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Feminist Tumblr and the ‘Tampon Tax’

Posted on | October 9, 2015 | 87 Comments

 

Behold the irrefutable logic of Feminist Tumblr:

Tampons and other ‘feminine hygiene’ products are taxed. Women have to pay taxes just to be able to have our periods.
So if any anti feminist complains about women in regards to money (or anything really) just tell him: “As a female tax payer my tampon taxes go towards things that you benefit from so shut the f–k up“
Just by being born a woman you are born into more financial needs, not wants. I need to buy tampons, pads, monthly pain medicine, underwear(after they are inevitably stained), contraceptions to help with more severe periods and pregnancy prevention in general. Imagine living paycheck to paycheck and having to budget for feminine products in addition to other living essentials. Where as a guy can put that extra $50-75 towards food, rent, etc. There’s really not the option to not buy tampons/pads that month. You can’t go to work bleeding down your legs.

Perhaps the young ladies of Feminist Tumblr don’t realize it, but some societies actually have a system that ensures that males provide for women’s special needs. Under this system, each girl is born with a male assigned to take care of her, and also to take care of her mother. In societies with such a system, this man is called a “father.” This man has the responsibility of providing for the health and safety of one adult woman (who is called a “wife”) as well as any children she bears, including both sons and daughters. Upon reaching adulthood, each female is then assigned another male to provide for her in a similar fashion. In societies with such a system, this man is called a “husband.” This system distributes the economic and social tasks necessary to provide for women’s special needs in such a way that every adult man, by fulfilling his assigned role as “husband” and “father,” helps prevent women from experiencing their special needs as a lonely burden.

Feminists call this system “patriarchy” and call husbands and fathers “oppressors.” Feminists have spent decades trying to destroy patriarchy. A man who tries to persuade them that this destructive project is a bad idea is called a “misogynist.” Feminists demand equality, but we find that the pursuit of equality results in many women experiencing their special needs as a lonely burden. We call these women “Crazy Cat Ladies.”




 

Category: Sex Trouble

Comments

87 Responses to “Feminist Tumblr and the ‘Tampon Tax’”

  1. kilo6
    October 9th, 2015 @ 9:38 am

    Teh Kittehs know what’s up with feminists

    This picture was allegedly taken outside a Womyns Studies class at an Ivy League college

    imgur.com/q3pQENO.jpg

  2. Frank Turk
    October 9th, 2015 @ 9:41 am

    Well, who doesn’t want it both ways, really? I also want to be able to do whatever the heck I want to do every day, get paid handsomely for it, (patriarchical adjective intended) and tell everyone else to go play in the street until I need them for something which only serves my pleasure.

    Unfortunately in the real world, people who do that wind up homeless, alone, and unable to pay their own bills let alone support others in a loving and caring way. Or as Donald Trump, I guess. Either way, the point is clear: ideas have consequences.

  3. Fail Burton
    October 9th, 2015 @ 9:46 am

    Feminist Retardation Ideology strikes again. Have fun storming the draft offices.

  4. RS
    October 9th, 2015 @ 9:53 am

    Alternate Headline: “Feminist Tumblrina Discovers Vicissitudes of Life. Is Gobsmacked.”

  5. Evi L. Bloggerlady
    October 9th, 2015 @ 9:59 am

    Is that a cat mint herb garden?

    Maybe a tax on Tumblr and kitty litter might be in order?

  6. TCA
    October 9th, 2015 @ 10:06 am

    Guy’s have to buy women drinks, change their (women’s)tires for them, come over in the middle of the night to kill spiders, shovel off their (women’s) cars. Pay for dinner.
    Shut up, bitch.

  7. RS
    October 9th, 2015 @ 10:06 am

    As a female tax payer my tampon taxes go towards things that you benefit from so shut the f–k up“

    Yes, thank you. And let me say as a male business owner who employs 20+ people, my income taxes, self-employment taxes, FICA taxes for employees, unemployment taxes, worker’s compensation taxes, business license fees, et al. are more in a month that you’ll pay into the public coffers in 10 years. Perhaps you’d like to reevaluate the injunction to “shut the f–k up” or perhaps scream it into the nearest mirror.

  8. ConstantineX1
    October 9th, 2015 @ 10:15 am

    It’s not the cats that are crazy (cats are very sane), it’s the women.

  9. ConstantineX1
    October 9th, 2015 @ 10:17 am

    Oh, and thanks to Obamacare, as a man aged 43 I have to now pay for PREGNANCY coverage on my insurance. Which I do not and never will need. Smash the Lezbiarchy!

  10. marcus tullius cicero
    October 9th, 2015 @ 10:20 am

    …well Mx. Feminist person? If you insist on wearing tampons as earrings, then it should be taxed as jewelry…
    STFU!

  11. robertstacymccain
    October 9th, 2015 @ 10:21 am

    I demand that “society” pay bloggers as much as “society” pays university Women’s Studies professors. This doesn’t seem too much to ask, and yet “society” is not hitting my tip jar.

    Obviously, I am an oppressed victim of society.

  12. Lulu
    October 9th, 2015 @ 10:33 am

    Why are they so obsessed with their bodily functions? They are truly mentally ill.

  13. Lulu
    October 9th, 2015 @ 10:33 am

    They also missed that women on average need more toilet paper then men:)

  14. Guest
    October 9th, 2015 @ 10:40 am

    It’s interesting to me that “pregnancy prevention” has become a *need/right* rather her than what it is: a modern convenience. And one that has turned out to have many destructive, unforeseen consequences. (Although to his credit the pope at the time did point out that separating sex from babies would destroy society) We really need to change the perception young people seem to have that sex without its natural consequence is not something they are owed by the world. I’m not some religious wacko who thinks sex is only for procreation, but to use CS Lewis’ analogy of sex drive to hunger; can you imagine people waking around claiming some god/Gaia given right to eat donuts all day and not gain any weight, and if you pointed out that was crazy they call you a bigot? It’s just another example of Stacy’s point that these women are lunatics. Although by their own admission they are and they’re proud of it. It’s like, we just keep going further down the rabbit hole.

  15. Lulu
    October 9th, 2015 @ 10:41 am

    I couldn’t help myself: Equate Assorted Absorbency Unscented Tampons, 54 count box $5.27 = 9.8¢ / each at say 4 a day for 5 days is $1.96 a month used with 1 pad a day (overnight) at Equate Super Multi-Channel Maxi Pads, 48ct $3.76 box = 7.8¢ / each for 5 days is 39 cents bringing the grand total cost of menstruation to $2.35 a month, and as BC pills are a want not a need (once you make them a RX not for contraception your argument is no longer valid as others have medical prescriptions as well) — Are they truly this stupid or do they think we are?

  16. Guest
    October 9th, 2015 @ 10:52 am

    *we need to change the perception that it is owed them. Too many negatives, I confused myself in that sentence, apologies

  17. Dana
    October 9th, 2015 @ 11:09 am

    As a man, I have been required to buy shoes which are heavier duty than the ones wimmins normally buy; is that not a tax on my masculinity?

    Howsomeever, if we are honest, while my work boots (about $140 a pair, steel-toed from Redwing) probably p[ale in comparison to the shoes and other stuff that womyn don’t have to buy, but nevertheless choose to buy, the f(ornicate) me heels that we’re not s’posed to notice, but are certainly meant to notice, the makeup which isn’t supposed to draw unwelcomed attention from the riffraff, but is definitely meant to attract the guys they want, just a whole host of things.

  18. Dana
    October 9th, 2015 @ 11:12 am

    If she’d do her societal duty and bear children for the community, she’d have nine month stretches in which tampons would not be required.

  19. Southern Air Pirate
    October 9th, 2015 @ 11:30 am

    So I guess idea of making their own and maybe not paying the tax directly on thier women parts has escaped this individual? There are all manner of make your own websites out there from all walks of life to the most hard red greenie or the most religious thumping women’s bloggers.

    I would provide links but I am going to stretch and say that if your on Tumblr then you have at least a white belt or a red belt in google-fu.

  20. jakee308
    October 9th, 2015 @ 11:44 am

    What I don’t understand is why they don’t protest the root cause of their problems: Mother Nature (or God).

    They’re the ones that selected the girls from the boys, so to speak, at birth. They’re the ones who decided that this soul or that should have this burden or that burden in life.

    So either they’re wrong about who can bear up against this overwhelming weight or you all feminists are just whining while secretly pleased you were selected for this very important and vital position within the Species and therefore our Universe.

    All women share these very similar burdens but only certain ones complain and try to shift it. We usually call those types of people; Slackers.

  21. Fail Burton
    October 9th, 2015 @ 11:46 am

    “Know, O prince, that between the years when the oceans drank Atlantis and the gleaming cities, and the years of the rise of the sons of Aryas, there was an Age undreamed of, when shining kingdoms lay spread across the world like blue mantles beneath the stars … Hither came the Patriarchy, tech-savvy, sullen-eyed, sword in hand, a thief, a reaver, a slayer, with gigantic oppressions and gigantic penises, to tread the women of the Earth under his size 12 feet.” — The Cishet Chronicles

  22. Fail Burton
    October 9th, 2015 @ 11:47 am

    How much is Prozac, cuz these babes are loaded to the gills with meds.

  23. Ilion
    October 9th, 2015 @ 12:08 pm

    Shoot, by age, I’d be a “post-menopausal” man, and I’m still paying for pregnancy coverage.

  24. Ilion
    October 9th, 2015 @ 12:13 pm

    Shouldn’t that be “shining queendoms”?

  25. LIbtardian slayer
    October 9th, 2015 @ 12:16 pm

    She would rather be depenxent on the patriarchy so she can whine.
    She could also excercise and do stretches to reduce pain from menstruation.
    Too much reliance on drugs and painkillers is not healthy

  26. Steve Skubinna
    October 9th, 2015 @ 12:31 pm

    Well, sure – how much money was Sandra Fluke demanding the patriarchy reimburse her per month for her pills?

    Basic economics – how does it work, again?

  27. Steve Skubinna
    October 9th, 2015 @ 12:33 pm

    Crom!

  28. Steve Skubinna
    October 9th, 2015 @ 12:37 pm

    So after all this time this is what feminists are reduced to? Whining about their periods?

    Man, am I glad I learned to make my own sandwiches. Think I’ll make myself a Monte Cristo for lunch – betcha five bucks this shrieking bloodstained harpy can’t make one of those.

    And it occurs to me that, as a single man willing to make my own sandwiches, I ought to get a tax break. The feminists are free to “shut the f–k up.”

  29. kilo6
    October 9th, 2015 @ 12:38 pm

    I looked back on imgur and yes it is a cat mint garden.

    I’d like to see a study of the effects of Nepeta cataria versus Feminist cat ladies. I smell big grant money!
    —–
    Women who purchased “Crazy Cat Lady Starter Kit” also purchased…

    imgur.com/hIz5YCh.jpg

  30. Steve Skubinna
    October 9th, 2015 @ 12:41 pm

    I just retired last month, after several decades, um, what’s the word again? Oh yeah, “working.” See, I had this thing, we called it a “job,” where I did stuff for people and they gave me money in return. I then was free to exchange quantities of this money for goods and services useful to myself. Food, clothing, mortgage, medical care but those are technical terms beyond the scope of feminism.

    This is also known as “the patriarchy.”

  31. Steve Skubinna
    October 9th, 2015 @ 12:42 pm

    Yes, women are awesomely powerful creatures, and at the same time entirely helpless victims.

  32. Fail Burton
    October 9th, 2015 @ 12:43 pm

    Thus was born compulsory heterosexuality.

  33. Fail Burton
    October 9th, 2015 @ 12:44 pm

    Rags to riches.

  34. Steve Skubinna
    October 9th, 2015 @ 12:44 pm

    Hell, how about they get jobs in commercial fishing or logging or in the oil patch? And while they’re at it, see about addressing the gender imbalance in the prison population. And I await their outrage on men’s disproportionate share of workplace injuries and deaths.

  35. Steve Skubinna
    October 9th, 2015 @ 12:45 pm

    Or “reality is a bitch.”

  36. Steve Skubinna
    October 9th, 2015 @ 12:54 pm

    “I will go before Crom, and he will ask me ‘What is the riddle of tampons?’ and if I do not know it he will cast me out of Valhalla and laugh at me.”

  37. Steve Skubinna
    October 9th, 2015 @ 12:55 pm

    I saw the Shining Queendoms open for REM at the Columbia Gorge in ’97.

  38. Bob Belvedere
    October 9th, 2015 @ 1:08 pm

    ‘Valhalla’ has been renamed ‘Vagisil’.

  39. McGehee
    October 9th, 2015 @ 1:16 pm

    I thought they were just permanently 11.

  40. McGehee
    October 9th, 2015 @ 1:18 pm

    That’s why they want late-term abortion. Eight months without paying the tampon tax, and no diaper-pail duty afterward.

  41. McGehee
    October 9th, 2015 @ 1:20 pm

    I saw them at the East Endoscopy County Fair in ’93. They were never all that.

  42. McGehee
    October 9th, 2015 @ 1:21 pm

    It doesn’t get any better years later when they’re whining about their colons.

  43. RS
    October 9th, 2015 @ 1:32 pm

    I was going to hit Amazon to try to do the same calculation, but thought better of it, inasmuch as I really don’t pay any attention to the “turnover” on that one shelf in the linen closet, which shelf belongs to the lovely wife. The Femblrina’s must be coated in gold.

  44. RS
    October 9th, 2015 @ 1:37 pm

    Why not? It will really tick off the Femblrinas

  45. Theadora
    October 9th, 2015 @ 1:44 pm

    Funny that getting pregnant & breastfeeding eliminates the need for all these products for a while….

  46. DeadMessenger
    October 9th, 2015 @ 2:06 pm

    Maybe you should be a sport, Steve, and buy a box of tampons and send it to the Tumblrina quoted above. You can include a card that says “Don’t say I never gave you anything, cheers, Patriarchy.”

    Better make it a super large box, I’m thinking.

  47. DeadMessenger
    October 9th, 2015 @ 2:07 pm

    About that spider thing. Could I just get your number right quick? : )

  48. DeadMessenger
    October 9th, 2015 @ 2:15 pm

    Sure am glad I wasn’t drinking anything when I read that.

  49. Dana
    October 9th, 2015 @ 3:11 pm

    Given that the truly intellectual feminists seem to be on the rag every day of the month, perhaps we really have underestimated the Tampon Tax™ they’re having to pay! 🙂

    And yes, I denounce myself in advance.

  50. Dana
    October 9th, 2015 @ 3:13 pm

    Well, of course you’re right!