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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Holy moly, he just for real confused Oxycontin with oxytocin. Wow. Last time I heard of that mistake was in Steve Mirsky’s column in SciAm.
Edit: oxytocin isn’t even an endogenous opiate; it’s a peptide neurotransmitter.
@Naglfar
He is,he’s using their shibboleths
@The Depletionist
As I figured you’d say.
Now who might those “cultural elites” be? I have a feeling I know who you’re talking about.
I feel like you just derived Valerie Solanas but backwards and for dudes.
He gets some stimulation, which can be fun if you’re into that?
Idk much about OxyContin, but I think most men are not using it right now. I know you meant oxytocin, but it’s better to just mock you.
What if you’re a woman having sex with other women? Or if you’re a woman who has a penis and wants to put it in someone’s vagina? Asking for a friend.
@Depletionist
Wait, why are you still here? Do you think you’re doing something important or changing our minds? Or do you secretly enjoy us telling you about blood seeping from our vaginas? You claim to be disgusted, but you stay and read and respond. Maybe you’re addicted to the attention, or the abuse, or the accounts of vaginal cramps. Think about it.
@penny
All political ideologies developed after the French Revolution are the product of a society poisoned by gynocracy, with each ideology serving to either distract from or strengthen the central nexus of power, women and their holes. These ideologies feign neutrality and masquerade as sciences, the way that they all bloat themselves with all sorts of cockamamie models and equations in a pathetic attempt to seem objective, but really, all of these ideologies are in service to women and their lies, including Marxism. Most ideologies are tools of men’s oppression and nothing more.
@freneticferret
I’d guess he’s here for the attention.
@The Depletionist
Our holes are the central nexus of power? Cool! Can I get superpowers from that?
I love the blunt admission that science doesn’t support your garbage.
As for Marxism, who is behind this Marxist conspiracy? Just come out and say it.
@Naglar
I think he’s the semen guy who thinks his dick and semen somehow make him special but sex is evil. he’s starting to sound like him
@Lainy
They’ve definitely got some features in common, but I don’t think they’re the same guy. This one seems to have somewhat of a better grasp on grammar, even if he’s inept in every other way. And SRLO tried to hide his misogyny at first when this guy blasts out full bore.
You know, when this guy started up I wondered why ya’ll were humoring him, but now things are getting entertaining.
Anywho, yeah, actually I do have some visual impairment. Mostly just the left eye and generally revolves around blurriness at long distance. Fortunately both women and myself can move and get up close as needed.
As for the gynocenteric society dictating my every action, I am pretty much the last person here you should use that argument on. I was homeschooled and had limited contact with the evil social conditioning of our culture for more than 20 years. To this day I sometimes have trouble relating to people because of it.
As for “draining the happiness out of your life with each orgasm you have because of them”, I’m no expert, (see above), but I’m pretty sure you’re doing it wrong.
Gotta ask though: Depletionist, did your highschool girlfriend dump you for some Chad? If so, do you obsess about that frequently?
@Naglfar
Goddammit, are you even FUCKING paying attention? I’ve spelled it out time and again, it’s WOMEN. GOD DAMN FUCKING WOMEN. They are behid EVERYTHING wron with civilization, and those PUSSY STARVED nimrods who just practically cum their jeans thinking about, oooohh, how can we better serve the WOMEN, oooh, it’s WOMANS WORLD up in here.
@Depletionist
Woah, someone seems a little triggered
@Depletionist
so your mad that those blood pussies make your dick hard but none of them want anything to do with you because your a sad pathetic excuse for a man. lol cry hard little boy
I believe LMAO is appropriate here…
@.45
It really is. It’s fun watching him get so upset.
Wow, that was unexpectedly sudden. LMAO.
@.45
I like when he starts screaming and misspelling things. You can practically hear the froth and spittle flying from his mouth in that last one.
This is easily the most pathetic trolling I’ve seen in some time. Did appreciate seeing cockamamie in a sentence tho
@The Depletionist
That doesn’t answer my questions. Sorry not sorry that I’m getting you hot and bothered.
Okay, I don’t have the fucking patience to deal with someone so goddammed thick that I can SPELL OUT from the MOMENT I get here what the problem with this world is, and they just look in my direction all “HUH?”
That person is an ASS. MEN dont bleed out of their penises. MEN don’t use family court to rob unsuspecting spouses with the backing of a tyrannical, statist governmnt full of simpletons ready to attack the second a women points to her vagina and screams. MEN dont break into CHEAP, STUDIO APARTMENTS, to literally STEAL AT GUNPOINT semen from divorced men so that they can get pregnant and get even more of that sweet, sweet money, which they will NOT spend on pretty dresses and wine and shit.
How much more obvious do you NEED it to be, NAGLFAR???
LOOK IN THE MIRROR, BITCHES. YOU’RE THE PROBLEM.
? off to work lol
@Depletionist
lmfao LITERALLY stealing his semen at gunpoint! I know what I’m doing this weekend.
Just out of curiosity, what are the rest of you gals gonna use all the sweet sweet money you make from that stolen semen on? I’m not into dresses or wine, but I could always use more books.
” MEN dont break into CHEAP, STUDIO APARTMENTS, to literally STEAL AT GUNPOINT semen from divorced men so that they can get pregnant and get even more of that sweet, sweet money”
Are you sure you aren’t into porn? That sounds like the plot to some kind of fetish video…
U mad bro?
@Depletionist
Wow, i can’t believe someone tried to steal your semen at gun point. oh wait they didn’t. because no one cares about you and your not smart enough to see that everyone is having a laugh at you. I wish you were here so i could throw a clean tampon at you and watch you scream like a little boy. Then tell people you got assaulted by a feminist devil thing! lol.