HuffPo Declares Tampons a "Basic Right." Don't You Dare Disagree, You Sexist!

KyokoG · 2017-10-31T05:25:06+00:00

Female here. No, tampons are not a basic right. Rights are things like “life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness,” not something that comes from Proctor & Gamble. TP may be slightly closer to something everyone should have acccess to, but even that strains logic.

Fun fact: commercial forms of feminine hygiene weren’t available until circa WWI, when Kotex changed purpose from being a bandage company. Prior to that, women were able to do all sorts of things with DIY feminine hygiene.

mikesteane · 2017-10-31T06:11:50+00:00

I would say food was a more basic right. And since men, on average, need more of it, this complaint is more than balanced by the fact that men need to pay for food with its associated taxes.

Iappreci8thegr8r8m8 · 2017-10-31T03:25:54+00:00

Let me know where I can pick up my free razors and toilet paper. Kthx.

HardLessontoLearn · 2017-10-31T04:43:44+00:00

I like seeing feminist-crazed media really reaching for straws with this one, but I'm terribly afraid of most of society's definition of "right".

somefinfishy · 2017-10-31T05:13:35+00:00

I don't disagree. Mens rights doesn't mean we can't agree with things that are right for women too. At the very least there should be no tax on these products. People on low incomes or state benefits shouldn't have to choose food over tampons. We don't get equality by sinking everyone to the bottom.

knock_off_yank · 2017-10-31T05:32:13+00:00

I don't really have a problem with tampons/pads being provided or heavily subsidised under a public health system.

JStheHammer · 2017-10-31T12:29:07+00:00

It not that tampons are important. The want free tampons. They also want free tampons for every woman in the world.

Btw, they aren't free someone has to pay for them.

McFeely_Smackup · 2017-10-31T22:22:34+00:00

The concept of Rights is pretty simple, or rather the concept of what isn't a right is pretty simple. If someone else has to buy it and give it to you it is not a right.

The word they're looking for is "entitlement"

BetterBadIdeas · 2017-10-31T18:07:03+00:00

That's like saying toilet paper is a right.

Us3rnam · 2017-10-31T16:04:03+00:00

I for one approve of a woman's right to tampons. So long as they are purchased by that woman's money and not mine. Having a right to something is not the same as having something given to you at the expense of others.

heimdahl81 · 2017-11-01T01:25:56+00:00

Birth control, sure, but tampons are not a right any more than shoes, a haircut, or deodorant is a right.

GreyTortoise · 2017-10-31T03:59:49+00:00

Really not a basic right, but a woman really is pretty well banished from civil society during her period depending on severity if she doesn't have a method to control bleeding. Like, she can't be at a workplace or generally in public.

There really isn't a parallel for me to draw to an equivalent situation we men would suffer. Severe incontinence, I suppose.

Title	HuffPo Declares Tampons a "Basic Right." Don't You Dare Disagree, You Sexist!
Author	DougDante
Upvotes	40
Comments	46
Date	October 31, 2017 3:13 AM UTC (8 years ago)
Subreddit	Posted in /r/MensRights
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