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Cisgender women (and other people who menstruate) - The Pool

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Lottapianos · 01/08/2018 09:03

I am so fucking done with The Pool. Their articles have been getting more and more ridiculous recently but today we have this little gem

'.....after 15 years of talking to other cisgender women (and other people who menstruate) about their periods, I realise it’s all very normal'

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Seriously, how do people come out with this utter nonsense? Do the writers on The Pool have absolutely no critical thinking skills anymore? Who do they think their target audience is, and are they determined to alienate them even further?

So sick of it

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Lottapianos · 01/08/2018 09:35

Clairetree1, emailing is a good idea. I will try to do that later today.

fbsg, maybe it is some trendy editorial policy and it's not actually the individual writers who are at fault. Hmm....

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BeUpStanding · 01/08/2018 09:33

Yeah I can't be bothered with The Pool any more either.

fbsg - that's it exactly.

IWannaSeeHowItEnds · 01/08/2018 09:31

That pissed me off this morning too.
If anyone from The Pool is reading this, the word you are looking for is WOMEN. It needs no further definition.

bestbefore · 01/08/2018 09:30

Fbsg- exactly!!

fbsg · 01/08/2018 09:28

The frustrating thing is that the article immediately defaults to using the word woman correctly. It reads like the writer submitted it and an editor decided they needed the disclaimer up front to avoid complaints. It's the same politeness that meant people initially played along with the pronoun game and the 'treating as if' policy. But that politeness wasn't enough and now anything that doesn't validate their beliefs is violence Hmm.

Ereshkigal · 01/08/2018 09:28

Anyone know if anyone in particular there is pushing this bullshit?

AnduinsGirl · 01/08/2018 09:27

I've unfollowed the Pool for exactly this kind of stupidity.

bestbefore · 01/08/2018 09:25

It's do odd to use that phrase and later on she says "The “female health” tracking features were only added in June of this year, which is kind of astonishing, given that women are thought to have been using menstrual calendars for roughly 20,000 years" and mentions women several times past the intro Confused

Clairetree1 · 01/08/2018 09:25

For general enquiries and career opportunities, please email [email protected]
and we'll get back to you as soon as possible.

If you'd like to talk to The Pool brand partnerships and email advertising team, please email [email protected]

which email to tell them how upsetting it is to be called "ciswoman"??

Clairetree1 · 01/08/2018 09:22

how about we all contact them individually and express our hurt and distress and being called "ciswomen"?

VodkaRevelation · 01/08/2018 09:18

It is insane. It’s just a series of factual statements yet people will argue against them.

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Lottapianos · 01/08/2018 09:17

'Just women. Women menstruate. Nothing to do with gender or how someone identifies. It’s sex. '

Did you ever imagine you would have to write those words, and point that out, to other adults? It's insane

I'm increasingly finding that the only part of The Pool I can tolerate is their recipes in the Food and Home section

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Biologifemini · 01/08/2018 09:13

It is a shame that they are anti science and talk nonsense.
It is an otherwise nice website but I agree they are now talking bullshit to the max.

VodkaRevelation · 01/08/2018 09:10

It’s sentences like that that really highlight how nonsensical this language butchering has become.

Being of the sex that menstruates as part of their reproductive system is part of what makes a human a woman. No need for the cis-gender bit (is there ever?!) and definitely no need for the further qualifier. ‘Other people who menstruate’. Just women. Women menstruate. Nothing to do with gender or how someone identifies. It’s sex.

So frustrating. People bending over backwards to be inclusive that they just trample all over science and sense whilst also chipping away at women and what it means to be a woman.