Posted on 09/07/2016 8:33:13 PM PDT by grundle
Brown University's student body president will be hand-delivering menstrual products to all nonresidential bathrooms on campus, including men’s rooms, with the help of 20 other students.
The initiative is intended to communicate the message that "pads and tampons are a necessity, not a luxury," and that not all people who menstruate are women.
Brown University's student body president will be hand-delivering menstrual products to all nonresidential bathrooms on campus, including men’s rooms, with the help of 20 other students.
Viet Nguyen, President of the Undergraduate Council of Students, announced the initiative in a campus-wide email Tuesday, saying he wants to communicate the message that not all people who menstruate are women, according to Newsweek.
“There’s been a lot of conversation about why pads and tampons are a necessity, not a luxury, but not a lot of action. We wanted to take it into our own hands,” Nguyen explains in the email, observing that “low-income students struggle with having the necessary funding for food, let alone tampons.”
By putting menstrual products in women’s, men’s, and gender-inclusive bathrooms, Nguyen aims to “set a tone of trans-inclusivity, and not forget that they’re an important part of the population,” but is under no illusions that the effort will be universally popular.
“I’d be naïve to say there won’t be push back,” he preemptively concedes. “I’ve had questions about why we’re implementing this in male bathrooms as well. It’s an initial confusion, but people generally understand when we explain it.”
Nguyen told Newsweek that menstrual products will be available in approximately 30 to 40 bathrooms across campus for the 2016–2017 school year, financed exclusively by the undergraduate finance board, rather than general university funds.
“Why aren’t these products treated the same way as other products we hand out, like toilet paper?” he pondered in an interview with The Guardian. “It’s a necessity, rather than a luxury, so Brown and other universities should treat them as such.”
“Feminine hygiene products are not a luxury. They’re as essential as toilet paper; just ask anyone who has ever struggled to obtain or afford them,” agreed Terry O’Neill, president of the National Organization for Women. “Students’ participation in school should not be hindered by insufficient access to this basic necessity. Universities around the country should follow suit.”
Yuzuka Alaska, a junior at Brown, opined that menstruation is currently a “taboo,” but speculated that “if we can implement this project, that will add to this conversation and make it more of an accessible topic.”
UPDATE: Brian Clark, Brown's Director of News and Editorial Development, praised the students for their "tremendous initiative" in a statement to Campus Reform, saying the school will look forward to observing the results.
"In efforts to work with and support their peers, leaders from the Undergraduate Council of Students take on a number of student-focused efforts each year," he said, clarifying that "these are student-led and independent of the university administration, although we recognize that many important resources on campus today were first idenitified and advocated for by students themselves.
"We expect that UCS will continue to solicit feedback on this new initiative and collect data on the use of these products," he concluded, saying the administration "will be interested to learn what they find as they assess the effectiveness of the program moving forward."
No fair discriminating - remember, the homosexuals need them, too.
Brown wymen kick-start their vibrators and roll their own tampons.
Just when I thought liberals couldn’t get any stupider, they lower the bar again.
...where they’ll be needed.
Kotex sanitary napkins make good iserts in shoes to keep feet from hurting. Preparation H is also good for droopy eyelids.
Rump ridees need help to control the blood flows down there during that time of the month.
Get “him” a pad. Lil’ snowflake manginas’ gonna bleed out.
So, the males at brown are actually pussies?
Men identifying as women can stick them up their Ass.
Yes, that’s the necessity.
Men practicing an*l sex get stretched out and lose the capacity to close themselves.
Hello, Yuzuka ... menstruation is not taboo, it's a universally understandable fact of life for normally functioning women ... and no, not men, or whatever they choose to call themselves.
Accessible topic? Are you insane? Who cannot "access" the topic of menstruation? God, these people are mental illness times ten.
Excuse me, IF I needed a tampon, I’d go find a freaking Walgreen’s and get myself a buttload of them at a vastly lower price.
For them, it’s ALWAYS that time of the month.
Thousands of years of teaching and we’ve come to
“Here. Have a free Kotex.”
Aristotle would be so proud.
This ain't your grandad's Animal House anymore.
Buttload....I think I understand now why the Brown boy toys are pushing this.
“Not all people who menstruation are women”....guess Brown doesn’t teach Biology (OMG...this is entirely off the crazy spectrum)
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