That’s a terrible idea, restricting girls access to period products because of her parents religion is exactly why she SHOULD have access to period products.
The quicker humans ditch all religions, the better.
I’m unfamiliar with the parts of the Bible and Koran that condemn Tena Lady.
Religion and its obsession with virginity strikes again – tampons can break the hymen.
Sick fucks, the lot of them.
So much for living in a secular society – 52% of the UK public said they did not belong to any religion in 2018. I’m sure these people don’t want to restrict access to these products because of religious reasons. Why does religious sensitivity seemingly trump democracy?
Teenage girls shouldn’t have to go without necessary period products because some adults are scientifically illiterate. This is dreadful.
Don’t you just love it when someone else’s religion gets imposed on children.
The idea that women are Capri sun pouches who need to be pierced with a straw is a massively outdated one. Tampons aren’t straws and there is nothing impure or unclean about periods, it’s a necessary biological function. Half of the worlds population bleeds. It might be an unpleasant or uncomfortable topic for some but it is what it is.
As somebody who dealt with period poverty at school (not for religious reasons, but because my mum is a trash person), access to feminine hygiene products is vital and not just in schools
Reading the article, it seems more like schools should be considerate of the options they offer for religious reasons.
Eg. don’t only offer tampons.
However this should be covered by making sure that girls are offered multiple options since not everyone gets on with tampons anyway.
How we can be in 2021, and still have this backwards religious shit, like we’re living in the dam medieval age. 🤬
Time to kick religion out of our schools then yeah?
Religious grounds… some fruit loop in power or someone bowing to pressure from many more fruit loops
This isn’t even a religious thing. There is nothing in the bible at least that has any relevance to tampons or menstrual cups. Even if you believe in saving sex for marriage, a tampon is not a penis. Inserting a tampon is not a sexual act.
Girls should have any period product they want available. Really, the push should be for reusables to be promoted. A menstrual cup can be used from your first period. Several companies such as organicup produce teen sized cups, designed to be comfortable.
Fuck it, if you’re thinking actively concerned about this that means you’re overly concerned about the genitals of underage girls, which makes you a nonce, which means you should be in prison.
I work for the DfE (in a totally different area) and I avoid transferring departments because I think DfE is one of the most respectable departments to work for, and is largely made up of people who have a genuine desire to improve education and social mobility specifically. So I’m pretty fucking disappointed to see this nonsense coming out of a department that I previously thought had the best chance of having some modicum of respect for human rights such as the right to proper sanitation.
‘guidance suggested parental religious objections may take precedence over learners’ own preferences and needs in influencing the provision of particular period products.’
ah yes, so that means we should remove the choice for everyone. my college, which is majority split between white people and south asian muslims, offers both pads and tampons. some people objecting to tampons shouldn’t mean NO ONE is allowed tampons. and your parents do not get to decide either. use whichever product is best for your body
What the fuck… What kind of backward mentality is this. People shouldn’t be impacted by the religion of others.
I wonder who it is kicking up all the fuss . I highly doubt it’s Vicar Winterbottom
Can we please enact a complete absence of faith from education rules and decisions? This is a secular nation with secular values and part of that is accepting woman’s rights and equal rights overall.
This is the kingdom of man, not god. Religious shit can fuck off when it deprives people of basic resources.
Religious grounds? Seems like another way for men to control women. Fuck me.
To think people think my disgust and hatred of religion is because I don’t understand, nah it’s just because religions are fucking worse than the poor bastards in looney bins.
Another reason for religion not to enter the education system
‘consider the views of parents and carers’ – er, what about, you know, the views of the girl HAVING THE PERIOD. Fucking oppressive pricks.
Checking the calendar, nearly 2022, FFS.
Right then that’s it. Time to inject some brutal modernisation into our schools.
Remove all religion from schools apart from the type of RE that educates about facts about different faiths, allowing for tolerance & understanding etc.
Let parents be free to educate & worship with their children in whatever religion they choose in their own time.
Well, would be fucking stupid.
But the article says “religious views *may* cause restrictions”. We should wait until people actually do something stupid before condemning them for it.
If your religion tells you to not do something, that’s on you to deal with. If your religion disallows other people from doing something, you’re the problem that needs to be dealt with.
I half-recall a wonderful piece by a NYC-based journalist who, as a Sephardic Jew himself, to decided to follow Leviticus to the letter for a month or two. Kinda like that *Supersize Me* fellow, but instead with a rag-tag collection of injunctions, the best science of the time, and stories that probably were quite helpful many years ago where you’re trying to pull yourself together after the late Bronze Age Collapse.
It didn’t work out well… I think his wife ending up divorcing him. ‘Cause that is not relevant in the C21st.
Fuck those religious nutjobs. Time we stopped tolerating their bullshit, regardless of which imaginary friend they claim to have.
Oof, so its just tampons that are the problem not all period products. That is still shitty though. Girls should decide for themselves what period products they prefer. I will say that I personally hate tampons as I get a mild version of the toxic shock syndrome when using them. The issue with tampons is not all that virginity rubbish but the fact you are sticking bleached and chemically treated cotton up your vagina. But still it should be the person’s choice what they use.
What religious grounds? This isn’t the Middle East
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That’s a terrible idea, restricting girls access to period products because of her parents religion is exactly why she SHOULD have access to period products.
The quicker humans ditch all religions, the better.
I’m unfamiliar with the parts of the Bible and Koran that condemn Tena Lady.
Religion and its obsession with virginity strikes again – tampons can break the hymen.
Sick fucks, the lot of them.
So much for living in a secular society – 52% of the UK public said they did not belong to any religion in 2018. I’m sure these people don’t want to restrict access to these products because of religious reasons. Why does religious sensitivity seemingly trump democracy?
Teenage girls shouldn’t have to go without necessary period products because some adults are scientifically illiterate. This is dreadful.
Don’t you just love it when someone else’s religion gets imposed on children.
The idea that women are Capri sun pouches who need to be pierced with a straw is a massively outdated one. Tampons aren’t straws and there is nothing impure or unclean about periods, it’s a necessary biological function. Half of the worlds population bleeds. It might be an unpleasant or uncomfortable topic for some but it is what it is.
As somebody who dealt with period poverty at school (not for religious reasons, but because my mum is a trash person), access to feminine hygiene products is vital and not just in schools
Reading the article, it seems more like schools should be considerate of the options they offer for religious reasons.
Eg. don’t only offer tampons.
However this should be covered by making sure that girls are offered multiple options since not everyone gets on with tampons anyway.
How we can be in 2021, and still have this backwards religious shit, like we’re living in the dam medieval age. 🤬
Time to kick religion out of our schools then yeah?
Religious grounds… some fruit loop in power or someone bowing to pressure from many more fruit loops
This isn’t even a religious thing. There is nothing in the bible at least that has any relevance to tampons or menstrual cups. Even if you believe in saving sex for marriage, a tampon is not a penis. Inserting a tampon is not a sexual act.
Girls should have any period product they want available. Really, the push should be for reusables to be promoted. A menstrual cup can be used from your first period. Several companies such as organicup produce teen sized cups, designed to be comfortable.
Fuck it, if you’re thinking actively concerned about this that means you’re overly concerned about the genitals of underage girls, which makes you a nonce, which means you should be in prison.
I work for the DfE (in a totally different area) and I avoid transferring departments because I think DfE is one of the most respectable departments to work for, and is largely made up of people who have a genuine desire to improve education and social mobility specifically. So I’m pretty fucking disappointed to see this nonsense coming out of a department that I previously thought had the best chance of having some modicum of respect for human rights such as the right to proper sanitation.
‘guidance suggested parental religious objections may take precedence over learners’ own preferences and needs in influencing the provision of particular period products.’
ah yes, so that means we should remove the choice for everyone. my college, which is majority split between white people and south asian muslims, offers both pads and tampons. some people objecting to tampons shouldn’t mean NO ONE is allowed tampons. and your parents do not get to decide either. use whichever product is best for your body
What the fuck… What kind of backward mentality is this. People shouldn’t be impacted by the religion of others.
I wonder who it is kicking up all the fuss . I highly doubt it’s Vicar Winterbottom
Can we please enact a complete absence of faith from education rules and decisions? This is a secular nation with secular values and part of that is accepting woman’s rights and equal rights overall.
This is the kingdom of man, not god. Religious shit can fuck off when it deprives people of basic resources.
Religious grounds? Seems like another way for men to control women. Fuck me.
To think people think my disgust and hatred of religion is because I don’t understand, nah it’s just because religions are fucking worse than the poor bastards in looney bins.
Another reason for religion not to enter the education system
‘consider the views of parents and carers’ – er, what about, you know, the views of the girl HAVING THE PERIOD. Fucking oppressive pricks.
Checking the calendar, nearly 2022, FFS.
Right then that’s it. Time to inject some brutal modernisation into our schools.
Remove all religion from schools apart from the type of RE that educates about facts about different faiths, allowing for tolerance & understanding etc.
Let parents be free to educate & worship with their children in whatever religion they choose in their own time.
Well, would be fucking stupid.
But the article says “religious views *may* cause restrictions”. We should wait until people actually do something stupid before condemning them for it.
If your religion tells you to not do something, that’s on you to deal with. If your religion disallows other people from doing something, you’re the problem that needs to be dealt with.
I half-recall a wonderful piece by a NYC-based journalist who, as a Sephardic Jew himself, to decided to follow Leviticus to the letter for a month or two. Kinda like that *Supersize Me* fellow, but instead with a rag-tag collection of injunctions, the best science of the time, and stories that probably were quite helpful many years ago where you’re trying to pull yourself together after the late Bronze Age Collapse.
It didn’t work out well… I think his wife ending up divorcing him. ‘Cause that is not relevant in the C21st.
EDIT: Well ain’t internet search amazing? https://ajjacobs.com/books/the-year-of-living-biblically/
Fuck those religious nutjobs. Time we stopped tolerating their bullshit, regardless of which imaginary friend they claim to have.
Oof, so its just tampons that are the problem not all period products. That is still shitty though. Girls should decide for themselves what period products they prefer. I will say that I personally hate tampons as I get a mild version of the toxic shock syndrome when using them. The issue with tampons is not all that virginity rubbish but the fact you are sticking bleached and chemically treated cotton up your vagina. But still it should be the person’s choice what they use.
What religious grounds? This isn’t the Middle East