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Where are the girls, BBC?

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NeurotrashWarrior · 20/01/2020 01:44

Period poverty: Schools urged to order free menstrual products www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-51167487

Not one girl mentioned, bar a link to another story.

It's students, pupils, children.

And yet all other reports I've seen have quotes from others such as plan international who emphasise how some girls can be disadvantaged by period poverty.

Other reports particularly emphasise that many girls start their periods at primary school, which the bbc fail to recognise too.

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NeurotrashWarrior · 20/01/2020 08:56

I remember doing class reports years ago and recycling skill specific comments via c+p for some children.

Doing the search and replace for pronouns didn't work well back then; other became othis, history became hertory (should have left those maybe...)

I find it chilling but I'm sure there is an algorithm that rainbow stamps your inclusive language.

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motorcyclenumptiness · 20/01/2020 08:37

the terrible word GIRL is there
The woke checker must have missed it

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NeurotrashWarrior · 20/01/2020 08:03

Guardian- it does take till half way through but the terrible word GIRL is there.

www.theguardian.com/education/2020/jan/18/free-period-products-to-be-available-in-schools-and-colleges-in-england

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AbsintheFriends · 20/01/2020 08:02

It seems they're actually only referring to non-binary, they/them-pronouned pupils?

"This will reduce the stress for any student who is trying hard to attend school when period products are an issue in their life," she said.

This is certainly going to make the scheme cheaper, as I'm quite sure that the overwhelming majority of the 'pupils', 'students' and 'young people' wanting to take advantage of free sanitary products go by the unfashionable pronouns 'she/her'.

SarahTancredi · 20/01/2020 07:05
Angry

Go on say it. The world won't end.

GIRLS. there see. GIRLS are missing school. GIRLS suffer from period poverty.

How can you solve problems you cant or won't name.

Ffs

VikingVolva · 20/01/2020 06:56

Pink?

Not Always, Bodyform, Kotex, Tampax or Lillets (and probably more)

And it's usually 'feminine hygiene' not women's health (p- it's a normal bodily function, not a health issue (most of the time)

stillathing · 20/01/2020 06:49

Thanks BBC. You won't name us. That means our disadvantage becomes disguised. And you can't change what you can't name.

I was wondering how schools would know which pupils might need these products. How on earth can they tell who menstruates? They don't get pupil's chromosomal information! And whether leaving them in gender neutral loos would result in some pupils (it would be impossible to say which) messing about with them?

GirlDownUnder · 20/01/2020 02:37

I wonder if the BBC know they have failed trans men (and maybe enbies) in that article? They don’t care about failing girls.

As they pride themselves on being on the right see of Wokesville, maybe someone should write in and tell them their choice of of Getty image for period items is triggering.
So much pink

See www.nbcnews.com/feature/nbc-out/transgender-men-pain-menstruation-more-just-physical-n1113961
“Having a period already causes me a lot of [gender] dysphoria, but this dysphoria becomes heightened when I have to shop for a product that is labeled as ‘women’s health’ and in most cases, is pretty and pink,” Jones explained.”

(From thread www.mumsnet.com/Talk/womens_rights/3793966-Cry-Me-A-Bloody-River-Article-about-the-Pathetic-Plight-of-Period-Plagued-Trans-Men?msgid=93259671)

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NeurotrashWarrior · 20/01/2020 02:29

And in so doing, erase half the actual story.

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Emmmie · 20/01/2020 02:15

They may be scared of a backlash if they use the word “girls” in their story. Yup, that is the world we live in now.

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