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Should feminine hygiene products be available for free?
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Yes , because it’s time consuming shaving and I have to do so twice a day
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You say.....If a woman doesn’t have something to stop a flow of blood, she is forced to stay home.
Yet women in third world countries manage without having to stay at home
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The thing is, they do stay at home. Teenage girls in third world countries are forced to skip school and pass on opportunities that could give them a better chance for the future because of the lack of feminine hygiene products.
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-The Huffington post.
It takes about ten seconds to google this and find out that this is not true.
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The pill maybe wasn't the best example. Let's talk about IUDs. They only have to be inserted once, and will last for several years. Why doesn't the government give out IUDs for free instead of feminine hygiene products?
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What do you base these assertions on?
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More often than not, IUDs will not stop you from having your period. Hormonal IUDs may stop the cycle altogether ("One major potential selling point of hormonal IUDs is their ability to sometimes make periods lighter and shorter. For about 1 in 5 people using the Mirena or Liletta IUDs, periods stop altogether after a year.", Bedsider.org), but these have an enormous impact on a woman's hormonal cycle and can cause serious mental problems by altering the hormonal cycle.
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You say ......It takes about ten seconds to google this and find out that this is not true
My reply .... Nonsense, are you seriously saying people in third world countries mostly don’t work , go to school or do anything else because of menstural flow ?
Ever hear of Menstural cloths or rags?
It takes about ten seconds on google to find this out for yourself
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“The first time I used a new sponge it stung because it was full of chemicals. The next time I rinsed it out but it dried hard and was like a brick of sandpaper sitting in my underwear grinding my butt cheeks.”
As for the leaves, she says they were useless and using rags made her hot and sweaty. Campbell says she opted out of socialising and her work productivity dropped significantly.
-SBS.com
yeah I do love google. The point is, the women aren't going to school or their job, because even what they do have isn't enough.
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You say ....The point is, the women aren't going to school or their job, because even what they do have isn't enough.
My reply .... The majority of women in third world countries do use the very solution I stated to this problem ( rags !cloths) , either way you will deny this so do carry on I’m sure you will find enough people to agree with you
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The majority of women in third world countries use rags, cloths, leaves etc because they do not have any other option. Most women find these uncomfortable, and state that because the rags don’t always stop the flow, they still have to stay at home. For the source, see the post you just quoted. Yes, there are options for those women. Yes, it is better than nothing. But it is not an ideal situation and If we can make that situation better by handing out free products, don’t you think we should?
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You say ....You want to talk about this? Let’s talk.
The majority of women in third world countries use rags, cloths, leaves etc because they do not have any other option. Most women find these uncomfortable, and state that because the rags don’t always stop the flow, they still have to stay at home.
My reply .... I wonder how our grandparents got by before the advent of sanitary products , the majority do not stay at home as you seem to imply.
You say .....For the source, see the post you just quoted.
My reply .... I didn’t post or link a particular site
You say .......Yes, there are options for those women. Yes, it is better than nothing. But it is not an ideal situation and If we can make that situation better by handing out free products, don’t you think we should?
My reply .....I think we should be handing out other items as in food or medicine first sanitary products would be down the list a bit , would you agree?
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You say .....They might be a bit lower on the list, because lack of food and meds can be fatal and a lack of pads is not. But do you agree with me that they are on that list?
My reply .....I would only put them on a list for piss poor people in third world countries, in our so called civilized countries people talk about disadvantage while yet most can afford I phones and such and haven’t a clue what people in these countries go through
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Each and every one of us finds themselves in different circumstances we did could not choose from. One person was born in Switzerland in a rich family; another was born in North Korea in a labor camp. You cannot control the circumstances of your birth, but you can control how to act in the environment you find yourself in to get the most out of it.
Feminine hygiene products should not be available for free. Rather, you should find a behavioral model that allows you to have a consistent access to them.
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Wheeeeeeeeeee
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I hear you and yes I’m all for that
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With this I would agree - however, here the meaning of the "should" needs to be specified. There are different shades of "should", so to speak, starting with "It would be good if it was this way", and ending with "We must make it this way no matter the costs and sacrifices".
I do not, for example, think that taxpayers' money should be used to purchase hygiene produces, food, water and shelter for those who cannot afford them. Nor do I think that any price regulations here are warranted. I do think, however, that private charity organizations better make distributing these goods to the needy one of their higher priorities - and that proper competition on a free market will naturally make all these goods affordable for virtually everyone who has any sort of stable income.
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Well, the market naturally provides the supply/demand balance, meaning that the products will cost exactly as much as the producers can push them to still bring them profit, and exactly as much as the consumers are willing to pay for them without deeming them overly expensive. If the balance cannot be established, and neither side is willing to seek compromise, then the industry dies - which almost never happens, since achieving the supply/demand balance is pretty easy in most cases, and it is very rare that the producer absolutely cannot lower the price to the level people are willing to pay without maintaining a positive net profit.
As such, I do not think anything special needs to be done. We should just invest in technology and science, which naturally will make everything we absolutely need dirt cheap eventually.
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In such cases, in order to maximize its profit, the company tends to offer lower-end products for the poorer people. That is why, for example, NVidia has both GPUs costing thousands dollars, and those costing below $100, in pretty much ever GPU generation they release. Those who can afford the more expensive GPUs tend to buy them, while those that cannot still bring the company profit by buying the cheaper products.
Market is much more flexible and accommodating than most people realize. Most doomsday scenarios people visualize are actually (and very easily) naturally resolved by free market mechanisms.
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What's more cost effective? To supply free tampons or pads to girls in schools or to disinfect every chair a girl on her period sits on throughout the day?
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This is beside the point. The point is, businesses tend to offer wide ranges of products, so every economical segment brings them profit. There will be both low-end tampons for the poorest people, and luxury tampons for millionaires.
Free tampons or pads in schools could be more cost-effective in that they could potentially increase the number of enrollments in that school, increasing the school's profit - assuming the school is private. But private schools are rarely affordable to the poor in the first place. And public schools gain nothing from offering free tampons, other than wasting even more of their budget than they already do.
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