Today, the New York City Council unanimously passed a set of bills requiring free menstrual-hygiene products in public schools, prisons, and shelters, making it the first city in the nation to pass so-called "menstrual equity" legislation. The city will budget for tampons and pads just like it does for toilet paper and hand soap. — New York Magazine
"Tampons and pads are not currently covered by public-assistance programs and some school-aged girls stay home or use products longer than they should when they get their periods. Women in prisons face rationing and degrading treatment from corrections officers."
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Why is this being posted on an Architecture site?
Architecture has lost ground to other disciplines because other disciplines work harder to understand and relate to people and society. This news item relates to the needs of people and the functionality of the city.
Arch blogs have become a catch-all for every kind of content, whether interesting, relevant or not. Meanwhile nobody really discusses architecture in any readable way... Minus a few academic bores and amateur accidental journalists
Dumbasses.
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you'd be surprised. Archinect knows who I'm talking about...
i always feel like a man when I check out at the grocery store or pharmacy with a big pack of multi sizes.............had these high school kids bag for me once at the grocery store. They put the ketch-up in the same bag as the tampons. I was going to point at the bag noting "good one" but then realized they had no idea what they had just done.....architecture
gwharton, public schools, prisons, and shelters are buildings, right? And buildings are frequently the conduit through which our society functions?
Stop being a ninny about the fact that women bleed once a month and make sure you know the ADA-compliant mounting height for the tampon dispenser.
Very relevant to architecture as this answers the question of whether to specify the sanitary napkin/tampon vendor operation as "No coin (free)," "Single coin (25 cents)," or "Two coin (50 cents)". Your spec writer just got that much happier. Same goes for the poor intern reviewing the toilet accessories submittal.
They're still going to have the ask the question for the condom vendor though. Giving away free condoms might be a tougher sell for some of those building types though.
You can make this same argument about literally any story....'oh it happened in a building! Maybe the difference is if these is more specific story pertaining to a specific place?
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