Posted on 03/02/2017 1:14:09 PM PST by Oldeconomybuyer
Despite calendars or tracking apps, sometimes mother nature has other plans in mind. Students can get their period and be without necessary products. Instead of just texting friends for tampons, one JMU student is fighting for accessibility.
Just like the majority of JMU’s female students who experience this situation, Magi Linscott must endure a week of unpleasantness every month — her period. As a member of the female community at JMU, Linscott understands how it feels when there’s an urgent need for menstrual supplies, but they aren’t always readily available.
“Every girl has ruined a chair at least once in their life, or they’re going to ruin a chair,” said Linscott, a public policy and administration and writing, rhetoric and technical communication double major.
Linscott is the initiator of the “Free the Tampon” advocacy. This advocacy is aimed at making menstrual hygiene products more accessible and free across JMU’s campus.
“There is this weird trend of period shaming and, like, this stigma around periods in general, which to me makes absolutely no sense,” Linscott said. “It’s a basic biological process that I don’t think anyone should be ashamed about.”
Linscott noticed that there’s a lack of accessibility to menstrual products on campus, and although there are a couple places that sell them on campus, the prices can be pretty high.
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Well good. Those boys need them.
I'm 50 years old and I have never in my life heard anyone "shame" a woman for having a period. This is insanity. Its a solution looking for a problem.
Is the availability or knowledge of how to use menstrual supplies really this big a problem?????
I’m a man, without personal experience in this area. But I know there are many fine women Freepers who could let us know, what is the real deal; what is the experience with women as they undergo menstruation????
How ‘accessible’ do these products need to be before the women begin supplying themselves?
Must it be like having ‘A Taco Truck on every corner’, the college campus overrun with vendors? I think not.
I wonder if the women realize how stupid this is implying they are?
Who shames girls/women for having periods, at least in this country?
Every woman I’ve dated has had the sense to carry such “products” during and leading up to “that time”.
By college, girls/women should already have a sense when to expect their period.
They don’t want feminine hygiene products to be more accessible on campus.
They want FREE feminine hygiene products to be more available on campus.
All the normal females I have known carried something along with them for emergencies.
Especially when they knew it was the time of the month for THE VISITOR to stop by.
There should be people roaming the campus with a Batman utility belt or even a bandolier of tampons and pads so that a student who gets her period can have instant access to the necessary absorbent materials.
These people will, of course, be paid well with full benefits and will represent a full cross-section of the desired level of campus diversity (minus males, of course).
Their callsign will be Red Beaver. They’ll wear a hat with a red flashing light that, when illuminated, will require all male students in sight to assume a position of subjugation and repentance with eyes looking down they do not offend or embarrass any female students.
True story:
(I'm hetero male.) On a date long ago, all dressed up and at a nice restaurant, and girlfriend suddenly realizes she is getting her period. She is unprepared (no supplied on hand). Asks me to go into the ladies bathroom and get her a sanitary napkin.
I had to ask a stranger (female) to go in for me, because I didn't want to be seen going into the ladies room.
I would have been very pleased if such supplies were stocked in the men's room, jokes aside.
Seriously, do these females need sanitary napkins/tampons inside classroom, next to each desk ?
>>Who shames girls/women for having periods, at least in this country?
Women do. They are the ones who train men to fear the period (and the PMS and the post-MS). They teach men to associate all sorts of bad behavior with menstruation.
These crybabies can never actually NAME anyone! What are you, some kind of Gustapo?
They want people 100% depending on them for everything.
I don’t know the history of when these products first became widely available and mass-produced, but let’s say it was in the early 1900’s, so maybe 100 years ago or approaching 100 years.
So now we seem to have the first generation of COLLEGE STUDENTS, after 100 years, who are not smart enough to plan ahead to carry a couple of items in their 40 pound backpacks, and want to paint themselves as victims for being expected to do so.
Next, the college students will expect free gas pumps all over campus, in case they run out of gas, and have no other solution.
As for practical experience: You can likely purchase these supplies in many of the restrooms on campus. Many of us have, at some time in our lives, asked another female for the supplies, if we were in dire need.
I am pretty sure it is NOT safe to say that every woman has had the experience of ruining a chair.
at age fifteen working at a nursing home taking home 57 dollars per week, I funded my apartment, my education, my own birth control and all of the feminine hygiene products I needed. Along with food, entertainment, clothing, and electricity.
What is wrong with these pussy cats?
Almost all women carry a cosmetic pouch in their purse w/ pain meds, brush,powder, FEMININE HYGIENE PRODUCTS. C’mon, I am a woman & my little pouch has everything you need to freshen up etc. I guarantee most women are prepared. I have never been period shamed. Is this stuff made up? Plus most women’s bathrooms sell them.
Woman up. Sheesh
Exactly. It seems that they practically bring it to your door if you qualify.
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