UK Government pledges free sanitary products
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Archived from the IMDb Discussion Forums — Health & Fitness
Daisy — 7 years ago(March 13, 2019 07:54 PM)
in schools in a bid to end "period poverty" where some girls are unable to afford sanitary products.
It's a step in the right direction, but words are cheap. Since approximately 4 years ago there was a promise to end the so-called Tampon Tax whereby VAT is applied since they are classed as a non-essential, luxury item. This has yet to have actually happened.
Crazy isn't it. If you're born female, menstruation is an unavoidable monthly fact for at least 40 years of your adult life yet sanitary products are a non-essential, luxury item! -
MovieChatLegend — 7 years ago(March 13, 2019 08:02 PM)
I agree that sanitary products are essential items, but I do not except the existence of period poverty.
Anybody claiming they can't afford tampons need to a) show their bloodstained panties to the IRS and b) need to prove they haven't bought any actual non essential items during that 'period'. -
Daisy — 7 years ago(March 13, 2019 10:13 PM)
It exists.
Girls in school are more often than not relying on their parents to purchase their sanitary protection. All it takes is a parent or parents who'd prefer booze and scratchcards to buying tampax and you have a girl who misses school because all she has to protect her is loo paper or nothing. That's just one example.
It's not a feminist issue and anyone of you here who is married (pauses to laugh silently to self) have probably at some point baulked at the cost of these items, be honest. Add in a couple of daughters to that and you're talking about a substantial amount of money.
Of course in an ideal world all women would have free products but that's unrealistic. Free products to school age girls until they are able to earn money isn't a bad idea and then we get rid of that tampon tax!
We don't want to go back to using moss and washing out rags and trust me you don't want that either -
MovieChatLegend — 7 years ago(March 13, 2019 10:40 PM)
Girls in school are more often than not relying on their parents to purchase their sanitary protection.
Yes, as they probably should. I don't know where you live, but here in the US our kids don't work jobs while they're in school. At least, not to the point where they're expected to be entirely self sufficient.
All it takes is a parent or parents who'd prefer booze and scratchcards to buying tampax and you have a girl who misses school because all she has to protect her is loo paper or nothing. That's just one example.
That's an example of mismanagement of finances, not period poverty.
It's not a feminist issue and anyone of you here who is married (pauses to laugh silently to self) have probably at some point baulked at the cost of these items, be honest. Add in a couple of daughters to that and you're talking about a substantial amount of money.
People with daughters just need to have a couple of drinks less at the weekend, or drive a less pricey automobile.
Seriously, even if you had three daughters, we're talking less than a hundred bucks a month here, right?
Of course in an ideal world all women would have free products but that's unrealistic. Free products to school age girls until they are able to earn money isn't a bad idea and then we get rid of that tampon tax!
There's no such thing as tampon tax.
No. Parents can pay, it's no big deal.
We don't want to go back to using moss and washing out rags and trust me you don't want that either
Tampons are not cost prohibitive for anybody. Stop being dramatic. -
Daisy — 7 years ago(March 13, 2019 09:15 PM)
I think you've missed the point.
Sanitary products are a necessity not a luxury. Imagine if you (I assume you're a man) spent a week of every month for most of your adult life bleeding out of your penis, how delighted would you be to fork out for hygiene products for 40 years? -
hungrytheheretic — 7 years ago(March 13, 2019 09:21 PM)
Bullshit.
Women get that repaid a 100 times over by having men pay for their dinners, movies, shopping, rent, etc. Now they want men to pay for their bleeding *****?
This isn't even a case of "it all evens out," just "more more more!"
Bring. More. Sheep. -
Sociopath — 7 years ago(March 13, 2019 09:27 PM)
Imagine if you (I assume you're a man) spent a week of every month for most of your adult life bleeding out of your penis, how delighted would you be to fork out for hygiene products for 40 years?
Kirk, ITTY and Steve bleed profusely and uncontrollably out of their asses every single day, you don't see them demanding free government provided gauze-sponges. -
MovieManCin2 — 7 years ago(March 13, 2019 10:53 PM)
Food, water, and housing are also necessities, but that doesn't mean society is obligated to provide these things for lazy ass deadbeats who've never work a day in their lives.
MAGA! FAFO!
Schrodinger's Cat walks into a bar, and doesn't. Dumbocraps: evil people who celebrate murder. 
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MovieManCin2 — 7 years ago(March 13, 2019 11:02 PM)
Then the people who can't afford them need to
get off their lazy asses and get a job!
Why should taxpayers support deadbeats who have never worked a day in their lives?
And I would say the same thing to any man asking for something free.
MAGA! FAFO! Schrodinger's Cat walks into a bar, and doesn't. Dumbocraps: evil people who celebrate murder. -
Daisy — 7 years ago(March 14, 2019 06:48 AM)
Because not everyone living in poverty IS a lazy deadbeat, stop believing everything you read.
There are plenty of people who do work but are in basic wage jobs. Lucky you if you do not understand what that is like.
This thread is primarily about providing free SP to school girls and removing the VAT element to sanitary products for all women. Not FREE for all forever.