The Scottish Parliament just voted (unanimously) to make tampons and other period products available for free to those too broke to pay for them. It’s a big victory for the campaign against “period poverty.” Now no one in Scotland will have to miss school or work because they can’t afford sanitary products.
Naturally, the fellows in the Men Going Their Own Way subreddit have reacted to the news with their customary good sense.
“Sanitary products” are free, EXCEPT THEY’RE PAID FOR WITH MEN’S TAX DOLLARS, blared one headline in the subreddit. And the assembled MEN waxed furious about this terrible new financial burden. (The cost of the program is estimated to be roughly £8.7 million a year, or less than £2 for every inhabitant of Scotland.)
“Every time I see the word free I know it means some man or group of men are paying for it,” complained one commenter.
“Guys in Scotland, including bachelors, asexuals and homosexuals, are going to be paying for vaginas that they dont care about, regardless of their financial status,” charged another.
“The only thing free for men, is dying,” still another commenter moaned.
Several MGTOW Redditors fantasized about ways to sabotage the program. Wrote not_a_beleiber:
If I was Scottish, I’d buy a woman’s pant suit, put it on, then demand free hygine products. Increase the cost, the commentary, and hence the regulation on this.
“No need,” replied Miserable-Lemon.
If I was scottish I’d immediately open a drug store that only offers feminine products. You hand them out like candy, charge like 50$ a pop to the government and buy as much stock as you can store it. You’ll make a hundred times your investment on a monthly basis
(In fact, the products aren’t going to be available at stores bur rather distributed by schools and other public facilities.)
The-Rover-666 demonstrated his keen grasp of period products and their use, writing “[s]o their whymin are that smelly they had to give them free…”
Replied Legs2Big:
They’ve always spent so much of their time hiding their true appearance from a young age, they act like their lives depends on it.
What that has to do with sanitary products is anyone’s guess.
Non-w0ke offered this perplexing political program:
Because single moms are pure toxic cancer for children it makes sense to let those independent to go their own way and provide free stuff only to those who are willing to care for children. It includes a stress free home, food, housing, full family and adequate attention.
Cant provide for a kid? Fuck off, buy your own tampons.
What any of this has to do with sanitary products is also anyone’s guess.
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@Victorious Parasol
Absolutely not!
@Everybody
Here’s a fun fact for you men and/or folks who haven’t menstruated: there’s a massive difference in quality between expensive products and cheap ones. The cheap pads are thick and uncomfortable, and can show underneath your clothes (which is strictly against social rules). The shape on cheap pads might not be right for your body. They also don’t stick well, so you’re going to be getting more staining and more stress over whether you’re bleeding through. Cheap tampons can be harder to use and less comfortable too, especially for inexperienced people.
Because it’s the government, the government-paid option will probably be cheaper and an inferior product, and therefore, self-limiting, because nearly everyone who CAN buy their own absolutely will buy their own. Only those who can’t afford that will go with the government option.
@Naglfar
Ah cheers, I just couldn’t tell and it’s good to know I’m not the only one!
lmfao, who is this Depletionist fella and what does he believe he’s accomplishing here?
‘Slattern wine,’ my god, you really do think you’re a wordsmith, don’t you? Take your half-assed purple prose and crawl back to whatever MRA forum you came from, kiddo.
@freneticferret
I’m amused that the Depletionist thinks he can describe menstruation in ways that will gross us out. Anybody who’s ever menstruated can be a LOT more inventive and precise in describing just how bad a period can get and why it’s an unprivileged experience.
I looked up what depletionism is. It appears that it refers to two different ideas, both the idea that we’re running out of oil imminently or that the Earth’s population should be reduced. So he’s probably some sort of ecofascist or maybe some really weird strain of anarchist (anprim?).
As for the guy himself, I’m mostly finding his lack of biology knowledge, even when corrected, to be both entertaining and annoying at the same time.
@Parasol
Is that what he’s trying to do? Shucks, let’s tell him in detail how it feels, looks, smells. See how long it takes him to bail, if he hasn’t already.
Oh, I can think of WAY worse things than Clamato.
I love how guys like Depletionist think they’re projecting icy adult contempt when they come in here and tell us girls are icky and smelly.
@Buttercup
Women are, in fact, disgusting; if it weren’t for the fact that they smear animal corpse paint on their dishonest mugs, and if they didn’t take time to wax and remove their coarse hairs from their otherwise Curious George-looking asses, everybody would know this. The fact that they pour out buckets of crimson fluids from their cock-crazy crotch cavities only compounds the level of revulsion that a ordinary man should feel when looking at them. If women went basic, no frills, men would probably turn gay and/or embrace the MGTOW lifestyle everywhere. Even incels would stop placing your pussies on pedestals if you did that. Nobody wants to look at your hideous, lying-ass clocks without makeup.
Baby boy is really afraid of blood, ain’t he?
@ the depletionist
You do realise that we see women without make-up all the time. It’s not like we’re at home and suddenly say “Who are you? How did you get in here!”
Aw, let’s just ban him; he is too far removed from the observable reality of the world, where billions of perfectly ordinary men and perfectly ordinary women like and love and care for each other in a perfectly ordinary way on an everyday basis.
@Alan
“And you may tell yourself, ‘This is not my beautiful wife!'”
Wow. Even on the internet, most dudes don’t just come out and admit they hate women like this. Most hateful types don’t say the quiet part out loud.
I’m impressed!
Less impressed at how he has absolutely no clue what he’s talking about, but.
It’s great how he complains about women both wearing makeup and not wearing makeup in the same post, too. It makes it clear that the problem isn’t what we do, it’s what’s in his head.
@ Vicky P
I prefer the original 😉
I like the recent Muppet vibe round here.
@The Depletionist
So, like this?
Cute!
Dude, whose butts have you been looking at? I’ve never seen a butt that looks like Curious George. Maybe when you thought you were watching porn you were actually watching kids TV?
I can’t imagine many women want you, either.
Like the gritty toilet paper in public bathrooms that is hell if you have the misfortune to gets the squits while away from home.
So, uh, how do you explain how hominids reproduced through all the eons when there were no razors or soap? Did a Neanderthal man close his eyes and daydream about hot gay sex while fulfilling his impregnating duties or what?
Although he hates women so much, this troll, like so many others, lets women live rent-free in his head.
I wonder if this is Skimmingway rebranded. This one has a similar attachment to pretentious verbosity.
@PoM
Skimmingway would probably throw in more references to his own greatness and have more weird political references. It’s possible, but I think they’re not the same person.
@The Depletionist
As mentioned in another thread somewhere on here, a not insubstantial number of my female coworkers over the years did not and don’t wear makeup. Oddly enough, I did not turn gay or become a MGTOW after being exposed to their unsightly “clocks”…
@Depletionist
Thank you, you just proved my point.
I don’t know how to gently break this to you without causing alarm, but you too are filled with blood, urine, phlegm, gas, and stool (note we’re using the adult terms here), as well as trillions of continually dying, bursting, shedding cells. You too deceptively wear clothing that changes your shape, and arrange your hair in unnatural ways, and cover up less than ideal breath with toothpaste and gum and mouthwash. We’re all animals. That’s a trivial observation.
If women truly were as repulsive as you describe, the human race would have died out millennia ago. And yet mating continues, enthusiastically, whether you approve of it or not. The answer to that puzzle is not “billions of men are gullible fools and I am not”, it’s “billions of men are able to deal with bodily functions and I am not”.
I don’t know what the root cause of your aversion is. That’s not for me to speculate. What I do know is that you’ve made corporeal existence a moral failing, one that’s somehow unique only to women. As though men waft nothing but the most delicate angel-spun creme brulee from their bodies.
If you’re only focusing on women having yucky bits and doing gross things, then you’re a misogynist groping for a biological justification.
@ .45
I can think of several reasons for why that might be the case:
@The Depletionist
Or .45 is just a normal human and not a misogynistic weirdo. Did that occur to you?
@Depletionist
You should have SEEN how much I bled on my last period. There was so much blood coming out of my lady bits. If I saved it all in a jar it’d probably be enough to dry-drown a man in. Did you know you’re probably in proximity of a menstruating woman most of the time when you’re in public? Do you think about that kind of thing? So much lady blood.
@Naglfar
Nobody who makes a habit of posting on this site is normal. Even if they, by some miracle, DO happen to be normal, my points still stand. I’ve covered all of the bases, and have provided the most plausible reasons for why .45 has not behaved in ways I predicted they would.
Moreover, I find it risible that you are implying that MGTOW are somehow abnormal, that not wanting to be exploited for your resources by some backstabbing hussy who will no doubt suck off your boss while laughing at your gullibility is some kind of bizarre quality amongst intelligent men.
People like you, and those who use this site are perfect examples of why the MGTOW life is primed to succeed. Continually, you provide us with reasons to go our own way, and your “mockery” (fear at losing control over men, fear of a non-gynocratic planet) only strengthens our resolve. I’ve just gotta say it:
Thank you. Thank all of you. You might not know, but you’ve proven my point over and over. Keep braying, feminists.
@The Depletionist
Dude, what do you think you’re doing right now?
Could it maybe be that your model is broken? It doesn’t seem to resemble reality.
It would be like if someone said they were having relationship trouble and I suggested that it might be because they didn’t eat peanut butter on a Sunday. It just doesn’t make sense on any level.
I don’t really know or care what is “normal,” but I can tell you for a fact that being this detached from reality is not healthy.
So successful you’re angrily posting in a random blog comment section. Big “success” vibes.
Go ahead. Go your own way. And don’t let the door hit you on the way out.