Spoonful of sugar is far too British. Going to need a more American catchphrase to get this to catch on. Hmmm

That story always makes me a little "harrumph". They act like the engineers were totally clueless when you get that number by looking at the box, applying their normal redundancy rules for consumables, and then weighing one and determining that it's easily within their per person weight budget.

The box says one every 4-8 hours. It's a six day mission, menses typically last six days but can go longer. The ratio for consumables is 1.5 to 2 times expected need.
Expected usage is 36, with 60 being a possibility with a mission delay and atypical period. Redundancy takes you to right around 100.

Then they asked.

Of the things they did wrong with dealing with women, the tampons are the least of it, albeit easily the most amusing.

It’s more efficient

Only gotta allocate funds to 1 thing instead of 2 or more

Helps when we don’t fund education either and people have trouble counting

What a wonderful world.

Country.

Don't lump the rest of us into that.

Then they complain that people aren't having kids anymore.

We need to make a machine that make them change sex temporarly, then when they can't get tampoons or will have to spend a lot, they will understand

Many people operate primarily on the emotional level. That's a polite way of saying they're stupid. Idiots. Like a child who'd rather have 4 shiny pennies than one tiny dime.

If we're not going to round them up (which, give me the infinity gauntlet and...) then we need to appeal to their idiot emotions. Find something they consider in-group, and frame whatever reasonable policy they're opposing so their benefits are foregrounded.

I have this really conservative uncle(doesn't everyone) who said at a family dinner once that we should just deal with it because it "happens every month" and we should be "used to it". This was in regards to the idea of schools providing them for students.

It's been around 5 years since that happened and I have not, and will not ever forget it.

These people are assholes. It's who they are and we need to find ways to get rid of them because you cannot convince them to care about others.

I work closely with a woman who describes herself as conservative. She is staunchly against benefits like free school lunches and period products. Her argument is that it is the responsibility of the parents or the woman herself to work hard and buy those things themselves instead of taking from others.

She absolutely believes that being poor is an indication of laziness and lack of work ethic.

It’s the most infuriating to hear her speak about these things as if her middle-class white ass didn’t get built in societal benefits that allowed her to succeed despite her worth ethic or lack thereof.

Let's just ignore the fact that "special needs" accommodations are just a way to degrade and dehumanize minority students and rob them of educational opportunities.

Also: Autistics aren't idiots and we deserve to be treated as the intelligent people we are. We also need accommodations which aren't provided by labeling us as retarded and withholding human rights which the special ed services in practically all countries do. Other minorities can speak for themselves, since I'm not speaking for them, but I will advocate for myself and call out bullshit when it needs to be called out.

Oh, knowing the US, tampon brands will just skyrocket in price because it's free unregulated money.

3 generations from now, Americans will travel overseas mindblown that tampons aren't $60 / 16 pack and along with things like insulin still being dirt cheap.

"Why's it so much cheaper here?!"

"Now, I know you're not gonna believe this so easily, but..." explains

"Well I'm glad the government pays for it and not me."

"Yeeeeah. I think you're still not quite getting it..." explains more

"Noooo. That would never happen in the US."

"Okay, so..."

Sales tax shouldn't exist, period (pun very much intended).

Agreed. Putting sales tax on already very expensive bombs is just unnecessary

Used or unused? Dirty Bomb?

I can't believe this number. 11.5 billions per year for period products??

I mean, it makes sense. We don't want $900 billion in tampons. They are talking about buying tampons for the US, not for the whole world and then some. "Some" makes sense.

/jk

That's because they have been led to believe that the outgroups are responsible for all their hardships. Even if just 6 cents of their monthly pay goes to food stamps, it's gross to them to be paying for others they don't like to eat. They would never notice it being taken out if not told about it. They will then in the same breathe validate their own use of social safety systems.