Eowyn:
Here’s a WTF for you.
Newsweek reports, Sept. 6, 2016, that students at the East coast’s Ivy League Brown University have something new in many campus bathrooms: free tampons and menstrual pads.
Brown’s student body president, Viet Nguyen, a senior education major who’s pushed the student-led initiative, will be hand-delivering menstrual products into all nonresidential bathrooms, including men’s rooms, with the help of 20 other students.
Nguyen said, “There’s been a lot of conversation about why pads and tampons are a necessity, not a luxury, but not a lot of action. We wanted to take it into our own hands. Low-income students struggle with having the necessary funding for food, let alone tampons.”
By putting menstrual products in women’s, men’s and gender-inclusive bathrooms, Nguyen’s campaign seeks to highlight what it claims to be an often ignored fact: Not all people who menstruate are women.
Nguyen said, “We wanted to set a tone of trans-inclusivity and not forget that they’re an important part of the population. I’d be naïve to say there won’t be push back. I’ve had questions about why we’re implementing this in male bathrooms as well. It’s an initial confusion, but people generally understand when we explain it.”
The free tampons and pads for “not all people who menstruate are women” are funded by the student-run undergraduate finance board.
Students at Brown aren’t the only ones going back to school this month with unprecedented access to menstrual products.
As of this fall, New York City public schools will provide free tampons and pads in all school buildings with 6th through 12th graders. The move is part of the city’s landmark legislation, passed on July 13, 2016, ensuring free menstrual products in all public schools, shelters and correctional facilities. In July, New York also became the 11th state to eliminate taxes on menstrual products. Advocates hope that New York City’s new law will set a new standard for schools around the country.
A Department of Education spokesperson said, “Students must feel comfortable during their classes so they can focus on learning, and having free, easy access to menstrual products is essential.”
Earlier this year, Inside Higher Ed reported that students at the University of Arizona, Columbia University, Emory College, Reed College, the University of Nebraska at Lincoln, UCLA and Grinnell College, among others, have all advocated for free menstrual products on campus. As Courtney Couillard wrote in the Columbia Spectator, “I can easily find a free condom on Barnard and Columbia’s campuses, but why can’t I find a free tampon in the bathrooms in Hamilton or Milbank? Why does the administration care about my sexual protective rights, but not how I handle my monthly menstrual cycle?”
It turns out “menstrual equity” isn’t confined to schools and universities, but is a new pop culture movement.
This explains it:
@Nanny G: OMG! Absolute lunacy. These kids are so brainwashed they can’t make a single factual statement about anything. I can’t quit shaking my head and words fail me.
It is clearly meant for democrat men.
@DrJohn:
Would it be safe to say that democrat men may require the use of tampons or pads as a consequence of non heterosexual activities?
Really, and where do they menstruate from? Our society has really gone off the deep end.
In the 1960s, Americans put men on the moon using slide rulers and UNIVAC style punch card and reel tape computers as large as an entire room but with less computing power than a modern cheap cellphone.
In the 2010s, not only do we not have the capability to launch men into space (without paying the Russians to ferry us), our alleged “best and brightest” at ivy league universities don’t understand the biologic fact that males cannot menstruate.
What insane orwellian doublethink to chatter on about Darwinian theory while concurrently bloviating something as patently, stupidly unscientific as “some men menstruate”?
What with all the liberals calling for tampons and napkins to be tax free you’d think a Lefty Governor would do it.
You’d be wrong.
Jerry Brown, CA gov., just vetoed a bill which would have made sanitary products tax free for all Californians. (Men and women)
Speaking on his decision to veto Assembly Bill 1561, Gov. Brown said “tax breaks are the same as new spending” and that he didn’t feel comfortable signing a bill that would create or expand tax breaks that, in all, would have added up to about $300 million per year in lost revenue. http://www.routefifty.com/2016/09/california-tampon-tax-veto/131505/?oref=govexec_today_nl
Will Jerry Brown lose his ”progressive” credentials over this?
Has he joined the ”Right’s” ”War On Women,”
Did he do it just for Thirty Pieces of Silver?
Just another leftists run university that needs cut off from their tax dollars they dont need