On special accomodations for breastfeeding mothers

[gollygee]

If men had one or two six-month to year-long periods in their lives where they had to ejaculate every few hours or be in extreme discomfort, their right to do so would be written into the Constitution. Employers would accommodate their needs without needing to be taken to court. Hell, they'd get the whole time period off with pay.

[ismnotwasm]

1. Yup

Can't be messin' with the sacred sperm. Interesting analogy, and probably the only one that would get through to some. Unfortunately.

[Katherine Brengle]

2. Well done.

I'm so grossed out by the way DU treats women in general, not even just this one case.

Ugh.

[bliss_eternal]

3. Would this analogy work for choice, too...

If women are expected to think of every fetus as "a life" then why not sperm? Why can't masturbating men be charged with wreckless abandonment? If they want to charge women getting abortions as murderers?

:shrug:

[mrreowwr_kittty]

4. On another board someone made what I thought was a really good point

She said that if men had periods every public restroom would have a plentiful stock of tampons and pads, free of charge. Think about it, we don't have to carry rolls of toilet paper everywhere we go because it's expected it will be in the restroom. Menstruation is a normal bodily secretion so why do we women have to tote our own supplies around everywhere we go to deal with it?

[Katherine Brengle]

5. Because you fool, it's duuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuurty!

It's just ridiculous. Maybe we should launch some sort of campaign to make public restrooms stock this stuff, it really is shameful.

[jmm]

6. Why should they care about the "women's curse"?

I remember this story from awhile back. It floored me to see tampons compared to shaving cream.

http://www.socialism.com/fsarticles/vol21no1/tamponTax.html

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Health products, though, are supposed to be exempt, so the Women’s Electoral Lobby challenged the Government’s intention to tax tampons. In response, the Health Minister, Dr. Michael Wooldridge, said on January 21 that tampons and sanitary napkins were not health products, dismissively comparing them to shaving cream.

The comments by Wooldridge prompted a torrent of furious calls to talk-back radio programs and tens of thousands of e-mails and faxes to officials. And the anger only increased when it was made clear that breast pumps and other lactation aids would also be taxed for the first time.

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There is nothing in the GST legislation that specifically mandates a tax on sanitary items. It was up to Wooldridge, as Health Minister, to classify tampons and napkins as taxable “personal hygiene” products while categorising items including condoms, penile clamps (for male incontinence), personal lubricants, and sunscreen as health products — and thus exempt from the GST. The Government is also under fire for planning to tax natural and non-traditional health remedies.

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