Posted on 08/13/2014 7:20:28 AM PDT by chessplayer
It’s the terminus point of modern feminism: make the deeply personal very publicly political, and get someone else to pay for it! If one man is keeping you in the style to which you’re accustomed, you’re a kept woman – perhaps even [shudder] a stay-at-home mom. But if your sugar is funneled from thousands of hapless tax payers through a legion of faceless bureaucrats, you’re a tower of feminist self-determination. Fight the power, sisters! Demand government tampons!
“This is less an issue of costliness than it is of principle,” she later admitted, because “menstrual care is health care.”
To back up her claims, Valenti cited how The United Nations and Human Rights Watch connected feminine hygiene with “human rights.”
Free “Strings” for everyone!
Very handy for waxing the car . . .
Lock this idiot up, so they can start a “Free douche” campaign.
Married men may need them worse . . .
This is from the “Onion” isn’t it?
As a female I do think such supplies should be tax free but free naaaaaa.
With government handouts, there’s always strings attached.
This girl is bizarre. She wears tampons as earrings. What positive things can you say about a girl who would wear tampons as earrings????
Men should get Free Ear Plugs
Well I have seen some really pathetic craft projects with them.
Funny...leftwing women are increasingly into washable pads for “eco-positive periods” which “end period shame.” (From a website which sells the things).
I guess, then, their cherished dreams of green, empowered menstrual cycles don’t extend to the rest of the female world? How selfish! /s
Re: It is fascinating to see how the feminist lobby oscillates between casting women as the epitome of moral and intellectual ability on the one hand, and a physical and moral semi-invalid on the other.
So true. Libs do that a lot. Nearly all of their core groups are viewed as “victims” that need the Left to save them.
[ Free “Strings” for everyone! ]
Government Strings attached... for your own good...
“You can use them to plug a bullet hole”
You aren’t joking! I’ve heard that our guys over in the Middle East actually do keep tampons on them just in case they get hit.
Didn’t the Clinton’s decorate a White House Christmas tree with them one year?
Are the feminazis freely admitting that women are somehow substandard beings without a clue as to how to provide the common necessities of life as a woman?
What’s next? Free bras? Free panties?
It’s obviously the ones from the “me-me-me” sect, as for thousands of years real women have figured out how to take care of most bodily functions on their own.
They seem to be trying to join the “make me a minority so I get benefits too” club.
If women are as strong and self-sufficient as they protest as being, then why can’t they take care of themselves, like adult human beings? There should be no sympathy for these parasites,.
When my daughter was born the doctor did not say, “you have a 7 pound, 6 ounce ‘victim’.”
Once you give people something for “free,” (even though, as we all know, nothing from government is really free,) they become more and more demanding and entitled. It’s human nature, and seems unstoppable. Every “temporary” government program becomes permanent because if you try to remove it, people who now feel entitled to it scream and whine. It’s just never ending.
They've already got pols in Callie (I think) suggesting just that. Free diapers for everyone on welfare and food stamps and WIC.
They were going to but then they realized the tree already had ornaments with their portraits and they agreed the tampon decorations would be redundant.
[ The thought of a federal government designed and approved mandated tampon is scary stuff. ]
An EPA approved tampon would probably be made out of recycled brown paper towels... Scratchy factor off the chart...
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