Posted on 02/07/2020 2:07:53 PM PST by Oldeconomybuyer
WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. -- Purdue University will offer free tampons and other feminine hygiene products in the campus bathrooms in response to student advocates who have been pushing for the move for three years.
University President Mitch Daniels on Thursday credited the University Senate, a faculty-led body, for proposing the initiative in a resolution that described feminine hygiene products as a basic necessity that should be in campus restrooms free of charge.
Alison Rickert, a junior studying neurobiology and physiology at Purdue, founded The Period Project an initiative aimed at providing menstrual products to those who need them both in and out of university walls. She said Purdues decision resulted from she and other students advocating for the same issue.
We didnt all know each other, necessarily, Rickert said. But we all were heading to the same place. Thats how movements happen, right?
Audrey Ruple, chair of the University Senates Equity and Diversity Committee, said she expected pushback, but Daniels support reassured her.
Its a lot of work for someone and some money, Rickert said Thursday. But its happening. Finally. What a great day.
The West Lafayette campus has more than 650 womens and gender-neutral bathrooms in the academic and administration buildings, Purdue spokeswoman Rebecca Terry said. That number doesnt include residence halls or athletic facilities.
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Movements? Is she speaking of bowel movements? Her description of “movement” is a precise application.
Of course, there's really no such thing as "free."
free jelly rolls still won’t stop the b*tching...
they’ll just find something else to complain about...
This worship of the vagina is insane.
Okay, but what do the women students there get?
Pads = corona virus masks.
Now that I’m well past 35 years of shelling for it out of pocket, I want my freebies too! How about we set up a free masseuse for the seasoned ladies?!
and they wonder why the cost of indoctrination is so high,,,
Here is the question, what brand and what type? A cursory look at the grocery store indicates many different brands and styles for women’s hygiene. So how will this be determined?
Will there be bidding from the major brands for naming rights in the women’s rooms?
Many tampons were used in the eighties and nineties by the Marine corps to clean rifles.
Who says universities don’t support the second amendment? Free cleaning gear!
They are also good as a temporary bullet wound dressing. Something that will be required in the next few months...
Food is a basic necessity, So is housing. And computers. And internet. And textbooks. And clothing. And healthcare. And beer money. And pot. And...
Doesnt Title IX require equal spending on something for men? How about free beer in the Mens Rest Rooms?
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Not to worry. The men probably have feminine hygiene products in their bathrooms, too, to accommodate trans men.
And the leftist DemocRAT students, which is most of them, will just grab as many as want and take them home, so they won’t ever have to buy any more. Whoever came up with this idea underestimated the greed of most of the student body.
I got out in 1979, so I missed that trend. Semper Fi.
I donated my products to a “Period Project” in the UK. Tampons are highly taxed and considered a, “luxury item”, so women with small incomes have difficulty obtaining them, because not even hospitals offer them to patients at low or no cost. If any woman lost as much blood as I did, it’s very serious; it’s part of the reason why I needed a hysterectomy. A liter daily meant transfusions, and tampons were mandatory.
I know that my donation went to a women’s shelter.
They absorb a good amount of CLP, and are not abrasive enough to damage anything.
We would cut them into strips and ram them through the bore.
Add the work of a dremel with a bunch of felt tips and wheels and you could get a rifle that had been out in the field or use on the range for a couple of weeks inspection ready in about an hour.
“many different brands and styles for womens hygiene”
Light, medium, heavy, and rosie o’donnel tsunami.
That is something the UK has that kind of tax rate on a female necessity. Just think if that were the case here. I imagine there would be a uproar.
Probably use cheap generic prison issue stuff to discourage students taking extra back to the dorms and never buying any.
Are they just going to set out a box, or are the going to have machines that keep you from taking a dozen at once.
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