jackpiners discuss women's time of the month

[franksolich]

https://jackpineradicals.com/boards/topic/are-we-finally-getting-over-the-belief-that-periods-are-embarrassing/

Oh my.

But it's a relief to not have to read Manny's primitives discuss things they don't know anything about, such as politics or economics.

eridani (4364 posts)      May 12, 2018 at 2:03 am

Are We Finally Getting Over the Belief That Periods Are Embarrassing?

https://www.thenation.com/article/are-we-finally-getting-over-the-belief-that-periods-are-embarrassing/

When is a necessity not a necessity? When it’s a product used by half the population every month for 35 to 40 years, but never even once by the other half. In case you haven’t figured it out yet, I’m talking about menstrual supplies. Pads and tampons cost women up to $120 a year—and that’s not counting pain relievers like Midol or Advil. Over a lifetime, it can add up to as much as $4,500.

Menstrual supplies have been in the news thanks to attempts by activists in several states to repeal the so-called tampon tax—the sales tax levied on menstrual supplies in 36 states. The rationale for applying sales tax to menstrual products is that they are luxuries, not necessities, which any woman can tell you is ridiculous. These are not products women can simply choose not to use, like perfume or cosmetics. It is indeed insulting that women, who already earn less than men, are taxed for an essential product that only women use—a tax, let us not forget, originally levied by male lawmakers, and sometimes preserved by them, too. Four states have dropped the tax in recent years, but when California legislators voted to do the same, Governor Jerry Brown vetoed it: The state, with its proposed $190 billion budget, just couldn’t do without the $20 million women paid in each year. (He vetoed getting rid of the tax on diapers, too.)

Dropping the tax would be a fine symbolic gesture, but a more immediate problem is that menstrual products aren’t covered by food stamps or by WIC coupons (neither are soap, toilet paper, or the other basics of modern hygiene—as if people down on their luck don’t deserve to be clean). Imagine the stress this induces in poor women: Will I have enough to get through those days? What if I cut back on changing my pad and bleed through? Every year in the United States, one out of four women struggles to come up with the money to pay for menstrual products.

One in five low-income women misses school, work, or some other commitment because she didn’t have adequate supplies. You don’t hear much about it because eew, periods. It’s a lot like the stress of paying for diapers (also not covered by food stamps), which a Yale study showed was connected to depression in low-income mothers and grandmothers.

Silver Witch (6400 posts)      (Reply to original post)   May 12, 2018 at 7:19 am

1. Men find so many ways to oppress and shame women.

This is one we dont talk about because we are taught very young that it is to shameful to mention .I know times have changed but i had no idea what it was. My mother never even warned me. One day i stood up and blood everywhere……

Women some day we will be equal.   May I add that adult diapers should be covered as well.

Well, whoop-whoop-de-do.  Women have to pay sales tax on a product for female complaints. 

It's as if men don't have to pay sales taxes on other products.

[Skul]

Some of them are so nasty they need a duffle bag.

[DUmpsterDiver]

Deal with it like most of us in youth had to when the math teacher was hot...stuff a sock on it.

[landofconfusion80]

Deal with it like most of us in youth had to when the math teacher was hot...stuff a sock on it.

Here's a word problem for ya...
If my pecker is 8 inches and lasts all day, how many times will you orgasm, ms. Hockelbach?

Giggity.

[franksolich]

Some of them are so nasty they need a duffle bag.

I dunno what the big deal is about the sales tax on feminine hygiene products.

It's not as if they're a major purchase--so what is the sales tax, usually?  A dime?  A quarter?

I don't think the women's-libbers are so much interested in removing a financial "burden," but more so in making a point simply because they're oppressed women.

[franksolich]

Deal with it like most of us in youth had to when the math teacher was hot...stuff a sock on it.

The "eridani" jackpiner habitually posts things trying to incite race-hatred; I haven't paid attention--but will start doing so now--but possibly she's been trying to induce gender-hatred too.  Her posts seem to be made for no reason other than to stir up mischief.

[diesel driver]

I like to dispel the myth that "only women" use these products.

In case they have forgotten, trans men use these products (liberals stuffing things up their asses, big surprise...), I put panty liners on my dog when she was in heat, and even use a few myself for a bad case of hemmoriods...

Liberals think so one dimensional (me me me me me me)...

[franksolich]

Liberals think so one dimensional (me me me me me me)...

I never thought much about this even when close with a woman, because it seems to me women don't give men any sympathy for the periodic physical discomforts and the wild mood swings we go through.  Why pain in a woman deserves attention, but pain in a man doesn't, escapes me.

Fortitude seems a near-extinct virtue these days.  I, and then my younger brother, came along when our mother was just minutes away from menopause, for example, but all during our infancy and toddlerhood, ostensibly one of the most trying times of a woman's life, she remained calm, composed, on an even keel, never giving anyone the slightest clue anything was wrong.

How in Hell did women manage it, from pre-history up until about 1970, without whining?

[diesel driver]

How in Hell did women manage it, from pre-history up until about 1970, without whining?

Because before then, men were men, women were women, and liberals were little more than a circus sideshow...