Parkland Student Becomes ‘Tampon Activist’ After Protesting Clear Backpack Rule With Bag Full Of Feminine Hygiene Products

One of the more prominent Parkland student activists – best known for his work pushing for stricter gun control laws – is branching out into other areas of progressive agitation. Cameron Kasky wants to help women get better access to tampons.

Last week, Kasky and others, now mandated to carry clear plastic backpacks so that school administrators can see what students are carrying with them to class, protested the “violation of their right to privacy” but stuffing the bags with price tags, stickers, and slogans written on pieces of printer paper. Kasky decided to stuff his with tampons, because the clear plastic bags make it impossible for women to put their feminine hygiene products in small carrying cases, thus exposing them to ridicule.

Or something.

#MSDStrong pic.twitter.com/kKn1saUDTC

— Cameron Kasky (@cameron_kasky) April 3, 2018

The clear plastic bags are normal fare for retail workers, and inner city students are used to much stricter security measures (for example, at some schools in Chicago students are subjected to random bag searches and pat downs and must pass through metal detectors), but they make school “feel like a prison” for some Parkland students.

Be that as it may, in stuffing his bag with tampons, Kasky discovered how pricey feminine hygiene products actually are, and now he wants access to them guaranteed.

To those with questions about my tampon backpack-

I only got lights. I didn’t know. Getting supers for tomorrow.

Sizes, pricing… I’m learning new things about women’s health right now. This stuff is expensive. Steps must be taken to make these health products easier to access

— Cameron Kasky (@cameron_kasky) April 3, 2018

Unless you live in the third world, feminine hygiene products are actually incredibly easy to come by. In fact, some places now even offer them for free in shared bathroom spaces in order to level the playing field — a sort of alms-giving measure to appease feminists who equate such things with women’s equality.

Several states have attempted to repeal the so-called “tampon tax,” but no state actually levels a specific tax on feminine hygiene products. The repeals aim to prevent states from charging baseline sales taxes on tampons because only women use them, but that sort of plan reduces the overall taxation rate and decreases the amount of money available for domestic welfare initiatives.

If one is really concerned with reducing the cost of having a menstrual cycle, one might actually consider favoring a complete repeal of Obamacare, which levied an additional tax on Midol, instead of reducing the market value of cotton tubes and acrylic underwear shields.

Of course, regardless of logic, outlets like Teen Vogue are simply overjoyed that the Parkland students are extending their activism from the Second Amendment to the family planning aisle, suggesting that a male is a “hero” for drawing attention to the “stigmatization” of the American menstrual cycle.