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And yet if society is pushing a change in distribution of these products why not go with the environmental option that is also more economical? Is Big Tampon r

And yet if society is pushing a change in distribution of these products why not go with the environmental option that is also more economical? Is Big Tampon really a thing?

mschuster91 6y ago
> And yet if society is pushing a change in distribution of these products why not go with the environmental option that is also more economical? Because the "environmental" option is difficult if not impossible sometimes: 1) not all vaginas are created equal. Finding the correct type and size of cups that fit can easily consume over a hundred € or more, and that's with Amazon shopping in a developed country. In a poor country with dysfunctional infrastructure? Good luck finding a cup in the first place and pray it somewhat fits. In the end, it's the classical "cheap shoe problem" - a poor person can't afford 100$ for a shoe that lasts 10 years and so has to spend 10$ a year on cheap shoes, while a rich person buys a decent shoe and doesn't have to worry for 10 years... the end result is, both spend the same amount of money, but the poor person has a poorer quality of life and causes more resource waste. 2) You need to clean reusable cups or panty liners. This requires access to clean boiling water and some sort of container to boil the product in - and I'd bet 99% of people aren't exactly fond of using containers they use to prepare food in for cleaning period products, especially in regions where women on their period are banished from the house / village.
- tjalfi 6y ago
  Is [0] the cheap shoes story you were thinking of? Here is an excerpt from it. > “The reason that the rich were so rich, Vimes reasoned, was because they managed to spend less money. > ... > But the thing was that good boots lasted for years and years. A man who could afford fifty dollars had a pair of boots that'd still be keeping his feet dry in ten years' time, while the poor man who could only afford cheap boots would have spent a hundred dollars on boots in the same time and would still have wet feet. [0] https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/72745-the-reason-that-the-rich-were-so-rich-vimes-reasoned https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/72745-the-reason-that-the-r...
  - mschuster91 6y ago
    Yep, thanks, it's that one.
bildung 6y ago
All sources I could find about that topic indicate the plan is to offer free menstrual products. Nowhere did it state anything about them having to be disposable. It wouldn't matter anyway, because the environmental impact of giving away those products for free is exactly zero: Women won't start to menstruate more to get free tampons.
tfrobot 6y ago
_or_ hey, why not give women the options to decide for themselves? Yes big tampon is really a thing (more about flow than size) but also so are slender/junior tampons for teenagers.

And yet if society is pushing a change in distribution of these products why not go with the environmental option that is also more economical? Is Big Tampon really a thing?

mschuster91 6y ago

> And yet if society is pushing a change in distribution of these products why not go with the environmental option that is also more economical? Because the "environmental" option is difficult if not impossible sometimes: 1) not all vaginas are created equal. Finding the correct type and size of cups that fit can easily consume over a hundred € or more, and that's with Amazon shopping in a developed country. In a poor country with dysfunctional infrastructure? Good luck finding a cup in the first place and pray it somewhat fits. In the end, it's the classical "cheap shoe problem" - a poor person can't afford 100$ for a shoe that lasts 10 years and so has to spend 10$ a year on cheap shoes, while a rich person buys a decent shoe and doesn't have to worry for 10 years... the end result is, both spend the same amount of money, but the poor person has a poorer quality of life and causes more resource waste. 2) You need to clean reusable cups or panty liners. This requires access to clean boiling water and some sort of container to boil the product in - and I'd bet 99% of people aren't exactly fond of using containers they use to prepare food in for cleaning period products, especially in regions where women on their period are banished from the house / village.

tjalfi 6y ago
Is [0] the cheap shoes story you were thinking of? Here is an excerpt from it. > “The reason that the rich were so rich, Vimes reasoned, was because they managed to spend less money. > ... > But the thing was that good boots lasted for years and years. A man who could afford fifty dollars had a pair of boots that'd still be keeping his feet dry in ten years' time, while the poor man who could only afford cheap boots would have spent a hundred dollars on boots in the same time and would still have wet feet. [0] https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/72745-the-reason-that-the-rich-were-so-rich-vimes-reasoned https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/72745-the-reason-that-the-r...
- mschuster91 6y ago
  Yep, thanks, it's that one.

bildung 6y ago

All sources I could find about that topic indicate the plan is to offer free menstrual products. Nowhere did it state anything about them having to be disposable. It wouldn't matter anyway, because the environmental impact of giving away those products for free is exactly zero: Women won't start to menstruate more to get free tampons.

tfrobot 6y ago

_or_ hey, why not give women the options to decide for themselves? Yes big tampon is really a thing (more about flow than size) but also so are slender/junior tampons for teenagers.