grinreaper Posted September 8, 2016 Share Posted September 8, 2016 The Tampons are coming. http://www.campusreform.org/?ID=8105 Brown University's student body president will be hand-delivering menstrual products to all nonresidential bathrooms on campus, including men’s rooms, with the help of 20 other students. Viet Nguyen, President of the Undergraduate Council of Students, announced the initiative in a campus-wide email Tuesday, saying he wants to communicate the message that not all people who menstruate are women, according to Newsweek. “Feminine hygiene products are not a luxury. They’re as essential as toilet paper.” Tweet This “There’s been a lot of conversation about why pads and tampons are a necessity, not a luxury, but not a lot of action. We wanted to take it into our own hands,” Nguyen explains in the email, observing that “low-income students struggle with having the necessary funding for food, let alone tampons.” By putting menstrual products in women’s, men’s, and gender-inclusive bathrooms, Nguyen aims to “set a tone of trans-inclusivity, and not forget that they’re an important part of the population,” but is under no illusions that the effort will be universally popular. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bbb Posted September 8, 2016 Share Posted September 8, 2016 1 - Non-residential? That makes no sense. 2.- Not all people who menstruate are women? Number 1 made more sense. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DC Tom Posted September 8, 2016 Share Posted September 8, 2016 So if a biological male who self-identifies as female doesn't menstruate but still wants to use a feminine hygiene product, who is xe being oppressed by? Do they even know who's oppressing them? This was all so much easier when you were male, female, or mentally ill. And our old LaSalle ran great, too... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
unbillievable Posted September 8, 2016 Share Posted September 8, 2016 1 - Non-residential? That makes no sense. 2.- Not all people who menstruate are women? Number 1 made more sense. It's easy to imagine where they're sticking the tampons. In other college news: "White Week Fliers" in Northern Kentucky University. http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2016/sep/7/white-week-fliers-at-northern-kentucky-university-/ The quote that explains it all: “The reason they did this [posted the ‘Welcome White Week’ flyer] was because we had Welcome Black Week. The reason we had Welcome Black Week was because we weren’t initially included in the festivities the university has.” Black people don't feel included unless the event is exclusively about them... Orientation? That's not inclusive, where's Black Orientation? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Azalin Posted September 8, 2016 Share Posted September 8, 2016 And our old LaSalle ran great, too... Indeed, those were the days. That is by far the most oblique reference I've ever seen on this board. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IDBillzFan Posted September 8, 2016 Share Posted September 8, 2016 That is by far the most oblique reference I've ever seen on this board. Though, technically, it was 'Gee, our old LaSalle ran great." [/DCTom-like correction] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Azalin Posted September 8, 2016 Share Posted September 8, 2016 Though, technically, it was 'Gee, our old LaSalle ran great." [/DCTom-like correction] I'm impressed. The only reason I ever knew exactly what they were singing was because it was a question in a test in the back of an early 80's Omni magazine. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Doc Posted September 8, 2016 Share Posted September 8, 2016 Is that what they were singing? I always wondered (but not enough to actually look it up). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Azalin Posted September 8, 2016 Share Posted September 8, 2016 (edited) Is that what they were singing? I always wondered (but not enough to actually look it up). Boy, the way Glenn Miller played!Songs that made the Hit Parade. Guys like us, we had it made. Those were the days! And you knew where you were then. Girls were girls and men were men. Mister, we could use a man like Herbert Hoover again. Didn't need no welfare state. Everybody pulled his weight. Gee, our old LaSalle ran great. Those were the days! Personally, I think any reference to Archie Bunker in a thread based on PC and SJWs is extremely amusing. Edited September 8, 2016 by Azalin Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IDBillzFan Posted September 8, 2016 Share Posted September 8, 2016 Personally, I think any reference to Archie Bunker in a thread based on PC and SJWs is extremely amusing. Girls were girls and men were men. Didn't need no welfare state. Everybody pulled his weight. Man, the SJWs would be all over the Bunker house if he sang that song today. They'd be changing it to "Zes were zes and zirs were zirs!" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DC Tom Posted September 8, 2016 Share Posted September 8, 2016 Girls were girls and men were men. Didn't need no welfare state. Everybody pulled his weight. Man, the SJWs would be all over the Bunker house if he sang that song today. They'd be changing it to "Zes were zes and zirs were zirs!" I'm pretty sure they don't show All in the Family on any stations any more (or if they do, there's many episodes they won't show), because it's racist, sexist, homophobic, etc. Which misses the point that it was exactly the opposite. Archie Bunker was the foil for the world changing around him - the show mocked his attitudes, it didn't celebrate them. The fact that SJWs don't see that ridiculously obvious point shows how ineffably clueless they are. Indeed, those were the days. That is by far the most oblique reference I've ever seen on this board. I realized how much I was sounding like Archie Bunker with that post, so just had to throw an obscure reference in there. (And "We could use a man like Herbert Hoover again." was too damned obvious.) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Azalin Posted September 8, 2016 Share Posted September 8, 2016 They'd be changing it to "Zes were zes and zirs were zirs!" Which misses the point that it was exactly the opposite. Archie Bunker was the foil for the world changing around him - the show mocked his attitudes, it didn't celebrate them. The fact that SJWs don't see that ridiculously obvious point shows how ineffably clueless they are. I present exhibit B: Blazing Saddles. Can you just imagine.... And here's a good one from Cornell University: Candidate for Dean of Students in trouble for inclusiveness http://heatst.com/culture-wars/cornell-diversity-chief-candidate-in-hot-water-after-suggesting-all-students-matter/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GG Posted September 8, 2016 Share Posted September 8, 2016 I present exhibit B: Blazing Saddles. Can you just imagine.... And here's a good one from Cornell University: Candidate for Dean of Students in trouble for inclusiveness http://heatst.com/culture-wars/cornell-diversity-chief-candidate-in-hot-water-after-suggesting-all-students-matter/ Have we really reached a world where a Vijay Pendakur needs to check his white privilege? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Azalin Posted September 8, 2016 Share Posted September 8, 2016 Have we really reached a world where a Vijay Pendakur needs to check his white privilege? I know, right? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IDBillzFan Posted September 8, 2016 Share Posted September 8, 2016 I present exhibit B: Blazing Saddles. Can you just imagine.... I set up Blazing Saddles to watch with my 11-year-old, and I had to turn it off after 10 minutes because it was happening too fast for me to try and explain why it was doing it. Meanwhile, try to find a BluRay, DVD, or stream of Disney's "Song of the South." Go ahead. Best you'll find is someone selling a used VHS on eBay. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DC Tom Posted September 8, 2016 Share Posted September 8, 2016 I set up Blazing Saddles to watch with my 11-year-old, and I had to turn it off after 10 minutes because it was happening too fast for me to try and explain why it was doing it. Meanwhile, try to find a BluRay, DVD, or stream of Disney's "Song of the South." Go ahead. Best you'll find is someone selling a used VHS on eBay. I've mentioned this before, I know...the first couple of seasons of Sesame Street on DVD come with a parental warning that it's not suitable for children. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bbb Posted September 8, 2016 Share Posted September 8, 2016 I'm impressed. The only reason I ever knew exactly what they were singing was because it was a question in a test in the back of an early 80's Omni magazine. The only reason I knew it was because it was a question to TV Topics way back then - what is that line?? It seemed like nobody, including me, could figure out what they were singing. Now, scuse me while I kiss this guy. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Doc Posted September 8, 2016 Share Posted September 8, 2016 Have we really reached a world where a Vijay Pendakur needs to check his white privilege? Well, we are caucasians. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
unbillievable Posted September 8, 2016 Share Posted September 8, 2016 Have we really reached a world where a Vijay Pendakur needs to check his white privilege? The moment when an Indian becomes a "white" Indian with a single uttered phrase... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DC Tom Posted September 8, 2016 Share Posted September 8, 2016 Now, scuse me while I kiss this guy. I think you mean "'Scuse me, I'm a business guy." The moment when an Indian becomes a "white" Indian with a single uttered phrase... Upper caste Indians are white - British colonial heritage. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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