napkins, which somebody has to actually make.
I’d like to have free sex every week, maybe they can send me a free hooker to take of me!
What bloody good would a U.S. quarter do in Manchester?
Um... isn't this the job of the parents? Shouldn't they teach the girl what to expect ahead of time?
People like this expect the government to become their parent and do all of their thinking and planning for them. What does it take to get them to realize that the government is a horrible parent? A parent, at least, loves you. However, to a sea of government bureaucrats, you are nothing more than a statistical data point, aggregated with countless other statistical data points.
Indeed, I had not even thought of that angle. From early activists who advocated for the rights of women to be treated as equals and to act as autonomous persons capable of taking care of themselves and making their own decisions, we have gone to this idea of women as being so incapable that they have no clue how to run down to the store to buy their own hygiene products.
Disclaimer: on many occasions, I sent husband or son to buy those products. This was not, however, because I was too incompetent to take care of myself.
Tampons are sterile. However, they can create conditions favorable to the growth of bacteria. I was unable to use them for that reason.
I have four daughters and every one of them was prepared fir the onset of their periods, first of all by knowing they could, and should safely come to me the instance they noticed the blood.
This woman is looking to government to be a *better* parent to her than the one she had. Typical of children, they never ask how the parent got the ‘stuff’ the kid thinks is free.
The Current FReepathon Pays For The Current Quarter's Expenses?
Hysterectomies are outpatient these days?
“And for young women worldwide, getting your period means new expenses, days away from school and risking regular infections.’
Sounds like a dreaded disease.
My sister needed 15 years ago. Out patient procedure in NH at the time.
But where does female genital mutilation fall in here as far as “violation of several human rights and dignity”?
I remember when I started, my grandmother sent a note to my female teacher that said “Please excuse her for bathroom breaks as she has come into bloom”.
The term being on the rag was explained to me by my grandmother. Back in her day, women used white rags for their periods. The women would wash and hang them on the clothes line and any boy that made fun of it or commented on it, got smacked.
So the poor can’t afford tampons, pads, panty-liners but they can afford cable, designer clothes, jeans, jewelry, 200.00 tennis shoes?
She’s proof that burkas *do* have a use.
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