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Free Tampons and Pads Are Making Their Way to U.S. Colleges, High Schools and Middle Schools
Newsweek ^ | September 6, 2016 | Abigail Jones

Posted on 09/06/2016 4:32:57 PM PDT by Zakeet

Brown University's student body president will be hand-delivering menstrual products into all nonresidential bathrooms with the help of 20 other students as classes begin this week, and, as of this fall, New York City public school students will provide free tampons and pads in all school buildings with sixth through 12th graders.

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"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," says Nguyen, a senior studying education policy. "Low-income students struggle with having the necessary funding for food, let alone tampons."

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By putting menstrual products in women's, men's and gender-inclusive bathrooms, Nguyen's campaign highlights an often-ignored fact: Not all people who menstruate are women.

(Excerpt) Read more at newsweek.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events; US: New York; US: Rhode Island
KEYWORDS: education; hygiene; tampons; transgender
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Where and when I went to high school, the boys would have those essential hygienic products completely emptied out and put to creative uses throughout the building in less than 30 seconds!

1 posted on 09/06/2016 4:32:57 PM PDT by Zakeet
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The moral and societal collapse of the United States is a macroagression which I am having difficulty processing.

Where do I go to get my weekly ration of bourbon?

2 posted on 09/06/2016 4:35:46 PM PDT by who_would_fardels_bear
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As a man, I’m micro-aggressed and need my free stuff.

If the women get free stuff, I want free stuff too.


3 posted on 09/06/2016 4:36:27 PM PDT by cyclotic
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Make good earrings too!


4 posted on 09/06/2016 4:37:30 PM PDT by C210N
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To: who_would_fardels_bear

Me? But you’ll have to travel to NYC :)


5 posted on 09/06/2016 4:38:10 PM PDT by dp0622 (The only thing an upper crust conservative hates more than a liberal is a middle class conservative)
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Not all people who menstruate are women?

Say what?


6 posted on 09/06/2016 4:40:07 PM PDT by wbill
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I don’t recognize this country anymore.


7 posted on 09/06/2016 4:40:52 PM PDT by MinorityRepublican
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The Indian sanitary pad revolutionary.
8 posted on 09/06/2016 4:42:26 PM PDT by csvset ( Illegitimi non carborundum)
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Of corse, it’s asinine that more freebies are being handed out.

But this is not nearly as egregiously immoral and disgusting and destructive as handing out free sex-related stuff.


9 posted on 09/06/2016 4:43:29 PM PDT by the OlLine Rebel (Common sense is an uncommon virtue./Federal-run medical care is as good as state-run DMVs.)
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Not all people who menstruate are women.

Uh, I think you're mistaken, there, Nguyen.

10 posted on 09/06/2016 4:44:16 PM PDT by Southside_Chicago_Republican (If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.)
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That was a great article. I really admire that man’s initiative and perseverance in trying to help alleviate million’s of women’s misery.


11 posted on 09/06/2016 4:47:13 PM PDT by Tax-chick (Talk less. Smile more.)
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They’re putting free sanitary pads in the men’s room, too ... what more do you want?


12 posted on 09/06/2016 4:47:37 PM PDT by Tax-chick (Talk less. Smile more.)
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They’ll all be emptied in minutes.. Then there will be more complaining.


13 posted on 09/06/2016 4:50:04 PM PDT by Trillian
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To: cyclotic

If they have a cell phone, they can afford tampons.


14 posted on 09/06/2016 4:52:41 PM PDT by castlebrew (Gun Control means hitting where you're aiming!))
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To: cyclotic

If they cannot pay for their own tampons or birth control, mandatory Depo Provera injections every three months that stops your period and fertility seems to be in order.
Or a Norplant for five years.


15 posted on 09/06/2016 4:54:08 PM PDT by tbw2
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Many years ago, you could buy them for a quarter or go to the nurses office if you didn’t have any money or if the machine was empty or broken. Free supplies were for emergencies. I see nothing wrong with occasional free supplies, but this country is turning into a bunch of whiny babies who only want to spend their money on fun things. No responsibility anymore.


16 posted on 09/06/2016 4:59:55 PM PDT by No Socialist
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[ That was a great article. I really admire that man’s initiative and perseverance in trying to help alleviate million’s of women’s misery.]

He has an entrepreneurs spirit, he found a need that if filled would benefit people greatly and he found a way to fill it effectively!


17 posted on 09/06/2016 5:05:14 PM PDT by GraceG (Only a fool works hard in an environment where hard work is not appreciated...)
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“...tampons are a necessity, not a luxury...”

It is a luxury...just wait till these guys get their socialist into power and it will be like the Soviet Union. When the USSR put Yuri Gagarin into Space even its high Communist Party member women outside of Moscow did not have access to such items. They used rags, washed, and reused them.

These people are just pandering to outmoded bourgeoisie thinking.


18 posted on 09/06/2016 5:12:02 PM PDT by Monterrosa-24 ( Even more American than a French Bikini and a Russian AK-47)
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One social taboo after another. He went through some hardship doing research. His ground breaking work enables the women to help themselves. I think he would be a good candidate for a Nobel prize for economics.


19 posted on 09/06/2016 5:12:57 PM PDT by csvset ( Illegitimi non carborundum)
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“By putting menstrual products in women’s, men’s and gender-inclusive bathrooms,....”

Just guessing but putting them in the “gender inclusive bathrooms” is just for laughs!


20 posted on 09/06/2016 5:25:00 PM PDT by RetiredTexasVet (The Mofia is a private crime family; whereas, the DOJ is the gov't's political crime family.)
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