Right to free period products becomes law in Scotland. More evidence feminism is about special privileges, not equality

Eleutherlothario · 2022-08-16T14:10:42+00:00

Social programs based on need are a good thing and this is obviously a need that is unique to women. Same as pregnancy and childbirth related health care.

I'm good with this one.

imextremelymoderate · 2022-08-16T14:17:41+00:00

I hope anyone glancing over this sub realizes most of us are okay with this and understand OP is in the wrong here.

DavidByron2 · 2022-08-16T16:26:46+00:00

This article was thankfully NOT from a feminist perspective but a poverty perspective so I think it's fine. There's only one line that looks dodgy:

Scotland's social justice secretary Shona Robison said providing access to free period products was "fundamental to equality and dignity".

Obviously she means sex equality and that's a lie as you'd expect from someone who's title sounds like "professional anti-male bigot".

But this is Scotland folks - the most left wing area of the UK. They got a lot of services for poor people and period products are quasi medical supplies right? They have free health care there.

If this was in the USA where the poor never get shit, then it would look sexist but in Scotland it really doesn't seem sexist.

LettuceBeGrateful · 2022-08-16T18:08:49+00:00

Would you rather they wrote the law to give free period products to men too?

This is silly. Women deal with periods by virtue of being women. I have zero issue with this being covered for them.

user3-24324 · 2022-08-16T14:23:33+00:00

How is this a problem?

zeyals · 2022-08-16T15:44:36+00:00

It's a special privilege to have your bodily fluids disposed of? Lmao

orione16 · 2022-08-16T19:55:20+00:00

A better angle for this post would have been the outcry from feminists that the person in charge of implementing this program is - shock horror - a MAN!

Any_Drama3272 · 2022-08-16T21:34:01+00:00

This is the dumbest complaining I’ve ever seen, I just had to take a screenshot.

jesusandpals727 · 2022-08-16T14:13:45+00:00

Its posts like this that keep people shitting on this sub. I don't see the problem. This is something women cannot control. Like condoms being free, you can just not have sex, but a woman can't just not have her period.

Mycroft033 · 2022-08-16T14:25:53+00:00

This sounds like something that’s pretty reasonable. Look if we’re gonna go down the ‘free stuff’ route, this isn’t a bad extension of it just on face value.

I wouldn’t consider it a special privilege either, since periods are a special burden to women, and it makes sense that this goes to alleviate the strain of the burden. Both genders benefit, not equally, but the benefit that both genders get is proportional to the amount of trouble they are caused. Dads no longer have to pay for their daughters tampons. The main benefit falls to women, but so does the main biological burden.

I’m personally against the whole ‘free stuff’ route since it leads to government overruns and way too much power taken away from your average person, but since we’re already going down the ‘free stuff’ route, we might as well recognize and attempt to alleviate asymmetrical biological burdens.

NeoVidia · 2022-08-16T14:46:47+00:00

OP you’re in the wrong here. At least where I am BC for both sexes has been available (on and off sadly) covered by insurance. There is enough actually shitty things we should stand up against and the deck is already heavily stacked against us. And trying to take away privileges that are unique to their body is not one of those fights.

stacyxxluv · 2022-08-16T13:45:13+00:00

Yes, having your period and not being able to afford proper product for it is such a privilege..

Gnome_Child_Deluxe · 2022-08-16T22:41:12+00:00

OP this title not it bro

dzkrf · 2022-08-16T14:27:54+00:00

It makes sense from what little I've read. Schools and such provide bog roll and drinking water since they're necessities, why not those too?

imextremelymoderate · 2022-08-16T16:50:47+00:00

I've traveled all over the world and spent a lot of time in poor countries. Women bleeding all over the place is just not a big problem at all, sorry. And definitely not in a country like Scotland. "Period poverty" just sounds like another feminist invention to make women perpetual victims

DavidByron2 · 2022-08-16T16:29:16+00:00

Are people down voting this just because they disagree with the author's opinion? Disagreement is fine. It's an interesting small issue and it got an upvote from me even though I disagree with the author.

2022-08-16T17:17:39+00:00

Can't wait until men get free TRT because T levels lowering is one of the factors that causes us a ton of health issues, including dying sooner than women... any day now....

As always though, anything for women is more important than a man's health or even their life.

Sininenn · 2022-08-16T21:02:16+00:00

There are WAY better menstrual product alternatives to single use pads and tampons.

This is legally enforced pollution...

imextremelymoderate · 2022-08-16T18:38:13+00:00

What surprises me is that this law is being criticized elsewhere on Reddit and getting upvotes, but on this sub it's pretty much fully in support of it. This is highly unusual in my experience

imextremelymoderate · 2022-08-16T14:09:58+00:00

I'm not even necessarily against this legislation, but one can't ignore the number of laws that specifically benefit one gender

imextremelymoderate · 2022-08-16T15:02:05+00:00

Is period poverty in Scotland really such a big problem? I've known a woman or two that had to use paper towels every now and then, but they had just temporarily ran out of pads and didn't have time to refill

2022-08-17T02:39:01+00:00

Bro what? Tf you mean special privileges? Women can't control periods idiot

StudentOfTheTruth1 · 2022-08-17T03:27:38+00:00

I think this is unconscionable. The law is not means-tested. Meaning that women get free products (paid mostly from men's taxes), NO MATTER HOW RICH THEY ARE. So multimillionaire and billionaire women will get free products.

Meanwhile there are no free razors or other shaving and hygiene products for men no matter how poor.

So: billionaire woman gets free products, homeless man gets nothing.

Simply mind boggling that this can happen in a free democracy. Something is so rotten in this horrible system.

AndyBrown65 · 2022-08-16T15:01:54+00:00

Another example of a government spending a man’s tax on women

Temporary_Spend_3111 · 2022-08-16T15:54:13+00:00

Viagra in the US gets federal support.

Why not period products

OnThatSigmaGrindset · 2022-08-17T09:41:49+00:00

i wouldn't want my taxpayer money to be spent on tampons and pads, tbh

Title	Right to free period products becomes law in Scotland. More evidence feminism is about special privileges, not equality
Author	imextremelymoderate
Upvotes	0
Comments	152
Date	August 16, 2022 1:42 PM UTC (3 years ago)
Subreddit	Posted in /r/MensRights
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