Posted on 12/10/2018 9:49:08 PM PST by csvset
See: Alexandria Ocossio-Cortez
Local store sells a packet of 30 for 1.98 of an off brand
this is about attention seeking and power and control.
Wow, it is amazing that they reached college age without ever figuring out how to plan ahead and be prepared for when their period might occur. Even women who have irregular periods still know the general timeframe of when it will start, and be prepared.
Furthermore, most women’s restrooms have a feminine product dispenser.
These students are trying to get something for nothing. Once they succeed at this, they will move on to something else. The ultimate goal is for everything to be “free” (and presumably to have sufficient slave labor to produce all the “free” stuff).
Warren must know of the Cherokee hair tampon.
“That’s gold, Jerry! Gold. “ -Kenny Banya
When I was a girl of their age, we said as little as possible about “period products”.
Being observed by a male classmate purchasing “period products”—mortifying.
You had girlfriends to talk to when you felt the need to discuss “period products”.
But, something isn’t adding up here. These kids are so impoverished that they cannot, collectively, or individually, buy a box of Tampax.
Pity.
How is it they always have the fundage for concerts, ravers, Coachella, Burning Man, and spring break baccanals. There’s always a way to be able to scrape together enough cash to keep a reasonable supply of drugs handy. What are those taxpayer-subsidized student loans for, if not keeping one’s personal pharmacy stocked?
How did we make it through so many years of civilization without .demanding that other people finance our “period products”?
I might entertain an exception for Midol. We need to keep lots of that stuff in circulation
I agree with you, EXCEPT that I have to wonder: do we now have the first generation of women in the history of humanity who don’t actually have sense enough to “be prepared?” Maybe this “event” in their lives takes them by surprise, each and every time it happens!
It sounds absurd, but then absurdity seems to be pandemic these days!
I think all these ladies should receive a free hysterectomy which would solve other problems too. Like less babies born to libs.
Paging future employers....
You can add Christopher Newport University to your growing list.
So much for feminism.
Commercial “feminine hygiene” products have only been around for the last 100 years or so. The term “on the rag” used to be very literal.
Women in past generations likely had less need for these products than women today. I doubt my grandmother ever purchased disposable pads. Then again, my grandmother had 14 term pregnancies and breast-fed all 14 children so she probably had much less need for those products anyway.
Pregnancy, malnutrition, chronic illness, and of course dying in childbirth also reduced the need for “feminine products.”
Young women today should be, but won’t be, thankful that they need these products. They are healthy, well-nourished, not spending most of their adult lives pregnant or lactating, and not dying in childbirth. They are also able to get a college education, which means they didn’t have to drop out of school to go to work to support their families, or didn’t have to drop out to care for their homes, parents, and siblings due to a deceased or invalid mother, and that they don’t have fathers who refuse to support education for women, all common scenarios in past generations.
Oppressed and impoverished, my left foot!
There is no way on Earth that a student paying or borrowing thousands of dollars a year for college cannot afford $20-30 a month for sanitary products.
In the developing world, it isn’t uncommon for girls to drop out of school when their periods start. It is often driven by both a lack of sanitary pads AND lack of privacy. Girls who have to “hold it” all day to avoid using public shared bathrooms can’t cope with that AND menstruation.
I would say that the erosion of female privacy in favor of transgenderism is a far greater concern than “I want you to pay for my Maxi pads”. If you can pay for college, you can pay for menstrual pads. But if you don’t feel safe in the bathroom, shower or dorm, you don’t want to attend.
The fact that you are not allowed to say anything about the biologically intact mentally ill man in the shower beside you ... who unironically is called a lesbian because he’s sexually attracted to women is just another reason to just leave.
Since the day I met my wife not once has she asked me to purchase any type of feminine product for herself. She has always said that she would never want to have me standing in some store isle trying to figure out what I was supposed to find.
Been with her for over 40 years.
You all have a $800 cell phone & a monthly phone bill in the hundreds and you cannot afford about $8 a month for your tampons?
Get your priorities straight, girls.
Life isn’t just a stroll from one freebie to another.
I work part time for a staffing company. We conduct bag checks at various venues, looking for weapons , booze, etc. Over the past 2.5 years, I have looked in literally, thousands of purses, backpacks, etc. It is no surprise to see pads or tampons. Even the current SJW Snowflake generation seem to be adequately equipped with these items, These young “ladies” behind this protest are full of it.
What a wonderful story! Bless his heart -- and the last line, amazing! Thanks for posting!
Mr, Arunachalam Muruganantham should have won the Nobel prize, imho.
These are young adults? what a bunch of whiners.
Apologies to those who suffer the burdens of womanhood with nary a whimper, unlike the ‘entitled’ little ones at CNU.
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