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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Sorry but I thought college was about education, and being ready for a future job.
Silly me.
It’s a breath of fresh air.
Bandoliers of tampons!! lol. Don’t give Melissa Harris-Perry any ideas! That would make for some very interesting window ballads and serenades.
I am pretty sure it is NOT safe to say that every woman has had the experience of ruining a chair.
Reminds me a bit of how Ashley Judd, at that women’s march, said how she had to throw out her favorite underwear and favorite pants due to problems. And then went on a screed of how evil that sales tax is charged on menstrual supplies in most states.
Yep, I just don’t get the mindset. With a bit of planning ahead and knowledge, it seems that the vast majority of college girls will be fine.
If you’re not smart enough to carry your personal needs at all times, what are you doing out of elementary school?
Why do some women think that the entire world must cater to their every whim?
Once we got to higher education, WE didn’t need these things, our parents didn’t need these things, nor did their parents!
Have you millennials become totally infantilized?
“Every girl has ruined a chair at least once in their life,”
How sexist. Boys can have periods also
These days, there are already a lot of douchebags on college campuses in this country.
how about not only tampons...
soap, toilet paper, toothpaste
these pathetic snowflakes need a strong dose of REALITY...
Must it be like having ‘A Taco Truck on every corner’, the college campus overrun with vendors? I think not.
The Taco Truck at the Hispanic Market near JMU is awesome. My wife and daughter graduated from JMU
Sorry, you are looking for the recruiting office, three doors up.
“what is the real deal; what is the experience with women as they undergo menstruation????”
We expect it every month, SO WE BRING OUR OWN STUFF in our purse. I can’t say what libtards might do.
“I wonder if the women realize how stupid this is implying they are?”
They are too stupid to realize that.
Vending machines will work.
More accessible?
She wants....what? Someone to bring it to her?
OK...so now, liberated college women are no longer responsible for keeping themselves clean. Yuck!
My wife has always kept an extra tampon or two in her purse.
Being a thoughtful, considerate husband, I always kept a couple in the glove box of my car.
What the Hell is with these kids?
Indeed. Worse, the benighted author seems to believe that one must have a vagina to be female. What a reactionary.
There have already been protests wanting tampons in the men’s room for “transitioning” female to male transsexuals, if I’m not mistaken.
Portable feminine hygiene product dispenser = purse.
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