The "tampon tax" is probably the best example of upper class white feminists literally running out of things to bitch about and fabricating "issues" to be outraged about.
I remember getting an argument with one IRL once and we did the math and the entire tax came out to like less than 6 dollars a year.
She still tried to claim this was a serious example of sexism.
Pink tax is literally women like nicer shit than men and pay more for it but want it for free. Women love to whine and get free shit. When it works for thousands of years, why give up a meal ticket?
My fam...these kind of products are actually more expensive for dudes in my europoor Mordor. This is why I used to used Dove deo. Lol it was always on sale....
There's only one demographic that thinks social science as a whole is useless and it's the same one that also thinks climate science is fake and education in general is bad.
nah i quit being a POS a few years ago and jumped from bartending to working for a mega corp in sales. easier work for money $$ and less hours- no complaints.
It's not discriminatory. If you want to argue that no personal hygiene
products should be taxed but do not claim that this is somehow discrimination on any level because it isn't.
No, this is called the market, you mongoloid. There's nothing stopping women from simply buying men's razors and completely skirting the mark up.
Women's products tend to be marked up because women are stupid enough to pay extra for a product that's pink, or bright.
Stop paying it, and you'll stop being charged more. I get the market is a little complex for a small brained feminist such as yourself to comprehend, but yeah.
Me explaining to you how a market works and your inability to comprehend how a market works does not mean I'm a libertarian.
As for your porn bullshit, I'm just going to assume you're a troll. I find it hard to believe someone can be dumb enough to think their own views somehow apply to everyone else.
Me explaining to you how a market works and your inability to comprehend how a market works does not mean I'm a libertarian.
You seem to assume that this is good and right and that this is not a very thorough and sweeping criticism of capitalism. This is something that laissez-faire capitalists believe.
Most of the US political spectrum is laissez-faire capitalist.
As for your porn bullshit, I'm just going to assume you're a troll. I find it hard to believe someone can be dumb enough to think their own views somehow apply to everyone else.
You seem to assume that this is good and right and that this is not a very thorough and sweeping criticism of capitalism. This is something that laissez-faire capitalists believe.
It is good. Notice how you didn't answer my question?
Why can't you just buy men's razors?
You mean the fact it encourages sexual assault?
Your opinion is not a replacement for actual science, just an FYI.
I'm not even going to read that article, which is written on an extremist website.
You're really just proving my point beautifully. Your right-wing libertarian capitalist ideology is blinding you.
As opposed to what, your left-wing genocidal commie bullshit?
It is not good. The fact companies exploit women's gullibility to do this is fucking wrong.
This isn't exploiting gullibility you mongoloid. Women are literally willing to pay more for things that look better. They see the lower prices on men's products and then make the decision to pay more for the women's version.
If it bothers you, why not buy a man's razor? Give me a single valid reason.
As for porn, "extremist websites" sometimes tell the truth.
No they don't. That website is religious puritan bullshit under a different name. Whatever said there is less than worthless.
As opposed to what, your left-wing genocidal commie bullshit?
Black and white thinking that equates all criticisms of capitalism to Stalinism.? Typical libertarian shtick. Has been done since The Road to Serfdom. Check!
This isn't exploiting gullibility you mongoloid. Women are literally willing to pay more for things that look better. They see the lower prices on men's products and then make the decision to pay more for the women's version.
Women are also willing to degrade themselves on camera. Doesn't make it okay.
If it bothers you, why not buy a man's razor? Give me a single valid reason.
Because it's fucking shady to use slimy marketing tactics to do this?
No they don't. That website is religious puritan bullshit under a different name. Whatever said there is less than worthless.
I can't help but notice a trend among MRA and MRA-adjacent people (like you).
Any feminist critique of anything is immediately assumed to be false. This is called well poisoning.
I'm done with you. I've concluded you literally do not have the mental capacity to comprehend why you're a dumb person.
Because you completely disregarding a source out of hand without even addressing it shows how much of a genius you are.
You do not have the intellectual capacity to understand how a market works or why things are the way they are.
"Ideology is the water we swim in" - David Foster Wallace
Your presupposing that a laissez-faire capitalist system is the only possible one and that anything else is completely out of the question proves my point.
This is likely because you're indoctrinated in a cult (feminism) and can not be helped.
Keep telling yourself that as you perform your indoctrinated function of ignoring out of hand anything that might challenge your worldview.
Holy shit you’re really fucking stupid. Do you not understand how accepting responsibility works? No one is forcing you to pay more for razors. The free market isn’t perfect but this isn’t even a problem
What is shady about a company wanting to make more money on a product by advertising it in a way that is appealing to huge sector of the market?
You people keep proving my point. You're so blinded by capitalist ideology that any kind of criticism of it is replied to by saying "THE MARKET SAYS SO!"
It would help of you actually answered the question instead of just screeching about being blinded about capitilastic ideology like that is a sufficient answer to the question posed at you.
Just because the market dictates it, does not make it okay.
Why isnt it okay though? Is your reasoning being that it is not okay being that more money is paid for the product or that there are different variations of the same product to begin with?
From a manufacturing standpoint the cost to mass produce and market a different version of the same item has to be made up somewhere though. If the only difference in the razors is that the $1 one has a black handle with plain packaging and the other $2 razor has a pink handle with vibrant packaging, whats to stop the woman from buying the first option if they both serve the same purpose which is to remove hair?
I unironically wish you to keep on lolcowing today. How many more threads are you going to make about this slapfight with u/pizzashill where you are looking extra retarded?
so... the products are different then... and the women's version has improvements specifically for women... which means a price increase is warranted/reasonable...
Like, come on my guy, you can't have it both ways. It's either the same product with a price increase on the women's products because it's prettier, in which case it just makes sense to buy the otherwise identical but more ugly product... or the products have different advantages and therefore a price increase is warranted as more money goes into the manufacture of razors specifically for women.
You argue first one and then the other. You can't do that! They're diametrically opposing views of shaving products!
Speaking from experience, it's the former rather than the latter: they're the same product, one is just more aesthetically pleasing. If people are willing to pay more for smoother edges and bright colors, that's not exactly a "pink tax", it's a preference. It makes you feel better to shave with a nicer looking razor. Fair enough, that'll cost you a bit more than using an uglier, more utilitarian razor though.
Unlike you, I actually respect women. I recognize their agency. Stop trying to make women look like disabled children. Just because you're dumb as a fucking rock, doesn't mean other women are, too.
Dude, almost the entire world is pro capitalism. That doesn't make all of the world libertarian.
It isn't fucking libertarian to say that fucking options should be able to exist for people.
Go fuck off to your bread lines where you literally think women are too stupid to even make shopping choices for themselves and need the state to nanny their way through lives.
Lol, like even fucking RAZORS is too complicated for you?
Dog, you are literally acting like a lolcow over a woman wanting nicer shaving blades but wanting them for the same price as cheap lesser quality blades.
This isn't a gender oppression problem.
You are a retarded communist that wants unironic state control of toiletries market. Imagine trying to get a revolution started by selling the winning points of standing in shaving and tampon lines after you stand in your bread lines.
You're basically proving my entire point beautifully. All of these arguments are neoliberal buzzphrases. The assumption that all socialists believe in a Stalinist centrally-planned model is typical.
No media can "create" a sense of anything past childhood.
You're taking the responsibility for the offense off the individual and blaming arbitrary things.
The person who offends is entirely responsible for their actions. If they weren't...then things like "porn created a sense of entitlement in me and that's why I raped her" would be a valid legal defense.
You are being lied to. If you don't want to open your eyes enough to see it that's entirely your choice, but to suggest media is to blame for someone's actions is disrespectful to the victims, distracting from the real issues, and taking the easy way out. I find it reprehensible.
You’re so closed-minded it hurts. Porn is a valuable form of self-expression and many consider it high postmodern art.
I trained my 18-year old girlfriend how to sex with old Sasha Grey DVDs and German Goo Girls on PornHub. Our relationship is great, soooo, you’re debunked.
There's the same dumb shit the other way on products like shampoo/soap. Yeah I don't need "shampoo for men" in a black bottle for twice the price thanks.
But clearly someone os buying it. People are fucking stupid.
The funny thing is that the same people that complain about the "pink tax" usually make fun of guys that buy the bath salts for dudes that are shaped like grenades.
If there's no pink tax, how come this feminist-friendly sex toy costs over 400 dollars, where as this bussy packer only costs 25 dollars? Maybe open your eyes to the misogyny in our society for once.
In the UK its even more hilarious when they try to use this....ALL products are subject to tax barring a very few small exceptions at a flat rate but European regulation (guess that makes feminists hyper brexit racists for not wanting to be subject to European regulation? /u/r3l0j3r0 ) Those exceptions don't include hygiene products, with one exception, tampons got a reduce tax rate (something like 5%, technically breaking regulations) after lobbying from a labour MP.
So this "tax" as "discrimination....seems more like a privilege in reality. Peak white upper class feminist indeed. Just like thinking they need to buy $400 masturbatory aid and not the $50 version that does all the same things...christ I got a plug that is controlled by my phone and can vibrate to music that cost lest then a 1/4 of that...Bitch that's not discrimination, thats just proof your a bad shopper/total mug...wait who am I kidding your a feminist and troll X it's obviously the latter /u/r3l0j3r0
Let's assume the average woman gets her period once a month, and that each period lasts exactly one week. 12 periods per year x 7 days per period = 84 days of bleeding vagina per year.
Here is the price of some decent mid-grade tampons at Target. 50 for $9.29. Keep in mind, these aren't the cheapo cardboard applicator tampons. Let's assume that a woman has some pretty heavy flow and needs 5 tampons per day during her period. 84 x 5 = 420 tampons per year. 420 / 50 = 8.4 boxes of tampons per year. 8.4 x $9.29 = $78.04 spent on tampons per year. Let's assume they live in Louisiana, which has the highest sales tax in the US at 10%. That's $7.80 per year in taxes.
This is how pathetic, desperate and fragile feminists are. They are losing their minds over ~ 5 - 7 dollars, PER YEAR.
Still, for some people, a matter of five dollars is literally life and death. What about the random homeless woman who lives at the subway station in a box? What is she suppposed to do?
Before modern feminine products most women used bleached cotton.
Problems would start when two sisters or a mother and daughter would try to share a batch of bleach
I'm poor and just buy home brand for like $2 and I'm on Centrelink so if I can afford it I'm sure others can. The only annoying is it isn't considered a essential item rather a beauty product (probs the reason otherwise is wouldn't be taxed) but I can afford it. All honesty though women need it, not want it like hair dye. Tax goes to the real things we should be focusing on like the homelessness and addiction issues so w/e.
I like your attitude, but for what it's worth GST exempt items aren't there on the basis of necessity. Partly because necessities are good things to tax (they're unavoidable) and partly because defining "necessary good" is actually quite difficult.
Wearing clothes isn't an option; it's illegal to be naked outside. However no one would seriously suggest that a $5000 suit should be GST exempt.
I get what you mean but here I'm pretty sure medical and health products aren't taxed due to the need such as toothpaste and stuff (from what I know and I'm pretty sure is the main argument for the tampon tax, things may have changed in the past few years though idk Australia is expensive in general.)
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1 Socialismalwaysfails 2018-04-29
It was a good idea for women to vote, they said.
1 ordinaryname2018 2018-04-29
Voting was a mistake.
1 PeanutButterMouth 2018-04-29
when are we going to go back to being shunned for a week
1 pizzashill 2018-04-29
The "tampon tax" is probably the best example of upper class white feminists literally running out of things to bitch about and fabricating "issues" to be outraged about.
I remember getting an argument with one IRL once and we did the math and the entire tax came out to like less than 6 dollars a year.
She still tried to claim this was a serious example of sexism.
1 boyoyoyoyong 2018-04-29
These are the same people who think paying the copay on birth control is patriarchy
1 ordinaryname2018 2018-04-29
With that $6, they could buy a decent sandwich! Check mate MRAs.
1 GayLordMcMuffins 2018-04-29
Or another tampon to shove up their gussies! Check mate bussies.
1 voicelesshoodwinker 2018-04-29
Is this same thing a "the pink tax" or nah?
1 MERCYLOVER163 2018-04-29
Why is my le shampoo to keep my precious hair soft more money then men's shampoo that's just soap in a bottle?
1 CirqueDuFuder 2018-04-29
Pink tax is literally women like nicer shit than men and pay more for it but want it for free. Women love to whine and get free shit. When it works for thousands of years, why give up a meal ticket?
1 voicelesshoodwinker 2018-04-29
My fam...these kind of products are actually more expensive for dudes in my europoor Mordor. This is why I used to used Dove deo. Lol it was always on sale....
1 MERCYLOVER163 2018-04-29
N A Z I A Z I
1 14936786-02 2018-04-29
You fucking nailed it. Remember women bitching about office temperatures? Or really anything they complain about today is usually a bunch of bullshit.
1 ChaddingTater 2018-04-29
F A G G O T
1 Pepperglue 2018-04-29
You can say that for a lot of other majors, not just feminism.
You know, like Social Science as a whole.
1 pizzashill 2018-04-29
There's only one demographic that thinks social science as a whole is useless and it's the same one that also thinks climate science is fake and education in general is bad.
1 Pepperglue 2018-04-29
Hey, at least Climate Science is hard science, unlike Social Science.
1 redditisgay6969 2018-04-29
look bro my social science major got me some PRIMO bartending gigs okay?
source: poli sci major/dumbass
1 Pepperglue 2018-04-29
Well, I'll eat my words. Good for you, then.
1 redditisgay6969 2018-04-29
haha i’m agreeing with you. i wish i got a stem instead. my degree stamps HR boxes but otherwise is pretty much just a piece of paper
1 Pepperglue 2018-04-29
Well, it is common for Humanity majors. Lots of folks ended up working at places that has nothing to do with their major.
At least bartending is dealing with people. Shouldn't it give you opportunity to reflect what you have learned?
1 redditisgay6969 2018-04-29
nah i quit being a POS a few years ago and jumped from bartending to working for a mega corp in sales. easier work for money $$ and less hours- no complaints.
1 Pepperglue 2018-04-29
Even better. So you don't really need STEM to get ahead.
1 redditisgay6969 2018-04-29
exactly. just don’t be a lazy fuck and you can get settled comfortably.
1 r3l0j3r0 2018-04-29
It's still discriminatory. Why are shave blades taxed as well?
1 pizzashill 2018-04-29
It's not discriminatory. If you want to argue that no personal hygiene products should be taxed but do not claim that this is somehow discrimination on any level because it isn't.
1 r3l0j3r0 2018-04-29
Actually it is.
Here's some evidence.
1 pizzashill 2018-04-29
No, this is called the market, you mongoloid. There's nothing stopping women from simply buying men's razors and completely skirting the mark up.
Women's products tend to be marked up because women are stupid enough to pay extra for a product that's pink, or bright.
Stop paying it, and you'll stop being charged more. I get the market is a little complex for a small brained feminist such as yourself to comprehend, but yeah.
1 r3l0j3r0 2018-04-29
This is your brain of libertarian Kool-Aid.
Just because women "pay more" and companies hoodwink them into doing it doesn't make it okay.
Porn is degrading. Just because women agree to do it doesn't make it justified.
1 pizzashill 2018-04-29
I'm not a libertarian. I'm just not retarded, and you are.
Yes it does.
Stop paying moron, it's that simple. Why do you have to buy women's razors?
WOO WOO purity police here, just because you find something degrading doesn't mean it is in fact degrading.
This isn't Saudi Arabia you piece of puritan trash.
1 r3l0j3r0 2018-04-29
Yet you believe pretty much everything they do, from your moralization of market inequality to your belief that porn isn't degrading.
1 pizzashill 2018-04-29
Me explaining to you how a market works and your inability to comprehend how a market works does not mean I'm a libertarian.
As for your porn bullshit, I'm just going to assume you're a troll. I find it hard to believe someone can be dumb enough to think their own views somehow apply to everyone else.
1 r3l0j3r0 2018-04-29
You seem to assume that this is good and right and that this is not a very thorough and sweeping criticism of capitalism. This is something that laissez-faire capitalists believe.
Most of the US political spectrum is laissez-faire capitalist.
You mean the fact it encourages sexual assault?
1 pizzashill 2018-04-29
It is good. Notice how you didn't answer my question?
Why can't you just buy men's razors?
Your opinion is not a replacement for actual science, just an FYI.
I'm not even going to read that article, which is written on an extremist website.
1 r3l0j3r0 2018-04-29
You're really just proving my point beautifully. Your right-wing libertarian capitalist ideology is blinding you.
It is not good. The fact companies exploit women's gullibility to do this is fucking wrong.
As for porn, "extremist websites" sometimes tell the truth.
1 pizzashill 2018-04-29
As opposed to what, your left-wing genocidal commie bullshit?
This isn't exploiting gullibility you mongoloid. Women are literally willing to pay more for things that look better. They see the lower prices on men's products and then make the decision to pay more for the women's version.
If it bothers you, why not buy a man's razor? Give me a single valid reason.
No they don't. That website is religious puritan bullshit under a different name. Whatever said there is less than worthless.
1 r3l0j3r0 2018-04-29
Black and white thinking that equates all criticisms of capitalism to Stalinism.? Typical libertarian shtick. Has been done since The Road to Serfdom. Check!
Opposing laissez-faire capitalist =/= Endorsing communis,
Women are also willing to degrade themselves on camera. Doesn't make it okay.
Because it's fucking shady to use slimy marketing tactics to do this?
I can't help but notice a trend among MRA and MRA-adjacent people (like you).
Any feminist critique of anything is immediately assumed to be false. This is called well poisoning.
1 pizzashill 2018-04-29
I'm done with you. I've concluded you literally do not have the mental capacity to comprehend why you're a dumb person.
You do not have the intellectual capacity to understand how a market works or why things are the way they are.
This is likely because you're indoctrinated in a cult (feminism) and can not be helped.
1 r3l0j3r0 2018-04-29
Because you completely disregarding a source out of hand without even addressing it shows how much of a genius you are.
"Ideology is the water we swim in" - David Foster Wallace
Your presupposing that a laissez-faire capitalist system is the only possible one and that anything else is completely out of the question proves my point.
Keep telling yourself that as you perform your indoctrinated function of ignoring out of hand anything that might challenge your worldview.
Everyone in the alt-right pipeline believes this.
1 d4ddyd54m4 2018-04-29
Holy shit you’re really fucking stupid. Do you not understand how accepting responsibility works? No one is forcing you to pay more for razors. The free market isn’t perfect but this isn’t even a problem
1 shallowm 2018-04-29
Aw, don't stop now!
1 DistortedLines 2018-04-29
Seriously, I'm loving pizzashill more and more tbh.
1 keepittropical 2018-04-29
What is shady about a company wanting to make more money on a product by advertising it in a way that is appealing to huge sector of the market?
1 r3l0j3r0 2018-04-29
You people keep proving my point. You're so blinded by capitalist ideology that any kind of criticism of it is replied to by saying "THE MARKET SAYS SO!"
1 keepittropical 2018-04-29
It would help of you actually answered the question instead of just screeching about being blinded about capitilastic ideology like that is a sufficient answer to the question posed at you.
1 r3l0j3r0 2018-04-29
Just because the market dictates it, does not make it okay.
1 keepittropical 2018-04-29
Why isnt it okay though? Is your reasoning being that it is not okay being that more money is paid for the product or that there are different variations of the same product to begin with?
1 r3l0j3r0 2018-04-29
Identical shave blades with one colored pink should not be wildly different costs.
1 keepittropical 2018-04-29
From a manufacturing standpoint the cost to mass produce and market a different version of the same item has to be made up somewhere though. If the only difference in the razors is that the $1 one has a black handle with plain packaging and the other $2 razor has a pink handle with vibrant packaging, whats to stop the woman from buying the first option if they both serve the same purpose which is to remove hair?
1 ProgressiveFragility 2018-04-29
if they were identical, then women could just buy the men's razor. or do you think women are too dumb to make choices?
1 tempTemp0001 2018-04-29
why not?
1 HicoNischier 2018-04-29
You can't seem to grasp basic economics at all, it seems.
1 morerokk 2018-04-29
Whoa whoa wait, is this what you meant when you said "better suited to women's needs"? The fact that they're pink?
If you're dumb enough to pay more for something because it's pink, then that's on you.
1 heavenlytoaster 2018-04-29
Its not nice to pick on retards.
1 DaYooper 2018-04-29
I love how your argument implies that women don't have any agency.
1 morerokk 2018-04-29
That's pretty standard for feminists.
1 DrDougberger 2018-04-29
Wait, you can't buy a men's razor because the marketing is...shady? How does marketing affect your personal choices?
1 keepittropical 2018-04-29
Hahahaha perfect description of u/pizzashill.
1 r3l0j3r0 2018-04-29
Good to see someone agrees with me.
1 keepittropical 2018-04-29
I unironically wish you to keep on lolcowing today. How many more threads are you going to make about this slapfight with u/pizzashill where you are looking extra retarded?
1 CirqueDuFuder 2018-04-29
Why can't you buy a cheaper razor? They exist. Why do you avoid them by choice?
1 r3l0j3r0 2018-04-29
Women should be made aware of this and shop accordingly.
The only thing you people are doing is justifying this behavior.
1 CirqueDuFuder 2018-04-29
Holy shit. Are women literally fucking brain dead children? They don't know how to try different razors?
Why can't YOU use cheaper razors? Answer the question.
1 r3l0j3r0 2018-04-29
Because those female razors are better suited to women's needs and cost just about the same to make.
1 CirqueDuFuder 2018-04-29
Better suited how? Explain.
1 r3l0j3r0 2018-04-29
I don't know. Ask a woman. My female friends tell me this is the case.
1 CirqueDuFuder 2018-04-29
So you have no idea what you are talking about. If they don't want the extras but the cheaper shit.
Lol at you acting this retarded and you aren't even a woman so have zero experience with the topic.
You realize how sexist you are that you think women are too dumb to figure out markets or select their own commodities?
1 Ardvarkeating101 2018-04-29
You're not a woman? Wow, offended on others' behalf is not just a white woman thing.
1 heavenlytoaster 2018-04-29
This is why we need mayo-sides
1 -OrganisedChaos- 2018-04-29
I've used both men's razors are ironicly better.
1 Akitten 2018-04-29
If they are better for women, they are different. If they are different, a different price is fair.
I don't complain that a ferrari and a sedan cost different amounts do I?
1 e-guy 2018-04-29
so... the products are different then... and the women's version has improvements specifically for women... which means a price increase is warranted/reasonable...
Like, come on my guy, you can't have it both ways. It's either the same product with a price increase on the women's products because it's prettier, in which case it just makes sense to buy the otherwise identical but more ugly product... or the products have different advantages and therefore a price increase is warranted as more money goes into the manufacture of razors specifically for women.
You argue first one and then the other. You can't do that! They're diametrically opposing views of shaving products!
Speaking from experience, it's the former rather than the latter: they're the same product, one is just more aesthetically pleasing. If people are willing to pay more for smoother edges and bright colors, that's not exactly a "pink tax", it's a preference. It makes you feel better to shave with a nicer looking razor. Fair enough, that'll cost you a bit more than using an uglier, more utilitarian razor though.
I fail to see the issue here, tbh.
1 ItsSugar 2018-04-29
If the razor has been modified to suit women's needs then it makes sense for the price to be higher.
1 ProgressiveFragility 2018-04-29
so you think women's razors are not the same as men's razors?
then why do you demand they must be sold at the same prize, if they are different?
do you also think it's sexism that some cars cost more than other cars?
1 morerokk 2018-04-29
Ah, so the products are actually different. Then you're not really paying more for "the exact same thing".
1 morerokk 2018-04-29
Unlike you, I actually respect women. I recognize their agency. Stop trying to make women look like disabled children. Just because you're dumb as a fucking rock, doesn't mean other women are, too.
1 CanadianCartman 2018-04-29
Maybe women shouldn't be so fucking gullible, then?
1 ProgressiveFragility 2018-04-29
why are women too stupid to buy men's razors?
1 nimbalo200 2018-04-29
Read the first paragraph and start of the sedond you fuckwit
1 buttcoinbuttcoin 2018-04-29
Fatty
1 CirqueDuFuder 2018-04-29
Doesn't that prove Pizza isn't a Libertarian then? All you did was prove you are a communist that wants everything handed to them.
1 r3l0j3r0 2018-04-29
Not really. The Democratic Party is funded by capitalist elites.
1 CirqueDuFuder 2018-04-29
You said Pizza was a Libertarian. Are you on drugs or suffering mental issues? You can't follow simple conversations.
1 r3l0j3r0 2018-04-29
Ideology is the water we swim in. Virtually every anti-SJW I meet is very pro-capitalism.
1 CirqueDuFuder 2018-04-29
Dude, almost the entire world is pro capitalism. That doesn't make all of the world libertarian.
It isn't fucking libertarian to say that fucking options should be able to exist for people.
Go fuck off to your bread lines where you literally think women are too stupid to even make shopping choices for themselves and need the state to nanny their way through lives.
Lol, like even fucking RAZORS is too complicated for you?
1 r3l0j3r0 2018-04-29
There are places in the world that practice indentured servitude which, under a libertarian worldview, would be valid.
1 CirqueDuFuder 2018-04-29
WHY ARE YOU TALKING ABOUT THIS?
None of this is related to people being able to buy whatever products they want. No one is talking about slavery.
1 r3l0j3r0 2018-04-29
Just because someone "wants" something, does not make it moral.
Women "want" to degrade themselves on screen. Doesn't make it moral.
1 CirqueDuFuder 2018-04-29
Dog, you are literally acting like a lolcow over a woman wanting nicer shaving blades but wanting them for the same price as cheap lesser quality blades.
This isn't a gender oppression problem.
You are a retarded communist that wants unironic state control of toiletries market. Imagine trying to get a revolution started by selling the winning points of standing in shaving and tampon lines after you stand in your bread lines.
1 r3l0j3r0 2018-04-29
You're basically proving my entire point beautifully. All of these arguments are neoliberal buzzphrases. The assumption that all socialists believe in a Stalinist centrally-planned model is typical.
1 CirqueDuFuder 2018-04-29
Dude, you think fucking RAZORS are too much choice for citizens.
I have seen you also deny basic tenets like women are meant to be weaker than men due to biology.
Your intelligence is seriously in doubt.
1 PM_ME_UR_SUSPICIONS 2018-04-29
All of this just because women are too dumb to buy cheap razors?
1 boyoyoyoyong 2018-04-29
Women make like 80% of the purchasing in the west and their desire for the newest and shiniest bobble is why the current form of capitalism exists
1 aint_that_a_bitch_ 2018-04-29
Let me guess. Video games cause violence too.
FFS adults are wholly and solely accountable for their actions. Not the media they are exposed to.
1 r3l0j3r0 2018-04-29
Explains why porn creates a sense of entitlement in men.
1 aint_that_a_bitch_ 2018-04-29
What?
No media can "create" a sense of anything past childhood.
You're taking the responsibility for the offense off the individual and blaming arbitrary things.
The person who offends is entirely responsible for their actions. If they weren't...then things like "porn created a sense of entitlement in me and that's why I raped her" would be a valid legal defense.
You are being lied to. If you don't want to open your eyes enough to see it that's entirely your choice, but to suggest media is to blame for someone's actions is disrespectful to the victims, distracting from the real issues, and taking the easy way out. I find it reprehensible.
1 dongas420 2018-04-29
Oh God, this thread. How does it feel to be accused of being libertarian?
1 siskonaut 2018-04-29
Pizzashill's been accused of being leftist, fascist, and now libertarian.
When will people learn that he's just a liberal who hates women?
1 Doommanzero 2018-04-29
"You're for small government and mutually agreed on transactions? Why do you want to kill everybody that isn't white?"
1 N0ahface 2018-04-29
Anyone who believes in the law of supply and demand is an ancap
1 Gtyyler 2018-04-29
You didn't deny the part about being retarded.
1 buttcoinbuttcoin 2018-04-29
https://www.reddit.com/r/TrollXChromosomes/comments/8fsqxz/mrw_when_some_libertarian_reddit_dude_bro/?st=JGL6UIKN&sh=efa4c84d
1 freet0 2018-04-29
It's literally the same product. Just buy the men's version. I promise you won't sprout a dick. Well, not another one.
1 Worse_than_AIDS 2018-04-29
You really are a retarded cunt. My dick has IQ boosting juice, have a drink.
1 frogiraffe 2018-04-29
You’re so closed-minded it hurts. Porn is a valuable form of self-expression and many consider it high postmodern art.
I trained my 18-year old girlfriend how to sex with old Sasha Grey DVDs and German Goo Girls on PornHub. Our relationship is great, soooo, you’re debunked.
1 aint_that_a_bitch_ 2018-04-29
That's your opinion.
Source: a woman who enjoys porn
The fact that women agree and in some cases insist on doing does in fact justify it.
People like you are the reason warning labels are on fucking everything.
1 Starship_Litterbox_C 2018-04-29
I 💗 u
1 freet0 2018-04-29
There's the same dumb shit the other way on products like shampoo/soap. Yeah I don't need "shampoo for men" in a black bottle for twice the price thanks.
But clearly someone os buying it. People are fucking stupid.
1 lord_james 2018-04-29
The funny thing is that the same people that complain about the "pink tax" usually make fun of guys that buy the bath salts for dudes that are shaped like grenades.
1 cultish_alibi 2018-04-29
If there's no pink tax, how come this feminist-friendly sex toy costs over 400 dollars, where as this bussy packer only costs 25 dollars? Maybe open your eyes to the misogyny in our society for once.
1 Mathrex88 2018-04-29
What the fuck is a feminist friendly sex you? Does it have a speaker that plays lines condemning the patriarchy while you smash yourself?
1 GadolBoobies 2018-04-29
Because, as the song says...
1 reallyrunningnow 2018-04-29
Please. TRUE feminists use menstrual cups. It's an eco friendly way of sticking it to the cotton patriarchy.
(Seriously tho, I honestly hope someone now tries to pass tampons off as "alternative medicine". Just to pass people off).
1 gkiltz 2018-04-29
It's completely a cheat in any case
1 Selfawarenesshere 2018-04-29
In the UK its even more hilarious when they try to use this....ALL products are subject to tax barring a very few small exceptions at a flat rate but European regulation (guess that makes feminists hyper brexit racists for not wanting to be subject to European regulation? /u/r3l0j3r0 ) Those exceptions don't include hygiene products, with one exception, tampons got a reduce tax rate (something like 5%, technically breaking regulations) after lobbying from a labour MP.
So this "tax" as "discrimination....seems more like a privilege in reality. Peak white upper class feminist indeed. Just like thinking they need to buy $400 masturbatory aid and not the $50 version that does all the same things...christ I got a plug that is controlled by my phone and can vibrate to music that cost lest then a 1/4 of that...Bitch that's not discrimination, thats just proof your a bad shopper/total mug...wait who am I kidding your a feminist and troll X it's obviously the latter /u/r3l0j3r0
1 IFuckedZoeQuinn 2018-04-29
Let's assume the average woman gets her period once a month, and that each period lasts exactly one week. 12 periods per year x 7 days per period = 84 days of bleeding vagina per year.
https://www.target.com/p/tampax-pearl-regular-plastic-tampons-unscented/-/A-15066062A
Here is the price of some decent mid-grade tampons at Target. 50 for $9.29. Keep in mind, these aren't the cheapo cardboard applicator tampons. Let's assume that a woman has some pretty heavy flow and needs 5 tampons per day during her period. 84 x 5 = 420 tampons per year. 420 / 50 = 8.4 boxes of tampons per year. 8.4 x $9.29 = $78.04 spent on tampons per year. Let's assume they live in Louisiana, which has the highest sales tax in the US at 10%. That's $7.80 per year in taxes.
This is how pathetic, desperate and fragile feminists are. They are losing their minds over ~ 5 - 7 dollars, PER YEAR.
1 RecallRethuglicans 2018-04-29
Still, for some people, a matter of five dollars is literally life and death. What about the random homeless woman who lives at the subway station in a box? What is she suppposed to do?
1 LightUmbra 2018-04-29
I'm sure the homeless shelter has tampons.
1 RecallRethuglicans 2018-04-29
Not all homeless people use shelters.
1 LightUmbra 2018-04-29
People refuse the help we give them and then ask for more.
1 boyoyoyoyong 2018-04-29
Making a woman pay for anything can be extremely triggering for middle-class mayo women
1 dogDroolsCatsRules 2018-04-29
>Alternatives medecines are not taxed.
Fucking emuland.
1 gkiltz 2018-04-29
Before modern feminine products most women used bleached cotton. Problems would start when two sisters or a mother and daughter would try to share a batch of bleach
1 stllnujstce 2018-04-29
https://www.reddit.com/r/Drama/comments/8ftct0/ushitpost953_advocates_doxxing/?st=JGL662KU&sh=66a906eb u/shitpost953
1 georgiameow 2018-04-29
I'm poor and just buy home brand for like $2 and I'm on Centrelink so if I can afford it I'm sure others can. The only annoying is it isn't considered a essential item rather a beauty product (probs the reason otherwise is wouldn't be taxed) but I can afford it. All honesty though women need it, not want it like hair dye. Tax goes to the real things we should be focusing on like the homelessness and addiction issues so w/e.
1 Daxx46 2018-04-29
I like your attitude, but for what it's worth GST exempt items aren't there on the basis of necessity. Partly because necessities are good things to tax (they're unavoidable) and partly because defining "necessary good" is actually quite difficult.
Wearing clothes isn't an option; it's illegal to be naked outside. However no one would seriously suggest that a $5000 suit should be GST exempt.
1 georgiameow 2018-04-29
I get what you mean but here I'm pretty sure medical and health products aren't taxed due to the need such as toothpaste and stuff (from what I know and I'm pretty sure is the main argument for the tampon tax, things may have changed in the past few years though idk Australia is expensive in general.)