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Democrat Congresswomen: Employers who don’t give period leave to female employees commit ‘an [sic] economic violence’
Several Democrat members of Congress from various Third World backgrounds recently held a press conference sponsored by Rep. Yassamin Ansari, whose parents are Iranian, demanding that the government pass legislation mandating employers give twelve days every year paid leave for “reproductive health” as well as various federal funding schemes “to end the silence that has kept women’s pain invisible for too long.”
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Via TIME (emphasis added):
Period pain can be as bad as the pain women experience during the second stage of labor, or even a heart attack.
This isn’t rare. My childhood best friend and I have been trading horror stories about our periods for years. We are part of the 50% of women who experience period pain and the 15% of women whose period pain is so debilitating that it disrupts work or school.
And yet we’re expected to “suck it up.”
Across the U.S., millions of women have to choose between working through unbearable pain, losing income they can’t afford to go without, or tapping into a limited number of sick days that then won’t be there if they have the flu or a doctor’s appointment. For low-wage workers, the choices are even more limited, with no work from home or sick leave options…
I’m introducing legislation to give workers up to 12 days of paid leave a year for reproductive health. It would cover period pain, yes, but also menopause symptoms, IVF, miscarriages, endometriosis flare-ups, and more…
We also need funding for research and to end the silence that has kept women’s pain invisible for too long. That’s why I’m also introducing bills to break down the barriers to gynecological pain management and to study misunderstood and underdiagnosed conditions like Premenstrual Dysphoric Disorder (PMDD).
At the press conference, Rep. Adelita Grijalva stole the show as she delivered the lines on her notecard in extremely poor Karine Jean-Pierre-esque fashion:
I’m here to speak to the thousands of women in Southern Arizona who are tired of being ignored. They are tired of having their pain minimized. They’re tired of a healthcare system that treats women’s bodies like an afterthought. Forcing a worker to choose between paying her rent or losing a day [sic] pay to cover, recover from a grueling gynecological procedure is not a choice. It’s an [sic] economic violence*.
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WOKE OVERLOAD: Democrat lawmakers Yassamin Ansari, Adelita Grijalva, and Rashida Tlaib recently held a press conference on how much their periods hurt -- and how it is "economic violence" when employers don't pay women to stay home from work when they are menstruating. pic.twitter.com/7vQgk2iH2p
— Breitbart News (@BreitbartNews) May 30, 2026
*Now, “violence,” based on my limited understanding of the English language, is what in grammar we call an “uncountable noun,” meaning that it’s impossible to have “a violence” or “one violence” or even “two violences.”
Accordingly, one doesn’t use articles like “a” before “violence.”
There can be “an act of violence” but not “a violence.”
I could be wrong, but that’s my understanding of the language I’ve been speaking my entire life.
Of course, these people barely speak English, in the same way that they’re barely American, and so can’t be held to the same standard.
What’s more, even if they knew how to speak English properly, they’d butcher it anyway out of spite.
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On the substance of the “subsidize my period or you’re economically violencing me” moral blackmail:
Should “period leave” be a thing, and should it be mandated via federal legislation?
Maybe or maybe not; I’ve never had a period, so I don’t know how debilitating it can be.
I’d be willing to consider it if I were a legislator.
In any case, the fact that such legislation could even be proposed with a hope of becoming law in the United States proves that the West is, far and away, the least “patriarchal” civilization in the modern world, and probably in world history.
Rashida Talib is a proud Palestinian.
Yassamin Ansari’s family is from Iran.
I wonder what the public response to these women's demands for period leave would be in their respective countries of origin.
Only in the West would this stuff be taken seriously — the same West they relentlessly demonize at every opportunity.
