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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]First world problem. I grew up without tampons and pads. Women used cotton and gauze and cloth pads that were washed (like cloth diapers, sort of). We had soaps, but they were shitty, and my parents had to work to get them. You couldn't just go to a store and buy some, compliments of a socialist economic system. Ironically, I don't hoard tampons. Some of it is on you, so get a grip.[/quote]

You do realize that you still have to be able to afford the cotton, gauze, and cloth pads, not to mention the soap to launder the cloth diaper-like reusable pads. I'm the poster who had to wash out my school clothing by hand every night and wear it damp to school the next morning. Doing that with a cloth menstrual pad five to seven days a month would not have fallen under the classification of a first world problem.

When I grew up and graduated from college, I worked in public health for a number of years and my initial field postings were in developing countries where disposable feminine hygiene products were expensive and difficult to obtain. Women and girls didn't shrug off a lack of access of the proper materials as something spoiled American women worried about. They knew that it could keep daughters out of school precious days each month. Educate yourself about the challenge this still poses in India and Africa.

Be grateful your parents provided you with alternatives and stop judging the rest of people in poverty by your experience.[/quote]

Yes.  This.  Girls in my post would skip school for days when they were menstruating.  So we hear about women who are "mommy tracked."  It happens so early in life, in some parts of the world. [/quote]

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