Male students now have to help pay for feminine hygiene products due to a "systemic culture of sexism"

fengpi · 2016-11-24T02:53:23+00:00

Good. Next on the docket, I propose that college gals be required to buy me a bunch of Highballs, Old Fashioneds, Birra Morettis and Pinot Noirs due to their history of Ladies' Nights Privilege. Soziale gerechtigkeit über alles!

tallwheel · 2016-11-24T07:31:48+00:00

I'd be more inclined to agree with this if they hadn't brought the issue of "sexism" into the argument. Ultimately, everything provided for free by universities (such as the condoms they used to give out for free at my dorm when I was in school) is paid for by the students one way or another.

Overall, though, I think it's a bad idea. Any hygiene or self-grooming products should be the responsibility of the individual to purchase. By providing stuff for free, universities are not really preparing students for the real world after college. And, the argument that women are somehow subject to sexism by having to pay whatever price is charged for feminine hygiene products, is a rather weak one IMO.

BDMR_lurker · 2016-11-24T09:14:08+00:00

Male students now have to help pay for feminine hygiene products due to a "systemic culture of sexism"

against males.

2016-11-24T06:15:08+00:00

You could always just walk into one or more women's washrooms and empty them of all the tampons. That would only have to happen a few times before this policy would get nuked.

dungone · 2016-11-24T08:41:33+00:00

I'll gladly chip in to get the feminists who came up with this idea spayed.

Lethn · 2016-11-24T09:20:42+00:00

I just thought that was some dumb idea being floated around by morons in a few universities, how typical that Canada actually tries to make this real, that's blatantly discrimination.

ZimbaZumba · 2016-11-24T23:09:05+00:00

Men are larger and eat more food, free food for large Men perhaps?

v573v · 2016-11-24T09:56:22+00:00

A systemic culture of benevolent sexism is still technically sexism but you're assholes for exploiting it like this.

2016-11-24T16:06:33+00:00

Of course, it's not the male student's fault that women were born with uteruses and experience menstruation every month, nor is it their fault that government taxation has been set up to treat feminine hygiene products as non-necessities, but that won't stop campus SU police from making those totally innocent male students help pay for it on campus as some sort of fucked up version of payback.

feedmecarrots · 2016-11-25T01:10:43+00:00

While I don't know the laws of Quebec, this smells like the making of a nasty class action suit. When female students outnumber male students at a rate of 60/40, this is what Ben Franklin warned as "tyranny of the majority".

McFeely_Smackup · 2016-11-24T20:52:34+00:00

Whereas, there exists a systemic culture of sexism...

...and what follows is pure sexism. Bookmark this one for next time someone asks "what does 'cognitive dissonance' mean?".

McFeely_Smackup · 2016-11-24T21:18:40+00:00

FYi, keep in mind that they LOCK toilet paper up to keep people from stealing it. Just handing out feminine hygiene products free of charge...yeah, I'm sure women will be totally responsible and take only what they need.

dominotw · 2016-11-24T16:20:52+00:00

menstrual hygiene products in Canada are still seen as Luxury Goods

What does it mean to be seen as luxury goods, are they taxed differently in canada?

Blarneystone2 · 2016-11-24T15:45:46+00:00

Meh, does anyone really have a problem with giving out Feminine Hygiene products? Its not like men have an equivalent product

Title	Male students now have to help pay for feminine hygiene products due to a "systemic culture of sexism"
Author	SirFinMilk
Upvotes	65
Comments	33
Date	November 24, 2016 2:14 AM UTC (9 years ago)
Subreddit	Posted in /r/MensRights
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