Rod Liddle Rod Liddle

The BBC’s obsession with youth

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issue 14 May 2022

At long last the state of Oregon has got around to installing tampon machines in the male lavatories of its many schools. I have campaigned long and hard on this issue. It has always seemed to me grossly unfair that girls should be provided with this facility but the poor boys utterly ignored. The sense of shame that these young men must have felt when their monthly cycles arrived unexpectedly – and remember that many of them will be victims of ‘period poverty’. Now, though, thanks to the state’s chirpily named Menstrual Dignity Act, equality has been achieved and I will therefore turn my attention to another consequence of social injustice – the continued proliferation of parking spaces which are not designated solely for disabled persons. All parking spaces should be demarcated thus, much as they are at most branches of Waitrose. We move forward to a progressive upland only because of the tireless campaigning of persons such as myself.

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