Posted on 03/10/2020 7:58:33 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
I don't know about you, but I wish we could go back to a world where we didn't have to talk about periods and other bodily functions all day long. Unfortunately, we are going in the opposite direction, with toilet paper commercials showing bears with skidmarks on their Jockey shorts (where's Mr. Whipple when you need him?) and harpies from the "Menstrual Movement" suggesting that men should have to pay for toilet paper in public restrooms.
A non-profit group called "PERIOD," in partnership with HUGE, a marketing firm, released a tongue-in-cheek (or was it?) video on Sunday, showing what would happen if men had to insert coins into a toilet paper dispenser in a public restroom. The activists behind the video are trying to make the point that women have to pay for their own menstrual supplies, which is not fair or something.
A press release from HUGE says that in order to bring awareness about a lack of access to period products in public restrooms, the group "installed the machine in a men’s restroom as a one-day activation and filmed a video to generate conversation online about pad and tampon accessibility in public restrooms" in conjunction with International Women’s Day on Sunday.
"Toilet paper is an essential human need, and it's free in public restrooms," the press release goes on to say. "But for 50% of the population, an equally critical item is missing: tampons. And in the rare case they are available, they usually cost money."
[NEWS FLASH: Everything costs money, Karen.]
The press release then goes on to make a fair point—that pads and tampons are dispensed from "archaic, coin-operated" machines "that are rarely stocked and usually broken." But they're not calling for working tampon dispensers.
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It’s only a matter of time before they uncover a penumbra in the Constitution to prove that women all have a right to free tampons.
I think they need to take this issue up with their maker, not the government.
Places I have been in China do make you pay for TP. Some you need to bring your own. I guess these people idolize the wonders of communism.
Hey why do men have to pay for condoms in all those restrooms?
And how would that work if a man identifies as a woman? Would s/he still have to pay for toilet paper? So many questions…
What is with these idiots thinking that their personal hygiene supplies should be free? Do they expect tampons and pads to be made and distributed by slave labor, with the cotton and other materials produced by slaves?
As long as the cost of production is not free, no one has a right to “free” anything.
OK. Then let’s also do away with alimony - if you want everything to be equal.
carry your own feminine hygiene products. I always did and taught my girls the same.
But it’s not just women who use menstrual products. The extremists tell us that transsexual people, for example, still menstruate.
Wouldn’t a regular but occasional need analogy for tampons be condoms, rather than toilet paper? And if you need them, you pay for them in dispensing machines.
Wouldn’t a regular but occasional need analogy for tampons be condoms, rather than toilet paper? And if you need them, you pay for them in dispensing machines.
I agree with the author. Could everyone just keep their bodily functions to themselves? We managed it in the 1980s!
Free cialis and asian massages for men!
Now!
(Nom?)
:)
Charging men and not women would be illegal sex discrimination.
Be VERY careful of what you wish for, ladies and womyn...
There was a time where you had to pay a nickel to use some public restrooms...
I believe women use more TP than men, anyway.
The international airports and better class restaurants provided it, but the vending machines were the general rule elsewhere.
Sheryl Crow, notwithstanding
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