House of Eratosthenes

When I read this column by Jessica Valenti, whom we’ve tangled with before (see here), I laughed SO HARD, because she’s making the case for tampons to be free, you guys. We actually predicted this would be the next liberal feminist cause du jour (you’ll see that when our book comes out this October), and it’s something I was trying to get a read on from liberals when I asked these questions several weeks ago. (Just look at the first question!)

Liberal feminists are so freaking predictable.

In her column, Jessica makes her case for taxpayer funded tampons by suggesting that “…too many governments don’t recognize feminine hygiene as a health issue. We need to move beyond the stigma of “that time of the month” – women’s feminine hygiene products should be free for all, all the time.”

By that logic, why isn’t toilet paper free? EVERYONE POOPS, you guys. We need to recognize pooping as a health issue. Never mind the fact that it’s normal and natural and not indicative of any sort of problem whatsoever. And guys need razors. Why is Jessica being so sexist? And we all need soap and toothpaste. And hey – what about disposable diapers for babies? BABIES NEED THEM. Why is Jessica being so baby-ist?

Am I the only one noticing — whenever lefties talk about removing a “stigma,” seems by the very next sentence they’re always hard at work starting a brand new one? So, womyns is too weak and helpless to attend to their womynly body issues without us men earning some money and giving it to them; incapable of independence by their very nature, because of the very body parts that make them womyns. Well that explains my ex-wife, said every guy who’s ever been divorced.

I wouldn’t care about Ms. Valenti one bit, except that she’s in with a big crowd. And look how far-gone she is: There’s this stigma, we need to remove it by making some material product free. And, the big loud crowd agrees with her. How does that work? Has it ever worked? In fact, what is this stigma? Paying for the thing yourself, is that the stigma? At her echelon of dedication to doctrinaire extremist leftism, is the allure of the dependency class so dazzling to them that they think charging for something is an insult, and opening your billfold to pay for it is accepting the insult, is that how it works? I mean, i don’t want to read too much into it, but I can’t interpret “remove the stigma, make tampons free” any other way.

Well, maybe there’s something to that; it would explain why these people have so little respect for taxpayers.

“A stigma against X” just means “I don’t want to pay for X.”

That’s all it has ever meant. That’s what 95% of all leftist cant phrases mean. Because it’s not avarice and laziness, you see. No, it’s because you care so very, very fucking much.

Let the world burn, so long as we can pat ourselves on the back in the midst of the flames.
- Severian | 08/12/2014 @ 07:23
Gosh. When cigarettes got to be a bit expensive for my “student” budget lifestyle, I learned to go old school …and roll my own.
Alas, the opportunity to sue oh..somebody, ANYBODY, was greatly diminished.
Here’s your O.B. Tampons sweetie.
HEY! They were designed BY a woman, FOR women!
FREE SAMPLES of THOSE were distributed via the student post office at Sarah Laurence College.
Of course, it was some MAN stuffing them into their (po) boxes.

I still keep a can of Bugler, and papers, around, out of some delusional “just in case”.
- CaptDMO | 08/12/2014 @ 08:10
“A stigma against X” just means “I don’t want to pay for X.”

Really? If true, then that is astounding; it means lefties are divided into 1) smart ones who do their protesting for a material return, which is an actual livelihood; and 2) idiots, who do their protesting for a material return, which is stuff they wanted to buy anyway like tampons — for free.

Well then, there are the idiots who listen to it all, and take it seriously.
- mkfreeberg | 08/12/2014 @ 08:55
Seems crazy, I know. But for #1 (smart ones who do their protesting for a material return), I give you the SEIU rent-a-thugs who show up at every major leftist protest, and for #2, I give you that cum-guzzling carpetbagger Sandra Fluke. Does anyone honestly believe that a student at Georgetown Law (annual tuition >$45K, top-quartile LSAT scores) couldn’t find affordable birth control? (Hell, most student health centers started giving “free” condoms away in the late 80s*).

Either way, it’s a testable hypothesis. It’d be super-easy for a reporter to toddle on down to Occupy Whatever and ask how many of them are union members, college kids getting course credit for protesting, etc. Ditto for toddling on down to a Fluke-for-Senate rally and asking all three of her supporters, “did you really not have birth control before this? Did you not realize the Emma Goldman clinic is right over there?” etc.

The fact that nobody has done this, in the entire history of journalism, kinda speaks for itself, no?

*Which, if I recall correctly, was also pitched as a “stigma” — too many people were contracting gonorrhea because of the “stigma” attached to buying Trojans.
- Severian | 08/12/2014 @ 09:28

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