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Period poverty / 'bleeders'

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Beagadorsrock · 10/12/2018 14:07

"
❤️Jane Austen was a Super Plus fan, Lizzie preferred a Mooncup + Emma didn't leave Hartfield without her Thinx. But some bleeders in the UK can't afford sanitary products, imagine the scandal at the ball!💃🏽 Donate to @bloodygood__ this Festive Period & help someone's #flowhoho❣️"

twitter.com/ladycariad/status/1072068738147631104

Very disappointing. I can't believe we are back in the Middle Ages so comprehensively.
And no, using 'bleeder' is not "more inclusive" because it includes trans men. It is massively, massively reducing women to a (distasteful and historically considered 'impure') bodily function.

Can I start referring to men as "standuppissers"?

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TheLazyDuchess · 14/12/2018 09:53

*Should have added, I'm not English either. I'm not even on the same island as the English Smile.

TheLazyDuchess · 14/12/2018 09:41

I'm working class, a closet bisexual, (and yes, white they got that right at least) and I e-mailed?

"I just don't even know how they've done that in their heads".

What's not to get? I think even most men would agree "bleeders" isn't a nice name for women of a certain age. And what if someone's not a "bleeder" any more (or never was?), you could hurt peoples feelings with that term (not the same as being offended).

Agree this crowd think they're all "woke" and "edgy", but they're more likely just young, naive and trying so hard to be rebellious but instead it's all just a bit too try hard, and they've ended up looking like eejits instead.

Is this where the types who used to use shit, used sanpro etc as art went?

Ereshkigal · 14/12/2018 09:23

Last seen in the dying throes of Big Brother I think.

www.bbc.co.uk/newsbeat/article/29949815/dapper-laughs-homeless-charity-shelter-doesnt-want-his-money

LordProfFekkoThePenguinPhD · 14/12/2018 09:21

Whatever happened to him?🤔

Ereshkigal · 14/12/2018 09:20

There was a media campaign a few years back that pretty much did that, IIRC. And expected the homeless to be grateful for it.

Was it Dapper Laughs or someone?

LordProfFekkoThePenguinPhD · 14/12/2018 08:42

It’s like supporting a homeless charity when those who run it refer to them as ‘worthless, feckless or scum’. Why would you?

EmpressAdultHumanFemale · 14/12/2018 08:36

And spend your time supporting a cause that helps them, or another cause close to your heart.

Because no woman can be angry about 'bleeder' while at the same time supporting causes that aren't afraid of the terms 'women' and 'girls'.

LordProfFekkoThePenguinPhD · 14/12/2018 08:32

Ahhhh. Desperate to please men - is that in there too?

I see her in ten years time - living in the Home Counties with Johnny, a labrador and several children, bugging the hell out of the town ‘oiks’ by telling them all how to do everything.

hackmum · 14/12/2018 08:31

Illyria - I loved Longbourn too!

Bowlofbabelfish · 14/12/2018 08:27

Where the Venn diagram of ‘too dim to get a proper job’ and ‘too fancy to get a ‘common’ job intersects...

Ereshkigal · 14/12/2018 08:12

Somewhat ironic that she went to a naice private school.

Ironic but oh so predictable.

Ereshkigal · 14/12/2018 08:08

Bless her, all she heard was the command “ jump”and in her haste she got the wrong end of the stick.

Indeed.

BernardBlacksWineIcelolly · 14/12/2018 07:47

uh what? when people talk about periods they don't mean bleeding?

I don't have any mood changes as a result of my periods (apart from deep annoyance at having to faf around with sanitary towels). does that mean I'm not having a period?

seriously, these people will say literally anything won't they?

EeebyMum · 14/12/2018 07:35

This thread is gold.

OtepotiLilliane42 · 14/12/2018 07:32

Any transwomen would be welcome to some of the periods I endured
as a young girl.

Bowlofbabelfish · 14/12/2018 07:30

Although maybe they’re epicycles

Grin
Bowlofbabelfish · 14/12/2018 07:29

I think I need to arrange Remedial Biology 101 for —twits— Twitter users.

Again.

Men
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90mammasophie · 14/12/2018 07:26

If they start to replace the word woman with bleeder I'm gunna lose my sh*#

StrangeLookingParasite · 14/12/2018 07:07

OFGS, you are seriously out of touch with reality if you think any trans woman can have a period. Don't be so fucking ridiculous.

Notevenmyrealname · 14/12/2018 04:33

Found this very special series of tweets after going down a rabbit hole on twitter. Apparently when the average person uses the word period, it is an ambiguous term which can mean any number of things.

Period poverty / 'bleeders'
gcscience · 14/12/2018 03:10

Some transwomen do use them, conditioned ones though.

Materialist · 14/12/2018 00:28

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FloralBunting · 14/12/2018 00:19

But how can he be so sure? It's a very definite phrase to use, to say that you will never menstruate. How can he know, given the utterly mysterious, impenetrable nature of sex, that we are only just beginning to understand is far more complicated than the simple female/male binary we previously believed, that he won't wake up one morning and realize he needs to pop out for a big bag of cheap 99p night-time pads?

ScipioAfricanus · 14/12/2018 00:05

Ugh I cannot stand AH’s constant use of ‘c*s’. As usual though his grandiose Twitter writing style is quite fun - I especially like how he he sets out that he ‘does not and never will menstruate’ - just in case everything was so confusing nowadays with constant goal post gender shifting that we might think ‘never say never!’.

Materialist · 13/12/2018 23:55

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