Another example of the state of American academia
From Daily Bruin, the Disclaimer of the Week: pic.twitter.com/nG5Lu1nbqJ
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) July 22, 2015
No matter how a person “identifies” his or her gender, their sex was set at conception. XX or XY chromosomes are the normal and will lead to easily identifiable female or male children at birth. Anomalies, either at the genetic level or hormone sensitivity are rare. Their existence does not negate the norm.
Women have uteri that will, at some point in their lives, menstruate. Someone should instruct the special snowflakes at The Daily Bruin to accept the settled science.
And the very few members of the Organization to Find Offense in Everything, who take to shrieking when confronted with “female hygiene products,” should shut-the-f*ck-up.
I do confess to being curious if The Daily Bruin would be torturing the language as much in coming up with a disclaimer over an article dealing with prostate exams.
Heh.
“Pro-state” exams, those are the ones the sheeple-kiddies get during their public schooling indoctrination?
i don’t think zoey is very smart
link
note the clever new title
Zoey Freedman: Free tampons would slow flow of gender inequality
Freebify all the things!
Don’t we need food and water to stay alive? Why should I pay for such things?
If we gave them free tampons, they’d be back in a couple of weeks demanding free Haagen-Daz.
What about all the men in Chicago and D.C. who use tampons? (To stop the bleeding from bullet wounds. I read that this actually why tampons were invented.)
Bergerbilder, for years, I carried maxipads in my first aid kit for just that purpose. As good a sterile compression bandage as has ever been invented and cheaper than the anti-clotting bandages sold on Amazon now.
In the comments to the underlying article, there’s an assertion by some very serious young female commenter that women DIE for want of tampons. Specifically, tampons.
Via Wikipedia (Peace Be Upon It):
Women have used tampons during menstruation for thousands of years. In her book Everything You Must Know About Tampons (1981), Nancy Friedman writes, “[T]here is evidence of tampon use throughout history in a multitude of cultures. The oldest printed medical document, Papyrus Ebers, refers to the use of soft papyrus tampons by Egyptian women in the fifteenth century B.C. Roman women used wool tampons. Women in ancient Japan fashioned tampons out of paper, held them in place with a bandage, and changed them 10 to 12 times a day. Traditional Hawaiian women used the furry part of a native fern called hapu’u; and grasses, mosses and other plants are still used by women in parts of Asia.”[2]
You’re welcome.
What self-respecting nation purchases earrings for its have nots?
I want somebody to pay for my toilet paper and bar soap (preferably on a ropy)
because hygiene
And I shouldn’t have to pay to flush that shit away, y’know?
Like in Detroit.
Learn to swim.
I wonder if tampon use is up in Merry Old England?:
Bloody England, Bleeding Wales: Female Genital Mutilation
Bob, have you forgotten Prince Charles?
“Hi! I’m a progressive, and I’m TOO FRELLING INFANTILE to put on my big girl or big boy pants and provide for my own basic needs.”
Infantile or infantilized, Trespassers W? Because it seems to me this whole Freedom to be free from want crap that Roosevelt and the New Dealers stuck us with works out in practice to be Freedom to be free to be a perpetual adolescent.
Which, too many actively encourage every time they drop their kids off at school for a hot breakfast.
I freedom means to you not having to ever worry again about food, shelter, clothing, health care etc then prison might be the place for you.
McGehee, I try to forget that loser as often as I can.
I freedom means to you not having to ever worry again about food, shelter, clothing, health care etc then prison might be the place for you.
Whereas FDR clearly preferred his country estates.
Or maybe prison is the ideal type of state for all those compassionate planners, organizers, and other assorted professional busy-bodies.
So, apparently it’s not all *that* hard to get into UCLA.
Infantile or infantilized, Trespassers W?
Probably more of the latter, Ernst.