Canada eliminated the federal tax on tampons in 2015 (about time). There are also organizations campaigning to address period poverty especially in specific groups, such as women who live in the Northern Territories where everything costs exponentially more. Why they were ever deemed a "luxury" is beyond my comprehension.
Isn't there a giant frog on it? I don't think that many people with periods are in such a rush to think that something brown and weirdly enough without a string is a tampon.
My period affects my body temperature so my body can overheat, but I still have to go to work in an overheated shop, where I regularly feel like I’m going to pass out. When I told a colleague this was happening, the reaction was a clearly uncomfortable ‘oh. OK. Right.’
Wow, these comments. Yet again, as a man, I'm just stunned at how many men seem to hate women. I don't know why, but comments sections seem like those scenes in the Indiana Jones movies where he ends up saying "I hate (rats/snakes/nazis/etc)". There's just a swarm of them in anything that relates to women, wanting to attack and vilify. It's horrible how they hurt others, but how sad for them to see the women they obviously desire as the enemy.
Couple of things bugging me about this. Firstly just how many tampons did she waste making that dress, when the whole point of the film was about women not being able to afford them? Secondly how the fuck can she compare a period to being kicked in the balls for 8 hours straight? She has no idea how much pain that causes a man, the same as no man has any idea how much period pain hurts so comparing the 2 in this way is ridiculous
You really cannot imagine the pain. When I was young, I would shiver, vomit, diarrhea, on top of the cramps which are very painful. A friend of mine would pass out from the pain. When I was in labor with my first child, I told my husband, this isn't much worse than period cramps - just more of an area from uterus being enlarged. Imagine if you had to go to school, work, socialize, etc. and once a month you had debilitating pain.
I can answer those two. First off, just because she bought them, did not suddenly made the tampons more expensive to poor families. She is asking attention for the problem with that dress. Second, a girl in my class thought she had her period and dealt with it for a week until she fainted and when she woke up, she was in the hospital, because her appendix had burst.
Has anyone in comments mentioned the elephant in the room at the end of the well written informative video? You don't keep tampons in uterus, you insert them into vagina. Uterus is a bit higher and you leave it alone. Please, do not insert anything into your uterus. Is it ok to say uterus and period, but still not ok to name the correct body part you use tampons for?
Of course, the SNP led Scottish Government have already been trialling the programme in Scotland. Doesn't stop Labour from trying to hoover up the credit!
In Nottingham most people just say they are on their period, others say 'shark week', of any other notts peepz have sayings feel free to share them ^-^
Gender is girl, boy, nonbinary person, etc. Sex is male, female, intersex. People of any gender can have periods, as long as they have a vagina. Maybe she should've said something like "the parts they were born with" instead, but this video is, well, slightly cisexist since she's only talking about "girls" and forgetting the many trans people of other genders who have periods.
it's sad, I looked at the comments assuming I'd read intelligent thought out comments, as being the last leg comments I'd read thought out comments...no..most of these are by mindless idiots, mainly I'm assuming by trolls...sad ..very sad :(
Never had an issue in talking about jam rags, strawberry lollipops and scrambled egg. Went down on a bird once who told me she was over it and it was safe to go back into the murder scene. Found out she hadn't worked it right and got an extra meal which wasn't as good as the rest of the dinner and had to spit it out. Luckily she wasn't one of them who shaves completely so had some floss to deal with the clot. Nothing to do with this but never understand those women who have Brazilian's for their partner. Women are supposed to have some hair down there. Any man who wants a bird with none and tells their partner to go bald down there are basically weird. Makes you wonder why they want a gash that looks prepubescent. Fine if the woman chooses it herself for hygiene purposes. I remember as a kid in the eighties, I found a razzle mag and nearly all had a bush. Some had that much you needed a machete to get to the entrance of the mine. In another mag which I forget the name of it, one woman had platted hers into tiny dreads. Me and my mate was in stitches.
How does she know how painful it is for men to be kicked in the balls? That violence towards men is funny right? But any violence toward women isn't. That's the thinking. What particularity shite about this is how comedians are ditching their trade in comedy to debate social issues instead. Getting rid of the tax seems an obvious idea. Being in the EU has fucked us on that for years. Other than that, if you live in the UK go here: www.moneysavingexpert.com/family/cheap-sanitary-products/#struggle
She tried to compare the nauseous, dizzy, vomiting and painful feeling that a period gives you, with kicks in the nuts She compared, she did not kick him and laugh. A.k.a. no fun was made of "violence towards men."
Where did the £18000 figure come from? 18000/50 years is £360 a year or £30 per month. Who is spending that amount? That's hundreds of tampons every month!
Well tampons need to be changed pretty often- I'd say 3 a day to be safe and can't be in all night safely so you need a night pad then, you also need pain meds and spare pants for if they start suddenly and extra food for the energy loss. You also need these things for up to 7 days, sometimes longer if they're starting irregularly. So yeah, £30 a month is pretty good pricing. I'm pretty sure I paid more than that when I was starting.
Theo Quinn While it is not hard, day to day, to refer to trans and non-binary people by their preferred gender identity, this story is about the plights of people with a specific biological sex. What word is there to use for when you want to refer to a sex rather than a gender?
it takes two seconds to say "people with uteruses", or "people who menstruate" and cover all possible bases- after all, not all women (or even, not all people born female!) have uteruses or menstruate, for a number of reasons.
@Fortnite is gay. Toiletroll doesn't absorb all the blood. Some girls use it as an emergency 4-minute solution, on the hunt for menstrualpads if they're about to bleed through. But you can defineately not substitute pads with toiletpaper. Also, (just additional...not necessary info) toiletpaper causes your downside to be covered in sticky-with-blood red snippets of toiletpaper. It kindof becomes a pulp after a while. Just imagine sticky water and toiletpaper together, and then red. Have a good evening.
@@Widdekuu91 *Definitely Again, even if the women have to bleed down their legs, they'll live. You don't need tampons to survive, they're not essential. Have a good evening.
The whole "tampons are too expensive" thing is interesting, but you really can't argue about the pain. I went to school with a 40° fever and have been suffering regularly from slipped disks. Pain is just a fact of life.
Meridian Herschel yes cause that is the same pain as constantly feeling as if you are getting stabbed in stomage. For three to seven days. All day and night. Feeling tired from not being able to sleep cause of the pain. I personaly also always get a fever the first two days. Headaches. Backpain. My feet feel swollen. Hormones everywhere My legs get heavy. Not being able to stand cause of the pain. And they still expect me to be able to teacha class of 30 fourteen years olds. Without wanting to rip their heads off. I have backpains now for almost four years. Everyday almost all the time. And still my period is what keeps me awake and hurts me the most, cause it is not constant and just when you sort of forget the stabbing begins again. People shouldnt underestimate the pain women are in when on their period. Like its just something that is part of life. But when someone has other pain, then the entire world has to stop to make them more comfortable
When you have to go to school with a 40C temperature and slipped disk pain every day for seven days or more out of every month then you can talk. Not really, you can't, but you get my point.
it was 'interesting ', when I had to go on jsa and had to wait 8 weeks for a payment and relied on food parcels for that time . in the middle of winter. I couldn't afford food as my money went on gas and electricity and getting to job interviews. I relied on my daughter and friends for tampons. 'interesting interest patronising '.
Well technically being kick in the balls in around 40x more painful than giving birth but I'd rather be kicked in the balls because it last no longer than a minute while child birth can be longer than a day. Also glad I don't have periods too I'm just speaking facts not what better or not
Hannah Robin why do scientists have pain sensors they use on the brain then? 😂 anyway I'm not saying childbirth is better it's definitely far worse same for periods as all you have to do is not annoy anyone to not get kicked in the balls 😂
Also they don't have pain sensors that are used of the brain. They have other forms which require surgery to see if a nerve is causing pain. You may be thinking of neurons, which are in your brain and transmit signals, such as pain signals or the signal to move your arm.
moonwalker4696 personally, I find having a period can really interfere with my life. Every single time I'm on my period and in school my friends are concerned; I am as pale as a ghost, my head stings, I physically cant concentrate, the world is blurry, I have intense pain in my upper legs, my back and stomach hurt so much that I have almost been sick from pain and I am shaking. There are times when i have to take really strong pain killers yet I still feel in quite a lot of pain. I'm 16, not sexually active but my parents are considering putting me on the pill in the hopes that it will reduce my symptoms. My best friend is exactly the same as me and my Aunty used to have it so bad she physically could not be in school on some occasions, and trust me she has a high pain threshold. What I'm saying is, for some people, constantly being kicked in the balls is a pretty accurate equivalent. Periods really do vary from person to person as my other friend has no pain, it lasts about three days and she only gets it every three months.
thank you i only posted the comments to find an answer shouldve wrote a question mark .. i'm sorry for what you're experiencing i hope it gets better :)
Canada eliminated the federal tax on tampons in 2015 (about time). There are also organizations campaigning to address period poverty especially in specific groups, such as women who live in the Northern Territories where everything costs exponentially more. Why they were ever deemed a "luxury" is beyond my comprehension.
My student union gives free period packs when you ask for them, a little box of pads, tampons and a freddo
Elen Mai Good God I hate to think how many Freddos have been ruined by girls who didn't realise it wasn't another spare tampon
Isn't there a giant frog on it? I don't think that many people with periods are in such a rush to think that something brown and weirdly enough without a string is a tampon.
Okay but how silly do you have to be to not recognise a Freddo?
Omg 😂😂 wtf
Theo Quinn About as silly as your average 12 year old student
It's 2021, tampon tax has been abolished, yet period poverty is still a huge issue that no-one wants to talk about.
Cariad Lloyd national treasure
for some reason I find Cariad Lloyd beyond beautiful
Admin Imer maybe because she is beautiful.
She's not a stunner but definitely she is a beauty.
she's absolutely stunning!
All I can think about is how much that dress must have cost to make - easily over £100
My school had free tampon and towel dispensers in the loos, and you can get Sanitary products on the NHS ask your local GP.
My period affects my body temperature so my body can overheat, but I still have to go to work in an overheated shop, where I regularly feel like I’m going to pass out. When I told a colleague this was happening, the reaction was a clearly uncomfortable ‘oh. OK. Right.’
Aw, I'm so sad "LL Correspondents" has ended. I hope they do it again.
A woman once told me before going back to hers that her grandmother had come to visit, referring to the said topic....that was pretty strange!
Up North (England) I hear most people say "the painters are in" or "On the rag"
Vagovia has fallen to the communists.
Wow, these comments. Yet again, as a man, I'm just stunned at how many men seem to hate women. I don't know why, but comments sections seem like those scenes in the Indiana Jones movies where he ends up saying "I hate (rats/snakes/nazis/etc)". There's just a swarm of them in anything that relates to women, wanting to attack and vilify. It's horrible how they hurt others, but how sad for them to see the women they obviously desire as the enemy.
Liverpool are playing at home, not heard that one.
Cariad's Dutch accent is on point!
Couple of things bugging me about this. Firstly just how many tampons did she waste making that dress, when the whole point of the film was about women not being able to afford them? Secondly how the fuck can she compare a period to being kicked in the balls for 8 hours straight? She has no idea how much pain that causes a man, the same as no man has any idea how much period pain hurts so comparing the 2 in this way is ridiculous
You really cannot imagine the pain. When I was young, I would shiver, vomit, diarrhea, on top of the cramps which are very painful. A friend of mine would pass out from the pain. When I was in labor with my first child, I told my husband, this isn't much worse than period cramps - just more of an area from uterus being enlarged. Imagine if you had to go to school, work, socialize, etc. and once a month you had debilitating pain.
I can answer those two.
First off, just because she bought them, did not suddenly made the tampons more expensive to poor families. She is asking attention for the problem with that dress.
Second, a girl in my class thought she had her period and dealt with it for a week until she fainted and when she woke up, she was in the hospital, because her appendix had burst.
love steve
/cries for Steve
isnt period itself not a euphemism ?
I would call it a partial description - it comes for a period of time, then goes away.
Has anyone in comments mentioned the elephant in the room at the end of the well written informative video? You don't keep tampons in uterus, you insert them into vagina. Uterus is a bit higher and you leave it alone. Please, do not insert anything into your uterus. Is it ok to say uterus and period, but still not ok to name the correct body part you use tampons for?
This should have more likes. Way more
Of course, the SNP led Scottish Government have already been trialling the programme in Scotland. Doesn't stop Labour from trying to hoover up the credit!
I cannot ignore her eyes. They are fantastic. There. I let it out. Now I can actually watch the video.
I still can't believe tampons are a luxury item !
In Nottingham most people just say they are on their period, others say 'shark week', of any other notts peepz have sayings feel free to share them ^-^
Because of sex, not gender
Huh?
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Gender is girl, boy, nonbinary person, etc. Sex is male, female, intersex. People of any gender can have periods, as long as they have a vagina. Maybe she should've said something like "the parts they were born with" instead, but this video is, well, slightly cisexist since she's only talking about "girls" and forgetting the many trans people of other genders who have periods.
lucky steve
it's sad, I looked at the comments assuming I'd read intelligent thought out comments, as being the last leg comments I'd read thought out comments...no..most of these are by mindless idiots, mainly I'm assuming by trolls...sad ..very sad :(
Bex Proctor give an example so I may replicate the type of response you believe is sad.
Never had an issue in talking about jam rags, strawberry lollipops and scrambled egg. Went down on a bird once who told me she was over it and it was safe to go back into the murder scene. Found out she hadn't worked it right and got an extra meal which wasn't as good as the rest of the dinner and had to spit it out. Luckily she wasn't one of them who shaves completely so had some floss to deal with the clot. Nothing to do with this but never understand those women who have Brazilian's for their partner. Women are supposed to have some hair down there. Any man who wants a bird with none and tells their partner to go bald down there are basically weird. Makes you wonder why they want a gash that looks prepubescent. Fine if the woman chooses it herself for hygiene purposes. I remember as a kid in the eighties, I found a razzle mag and nearly all had a bush. Some had that much you needed a machete to get to the entrance of the mine. In another mag which I forget the name of it, one woman had platted hers into tiny dreads. Me and my mate was in stitches.
How does she know how painful it is for men to be kicked in the balls? That violence towards men is funny right? But any violence toward women isn't. That's the thinking.
What particularity shite about this is how comedians are ditching their trade in comedy to debate social issues instead. Getting rid of the tax seems an obvious idea. Being in the EU has fucked us on that for years. Other than that, if you live in the UK go here:
www.moneysavingexpert.com/family/cheap-sanitary-products/#struggle
She tried to compare the nauseous, dizzy, vomiting and painful feeling that a period gives you, with kicks in the nuts
She compared, she did not kick him and laugh. A.k.a. no fun was made of "violence towards men."
Where did the £18000 figure come from? 18000/50 years is £360 a year or £30 per month. Who is spending that amount? That's hundreds of tampons every month!
I think she said that figure includes non sanitary items eg pain medication
Even pain medication. I buy ibuprofen which is a pack of 16 for 39p, and that's not even the cheapest!
Lisa Richmond some women have prescribed painkillers because regular ones like paracetamol don't do anything and prescriptions can be expensive
The general rule is this: Most figures are complete bullshit
Well tampons need to be changed pretty often- I'd say 3 a day to be safe and can't be in all night safely so you need a night pad then, you also need pain meds and spare pants for if they start suddenly and extra food for the energy loss. You also need these things for up to 7 days, sometimes longer if they're starting irregularly. So yeah, £30 a month is pretty good pricing. I'm pretty sure I paid more than that when I was starting.
Swedish; lingonberry week. Wtf.
I used to like Cariad Lloyd.
England’s invaded
Bloody Aussie, coming over here, taking the job of a British, disabled comedian...😂😂😂
The only thing I'd like to say is that it isn't just women that get their periods. Plenty of men and non-binary people have periods.
tell me the fuck about it while i'm sobbing over fictional character (although i do that everyday of the month so i guess i can't complain)
Theo Quinn
While it is not hard, day to day, to refer to trans and non-binary people by their preferred gender identity, this story is about the plights of people with a specific biological sex. What word is there to use for when you want to refer to a sex rather than a gender?
So where does the man bleed from? And Non binary that would be the female them then?
Hee-hee
it takes two seconds to say "people with uteruses", or "people who menstruate" and cover all possible bases- after all, not all women (or even, not all people born female!) have uteruses or menstruate, for a number of reasons.
First
They're not essential. You can literally use toilet roll.
@Fortnite is gay.
Toiletroll doesn't absorb all the blood. Some girls use it as an emergency 4-minute solution, on the hunt for menstrualpads if they're about to bleed through.
But you can defineately not substitute pads with toiletpaper.
Also, (just additional...not necessary info) toiletpaper causes your downside to be covered in sticky-with-blood red snippets of toiletpaper. It kindof becomes a pulp after a while.
Just imagine sticky water and toiletpaper together, and then red.
Have a good evening.
@@Widdekuu91 *Definitely
Again, even if the women have to bleed down their legs, they'll live. You don't need tampons to survive, they're not essential.
Have a good evening.
@@hhhfff7953
Then I guess we both support freebleeding?
Neither is toilet roll you could use your hand. What a stupid ignorant comment.
Toilet roll isn’t essential either.
The whole "tampons are too expensive" thing is interesting, but you really can't argue about the pain. I went to school with a 40° fever and have been suffering regularly from slipped disks. Pain is just a fact of life.
Meridian Herschel yes cause that is the same pain as constantly feeling as if you are getting stabbed in stomage. For three to seven days. All day and night. Feeling tired from not being able to sleep cause of the pain. I personaly also always get a fever the first two days. Headaches. Backpain. My feet feel swollen. Hormones everywhere My legs get heavy. Not being able to stand cause of the pain. And they still expect me to be able to teacha class of 30 fourteen years olds. Without wanting to rip their heads off.
I have backpains now for almost four years. Everyday almost all the time. And still my period is what keeps me awake and hurts me the most, cause it is not constant and just when you sort of forget the stabbing begins again.
People shouldnt underestimate the pain women are in when on their period. Like its just something that is part of life. But when someone has other pain, then the entire world has to stop to make them more comfortable
When you have to go to school with a 40C temperature and slipped disk pain every day for seven days or more out of every month then you can talk.
Not really, you can't, but you get my point.
Most women have no cramps at all. See your doctor. Something is wrong.
it was 'interesting ', when I had to go on jsa and had to wait 8 weeks for a payment and relied on food parcels for that time . in the middle of winter. I couldn't afford food as my money went on gas and electricity and getting to job interviews. I relied on my daughter and friends for tampons. 'interesting interest patronising '.
+Artemis Strong every woman I know suffers with cramps, headaches etc. just cos you don't experience these things , doesn't mean it doesn't happen !
She's like a British Jenna Fischer.
Well technically being kick in the balls in around 40x more painful than giving birth but I'd rather be kicked in the balls because it last no longer than a minute while child birth can be longer than a day. Also glad I don't have periods too I'm just speaking facts not what better or not
Oh, how did you know that it's 40x more painful? Their is no way of measuring pain accurately.
How about you just don't annoy anyone enough to get kicked in the balls?
Hannah Robin why do scientists have pain sensors they use on the brain then? 😂 anyway I'm not saying childbirth is better it's definitely far worse same for periods as all you have to do is not annoy anyone to not get kicked in the balls 😂
oh bless. Those don't measure the amount of pain you're in. Oh hun no. Bless you.
Also they don't have pain sensors that are used of the brain. They have other forms which require surgery to see if a nerve is causing pain.
You may be thinking of neurons, which are in your brain and transmit signals, such as pain signals or the signal to move your arm.
come on period is like being kicked in the balls for 8 hours straight :/ i don't know any girl with these symptoms
It's different for every woman. 'You and any girl you know' is a tiny sample size of women.
So because you don't know someone who is experiencing it, it doesn't exist? That's the most mental thing I've ever heard.
moonwalker4696 personally, I find having a period can really interfere with my life. Every single time I'm on my period and in school my friends are concerned; I am as pale as a ghost, my head stings, I physically cant concentrate, the world is blurry, I have intense pain in my upper legs, my back and stomach hurt so much that I have almost been sick from pain and I am shaking. There are times when i have to take really strong pain killers yet I still feel in quite a lot of pain. I'm 16, not sexually active but my parents are considering putting me on the pill in the hopes that it will reduce my symptoms. My best friend is exactly the same as me and my Aunty used to have it so bad she physically could not be in school on some occasions, and trust me she has a high pain threshold.
What I'm saying is, for some people, constantly being kicked in the balls is a pretty accurate equivalent. Periods really do vary from person to person as my other friend has no pain, it lasts about three days and she only gets it every three months.
thank you i only posted the comments to find an answer shouldve wrote a question mark .. i'm sorry for what you're experiencing i hope it gets better :)
I know girls who throw up and faint due to their period pain. Everyone is different.