This truly is becoming a thing with the broom.
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Scotland is one of the first countries in the world to be trialling free sanitary products for women.
How fucking cool are we?
Not at all?
◾Sanitary products isn’t a human right and it’s an immensely sexist action to choose to waste of all citizens’ tax money on something that only fertile women can utilise!!
◾All over the world, the majority of homeless people are men. Why NOT provide something everyone they could use?
How about free toilet paper, right? Oh, you mean that’s free sometimes? How absolutely unfair that businesses and the state have elected to provide all its citizens with restrooms when outside of their homes.
More shelters fore eceryone?
Student grants for everyone?
Populist waste of money, Scotland.
◾Have none of you entitled people ever heard of fabric pads? Or menstrual cups?
You can sew reusable fabric pads of whatever fabric you have lying around and wash them in clean water between uses.
A Menstrual cup is a one time investment for however long it lasts you.
DISPOSABLE
tampons™ and pads™
ARE
A
MODERN
LUXURY
PRODUCT.
Get over it.
◾Why would someone being for men’s rights disqualify then from having a legitimate argument?
(as you imply in your tags)
I’m sorry, but that just makes you sound intolerant and gleefully sexist on purpose.
Not very endearing to your cause.
All it convinced me of is that modern feminists clearly have a biased agenda to only further women specific interests.
Not one line you wrote advocated for the equality of both sexes.
As someone who clearly doesn’t live in Scotland, how about you stop making mental assumptions?
Education is currently free for everyone who lives in Scotland. Student grants, bursaries and loans are available and done on a means-based application system.
As a man, yes I am a man, I find it pretty pathetic that you’d come on this blog to piss all over yourself like a crybaby because you think hygiene products are a ‘luxury item.’ Well Scotland is here to tell you that they aren’t, we’re changing the system. If you don’t like it, fuck off.
As for homelessness, the Scottish government have just invested a further £10 million to end rough sleeping.
So yeah, we are fucking cool, and some wee prick screaming their nut off on tumblr about ‘real equality’ isn’t gonna change that.
Dude can’t even get some basic facts right dear lord
1. “Only fertile women can use” – i reccomend you learn more biology. infertile women get periods. google is free buddy.
2. “Most homeless people are men” – in case you didn’t actually read beyond “free sanitary products” it’s also for low income houses. as in people like single mothers, young children in the care system, disabled people, families who rely on food banks (Hey look a thing that helps all genders in poverty) and can’t afford to pay out for disposable sanitary products. it’s not just a case of homelessness.
3. Fabric pads and menstrual cups – since this is a public post I won’t go into the reasons I can only use non insertive sanitary products but many people rely on only pads for a variety of reasons. so menstrual cups aren’t perfect. (Heard of leaking? Realise they break or don’t fit?) Also, making my own fabric pad? I’m out the house from 6.30am to sometimes as late as 8pm. Am I just supposed to walk out of class to the public sink area and let everyone watch me wash my cut up rag pad multiple times a day? And then if i don’t wash it well enough, hello UTI because this fabric is tight and not breathable and now I need a week of antibiotics and run the risk of a kidney infection too! And I’m sure that would be easy to deal with as a homeless person too /sarcasm.
Oooor i could use the free pads that my college offers and take 2 minutes to change them when needed so I’m not wasting work time and so that I’m missing out on infections!
These are problems that ONLY people who menstruate face so yes the Scottish government makes a solution that benefits only those it affects. Sorry the world doesn’t revolve solely around you. And like @ayeforscotland said, Scotland is actually doing more for homeless people of all genders, perhaps if you weren’t so wilfully ignorant you’d know that.
Also, how do you expect homeless women to use reusable sanitary products? Homeless. Wow yeah they’re definitely going to have access to the proper fascilities to hygenically clean and reuse the products aren’t they?
Scotland is one of the first countries in the world to be trialling free sanitary products for women.
How fucking cool are we?
Not at all?
◾Sanitary products isn’t a human right and it’s an immensely sexist action to choose to waste of all citizens’ tax money on something that only fertile women can utilise!!
◾All over the world, the majority of homeless people are men. Why NOT provide something everyone they could use?
How about free toilet paper, right? Oh, you mean that’s free sometimes? How absolutely unfair that businesses and the state have elected to provide all its citizens with restrooms when outside of their homes.
More shelters fore eceryone?
Student grants for everyone?
Populist waste of money, Scotland.
◾Have none of you entitled people ever heard of fabric pads? Or menstrual cups?
You can sew reusable fabric pads of whatever fabric you have lying around and wash them in clean water between uses.
A Menstrual cup is a one time investment for however long it lasts you.
DISPOSABLE
tampons™ and pads™
ARE
A
MODERN
LUXURY
PRODUCT.
Get over it.
◾Why would someone being for men’s rights disqualify then from having a legitimate argument?
(as you imply in your tags)
I’m sorry, but that just makes you sound intolerant and gleefully sexist on purpose.
Not very endearing to your cause.
All it convinced me of is that modern feminists clearly have a biased agenda to only further women specific interests.
Not one line you wrote advocated for the equality of both sexes.
As someone who clearly doesn’t live in Scotland, how about you stop making mental assumptions?
Education is currently free for everyone who lives in Scotland. Student grants, bursaries and loans are available and done on a means-based application system.
As a man, yes I am a man, I find it pretty pathetic that you’d come on this blog to piss all over yourself like a crybaby because you think hygiene products are a ‘luxury item.’ Well Scotland is here to tell you that they aren’t, we’re changing the system. If you don’t like it, fuck off.
As for homelessness, the Scottish government have just invested a further £10 million to end rough sleeping.
So yeah, we are fucking cool, and some wee prick screaming their nut off on tumblr about ‘real equality’ isn’t gonna change that.
Dude can’t even get some basic facts right dear lord
1. “Only fertile women can use” – i reccomend you learn more biology. infertile women get periods. google is free buddy.
2. “Most homeless people are men” – in case you didn’t actually read beyond “free sanitary products” it’s also for low income houses. as in people like single mothers, young children in the care system, disabled people, families who rely on food banks (Hey look a thing that helps all genders in poverty) and can’t afford to pay out for disposable sanitary products. it’s not just a case of homelessness.
3. Fabric pads and menstrual cups – since this is a public post I won’t go into the reasons I can only use non insertive sanitary products but many people rely on only pads for a variety of reasons. so menstrual cups aren’t perfect. (Heard of leaking? Realise they break or don’t fit?) Also, making my own fabric pad? I’m out the house from 6.30am to sometimes as late as 8pm. Am I just supposed to walk out of class to the public sink area and let everyone watch me wash my cut up rag pad multiple times a day? And then if i don’t wash it well enough, hello UTI because this fabric is tight and not breathable and now I need a week of antibiotics and run the risk of a kidney infection too! And I’m sure that would be easy to deal with as a homeless person too /sarcasm.
Oooor i could use the free pads that my college offers and take 2 minutes to change them when needed so I’m not wasting work time and so that I’m missing out on infections!
These are problems that ONLY people who menstruate face so yes the Scottish government makes a solution that benefits only those it affects. Sorry the world doesn’t revolve solely around you. And like @ayeforscotland said, Scotland is actually doing more for homeless people of all genders, perhaps if you weren’t so wilfully ignorant you’d know that.
Also, how do you expect homeless women to use reusable sanitary products? Homeless. Wow yeah they’re definitely going to have access to the proper fascilities to hygenically clean and reuse the products aren’t they?
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Guaranteed basic income to every citizen, whether or not they are employed to ensure their survival and that they live in a dignified, humane way, preventing poverty, illness, homelessness, reducing crime, encouraging higher education and learning vocations as well as helping society become more prosperous as a whole.
Wow. Forget raising the minimum wage. This is much much better idea.
The minimum wage could actually drop if we had basic income.
But Americans would never go for it. Miserably slogging through 12 hour days and having businesses open 24/7 is too engrained in our culture.
“BUT WHERE WILL THE GOVERNMENT GET THE MONEY?” screamed Joe Schmoe, slamming a meaty fist onto the table and getting mouth-froth all over the front of his greying tank top. “You libt*rds all think money grows on TREES!! HAHA!”
“But where will people get the incentive to work?!” Mindy Bindy cried, flapping her hands in front of her face. She’d had a fear of the unemployed lollygagging about ever since she was a child and her mother told her to be afraid of the unemployed lollygagging about. “You think people should get paid for nothing? I work hard for my money!”
“But who will serve me?” grumbled Marty McMoneybags. “Who will make me feel important? Who will do my laundry and cook my food and stand in front of me wearing a plastic smile while I take out all my stress—because I do have a lot of stress, you know, being this rich is stressful—on them?” He paused and straightened out the piles of hundred dollar bills on the desk in front of him, then raised his two watery, outraged eyes up to the Heavens. “Lord, if there are no poor people, how will I know that I’m rich??”
I laughed. This is perfect! Well said!
The thing is, while I’m sure you could scrape up a few people who’d be willing to just float by on a guaranteed minimum income? For most people the choice to work would be a no-brainer. “Hmmm. I can get by on 33k a year, or I can take that part time job and make 48k… enough to move to a better apartment, maybe take the family on vacation. Sold.” Hell, most people would want to work simply because it gives one a sense of dignity and something to do with one’s time. (Speaking as someone who’s been unemployed, on extended sick leave, etc. in her time, the boredom and sense of isolation that comes with not having a job is almost as bad as the humiliation of having to depend on other people for one’s survival.)
And with this system, part-time jobs and “non-skilled” jobs would be much more readily available because nobody would need to work two or three jobs just to stay afloat!
Which would ALSO mean that employers and customers couldn’t shamelessly exploit employees the way they can today, because if losing a job weren’t necessarily a financial disaster, more people would be willing to walk out on jobs where they weren’t being treated with dignity.
And if this also applies to students (and it should) then student loans would become much less of a problem, and fewer people would flunk out of school because of having to juggle studies and work.
Far fewer people would be forced to stay with abusive partners, parents or roommates because they couldn’t afford to move out.
And the thing is, all those people who suddenly had money? They’d be spending it. They’d be getting all the stuff they can’t afford now – new clothes, books, toys, locally-produced food, car repairs – and with each purchase money would flow BACK to the government, because VAT, also income tax.
The unemployed and/or disabled wouldn’t need special support any more – which would also mean the government could fire however many admins who are currently engaged in humiliating – *cough* making sure those people aren’t getting money they don’t deserve. Same for medical benefits and pensions. And I’m no legal scholar, but I somehow imagine less financial desperation would lead to less petty crime, and hence less need for police and security everywhere?
TL;DR Doomie thinks this is a good idea, laughs at those who protest.
reblogging for more top commentary
They tried something like this out in Canada as a sort of social experiment, called Mincome. What they found was that, on the whole, people continued to work about as much as they did before. Only new mothers and teenagers worked substantially less hours.
But wait, there’s more. Because parents were spending just a little more time at home and involved with their families, test scores increased. Because teens didn’t have to work to support their families, drop-out rates decreased. Crime rates, hospital visits, psychiatric hospitalizations and domestic abuse rates all dropped, as well. More adults pursued higher education. Those who continued to work reported more job flexibility and more opportunity to choose employment they preferred.
Basically, now you can go prove to your asshole family members that society won’t collapse without poor people for you to feel better than.
The picture is awesome, but read the commentary, that’s what I’m reblogging for.
Guaranteed basic income to every citizen, whether or not they are employed to ensure their survival and that they live in a dignified, humane way, preventing poverty, illness, homelessness, reducing crime, encouraging higher education and learning vocations as well as helping society become more prosperous as a whole.
Wow. Forget raising the minimum wage. This is much much better idea.
The minimum wage could actually drop if we had basic income.
But Americans would never go for it. Miserably slogging through 12 hour days and having businesses open 24/7 is too engrained in our culture.
“BUT WHERE WILL THE GOVERNMENT GET THE MONEY?” screamed Joe Schmoe, slamming a meaty fist onto the table and getting mouth-froth all over the front of his greying tank top. “You libt*rds all think money grows on TREES!! HAHA!”
“But where will people get the incentive to work?!” Mindy Bindy cried, flapping her hands in front of her face. She’d had a fear of the unemployed lollygagging about ever since she was a child and her mother told her to be afraid of the unemployed lollygagging about. “You think people should get paid for nothing? I work hard for my money!”
“But who will serve me?” grumbled Marty McMoneybags. “Who will make me feel important? Who will do my laundry and cook my food and stand in front of me wearing a plastic smile while I take out all my stress—because I do have a lot of stress, you know, being this rich is stressful—on them?” He paused and straightened out the piles of hundred dollar bills on the desk in front of him, then raised his two watery, outraged eyes up to the Heavens. “Lord, if there are no poor people, how will I know that I’m rich??”
I laughed. This is perfect! Well said!
The thing is, while I’m sure you could scrape up a few people who’d be willing to just float by on a guaranteed minimum income? For most people the choice to work would be a no-brainer. “Hmmm. I can get by on 33k a year, or I can take that part time job and make 48k… enough to move to a better apartment, maybe take the family on vacation. Sold.” Hell, most people would want to work simply because it gives one a sense of dignity and something to do with one’s time. (Speaking as someone who’s been unemployed, on extended sick leave, etc. in her time, the boredom and sense of isolation that comes with not having a job is almost as bad as the humiliation of having to depend on other people for one’s survival.)
And with this system, part-time jobs and “non-skilled” jobs would be much more readily available because nobody would need to work two or three jobs just to stay afloat!
Which would ALSO mean that employers and customers couldn’t shamelessly exploit employees the way they can today, because if losing a job weren’t necessarily a financial disaster, more people would be willing to walk out on jobs where they weren’t being treated with dignity.
And if this also applies to students (and it should) then student loans would become much less of a problem, and fewer people would flunk out of school because of having to juggle studies and work.
Far fewer people would be forced to stay with abusive partners, parents or roommates because they couldn’t afford to move out.
And the thing is, all those people who suddenly had money? They’d be spending it. They’d be getting all the stuff they can’t afford now – new clothes, books, toys, locally-produced food, car repairs – and with each purchase money would flow BACK to the government, because VAT, also income tax.
The unemployed and/or disabled wouldn’t need special support any more – which would also mean the government could fire however many admins who are currently engaged in humiliating – *cough* making sure those people aren’t getting money they don’t deserve. Same for medical benefits and pensions. And I’m no legal scholar, but I somehow imagine less financial desperation would lead to less petty crime, and hence less need for police and security everywhere?
TL;DR Doomie thinks this is a good idea, laughs at those who protest.
reblogging for more top commentary
They tried something like this out in Canada as a sort of social experiment, called Mincome. What they found was that, on the whole, people continued to work about as much as they did before. Only new mothers and teenagers worked substantially less hours.
But wait, there’s more. Because parents were spending just a little more time at home and involved with their families, test scores increased. Because teens didn’t have to work to support their families, drop-out rates decreased. Crime rates, hospital visits, psychiatric hospitalizations and domestic abuse rates all dropped, as well. More adults pursued higher education. Those who continued to work reported more job flexibility and more opportunity to choose employment they preferred.
Basically, now you can go prove to your asshole family members that society won’t collapse without poor people for you to feel better than.
The picture is awesome, but read the commentary, that’s what I’m reblogging for.
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