Period poverty / 'bleeders'

Eeeby , the middle class, white mumsnet jibes are becoming tedious esp when written by people who will probably be just that a few years down the line 🤔
Is there a non white, non middle class, mumsnet that people can join? I’m off to find out, I have a feeling they’ll be voicing exactly the same views as seen here 😲

There literally is nothing worse than a middle class straight white woman is there? Burn the lot of them at the fucking stake

They all go in for misogynist tropes don't they? They're the 21st century version of ladettes. Just cool girls by a different name.

Is it me or do the Kevin and Perry years seem to be going on a lot longer nowadays?

I can’t imagine any of us lot sending a rude email. Maybe she is so used to feeling in the right and being told she’s great, that she sees valid criticism and anger, when you have messed up, in a public role as “rude”.
I can’t get over what giant babies these people are. How you can work with asylum seekers and yet be bleating about people criticising something you’ve done is quite beyind me.

I sent her a really polite email explaining why I felt 'bleeders' was wrong. She didn't reply - and of course, she doesn't have to - but to imply on there that the emails she got were not polite is a big fat lie.

🙄

She has the most delightful friends

I put sanpro and pet food in my food bank donations. Sali Hughes has a scheme for donating toiletries , or they can be given straight to the food bank .

Please do include sanpro in your food bank donations. The need for food banks is appalling, and systemic change is desperately needed (and I'd be photographed with a jolly Tory MP at ours over my dead body) but we help desperate people and if authorities aren't providing a safety net, I'll be damned if I'll let women go without necessities.

I hate that food banks exist too. Just so depressing.
But IME they seem well run and are clear about what they are trying to achieve

One of my big concerns about some of the small charities is they duplicate a lot of the work already done by others.

Yup. I put a load of nappies in my last donation. Next one will have sanitary products too.

I hate that food banks have become normalised and we all just accept they’re there and feel virtuous for giving to them (I do too). Prior to around 2010 they weren’t needed and indeed people would have been outraged at the thought of them.

Yes. I’d rather give (and have regularly given) to food banks as they are well run and organised by reputable charities with clear aims.

A lot of these new charities are run by chancers who don’t really want to do any work and are run by arseholes with a God complex.

Sort of think this is why it is better to just put them in the foodbank collection - women need them, no drama. I think a lot of people realise this when given the tip

Agree.

Where women are too poor to afford sanitary products this is an outrage but the solution isn’t to make them rely on handouts

Sort of think this is why it is better to just put them in the foodbank collection - women need them, no drama. I think a lot of people realise this when given the tip. Also, the poverty issue is why the foodbanks exist and shouldn't so they need addressing together.

But if you call a man a man. saying a man cant biologically be a woman, or call a person with testicles ‘mr’ and not ‘Dolly La Boob’ then yes, yes there is ‘violence’ from women 🙄

Im sure trans people get physically assaulted - mostly by men. That’s the nonwomen, cis men, lads, blokes, Assesss...

We see you, love.

She hasn't got any arguments. If she continued the "I'm so incluuuuusive and kind and reasonable" mask would have to drop. Because cognitive dissonance. So I see why she runs.

"Violence on both sides", though.

They can never cite a single, evidenced example...

‘I have to go now. I have appointments...’
Translation ‘not listening lalalalalala’

Please feel free to add any I have yet to see/hear/be referred to as

‘Witch’ springs to mind.,,

Guilty Feminist is now reaching for the 'their life is worse than mine/there's been violence on both sides' trope.

You may be guilty but you're no feminist

God, Penis News hate females don't they?

Yes. They do.

Do you think I’ll be allowed in if I arrive wearing an Adult Human Female T-shirt?

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I’m getting increasingly dubious about the whole concept of ‘period poverty’. Where women are too poor to afford sanitary products this is an outrage but the solution isn’t to make them rely on handouts, it’s to guarantee a decent standard of living, at least above the absolute poverty line, for all. I recognise handouts can be helpful while we don’t live in this world, but they also serve them unfortunate role of making the outrageous situation more liveable and stopping people feeling the need to do something/challenge at a policy level (see also food banks).

If a woman can’t afford sanitary products because she is a victim of economic and emotional abuse, then that is the issue to be tackled.

Period poverty seems to be about the terminally woke trying to jump onto a sexy issue so they can ignore the real, awful and deteriorating situation of so many of our sisters day to day.

Oh disappointed in the Guilty Feminist.

None of these women get that an awful lot of us have been where they are now. It seems far more comfortable for them to disparage and patronise and imagine that they are on some higher moral plane.