Anonymous #5 5d

But they had better drugs

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Anonymous OP 5d

But that doesn’t help with the mess

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Anonymous #7 5d

Men can’t get bills to stop male genital mutilation en masse not sure why you think they would get time off for menstrual cycles

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Anonymous #8 5d

do you get your genitals mutilated every 4 weeks

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Anonymous #9 5d

It happens once, when we are born, and the complications are permanent. Yeah, I have phantom pains in my dick from my circumcision on a regular basis. Yeah, it hurts. Yeah, it’s a constant reminder of my lack of bodily autonomy and genital scarring.

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Anonymous #8 5d

I know you from our University, we’ve had this discussion before. I’m sorry your circumcision was botched, but your case is not representative of all people with penises. you are a fringe case. ALL PEOPLE WITH VAGINAS have menstrual pain. only so many people with penises are circumcised, and only so many of that sample had it done wrong. you cannot compare something that an entire sex has to deal with to something that a fringe minority of the other sex has to deal with.

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Anonymous #9 5d

Trying to dismiss my case as botched is illegitimate because the entire concept of mutilating someone’s genitals is wrong. Also, if you want to use your own logic, post menopausal women don’t experience periods. Circumcision doesn’t just go away when we get old. There is no “correct” way to do a circumcision. It’s a violation of bodily autonomy and causes permanent damage to the penis by removing functional tissue. End of story why don’t we have food or water provided? we need it to live.

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Anonymous #8 5d

Periods are natural part of life and it wasn’t forced upon you by deranged medical quacks from the 18th century who decided masturbation was a deadly sin. If you were born prior to 1996 you could have legally had your vagina circumcised as well.

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Anonymous #8 5d

I’m not saying you shouldn’t get free menstrual products, I’m just pointing out the absurdity of our civilization. We have to purchase our own food and water. Nothing is “provided” to us for free. Why would you get free stuff for having a period when half of the population isn’t even entitled to having their genitals intact at birth without getting surgically mutilated? Sorry that this disturbs you so much but it’s perspective.

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Anonymous #8 5d

If it were up to me, everyone would have full bodily autonomy, as well as housing, water, food, toilet paper, menstrual products, and voluntary work system in place. It’s maddening that we have to devote 40-50 years of work service just to be allowed to live and I’m not going to do that In the long term, Americans spend more time at work than they do at home. Most Americans will be at work for 60-70% of their life.

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Anonymous #8 5d

I also think forced circumcision is wrong. you are preaching to the choir. you’re just insane for saying that women should be forced to make monthly payments to avoid creating a biohazard when they force us to go to work while actively bleeding mililiters worth of blood uncontrollably. I really don’t see what menstruation has to do with circumcision, in this case. you’re just doing the thing you always do, which is hijacking any vaginal-health-related thread so you can yap.

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Anonymous #9 5d

What’s your solution then? Government supplied menstrual products? Women automatically getting ~4 days off of work per month? Is that paid time off or not? Let’s talk about it.

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Anonymous #8 5d

Why do some women have to choose between buying groceries and buying tampons or pads? No one should have to go hungry because they need pads…

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Anonymous #8 5d

I’ll start. Why don’t we make menstrual products freely available in every bathroom in the same manner in which toilet paper is provided?

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Anonymous #8 5d

Circumcision is a completely separate issue. An important one yes but stop trampling over women’s issues with it. How would you feel if you created your own space to talk about this, but I came into it and was all “boo hoo I have periods”? Like yes bro I promise you it matters and we care about it but this is NOT the place.

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Anonymous #8 5d

I think this is primarily related to the availability of menstrual products. our city, as you may or may not know, does require businesses provide free menstrual products in bathrooms. this removes a large economic burden! time off would be great; but that’s also hard to negotiate, as you said, and is honestly not necessary except for fringe cases indicative of larger medical problems (such as PCOS), especially when sanitary products are freely available.

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Anonymous #10 5d

Nobody should be in such a dire economic situation they have to pick and choose basic life necessities (food, gasoline, pads, medicine) while the top 0.01% of the population hoards 80% of the wealth.

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Anonymous #9 5d

Did you know that you have to bring your own toilet paper to public bathrooms in China? Also, interestingly a lot of places in Ann Arbor don’t actually provide menstrual products the way they’re apparently supposed to. Nearly every brand of tampon tested positive for heavy metals as well.

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Anonymous #8 5d

“did you know that children in africa are starving”

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Anonymous #9 5d

Yeah, that’s why I said “why don’t we get food or water provided to us? We need it for life”. That’s the absurdity I was pointing at earlier. You don’t have to go to Africa to find starving kids. They’re right here. Children in Detroit and Chicago are starving and freezing right now.

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Because the government controls it..? I haven’t seen many trees to pick fruit off of or water well with clean water to take a sip from

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Anonymous #8 4d

What is this genital mutilation you speak of? And you’re comparing two different things buddy.

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Anonymous #8 4d

So what does that have to do with periods… I’m lost. You should have gotten compensation for your misfortune. That’s a shame

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Anonymous #8 4d

Again, it’s hilarious you’re adding other factors to a topic about periods. Those other topics can get the proper attention they deserve too. But this conversation is about periods and how to get more assistance

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Anonymous #8 4d

It sounds like you’re in the wrong chat. I’m sorry you decided to drop your trauma in a topic about periods that come out our vaginas. I’m sure other men and possibly other women would enjoy hearing about getting the proper assistance

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Anonymous #8 4d

All the above

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Anonymous #8 4d

Blocked

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