The only 8 reactions you need to Liz Kershaw’s hot take on period poverty

The topic of period poverty has come front and centre, with many bodies now acknowledging the effect on educational achievement of girls who can’t afford enough sanitary products to enable them to attend school during their periods.

The government recently announced a move to tackle the problem by making pads and tampons free to all state-maintained schools and 16-19 education and training schemes – a cause for celebration, you’d think …but not for DJ Liz Kershaw.

Her surprising objection caused something of a meltdown online, with most people baffled that she should begrudge poor girls and young women this entitlement.

These reactions represent a whole raft in a similar vein.

1.

Hi Liz. I stuffed free newspaper in my pants when I suffered #PeriodPoverty AFTER going to a nice girls grammar school. Poverty isn't a linear experience, and your comments are ignorant and revolting. Use your position to raise other women up, not trample them and sneer. https://t.co/9sVSU6Ap0T

— ☘️🇨🇾Jack Monroe (@BootstrapCook) January 22, 2020

2.

lots to be sorry for here but mentioning periods (WHICH ARE TOTALLY NATURAL) isn't one of them.
also my mum used to use a landline but now I use a mobile because times have moved on and we don't need to be tethered to the wall anymore.
Why you fighting progress, Liz??? https://t.co/tmTxW9ghff

— Em Clarkson (@EmilyClarkson) January 21, 2020

3.

It's self-aggrandizing smarm like this that highlights how far too many people see poverty as a personal failing, one where those suffering with it must go through a ceaseless public display of self-flagellation to "apologize" for it. https://t.co/P37lF63NZV

— Kayleigh Donaldson (@Ceilidhann) January 21, 2020

4.

This argument from @LizKershawDJ is absolutely crazy! Even when you take the emotion and the poverty implications out of it. Yes our Grans did lots of things to get through but I bet she’d rather have had a pack of fucking Always you lunatic! https://t.co/Phy3D41L1S

— Jason Manford (@JasonManford) January 22, 2020

5.

Oh well. We should leave little girls with no money to do that then, instead of trying to help them have the ordinary and unembarrassing life their classmates get to enjoy.

— Sali Hughes (@salihughes) 22 January 2020

6.

What I’m gleaning from this uneasy partnership of words & bullshit is that you didn’t have to use boiled rags for your periods then. Awkward https://t.co/QQTeBBMSu8

— Gwdihŵ 🦉 (@youwouldknow) January 22, 2020

7.

I’ve blocked Liz Kershaw because she’s an absolute cow but anyway: I will never understand people who think that because things were shit for one generation, we should make they’re equally shit for the next. pic.twitter.com/oBprU9wd7S

— Red Sky At Night (@redskyatnight) January 21, 2020

8.

My ancestors used to shit in a hole, it doesn't mean I'm spoilt because I want to sit on a toilet. https://t.co/CZsRYoX9pZ

— Chairman Lmao ☭ (@BenTheTim) January 21, 2020

Comedian and national treasure, Janey Godley let her fellow Scot, Billy Connolly, speak for her – and many, many others, with this heartfelt statement.

Oh Liz pic.twitter.com/visu52VInr

— Janey Godley (@JaneyGodley) 22 January 2020

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