To wonder why I haven't powdered my lady parts before!!

Just mind how you go OP. I sprinkled some talc around in the summer (strapless bra wouldn't spin round on damp body).

I then slid halfway across the bathroom when I went back in with dry feet.

Marvellous stuff .... changed my life when I started going through the menopause. Hot flushes didn't leave me a sweaty mess once I'd had a dusting of it. I still use it, wouldn't be without it.

As said to another poster it's not coy or childish to not want to hear about peoples genitals. Several other PPs have agreed with me. I don't want to her about testicles, scrotums, anuses, defalcation or urination either. Just because everyone does it and knows what it's actually called doesn't mean I or most people want to hear it.

Theres a reason people say I'm going to spend a penny or pop to the loo rather than I am going to defecate. Because despite it being factually true and is all knowing what you're doing anyway, no one wants to hear it.

Hahahaha fuck me how is finding certain terms off-putting a lifelong subscription to the patriarchy? 😂 That's the most ridiculous thing I've ever heard! Some women are just desperate to turn everything into mens fault when it really has nothing to do with them.

Anus, scrotum, testicles etc. are all equally off-putting and nothing to do with women. Men often talk about dicks, balls and banjo strings rather than penises testicles and frenulums because it's all just a bit manky.

There are plenty of factual terms people replace with euphemisms when chatting because it's all a bit TMI and no one wants to hear it.

Tell someone in real life your vagina is moist and watch them squirm, because despite being factually correct most people find it a bit manky to hear.

Go back and look at your statement which started this debate. You were taking about talc, not baby powder. Keep stomping your feet and deflecting though, it's fun.

Your investment in this is insane.

People still call baby powder talc even though it isn't real talc anymore.

I presumed the OP meant powdering her groin rather than she is squirting power internally (because there's no sweat glands in the vulva) so no chance of paste forming and things getting stuck together.

Getting sweating in the groin is very uncomfortable and not solved by showering. Unless you stay in the shower of course - but that would be be awkward when it comes to socialising and attendingTeams meetings.

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The companies are liable because their talc product, "talcum powder", has qualities of a carcinogen, which they knew as far back as the late 1950s, but they hid this from consumers and regulators.

Why would the correct terms for parts of the female anatomy be "off putting"? Every woman on the planet has a vulva and a vagina - surely in 2024 we don't need to resort to coy, childish euphemisms like 'lady parts', 'intimate area' or 'down there'.

You really think that the OP is a man who has been making frequent non-controversial posts, which identify them as woman, for at least 6 months (under this particular username) to lay the groundwork for getting some racy stories about vaginally discomfort?

Sounds a bit barmy to me.

Because it’s clearly a fucking man posting 🙄

I used baby powder, I also drink alcohol.
Drinking alcohol is much more likely to give me cancer.
In fact even light drinkers increase their risk of breast cancer by 104%.

Says someone not in perimenopause or menopause! Dear God, the dryness and itching require more on a daily basis. I've never used powder, but I have to use vaginal and vulval moisturiser at the very least. Just wash and go is no longer remotely possible sadly.

I use vagisil as I work in a very warm environment and am menopausal and I was very uncomfortable and self conscious.
I don't understand why this is such a controversial post when it's something lots of women have a problem with. I've read a lot worse on here!
I wish I'd known about this sooner so I think it's fine to share.

Sounds yum. I need a sourdough starter. Send me some?

I think that's just you (well, and a couple of other posters).

The OP is an established poster and "lady parts" is a fairly common phrase on Mumsnet and elsewhere.

Go back and look at your statement which started this debate. You were taking about talc, not baby powder. Keep stomping your feet and deflecting though, it's fun.

I would be careful. For a long time.i used baby powder.it may be a coincide, e but I have been diagnosed with ovarian cancer.hopefully been caught early.6 chemo sessions are not pleasant!

Have I timewarped and nobody told me.

Vulva, labia and vagina are what they are called. Like the brain is the brain, the foot is the foot, the ear is the ear.

How on earth are those words off-putting? Sheesh - your subscription to the patriarchy is obviously pre-paid for life. There is no shame in our genitals, we all have them.

You do you though.

That reminded me, I was going to make a sour dough loaf today.

Spare me the ‘why would you want to put women and baby girls in harm’s way?’ shit. Nobody here is doing that. As we’ve all established, baby powder doesn’t contain talc anymore and I’m sure no mothers out there are going out of their way to source (and pay over the odds for) actual talcum powder to dust their daughters’ genitals with.

As is not uncommon on Mumsnet, a woman comes on to share something she’s found helpful and it quickly descends into derision and mockery. The cancer chat was fine up to the point that OP clarified the product she’s been using. And then someone else pointed out very clearly that the talc/cancer link just isn’t there like some have said it is. But still it continued. There comes a point when information sharing is just plain scaremongering and that’s my read of it. Hence my comments.

However, it doesn’t matter to me or anyone else what your views of my take of this situation are so please do stop telling me.