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NEW YORK (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Women will get free tampons and sanitary pads in New York City schools, jails and shelters under a first-of-its-kind program whose supporters argue that costly hurdles to feminine hygiene products amount to discrimination.

The program was unanimously approved this week in an array of bills by the New York City Council and awaits the signature of Mayor Bill de Blasio, who has said he supports it.

It comes as part of a national debate started by advocates who say many women are unable to afford products that can cost more than $100 a year.

"Menstrual hygiene products are as necessary as toilet paper and should be treated as basic bathroom supplies," said Julissa Ferreras-Copeland, a city council member who championed the measure, in a statement.

The program is the first of its kind, according to Ferreras-Copeland.

Once the program is in place, the city will spend an estimated $2.4 million annually to provide tampons and pads to students at public schools, residents of city shelters and inmates at jails and other correctional facilities.

Some 2 million tampons and 3.5 million pads will be handed out yearly in shelters alone, Ferreras-Copeland said.
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http://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-women-sanitaryproducts-idUSKCN0Z82CY

Masculinists who don't even living in NYC going ballistic over this.
 
What's with the fancy grammar in "who don't even living in NYC"?

So cool!
 
Quick let's think of something men ought to have so we can make sure they don't get vapors from the unfairness of it all!
 
How is this reverse sexism? First, no sexism is "reverse". Sexism against men is sexism as much as sexism against women is sexism. Second, how is this sexism at all? And who has said that it is? Or is this just your creative strawman?
 
Not Masculinist, Meninist!

This is video is just funny and not serious.



But seriously, I have no problem with this - and don't see who would. That stuff is just part of toiletries.
 
Rhea said:
Quick let's think of something men ought to have so we can make sure they don't get vapors from the unfairness of it all!
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There are some people who would get butthurt over this, the idea that their taxes go to women and women alone, and men don't benefit.

I'd say that tampons for the butthurt would be a straightforward palliative...
 
My sister-in-law worked as a nurse in a state prison. Prisoners are required to buy their own toiletries and medications from the meager earnings from their prison duties. She told us about a prisoner who downed a bottle of acetaminophen trying to kill himself. I wondered how a prisoner could get ahold of a bottle of OTC pain killers and she explained the policy.

BTW, the prisoner didn't die but did destroy his liver.
 
Jolly_Penguin said:
How is this reverse sexism? First, no sexism is "reverse". Sexism against men is sexism as much as sexism against women is sexism. Second, how is this sexism at all? And who has said that it is? Or is this just your creative strawman?
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I think you missed the ironic tone of the post.
 
Tom Sawyer said:
Jolly_Penguin said:
How is this reverse sexism? First, no sexism is "reverse". Sexism against men is sexism as much as sexism against women is sexism. Second, how is this sexism at all? And who has said that it is? Or is this just your creative strawman?
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I think you missed the ironic tone of the post.
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ooooooh. It is hard to tell sometimes on this board.
 
Jolly_Penguin said:
How is this reverse sexism? First, no sexism is "reverse". Sexism against men is sexism as much as sexism against women is sexism. Second, how is this sexism at all? And who has said that it is? Or is this just your creative strawman?
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See post#10: Taxes.

Also, yes, "irony."
 
Don't know. I would think not but I, like others, were surprised prisoners were required to get their own FH products.
 
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