Men have periods too

I usually really like this woman, she is a big player in the body positivity field. This though just confused me!!

I have talked it my toddler about periods - based on questions she has asked when I have been changing sanitary towels. She could parrot things back to me at the time but she has no understanding of any of it, and she is three so she can't spell words on a board.
If I told her that men also had periods she would believe me. If I asked her to smile for a photo she might or might not, depending on her mood at that exact moment.

So show me a man who bleeds out of his penis....

...and I'll show you someone who urgently needs medical attention.

If a man has a period - then he isn't a man !! He can identify as a man but he isn't actually one !!

@WhatsInAName19 It'll just be another plus if the tories are still in charge. They will continue to de-fund it and add more leverage too 'it's not working let's just scrap it'

Bit of a derailment so feel free to ignore. What is going to happen when we've got transmen dying of cervical cancer because they never got called up for screening due to insisting that they be legally documented as men? Will they sue because "some men have cervices" and therefore men should be invited for cervical screening too? What about transwomen recieving call ups for female cancer screening (and I have absolutely no doubt some of them would actually turn up for the appointments for varying reasons) with all the wasted NHS resources that this would entail? I mean, we've got women dying of cervical cancer because we can't afford to screen U25s so it's ludicrous to think that we're going to piss NHS money up the wall like this. I've never seen this issue addressed, although I'm positive it will have been and I just have missed the threads.

an attempt to get an early start on the indoctrination.

The truth of this statement has given me goose bumps. It feels so much like a cult, indoctrination. It feels like they are recruiting vulnerable and confused teenagers, and even younger children apparently too. A few stories popping up of de-transitioning already, it'll be even more so in a few years. It's anti-science, it's anti-women, it's anti-LGB and anti-hetro really too. Anyone who believes in science or/and doesn't want women's&LGB rights taken away is villianized.

So show me a man who bleeds out of his penis.

That's rather an awkward, uncomfortable look on the kid's face so maybe whoever took the photo actually was babbling on at him about men having periods.

Where did you find this photo?

I can't imagine why anyone would be discussing periods with a toddler other than in an attempt to get an early start on the indoctrination.

Little children believe in Santa Claus. Sadly they can be made to believe anything.

I don't know, kittens, I barely remember anything before I was four, and we moved house just after my fourth birthday so I can date pre-post four pretty accurately.

Also that kid can't be more than 4, probably younger. Did you know what periods were at 4? I did not.

I find the world we live in - the world of lies - fucking scary.

Totalitarianism is scary. You'd be a fool not to be horrified by this nonsense. Most people are, it is being imposed from on high against the wishes of the vast majority.

No they don't. Biology and all that.
Mother nature is clearly a well manicured field of grass.

Just greet this type of gormless inanity with hysterical laughter and then ignore. There's little that'll piss them off more. 🤣🤣🤣

Why is this person using their child in their attempt at propaganda?

The words could easily have been photo shopped onto that board.

I find the world we live in - the world of lies - fucking scary.

I can get my children to hold a sign saying 'The moon is made of cheese, if I can get it so can you', with the cheesiest grins ever. I could easily convince my children the moon is made of cheese. But the reality is, you can't will a moon into cheese. The moon is the moon, cheese is cheese.

If only we had a word to collectively describe all the people that potentially get periods. That would be a useful word when talking about such people as a group, and discussing things like health problems and social issues related to periods etc etc... wouldn't it?

I'm amazed the English language doesn't have such a word already.

What I find ironic is that the kid is dressed in a blue top (PJs?) depicting stereotypical boys' clothes-wear. And not a pink/purple Lego piece in sight. So raising him obviously as a boy?

Crack on. It's getting so obviously ridiculous now that the general public will say exactly what any sane person would say on seeing that: nonsense.

I saw a comment today in an article about it being fine for people born male to say this and that so long as they changed their pronouns, and the first detached thought I had was, so the next step will be 'I can be a woman and not even change my pronouns'. 'Women can be he and him too'. 'Pronouns are a social construct and exist on a spectrum'.

Yada yada yada.