Idaho Republicans Call Free Tampons In Schools Too ‘Woke’ — And Block Them

Free bleed in protest

[quote]”This bill is a very liberal policy, and it’s really turning Idaho into a bigger nanny state than ever,” said state Rep. Heather Scott, according to The Daily Beast

That’s rich, coming from a politician who’s been fighting to remove books she deems “inappropriate” from school libraries.

The topic is embarrassing?!

Grow up, you stupid fuckwad.

From the party that wants miscarrying women to bleed to death. They really have a thing about not helping bleeding women.

Tap into your telekinetic powers, bleeders!

Fuck these assholes!

In places like India and countries in Africa, girls regularly fall behind in school because they have to miss a week out of every month - which only fuels the “they’re just not as academically capable as boys” narrative. Fuck that shit.

At the risk of alienating everyone here, I’m female. I only mention this because it’s relevant here. When I was in my early ‘20s, I was too poor to afford period products, so I had to sew my own out of old clothes and towels (yeah - I know it’s fucking gross, but half the human population knows what it’s like to have uncontrollable bleeding for what amounts to a quarter of a year. Deal with it.) They worked okay, but that’s an added stress that guys don’t even have to think about (along with the stress of possibly getting pregnant if you have sex.)

R6 I’m sorry you had to go through that. The Idaho GOP calls “period poverty” a woke term, which just shows you how out of touch and cruel they are.

Better that free guns be provided in schools. Now THAT would not be woke.

[quote]Another conservative lawmaker, state Rep. Barbara Ehardt, said the phrases “period poverty” and “menstrual equity” used to discuss the bill were “woke terms.”

Well, it's true that normal people don't use those kind of terms.

How about those “woke” free toilet stalls in school bathrooms and other public areas? Water ain’t cheap y’all. Bring back the pay toilets. Make people pay to piss and dump!

Unilever, Johnson & Johnson, et al, should donate truckloads of free feminine hygiene products to these schools

or they could distribute Diva cup, I've never been able to use one myself (female here), but at least it reusable? I just find them very unpractical when you need to clean them at school/work, it's like tampon, you can't keep them too long or you can die from toxic shock syndrome, if you survive you can end up amputated of your arms and legs.

Does anyone know what these morons are FOR?

Actually, putting deodorant into schools isn't a bad idea. Kids can be real stinkers sometimes.

R14

They don’t want to pay for anything, especially for public schools.

I bet they'd pay for free Bibles, r15

Every time, that I get frustrated with some of our politicians (CZE), I read something that came out of some, well, pretty much any US Republican. And then I think to myself, it could be worse. The outrageous stupidity and complete lack of basic human decency is unbelievable.

The hard left and hard right are desperate to make life miserable for women. When will voters wake up and stop voting in extremists?

There is a significant number of the white population that suffers from insanity and cruelty. These people will do anything to keep the white male power structure in place because they benefit from it and this power structure encourages them to think they are protected members of society. They will not give up their special place for anything and the things they are denied by the power structure they delight in keeping from all those they hate. They don't care if they go without as long as the Black folks and all the others go without as well.

The real tragedy is the good white people don't do anything to oppose this.

Providing period products is a small and easy thing that can be done that will help others. Anyone against it is a sociopath as far as I'm concerned.

Providing period products is a small and easy thing that can be done that will help others. Anyone against it is a sociopath as far as I'm concerned.

How come you capitalized black but not white, R19? Are you a white gay male progressive?

No r22 I capitalized Black because that has been the common practice for some time now.

You will have to do some research for the answer why that is the norm. It didn't start with me you dumb ass.

[quote]No [R22] I capitalized Black because that has been the common practice for some time now. You will have to do some research for the answer why that is the norm. It didn't start with me you dumb ass.

Yep, you are a white gay male progressive.

Idaho is over 90% white. The overwhelming majority of poor people in Idaho are white. Trying to bring some racial division nonsense to this thread is kind of lame R22.

White women still vote for the GOP by a majority.

Cunts, this is what you voted for

Of course the DL trolls will come out and say “Menstrual products should only be between a girl and her mother…”

They would do the same for toilet tissue but white boys need that

[quote]Idaho is over 90% white. The overwhelming majority of poor people in Idaho are white. Trying to bring some racial division nonsense to this thread is kind of lame [R22].

As opposed white gay male progressives who capitalize black but not white? That’s not what only divisive, it’s supremacist. Which is doubly-lame.

R9 Only abnormal people.

I agree that there should be a consistent policy for all paper products used in bathrooms.

[quote]period poverty

May that asteroid hit us. God I hate nuSpeak.

Idaho also has a town where the hospital shut down its maternity ward due to Roe vs Wade being overturned. Reap what you sow.

Reads like the onion. I'm surprised the rethuglican witch didn't use food as the example of something else that a child should not be provided. Giving kids deodorant is also a good idea. Actually give everybody deodorant please.

R33 The teenage girls getting these free tampons aren't responsible for those laws. Yeah, their parents probably suck, but they shouldn't be punished for that.

Of course not R35. My statement was just to reinforce how White Christians, and Idaho is full of them and most are die hard Magats, view females in general.

I hate when the young’uns use new terms too R32. I mean the bees knees was a perfectly good phrase but the bobby soxers had to come around with their “peachy keen.” Well I never!

Why can’t the just call it the curse cash crunch? Poverty is such a modern term, I have to get out my smelling salts.

Before you know it they’ll demand that tampons be placed in boys bathrooms because boys can also have periods.

My cousin's wife spent part of her teen years living with her shitty dad and stepmom. Her mother died when she was 12 and her dad and his then wife took custody. They constantly bitched about having to pay extra money because she was living with them one of their gripes was paying for pads and tampons. Her maternal grandparents agreed to buy her pads, tampons, and toiletries to shut up the dad and step-mom. This went on for a couple of years before her dad agreed to give guardianship to the grandparents and allowed her to move in with them. Some kids have shitty neglectful parents who just don't want to shell money for certain things. My cousin's wife has said that she was lucky to at have grandparents and relatives who were willing to take on responsibilities that her piece of shit father didn't want to do.

You've never heard of prosperity gospel? You're supposed to pray for whatever you need and if God doesn't grant it to you it's because you're a worthless piece of shit.

R15. I doubt these people are paying for anything anyway.

These are Republicans we're talking about. The only thing they like to do is complain about is other people getting free stuff instead of them. They want to be catered to 24/7 with free bibles and soothing messages that everybody loves them.

And everyone else gets shit all.

R39 My stepdad was like that too. Even though my bio father was dead and had been in the military, so I got social security and military death benefits until I turned 18. My stepdad still hated paying for anything for me and my sister. He also hated us getting anything, even if it was free. We went to a private school on scholarship, until our mom got remarried. My stepdad said that his tax dollars went to fund public schools, so we were gonna use them.

R18, the "hard left" isn't doing this. Try again.

R43

Some people are so desperate to “same thing both sides” absolutely everything. And it’s telling that it’s almost always in a thread where we’re discussing shitty Republicans.

there should be a subsidy for the poor

These shitbags make me hope there is a hell so they can go burn there, sooner rather than later.

"Pro-Life" my tight ass!

The right hates females

My only beef with this are the terms our side uses. “Period poverty”?!?!? Of COURSE they’re going to slay you. We have to be smarter than that! We keep walking into these traps, it’s so frustrating. If we would refuse to use terms that can be labeled as woke, we are giving them less ammo.

I’m a woman, I of course 100% support this type of bill. Remember, these are the same mother fuckers who don’t want to feed hungry school children, so they sure as fuck aren’t going to give away tampons. I hate them so much.

Why is providing something that is a human need “woke”?

The irony is that the GOP has worked very very very hard to make “woke” a hated term, it originated with black people. But recent data shows that most Americans like the term “woke”, they understand what it means and the GOP campaign has actually failed. But for the love of God, get rid of “period poverty”. JFC.

They tried to get rid of it.

What the hell is wrong with the term period poverty?

Go away, both sides trolls

Pay toilets were primarily a burden on women, since men don’t have periods and can use the urinal for free. And of course, men and other “undesirables” were scapegoated as the for reason pay toilets to exist:

[quote]Nik-O-Lok and American Coil Lock Company, another stall-door lock manufacturer, argued that pay toilets “discourage drug addicts, homosexuals, muggers and just plain hippies from haunting public restrooms.”

Sound familiar?

^^ GAY MEN and other “undesirables” were scapegoated…

I'm sure this was already on my list of "States to Avoid" but just the same...

IDAHO - avoid at all costs

Not to be confused with IOWA, also to be avoided at all costs.

R55 That quadruple homicide of college students last November really shed light on Idaho’s violent, male-dominated culture. It’s no wonder that dozens of gun-loving, animal hunting men who chronically stalked and harassed women in the area were likely suspects. It must have been a nightmare for the local P.D. to rule them all out.!

My daddy always said that tampons were "the devil's fingers".

Good girls wear sanitary pads.

Lindz, I hope South Carolina starts giving free sanitary pads out to beautiful belles like yourself!

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Idaho's good, conservative CHRISTIANS would consider those referenced in R59 and deem them woke, slatterns, and bound for hell.

This only proves they use a term that is undefined and one that they can't understand.

What does woke mean?

Empathy is woke.

Why do women put words in all caps when they post comments?

Let's go back to the good old days when it was shameful to even say the word out loud. You just handed the clerk a silent coupon.

[quote]“discourage drug addicts, homosexuals, muggers and just plain hippies from haunting public restrooms.”

I've been in a lot of restrooms in my day. And I'm one of those homosexuals.

I've never haunted one. I'm not even dead yet.

Hippies??

Yes, dear, they were a thing in the '60s, which is where that copy is from.

They were the non-binary of their generation, r66.

What were the hippies doing in the public restrooms??

[quote]The right hates females

So does the left with its love affair of putting males in female spaces where they’re the most vulnerable and mutilating little girls. Sorry, but both sides are dreadful when it comes to women.

Don’t forget taking women’s scholarships aware by putting bio males in female sports, even bashing their heads into the ground during one-on-one sport.

It’s called female trouble.

Shocked it took this long for the trolls to turn this into yet another anti-trans thread.

Fuck you bigots and your fucked up propaganda.

Someone correct me if Im wrong,but have schools ever given out personal care products before? I dont think I ever heard of that,and I was in school in the 60s-70s. That being said,the cost of that stuff is disgraceful. My mother has to use pads,and theyve gone up so much in the last few years.

Repuglicans are doing the best they can to ensure next year is a Dem blowout.

Slice a 2 inch cut in their taints, hand them a wad of those stiff brown hand towels to stick in their boxers and follow them all day chanting "plug it up!" while periodically, heh, kick them in the guts.

they should be free, people who can afford the fancier varieties can buy them with their own money

I wonder if many of the no votes were due to use of terms like "Period Poverty" and "Menstual equity"? Those are terms that would get DEI directors motivated but they come across as smug and self righteous. I don't know what would have been better terms to change a vote or two, but it does show that progressives can trip over themselves when it comes to communication to help get legislation passed.

R78. Truly a sign that Republicans are some of the dumbest people on the planet then.

If you can't look past the terms to see what the bill actually does you shouldn't have an opinion on it.

[quote] Someone correct me if Im wrong,but have schools ever given out personal care products before? I dont think I ever heard of that,and I was in school in the 60s-70s. That being said,the cost of that stuff is disgraceful. My mother has to use pads,and theyve gone up so much in the last few years.

I was in elementary and middle school in the 90s and high school in early 2000s. I grew up in a small town and it was known that the school nurses and several designated teachers kept supplies of pads for female students who needed them. I'm a female and I started menstruation when I was 12. The first time I was at home and I remember my mom after that insisted I keep pads in my backpack at all time because cycles sometimes change. Some of my female friends did the same because of their moms. I remember an incident in middle school in which a friend said she needed a couple pads for the day because she got her period a week earlier than she expected. We went to one of the designated teachers and we saw that she keep a supply of pads in a cabinet. She did ask my friend if she needed pads for multiple days and my friend said no. Back then I figured that there were probably some students that very dependent on those free pads that the school offered. I also remember the pads my friend was given were in small individual boxes and not the plastic pouches that are mostly common with the ones sold in stores.

[Quote] Someone correct me if Im wrong,but have schools ever given out personal care products before? I dont think I ever heard of that,and I was in school in the 60s-70s. That being said,the cost of that stuff is disgraceful. My mother has to use pads,and theyve gone up so much in the last few years.

Since about the 1990’s, there’s been a movement to have such items in school bathrooms. They used to be in vending machines to be bought but then started being offered free

[Quote] I wonder if many of the no votes were due to use of terms like "Period Poverty" and "Menstual equity"?

Who cares? All the votes were because the right doesn’t prioritize the health of women

What's their excuse for voting against free breakfast and lunch for school kids? Which terms do you think offend their delicate sensibilities, that they would vote against that one?

Wake up. They're pieces of shit, brother.

This is what Iowa voted for. This is what the women voted for.

Fuck them and their bloody cunts

If the kids don't have tampons, then the parents should be investigated. If they are spending their cash on chips, pop, cigarettes, alcohol, and lottery tickets instead of tampons, they should be held accountable. Stop addressing symptoms and go for the root cause, which in this case is parents' bad life choices.

Yes, let’s put the children of poor parents in foster care! That’ll be so much less expensive R85. Why you are a downright conservative fiscal genius.

R85. Is this supposed to somehow be an example of smaller government?

Instead of "nanny" putting tampons in schools, we have Big Brother raking through your finances to see whether you've overspent on chips or lottery tickets this month.

And, of course, it'll be up to Big Brother to decide what constitutes an unreasonable expense/bad life choice.

"Oh your child isn't wearing a three-piece suit to school? Clearly that means you're a bad parent who spent too much on soda this month. Off to jail with you!"

A better plan would be to go back to the scheme r 80 described

[quote]I’m a female.

Isn’t that a given on DL?

Same people who cry about the "nanny state" banned discussion of "Critical Race Theory" not just in school but college (so they can't even claim it's about protecting the children)

Oh please. Idaho isn’t investigating poor people. It’s entire economy is based on poor people buying chips and lottery tickets

If they only banned drag shows. Apparently that fixes everything

I have reached the point of not caring about these people. The people of ( insert name of any red state ) have the government and leadership they elected.

In case you missed it, crazy ass MTGs' divorce has already happened. Self inflicted wounds deserve no sympathy.

Truth and common sense are pretty much dead and these idiots.

I'm sure Ted Nugent and the Pillow Princess will give them leadership and direction.

[quote]It’s entire economy

Oh, dear!

Given that the real beneficiary of this bill if it were to pass would be the company that secures the state contract to provide supplies to the schools, maybe that company can offer contributions to one or two legislators necessary to change their vote next time this comes to pass. Let's face it there is a corporate welfare component to this bill.