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My response to It’s Not Just the Tampon Tax: Why Periods Are Political in the NY Times. Primary Response It is about so much more than menstruation. Given our sexist, inequitable society, women's concerns and human welfare are given short-shrift. Areas where women would be the most benefit, although maybe more so society at large would be helped, is with children and child-care, health and welfare concerns, reproductive health issues, violence and guns, education and jobs. The 'tampon tax' is simply emblematic of a large socio-political problem. Secondary Response, to a sexist rant @Jon F - People can argue the specifics, usually nitpicking each other's arguments, but the problem is larger than tampons and viagra. The issue is emblematic of other concerns of our society, whereby men make decisions that harm women or benefit men without realizing the result is a product of biases. Men are aware and sympathetic to items affecting men, but unaware and unsympat

In response to the NY Times article, What Happened to the Country That Made Us Citizens? I wrote what struck me as a lovely sentiment, and although barely recognized at the time, reposted in pieces in other comment areas, and in those threads, they received many 'Recommended' clicks, the equivalent of likes. Original Quote There still exists a great appreciation of immigrants and immigration, of what it brings to this country, and what it says about America. Just not in Texas. In our 'blue bubble' I would be hard-pressed to many people against immigrants and immigration. It is what makes America. I live in a city where 40% of the population is foreign-born and work in an industry where native Americans are a minority. Because of immigrants crime is lower and economic growth is higher, but even then, the appreciation of what immigrants are to this country historically, and the understanding and humanity it takes to accept others, makes immigration so important. S