Scotland made Menstrual Products free! Do you think this will be a pioneer for other countries? (Page 2)
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For Idiots who say toilet paper should be free too
Not trying to be rude. But that’s offensive toward women and women with uterus who bleed. I understand you are a men and you have no idea and don’t care. But you can’t compare toilet paper with sanitary pads. You can’t compare anus pooping with VAGINAL BLEEDING where you are constantly bleeding for 7 days.. all day
Thank you
1. You do not bleed non-stop for 7 straight days. Many women only bleed for 3-4 days. Not everyone is the same. Cycles vary in length as well as flow. Some are heavier than others. Many women also experience just spotting/discharge instead of actual bleeding during their last day or two of their cycle.
2. Yes, toilet paper IS a necessity. You can't very well hold in your poop and pee. You need to wipe with something to be clean. Most people pee several times a day and poop at least once a day or every other day. There's a big need for toilet paper.
@Anonymous
Your pussy is not everyone else's problem and women lived for tens of thousands of years without menstrual pads. Grow the fuck up.
Say this to masai tribes in Africa women who hide in to their tiny house for days because they don’t have pads not even clothes to wear.. they place a LEAFE into their “ pussy” when it’s a must for them to go out.
For your poop use your hands to wipe it ! Not all 12 years old have parents to give them 5$ for a pad!! Schools have to provide it for free it’s so many issues going on I know tap water blocked your brain but have some common sense especially if you are a woman. As a women you must be aware of things like endometriosis or pcos. that can last up to even 15 days. There is a reason why this topic is so huge in many counties especially poor countries. Yes I know Americans suffer a lot Joe Biden might have a root canal or a molar to fill i know this world has “” so so many problems “” and we can’t discuss about mEnsTruAtioN and pAdS but In this case we are talking about pads and find a solution about it. Especially for poor countries. This is why this world is fucked up because of people like you 2!
Your anus is not everyone’s problem too. What can I say hold your shit man.
@mysticangel5000 I believe toilet paper is free. Go to a hospital , any public area you will find it there. Wipe your ass there and go back home, you can even take some papers home too. It’s ok it’s not stealing because in situations as having to poop which is insanely hard to control once a day deal because you ate too much tacos stealing a toilet paper won't matter.
@Anonymous
I'm not the manchild/womanchild too cheap, lazy, and entitled to take care of her own fucking personal hygiene. This is shit we teach to children and you want people to just give it to you for free and expect to be taken seriously as an adult after that? If you're "too poor" to afford pads, tampons, or toilet paper (which you can *already* get for free at any homeless shelter), you've got bigger issues in life.
Seriously, people need to grow the fuck up and stop asking the government to be their daddy for them. Ironically, these same kind of entitled womanchildren like to accuse *guys* of being immature little shits.
How stupid. What if you can't make it to a public area in time? Are you just going to have an accident and sh*t yourself?
They aren't free. Tax dollars pay for. As far as I am concerned we already pay way to much in taxes.
They aren't free. Taxpayers pay. Put it this way where I live in the UK they stopped giving out free antihistamines for hay-fever and free paracetamol because it cost the NHS up to £10 per box while you cam walk into b&m bargains and buy the same product for 35p and it will be the same story with tampons and maxi pads though it will take a while for the Scottish government to realise it.
exactly correct... Boots will probably be supplying them to the NHS for £30 a pack. Its profiteering with exorbitant and mysterious "admin" charges for handling it rather than doing something decent for society.
@hyperben yeah you get it "free" but end up paying more for all these minor freebies as a taxpayer
I can deal with my tax contributions going to assist people who need it, whether they be old folks on busses, people struggling to make ends meet (including the furlough scheme), medical and feminine products, I can get behind that but I detest that there are companies ripping off the government that we pay for
@hyperben social programmes are great and all depending but ultimately its the taxpayer that has to pay. Its like giving someone a birthday present then asking that person to pay for it.
as I said, Im happy for tax to be spent on the people who need it, at least something good for society comes from it, I'm not happy with the greed of the people supplying the public sector. The problem is not that there are too many needy people, there are too many greedy people.
The decline in social care in the UK is to everyones detrement, my own personal experience of this is the loss of a family member who was killed by an individual that never received the psychiatric assistance they needed
This is so wrong on so many levels.
Why not make toilet paper free instead and it benefits everyone? Siding to women is just messed up.
Do you regularly pay for toilet paper when you use a public restroom? Weird.
@PrettyPriya I was about to ask the same.. lol
@PrettyPriya every taxpayer does, yes
@PrettyPriya and @WonderBell99, you may want to read the question again. It did not mention anything about "public washrooms". It said free in general. 🤦♀️
How does a public restroom matter? Are you implying everyone should just use the bathroom in public areas to avoid buying toilet paper? Lol
Some people have "phobias" of public bathrooms. They are either uncomfortable going around other people or they are simply grossed out by public bathrooms because so many people use them and so many of them are dirty.
You do regularly buy toilet paper. How much you buy and how often depends on how many people are in your household, how much you use, etc.
You do not have to buy pads or tampons DAILY. They come with so many per package. How many you use depends on how heavy and long your cycle is. Some girls may need a package or two per month. Others may be able to get 2 months out of one package. It depends.
A lot of public restrooms have dispensers for pads/tampons as well. Some of these are free, others cost a little money (I've seen free, I've seen $.25 and I've seen $.50 or $.75 per item).
You can also obtain supplies from local shelters if you are truly in desperate need. There are homeless shelters as well as women's shelters. Both should have pads/tampons as well as other personal care items.
@mystic, I'm not even going to waste my time reading past your first paragraph. Learn to read before you make an assumption about something. I never once said anything about public washrooms. No idea what you're even going off on me for and really don't care.
I don't feed trolls unless I want some entertainment. Enjoy your day.
That was directed to the one who commented and asked if people paid for toilet paper in public restrooms. I think YOU need to learn to read.
@MysticAngel5000 Ohh okay. Maybe tag next time so there's no confusion. 😉
Goo god. answer my question. When was the last time you paid for toilet paper in a public restroom? Simples. Just answer that.
*good
@PrettyPriya Your question is pointless, that's why. 😄
No it isn't. You just don't want to answer it because you know you will contradict yourself. Pathetic. I will just mute this post as there is no point in arguing with someone that can't answer the simplest of questions.
Sure, okay. Yeah, that's the reason. 😂
I don't care. I don't live there. Good for them. Any one that lives there, I'm happy for you. If you don't, focus where you live. Stop trying to get free shit without looking at the consequences. Learn how business works and then ask that dumb question again.
I have no feelings about it even though I have 4 sisters, what is really strange is they have a bloke giving advice on something he cannot have any personal experience of.
I understand that menstrual products are necessary.
But so is toilet paper. Shouldn't toilet paper be free too?
Will someone pay for my prostate exam when I get older? I got a 95% chance of getting prostate cancer when I get over 55 (both my dad and grandpa had it). Will that be “free” too since it’s a side of effect of being a man?
@globetrotter22
This is an argument for free health care like they have in Canada. But it's really not free because people pay taxes to support it.
@Bob92220 and you got to wait in line for treatment.
But lots of these countries including Canada don’t have Mexico south of the border. The stupid American leftist assume the USA can just “mirror” Sweden and there won’t be any problems.
@globetrotter22
I belong to Kaiser Permanente Health Care and I pay a hefty monthly fee for it. But I have to wait in line too. I think the longest I had to wait was one hour.
"Free!"
Nothing's free bitch. The government is picking up the tab with tax payer's money. I'm not paying to clean up your pussy blood
No TP for you in public restrooms. I'm not paying to wipe your butt.
It's a hygiene product comparable to TP... It's a necessary aid for natural body function.
Hmmm when there’s national shortages going on in this country with tampons and such, I think it’s pretty awful that a country is making them too accessible to a point where it can create even more shortages
Something tells me they are not free and the citizens are paying for them via taxes. Simply because the company making them isn't going to give something away for free when they cost money to manufacture, package and distribute.
"Free" meaning taxpayer-subsidized.
I do think most western countries will eventually do this, but the "free" products are going to be the crappiest products made by the lowest bidder for the worst value.
It's not free, because you pay it in your taxes. The state can't give you anything, because the state has nothing in its own. It can only give you something either you or other people paid in taxes.
*on its own
You're confused. They are not free.
School kids and young adults will be able to get them in school and college. That is all.
Just as napkins and tissues are free in such places.
Probably means you can expect a lot more wastage of menstrual products. For starters we could stock all the men's rooms with equal amounts of these "free" menstrual products for all those millions of "menstruating men." LMFAO!
Congratulations woke-tards--you just let big corporations like P&G and Unilever bend you over and fuck you in the ass!
This will make some women use them as rags and regular cleaning products, just because they are free and the consumption will sky rocket. Free always leads to abuse and waste of the product.
It's ignorance to say that any product is free. The tax payers are paying for it. So in a round about way you're still paying for them.. No one is entitled to the services or products of another for free.
I would think free condoms would be much more important. I honestly don't understand why handing out free tampons and maxi pads helps anything but the pocketbook.
You hit the nail in your own words and didn’t see it.
It's a nice idea don't get me wrong but I guess there is the question of where the money will come from cause I'm gonna be honest there is a lot of issues in many countries and can't solve everything sadly and I doubt we ever will be able to. So as much as I do think it's a great idea I'd want to know about the cost management side of it.
Barnett formula, they don’t care England pays.
If Scotland is anything like the USA free means the taxpayers are paying for it. So I hope it doesn't.
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Finally I see (two) women on here who have some common sense about what the word “free”. I almost expect young women in their teens and early 20s to just assume this is magically for free. But there are grown ass women in their 40s getting all excited about this. They still don’t know what the word “free” really means. It’s pathetic.
Nothing in the world is free
Why not free food?
It's not free. Scotland has made it so that all taxpayers must pay for them.