The private members Bill on period poverty sponsored by SDLP MLA Pat Catney passed at second stage in the Stormont Assembly on Tuesday. As we pointed out in an earlier piece, the legislation itself is pretty uncontentious within the parameters of welfarist policy and has given rise to no opposition with regards to its actual […]
MLA says men have periods
The big problem about writing about “period poverty”, as a man, is that, well, men don’t have periods. While some of us may, on occasion, have been deputised to purchase sanitary items for the women in our lives, we don’t need, or use them, ourselves. So the idea that period poverty is an all-pervasive issue […]
Whenever you see something this tin-eared, there are really only two possibilities worth considering. The first is that the Labour Party, and its advisers, live in such a bubble that they genuinely don’t know how weird and odd it seems to normal people to assert that periods and menstruation are a gender-neutral experience. The second? […]