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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I swear every thing and anything that happens to get reported, some weird little mgtow creature crawls out to whine about single mothers existing.
Hell will freeze over when we see mgtows flood their sub and forums with posts about healthy hobbies, their favorite music, or volunteer work and mention women once.
There was a point in my life a couple of years ago where I had basically two periods. The first one came out brown and stringy, like barbecue, for a couple of days. Then it would suddenly switch to copious quantities of much thinner, much more slippery red blood. Neither manifestation had any kind of weird smell to it, so I wasn’t concerned for my health, but I was often very concerned about blood escaping my pad and slithering down my leg. I don’t wear tampons or a cup for physiological reasons, so pads are my only option, and I swear to God that second flow of blood was like a faucet full of cherry soda syrup.
I hope you get a nice visceral from this, Depletionist.
Sometimes you sneeze on your period, and pass a clot that feels like giving birth to a jellyfish. That is the BEST.
Now let’s think about how many women are doing that, day in and day out, all around Depletionist. Hundreds of them. Thousands.
Ooh, can I play?
My Life as a Woman
When I was perimenopausal, I had a period that went on for one week, two weeks, three weeks, a month. After two weeks it turned brown. After a month, my health care practitioner said, “Let me see.” Well, okay. She took a look at my pad and said that the brown stuff was a vaginal discharge. Phew!
I’m nerd sniped now, so let’s do some rough math. About half the world has a uterus, so that’s 3.9 billion uteruses. If we assume most uterus havers menstruate from the age of 13 to 51 (average ages of menarche and menopause in the US), about 50% of the world is in that age range. So that’s 1.95 billion people who have uteruses and experience menstruation. If a period lasts 7 days on average and happens about once a month, and we assume that there is no synchronization, then about 1/4 of those people are menstruating at any given time. So that’s 487,500,000 people menstruating at any given time (very rough estimate, ignoring lots of things). And, Mr. Depletionist, they’re all around you. It’s inescapable.
Oh, thank goodness. Because for the longest time, despite your repeated promises, you guys have not gone your own way. In fact, you have been fixated on women. So I’m really glad that your resolve has been strengthened. There’s the door: go!
@you all
Amazing. Simply amazing. As though it were all too difficult for you people stop acting like free-bleeding floozies for just a minute, you go and engage in all sorts of unholy caterwauling about your ultraviolet hag syrup. NORMAL people find what you’re doing to be excruciating. It’s not a sign of oppression that people find you in bad taste for your depraved crowing about your monthly mayhem, as you disgrace the cleanliness of our streets with your uncontrolled sewage problems, like some pugnacious devils hurling molotov-cocktails full of gazpacho at people. It is the hallmark of civilization that we not mention such things in kind company; where discussion of such disgraced and putrid subjects are controlled, there you shall find civilization, unlike this feverish dogswamp of eyerolling nuclear bitchiness (aka WHTM).
@The Depletionist
Ultraviolet? Add visible light spectra and colors to the list of things he doesn’t understand.
These metaphors just get weirder and weirder.
Really? Gee, I thought the hallmark of civilization was a complex society with differentiation of labor.
This should be our new tagline.
You can leave at any time BTW.
@Kat
Do you think we could get them to go to Mars or something? They always said men were from Mars, maybe we can send these men back and get a refund.
@Naglfar
We put a man on the moon . . . so why can’t we put all MGTOW on the moon? Or, yeah, Mars. I’m not at all fussy.
What in the Sam Hill is “ultraviolet hag syrup”?
Too bad you’re not civilized company. But keep clutching those pearls.
@Naglfar
We should keep going. He’s like a tick about to pop.
A tick filled with BLOOD.
Some musical accompaniments:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hFjoOOPU6Xo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qc98u-eGzlc
But before that, there was this:
Lol, wow dumbass you faint when you see blood or something? you seem to have a real fear of it? you know men had sex with women before they had makeup and shaved and all of that. cause a lot of men are attracted to women. My husband doesn’t lose attraction to me because my legs aren’t shaved and i don’t lose attraction to him just because he smells after a run. But you know, we’re adult who live in reality unlike you.
Can we keep the dumbass? he’s kind of funny how he doesn’t know anything about the real world but claims to be an adult
@the Depletionist
The hallmark of civilization is that you don’t shit where you eat. Add “civilization” to the list of things this troll doesn’t understand.
I really want you to visualize that super awesome sensation of being on one’s period. Just kind of imagine slime in the dent between your balls and your taint, slime that squishes around everywhere and comes from a never-depleted source up inside your body, slime that is blood-colored and stains every article of clothing it touches and, for extra delight, is sometimes softly lumpy. I’m not even touching on the accompanying discomfort/pain and bodily changes, just the physical sensation of leaking slippery uterine lining. If you can’t imagine it, you lack creativity and are hardly demonstrating your superiority, and if you choose not to, likewise because you’re simply a coward.
@Kat
Lol, so what, having standards for society and seeing through women and their lying asses makes you a fascist now? You just keep slinging that word at anyone who expects you to act like an adult, and doesn’t just throw themselves on the floor and worship at your dogshit-caked clodhoppers. You are profoundly self-important, harkening back to my original claim that being a woman, especially in any post-hunter-gatherer society, is a veritable risk factor for sociopathy. Most of you, I’m willing to bet, don’t even want to leave the house and do anything productive; rather, you WANT an excuse to send your husbands to work while you keep your bloated, corpulent keisters planted firmly at home, sipping Two-Buck Chucks while binge watching whatever vapid fare captures your peepers as you wait for the Amazon delivery man to come in and dazzle you with his wambo weenie.
This guy has been at this all day? I get it too, sorry no one wanted you around on thanksgiving. Figure you’d be used to it since no one ever wants you about.
@Depletionist
When I get my period I get a lot of discharge with it which is basically mucus and sometimes chunky bits of tissue comes out with it as well from the lining of the utures. and you want to talk about smells? oh god the period smell from all of the blood and discharge and tissue being on my pad for a few hours, yeah there is a great coppery musky smell that comes out of it, it comes out thick too, not like a liquid like blood if you get a cut, but like thick chocolate syrup. and i see this ever month, deal with it since i was 12, so how pathetic are you that your suppose to be a man, but you get queasy about something a 12 year old girl looks at and shrugs at. It really is pathetic. you’re pathetic.
@Salguod
He’s also really upset that he thinks he can’t wear makeup and that no one wants his cock. He’s just kind of alone and sad. Poking him is fun though.
That’s all it’s about? Just wear makeup if you want. No advice for the cock thing. Maybe read some books and become interesting
@Salguod
Well it’s what he talks about the most. he seems upset that women can wear make up, drink, and have sex. So yeah. Not really sure what bug is up his ass but I’m assuming it’s projection super hard.
That sentence alone reveals you as a fascist. Of course, in case there is doubt in anyone’s mind, all of your other sentences reveal you as a fascist also. Don’t act surprised. You’re a fascist on purpose.
@lainy
You are simultaneously one o the most annoying as well as one of the most disgusting women I’ve ever had the displeasure to come across. I don’t give a shit if you “could handle” leaking that hell sauce out of your whatever when you were in middle school; babies are much younger, and they see no problem whatsoever in shitting themselves and spewing out greasy green slime from their wailing mouths. As they grow older and more civilized, they naturally view that stuff as inappropriate. As I have been properly acculturated, I have naturally come to view all this nauseating bleating you’re doing about your unseemly machinations to be reason to stay the fuck away from you.
FACT: No man willingly wants to spend time surrounded by greasy, blood-leaking stooges with what looks to be coffee grinds and spoiled hash in their undergarments. In order to get men to stay around them, the stooges invented feminism, a communistic doctrine that has cowed many gullible men into submission, and has convinced them that seeking their own best interests is, in fact, misogyny. Through the use of elaborate ruses, deodorizing agents, and ideological viruses, women have succeeded in enslaving men, practically leashing them by the dong while dragging them to stores to make them buy pretty dresses and shiny things for them,.
Wambo weenie?
*wambo weenie wambo weenie wambo weenie*
In the ‘gina, the mighty ‘gina, the discharge seeps toniiiiiight
And yet here you are. What gives.