Split Gendered spaces, split from Drag Shows

[TSwizzle]

NO ONE is suggesting that girls' bathrooms should not also have menstrual products.

You bleat at length about how difficult it is for soooo many women to get feminine hygiene products but you are perfectly fine making access to these products difficult by wasting them on boys who do not menstruate! Pick a lane girl.

 

[Toni]

NO ONE is suggesting that girls' bathrooms should not also have menstrual products.

You bleat at length about how difficult it is for soooo many women to get feminine hygiene products but you are perfectly fine making access to these products difficult by wasting them on boys who do not menstruate! Pick a lane girl.

Putting tampons in the boys bathroom will not harm girls nor will it harm girls in developing nations have better access. Your obsession with this 'issue' demonstrates just how easily distracted you are.

 

[TSwizzle]

NO ONE is suggesting that girls' bathrooms should not also have menstrual products.

You bleat at length about how difficult it is for soooo many women to get feminine hygiene products but you are perfectly fine making access to these products difficult by wasting them on boys who do not menstruate! Pick a lane girl.

Putting tampons in the boys bathroom will not harm girls nor will it harm girls in developing nations have better access.

Putting tampons in the boys bathroom is a waste, boys do not have periods. With soooooo many women unable to get tampons, why are you so enthusiastic to put them in the boys bathroom?

Your obsession with this 'issue' demonstrates just how easily distracted you are.

Your obsession with giving boys tampons is pretty weird.

 

[Jimmy Higgins]

NO ONE is suggesting that girls' bathrooms should not also have menstrual products.

You bleat at length about how difficult it is for soooo many women to get feminine hygiene products but you are perfectly fine making access to these products difficult by wasting them on boys who do not menstruate! Pick a lane girl.

Putting tampons in the boys bathroom will not harm girls nor will it harm girls in developing nations have better access. Your obsession with this 'issue' demonstrates just how easily distracted you are.

The good news is that this will help spread out useful emergency bullet wound blood absorbing items for the next mass school shooting too, so really this is win-win.

 

[TomC]

Putting tampons in the boys bathroom is a waste, boys do not have periods. With soooooo many women unable to get tampons, why are you so enthusiastic to put them in the boys bathroom?

I'm pretty sure it was you who cared enough to post about it.

Looks like political grandstanding of the virtue signaling variety to me. It's an excruciatingly common phenomenon in modern politics.

At least there's some chance of it being helpful. I'm sure I'm not the only guy who went on an emergency run for tampons for his gal.
Tom

 

[Emily Lake]

These people are out of their cotton picking minds;

Minnesota Democratic state Rep. Sandra Feist, who introduced the “Menstrual Equity Bill” to provide all students access to menstrual products, insisted during a Jan. 11 education policy hearing that the amendment restricting the products to only female bathrooms should not be supported for multiple reasons. "I would encourage the committee to vote no on this amendment for a few reasons: practical, financial, social, emotional,” Feist said during the hearing. “First, there are a lot of schools that are moving towards gender-neutral bathrooms and if we add ‘female’ we might become obsolete very quickly. Second, not all students who menstruate are female – we need to make sure that all students have access to these products.” Feist did concede that there would be much less “non-female menstruating students,” which she noted had been factored into the cost of the bill.

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This is absurd. Not all females menstruate, but ONLY females menstruate. Those without uteruses are 100% incapable of menstruating.

 

[Emily Lake]

These people are out of their cotton picking minds;

Minnesota Democratic state Rep. Sandra Feist, who introduced the “Menstrual Equity Bill” to provide all students access to menstrual products, insisted during a Jan. 11 education policy hearing that the amendment restricting the products to only female bathrooms should not be supported for multiple reasons. "I would encourage the committee to vote no on this amendment for a few reasons: practical, financial, social, emotional,” Feist said during the hearing. “First, there are a lot of schools that are moving towards gender-neutral bathrooms and if we add ‘female’ we might become obsolete very quickly. Second, not all students who menstruate are female – we need to make sure that all students have access to these products.” Feist did concede that there would be much less “non-female menstruating students,” which she noted had been factored into the cost of the bill.

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Here is a less biased article: https://www.house.leg.state.mn.us/sessiondaily/Story/17529

The issue is about how some students miss class because they do not have access to menstrual products.

All well and good but to come out and say something so wrong as "not all students who menstruate are female" says a lot about Feist and their agenda.

It recognizes that there are pre/non-surgical trans students in schools.

Even if so, it's a case of gross misspeaking in a factually incorrect way. ALL students who menstruate are female. They may not all identify as women, but they are incontrovertibly female. Menstruation is not possible if one does not have a uterus.

 

[Emily Lake]

The issue is about how some students miss class because they do not have access to menstrual products.

Odd that for the 100+ years we’re had co-ed schools, it’s only now an issue. How did female students of last century survive?

FYI, the cost of feminine products has gotten quite high. They used to be fairly inexpensive, but not so much anymore. And paired with rising inflation, as well as a lot of facilities no longer supplying dispensers, it can be a challenge.

It's a cost barrier that men don't face, and as a result, men are largely unaware that it even exists.

 

[Emily Lake]

Works wide, the lack of access to period products is an issue for girls, especially those living in poverty or in less developed nations.

But up to maybe yesterday, it wasn’t an issue for period products not to be available in the woman’s public restroom. All those years of feminism, and nothing. It’s only an issue now for the pretext of putting period products in the male public restroom. This is not about need; it’s about imposing on everyone else the ideology that men menstruate.

Well no, because for a solid chunk of time through the 80s and into the 00s, there were pad and tampon dispensers in the women's and girl's restrooms. You, being a dude, may not even have been aware of this. There WERE dispensers in them.

Over about the last decade, they've been removed. Companies and schools decided they were too expensive to stock, or whatever the thought process was. I don't know - they don't seem to have run that idea past most women. They just started disappearing.

Period poverty has always been a serious issue in less developed nations. Over the last decade, it's become an issue in even developed nations. Over the past few years of covid-fueled inflation... it's become a serious issue for lower income women and girls.

Just because you're not aware of a problem, especially one that most women take pains to keep hidden from men, doesn't mean it doesn't exist.

 

[TSwizzle]

It's a cost barrier that men don't face, and as a result, men are largely unaware that it even exists.

Hmmm, not sure how true that bold part is. As a male, I have been aware of this for many years, it was first brought to my attention by a female cousin when she was a teenager (many years ago, lol) and she and her friends were quite vociferous about it. I think men are indifferent to it or it's a low priority. I was pleased to see in Scotland these products are available for free.

Scotland has become the first country in the world to make period products free for all. There is now a legal duty on local authorities to provide free items such as tampons and sanitary pads to "anyone who needs them". Products will be distributed through councils and education providers as the Period Products Act comes into force. MSPs unanimously approved the Period Products (Free Provision) (Scotland) Bill in November 2020.

BBC

I think the US government should get into action about this.

 

[TomC]

I think the US government should get into action about this.

Then perhaps you should start a thread on the subject.
Rather than derail the derail of a derail...

Maybe it's because I grew up with 4 strong sisters and feminist parents. But I don't see any problems with making feminine hygiene products easily available to everyone, including the males who care about women.
Tom

 

[Toni]

It's a cost barrier that men don't face, and as a result, men are largely unaware that it even exists.

Hmmm, not sure how true that bold part is. As a male, I have been aware of this for many years, it was first brought to my attention by a female cousin when she was a teenager (many years ago, lol) and she and her friends were quite vociferous about it. I think men are indifferent to it or it's a low priority. I was pleased to see in Scotland these products are available for free.

Scotland has become the first country in the world to make period products free for all. There is now a legal duty on local authorities to provide free items such as tampons and sanitary pads to "anyone who needs them". Products will be distributed through councils and education providers as the Period Products Act comes into force. MSPs unanimously approved the Period Products (Free Provision) (Scotland) Bill in November 2020.

BBC

I think the US government should get into action about this.

That would be a good idea.

 

[Jimmy Higgins]

It's a cost barrier that men don't face, and as a result, men are largely unaware that it even exists.

Hmmm, not sure how true that bold part is. As a male, I have been aware of this for many years, it was first brought to my attention by a female cousin when she was a teenager (many years ago, lol) and she and her friends were quite vociferous about it. I think men are indifferent to it or it's a low priority. I was pleased to see in Scotland these products are available for free.

Scotland has become the first country in the world to make period products free for all. There is now a legal duty on local authorities to provide free items such as tampons and sanitary pads to "anyone who needs them". Products will be distributed through councils and education providers as the Period Products Act comes into force. MSPs unanimously approved the Period Products (Free Provision) (Scotland) Bill in November 2020.

BBC

I think the US government should get into action about this.

That would be a good idea.

That'd be "woke".

 

[Emily Lake]

Not that long ago, only women's bathrooms had stations for diaper changing. Then the fact that men also could be responsible for changing diapers became...more mainstream.

Toni, if you can convince my husband to take on my menstrual cycle for me, I would be forever grateful.

 

[Toni]

Not that long ago, only women's bathrooms had stations for diaper changing. Then the fact that men also could be responsible for changing diapers became...more mainstream.

Toni, if you can convince my husband to take on my menstrual cycle for me, I would be forever grateful.

Heh. I was fortunate not to have cramps. Killer pms, but acceptable trade off.

Once my husband told me he’d do anything he could to help me when I was hugely pregnant. All I could think of was: Tag, you’re it! YOU get to carry this bowling ball for a while.,.,

*He’s actually an amazing father—a rare person who genuinely loves babies.

Not that it helped much when I was 9 months pregnant.

 

[Derec]

It's a cost barrier that men don't face, and as a result, men are largely unaware that it even exists.

And women don't shave their faces. We all have our cross to bear. If government is to pay for period products, why can't I get my shaving blades for free? Those are quite pricey too.

 

[Derec]

That would be a good idea.

Why exactly? It's preferential treatment of women by the government. Government should not be discriminating by sex.

Besides, women already get so much stuff for free. Like food on dates.
US woman says she went on six dates a week to save money on groceries in viral TikTok
This shit is why I am glad not to be in the dating game. The game is rigged in favor of women.

 

[Jimmy Higgins]

It's a cost barrier that men don't face, and as a result, men are largely unaware that it even exists.

And women don't shave their faces. We all have our cross to bear. If government is to pay for period products, why can't I get my shaving blades for free? Those are quite pricey too.

No words, should have sent a poet.

 

[Toni]

It's a cost barrier that men don't face, and as a result, men are largely unaware that it even exists.

And women don't shave their faces. We all have our cross to bear. If government is to pay for period products, why can't I get my shaving blades for free? Those are quite pricey too.

OMG. Women shave their legs, including behind their knees, which is really hard to see, even as a very limber 20 year old. And now, thanks to the copious amounts of porn available via internet, women are also expected to shave or wax or have waxed their pubic hair. AND I don't know if you've seen television or movies or ads in the last few years but beards are very fashionable these days, everywhere from hipsters to skinheads.

In any case, shaving anything is a choice, albeit sometimes with a lot of social pressures and consequences. Menstruation is not really a choice. And before you get into hysterectomies, endometrial ablations and some forms of birth control: no one does that for young girls!

 

[Toni]

That would be a good idea.

Why exactly? It's preferential treatment of women by the government. Government should not be discriminating by sex.

Besides, women already get so much stuff for free. Like food on dates.
US woman says she went on six dates a week to save money on groceries in viral TikTok
This shit is why I am glad not to be in the dating game. The game is rigged in favor of women.

Yeah, we had this discussion some YEARS ago. AFAIK, very few if any women (including that woman on TikTok--we ALL know everything on TikTok is real, right???) do not pay their own way on dates. Probably mostly women my age, few younger and the young ones are almost certainly with a sugar daddy who KNOWS that's what he's getting: paying for dates in order to have sex.

You know why most women insist on paying their own ways on dates? So that sex is not an expectation but an actual choice, without the stupid pressure of waddayameanyouwon'tsleepwithme?? I bought you PIZZA!