Jyoti Sanghera, circa March 2011.
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 ...
I have hemorrhoids. I demand free Preparation H.
I'm thinking she'd need to plug a silver dollar into her "vending machine" to do the trick.
Yeah lady? Really? You should buy more razor blades if you think tampons are too expensive.
TAANSTAFT!
The list goes on.
we can start a new charity
“Rags for Slags”
DEODORANT!
et fricking cetera!
You just don’t get it.
“I need stuff.”
“Stuff costs money.”
Therefore:
“Stuff should be free.”
Earlier this year, Jyoti Sanghera, chief of the UN Human Rights Office on Economic and Social Issues, called the stigma around menstrual hygiene “a violation of several human rights, most importantly the right to human dignity”. …And this builds a case for free tampons how?
If everything was free: the economics of abundance (Utopian Laff Riot, But Thought-Provoking)
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3130116/posts
Yet somehow.....somehow.....women have handled this since the cave times.
And, hey, it’s no picnic, that’s for sure. But somehow, we’ve managed.
The cognitive dissonance of the 21st Century feminists is mind boggling.
“If everything was free: the economics of abundance (Utopian Laff Riot, But Thought-Provoking)”
I got very upset with The Next Generation Star Trek when they went all utopian. Captain Picard says, (approximately) “The economics of the twenty-fourth century are somewhat different. People no longer seek wealth. Life is about self fulfillment.” The only ones who made sense were the Feringee and they made them into ugly, nasty entrepreneurs. The writer’s unrealistic utopian socialism ruined the series for me, but I’d mostly dropped them already over their sickly sweet politically correct-isms.
I want free deodorant, bar soap and tooth paste and if I don’t get them, I’ll quit using them!
Why not toilet paper too? And razors and aftershave. And flush toilets for everyone too while we’re at it. And, hey - I’d like a new BMW! These people are insane.
Jyoti Sanghera, circa March 2011.
Guilty.
The money is needed in England for free dental care.
Why not get Prince Chuck? He wants to be one doesn’t he?
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