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Re:Menstrual Cups Help Keep Kenyan Girls in School
by sctb on Tuesday April 23, 2019 @03:45PM
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Re:Menstrual Cups Help Keep Kenyan Girls in School
by ben_w on Tuesday April 23, 2019 @08:34AM
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No, just the ones amongst us who talk more than we listen and presume we know better without having lived someone else’s life or bothering to ask people what their needs or wants are.
I’m a guy. I’ve met guys like that. I’ve been on the receiving end of such presumption from both men and women. Heck, my current landlord is like that. I don’t want to be a guy like that, especially not in the context of “shove this into a part of your anatomy that I don’t have myself”.
Re:Menstrual Cups Help Keep Kenyan Girls in School
by SolaceQuantum on Tuesday April 23, 2019 @08:36AM
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I don't think white males built civilization and technology. The western numeric system is arabic, for one. Gunpowder is Chinese (along with many other intellectual advancements, philosophy, religion, art...). Much of american cultural music is black. The first novels are arguably from either Japan or the Mayan period. Great architectural works and civilizations spanning centuries exist in most continents.
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Re:Menstrual Cups Help Keep Kenyan Girls in School
by ben_w on Tuesday April 23, 2019 @06:47AM
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> How would those pesky old white males bother you with your project?
By being me. I have enough self awareness and pay enough attention to know my own efforts, as well-meant as they are, can easily end up like xkcd.com/793
My partner introduced me to them, and when I saw how expensive they were I immediately wondered how much it would cost to 3D print moulds for them so that entrepreneurial Kenyans could mass produce them as a cottage industry. I only got as far as a first print of a positive before someone pointed me to (I think) an Alibaba listing where they cost 5¢ each if you bought 1,000 at a time. I can’t find them quite so cheap any more, but I have just found them at €0.18 each. Perhaps a “buy one for yourself, get a hundred more for Kenya” marketing strategy could help? I have no idea how to do that without the annoying and condescending out-of-touch white-male saviour stereotype though.