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.”
We are entering final stages of end state decadent decline.
The slippery slope is rapidly becoming a slippery cliff.
“Funny...leftwing women are increasingly into washable pads for “eco-positive periods” “
Actually, there is a real health benefit to use cloth pads.
The absorbent material in disposable pads are made from wood pulp. The pulp is wood so is naturally brown, but it is bleached white so it looks clean. (”Natural” diapers are brown and pretty dirty looking.) There is chlorine residue left over from the bleaching process that is in the wood pulp.
When the pulp gets wet from use, there is a little bit of chlorine gas that is released. This gas travels up the female anatomy and can cause irritation, cramping and pain. Many young women, who were used to having pretty rough cycles, say that when they try washable cloth pads that the cramps are much less.
[ I guess womyns should get free soap, shampoo, and toothpaste, too. After all, they are womyns, and soap and shampoo are hygiene products. ]
Doesn’t SNAP and EBT already cover these items?
When he was in scouts my hubby was taught to have kotex in a first aid kit for stopping severe bleeding.
Toddlers need massive amounts of band-aids for their real and perceived “owies”. I suppose these should be free, as well, since they are part of health care.
Yes, all those hygiene products are also needed for health care, as are gym memberships, exercise equipment, a good mattress for quality sleep, etc., etc. The list (as you have pointed out) can go on forever.
There must be a point at which even dems don’t think EVERY frigging thing is a human right!
Wow, didn’t see this coming/ sarc
To back up her claims, Valenti cited how The United Nations and Human Rights Watch connected feminine hygiene with “human rights.”
How does that back up her claim? "Health care" has no connection with "human rights"?
“Free” toilet paper for ALL!
“Free” soap for ALL!
LOL
Hey, there are Freepers here who support subsidized Viagra, with some sort of claim that could surely cover tampons just as well.
Can free high heels and makeup be far behind?
;-)
If you like your tampons, you can keep your tampons...
Sounds funny until you realize Kimberly-Clark and Tambrands have likely turned the K Street hounds loose to obtain this very thing.
I am to old to demand free tampons but I have a weak old bladder. Free toilet paper for all old women!!
Could be bigger than Toxic Shock Syndrom!
Prostate problems have been linked to that, as well.
PastorBooks, that may be the case, but I’ve always had moderate pain from the normal uterine contractions, anyway. Ibuprofen is very effective for me. I would rather deal with cramping than washing out those things.
IMO, it’s another way the eco-nuts have devised to halt progress and actually turn things backward. My female ancestors would have loved access to disposables, I’m sure.
Who knows, there might be some who still use them. But the new washable ones come in such fun colors and prints.
*eyeroll*
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