I want to see more nationalised non-monopoly industries competing for public services and basic needs. That is to say, a government-owned producer/seller of sanitary products that private industry is welcome to compete with but who ultimately is under no obligation to deliver growth or dividends to shareholders.
Late stage capitalistic greed and inhumanity
You just need a marketing spin appropriate for America.
They aren’t “period products”, they are first aid for gunshot wounds. Free gunshot wound first aid in bathrooms as a “solution” to the shooting problem.
Your tax dollars are paying for rich European MAGA aligned groups
https://www.ft.com/content/e2addd88-4361-43f1-94e2-9f0a808dd6a9?syn-25a6b1a6=1
The way these people talk about giving benefits to supposedly undeserving recipients makes it sound like they alone are shouldering the burden of paying for all of it.
We can’t even talk a third of the country into agreeing to feed children.
Free bleeding it is. That way everyone gets to suffer!
We spend more on making people bleed than stopping them from bleeding.
I’m definitely down with making period products free of charge for every person who menstruates. I’d rather pay for food, housing, health care, and a yearly vacation for everyone in the country than spend another dime bombing people.
The time Nasa sent 100 tampons to space
https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20250905-the-women-who-broke-nasas-glass-ceiling
That story always makes me a little “harrumph”. They act like the engineers were totally clueless when you get that number by looking at the box, applying their normal redundancy rules for consumables, and then weighing one and determining that it’s easily within their per person weight budget.
The box says one every 4-8 hours. It’s a six day mission, menses typically last six days but can go longer. The ratio for consumables is 1.5 to 2 times expected need.
Expected usage is 36, with 60 being a possibility with a mission delay and atypical period. Redundancy takes you to right around 100.Then they asked.
Of the things they did wrong with dealing with women, the tampons are the least of it, albeit easily the most amusing.
I am more amused that they worked on and developed make up for the women astronauts to use while on mission.
I can get that one, but it’s definitely a bit more cringy.
Women often wear makeup for important photos in our culture, and they knew this was an important mission where photos would be taken. Same reason they gave the men shaving kits once they had more confidence. The silly to me is that we as a society expect anyone in space to look super proper.Also: they gave the women shaving kits too.
I believe now they just tell you to pick your preference of mandatory hygiene products like soap and toothpaste, and let you pick what you want for your the rest of your self care budget. I think most people fill up on lotion and hot sauce, if I recall.
I would also fill up on lotion and hot sauce
Access to period products literally gives girls and women more freedom to access education and career opportunities.
Why do that when we can fund bombs that kill hundreds of school girls in one blow?
It’s more efficient
Only gotta allocate funds to 1 thing instead of 2 or more
Helps when we don’t fund education either and people have trouble counting
When are they going to give the tax payers what they want - bombing people with tampons.
Used or unused? Dirty Bomb?
Dealer’s choice, but I’m partial to the used variety. It’s important to think about the environment.
At a bare minimum they should not be subject to sales tax
Sales tax shouldn’t exist, period (pun very much intended).
Yep. Its terribly regressive and gives car dealers too much power.
Oh, knowing the US, tampon brands will just skyrocket in price because it’s free unregulated money.
3 generations from now, Americans will travel overseas mindblown that tampons aren’t $60 / 16 pack and along with things like insulin still being dirt cheap.
“Why’s it so much cheaper here?!”
“Now, I know you’re not gonna believe this so easily, but…” explains
“Well I’m glad the government pays for it and not me.”
“Yeeeeah. I think you’re still not quite getting it…” explains more
“Noooo. That would never happen in the US.”
“Okay, so…”
Or they’ll make the cheapest ones possible and give those away and girls in school will get made fun of if they’re seen with them
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Ah, building on the social tier anxiety. A classic.
I just don’t have the knack of turning everything into a way to make money. I watch Mad Men like, “That would never fucking wor- oh… Ooooh, okay… Jeez… And they made a highly successful show about it. Fuck, they’re good.”
Sorry no money for healthcare, education, regulations or decent wages.
We CAN use that money to lock you up for being poor/undesirable where we will ironically give you free healthcare.
Unless you’re trans. Please just die.
What a wonderful world.
Then they complain that people aren’t having kids anymore.
“Oh, I’m sorry, these seem like ideal times to raise a child? With people like you in the world? Weren’t you just complaining about how young people ruin everything? Don’t get younger than ‘baby.’”
What a wonderful world.
Country.
Don’t lump the rest of us into that.
Because equity matters and is a moral duty to people who aren’t shit.
