The more we package up interventions separately, the more we remove choice (and by extension people’s sense of being trusted and respected) and tie people up in compartmentalised paperwork, and trips here and there to obtain benefits. But it’s great for headline grabbing.https://twitter.com/lnmackenzie1/status/1171374174318862337 …
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The best argument for providing tampons etc for free in public loos is an equity-between-sexes one, not specifically a poverty one - it rethinks these as being equivalently basic sanitary provision to bog roll.
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The reality is its impractical & unnecessary. Toilet roll is a convenience & can be dispensed in a way that people cant take a weeks supply. Tampons cant. Free dispensers likely to be emptied, vandalised, mucked around with. And what's the point? Carrying sanpro is not a big deal
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I think it’s worth trying. May work better in some places than others. Machines with time delay between dispensing would be a barrier to taking a month’s supply - not that I seriously expect a rash of those to appear. It’s one less thing for women to have to think about.
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Spent so much of my life fishing a bashed up just in case package from bottom of a bag, or realising I didn’t have one when needed. Think of it as a benefit targeted on the absent-minded...
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Trouble is really that "period poverty" is now the default acceptable go-to issue perceived as "dealing with women's rights" as too afraid to tackle the thornier issues of equal pay, single sex spaces, effect of self ID on the "sex protected class", extending P&M rights etc.
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Yes. They have task forces and summits & commission research on this non-topic but on single sex spaces & self ID they have not done any of that basic convening @GEOgovukhttps://www.gov.uk/government/news/period-poverty-taskforce-meets-for-the-first-time …
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Oh.... have they ever had a task force researching the issues single adult women face? Childless women? Things like care in older years?
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