I’m glad you didn’t TenderGwent… it’s a heartbreaking story that many of us can resonate with. I lived on beans on toast for dinner after school for many months when Mum and Dad split up and mum and I were dirt poor. I used to take 2 showers a day because I couldn’t afford deodorant but was very conscious of the fact I’d be sweating, especially when playing sports. I’d also use tissue as a sanitary product when mum couldn’t afford it, and was always asking friends if they had spares. Because it was either £3 for pads or £3 in the meter ( our flat had one of those old style pound coin things )…. it’s shameful that women’s products are not free. Don’t know how you’d fund it - possibly means tested vouchers?
duck knows but it shouldn’t be still happening and yet we all know it does. Period poverty is real, and incredibly damaging for young girls and women who can’t afford basic sanitary products.
I HATE thinking about that time. Not for myself but for my poor mum who worked and worked to keep a roof over our heads. My Dad stuffed her in the CSA department and was basically what you’d call an all round tight
bleep ( I know he is now DEAD but it took me yearrrrssa to forgive him for that. I’m the youngest and was the only one out of the 3 siblings that had contact) and I know that it traumatised my mum….we got a housing association house in the end, she still lives there almost 20 years later.
I had my own other poverty just before and during when my son was born and my mum etc had to help out with shopping - I’ve told that story before in these threads somewhere.
Sorry I’ve gone off on one, but
@Penelope_Ghent you’re doing an amazing, kind thing. I know pride comes into it a lot ( as we who have experienced true poverty know oh too well ) but that gets put on the back burner when a child is involved. If I was that boys parents, I’d be relieved he was getting an extra hot meal that day. I’d also be full of love and gratitude for the one providing that for him.
We, as a society, need to do more for kids in poverty, and girls who struggle to get sanitary products. But sometimes those who have a voice and a big platform can help make changes…and what did Jack do with hers??
Lied, made it all about herself, ripped people off to feed her tramadol / gin / sideboard habit, made a mockery of any minority group she can think of and diagnosed herself with a load of bullshit.
She could have been the real change. She had so many opportunities. And she fucked it. Fucked it big time that now she has no voice - because whether she likes it or not,any time she speaks up there’s gonna be a load of detractors gunning for her. Quite rightly too, after “all the good she’s done”. You’ve done
duck all Jack and you’ve fucked yourself over big time too.
Slow handclap for you, you gritting, lying, cosplaying, manipulative, bullshitting
bleep and the same goes for any sappy eyed and eared wetwipe
twit that championed you.
duck off.
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