Menstruators and people who have periods

I’ve taken it out on the garden today.

It was proper telt

Oh I completely understand and agree!

Vent away

I know - just venting.

It is just that every day there seems to be something else chip-chipping away.

It is just maddening. Or just plain mad....

They cannot wipe us out. Everyone knows what a woman is. Every single person on Earth came out of one.

Just stick to our own language. We are strong.

Woman. Woman. Woman.

Just checking. I’m starting to get the feeling using this word will be the same as saying Candyman.

Only instead of seeing the Candyman loom behind me, I will see some sort of arsey activist.

MAKE IT FUCKING STOP. I AM SO BASTARD TIRED OF MEN TRYING TO WIPE WOMANKIND OUT

They can fuck off. Are you less of a woman if you don't have periods due to your method of contraception? What if your periods have stopped due to health issues? Does that mean you don't require the same information/healthcare/support.

www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6614821/Womens-March-refers-female-MPs-menstruators-Twitter.html

Ive no problem getting rid of feminine hygiene from that list

Its the hygiene bit that pisses me off to be fair...not the feminine bit

I've just been tipped over the edge by this

Again, its only ever woman stuff. No hand wringing about terms for men, or asking what a man is, or mass claiming that being a man is a complicated thing not based on biology

What do you suppose men will decide to call women who do not have a uterus or no longer menstruate? Hags?

"Women's" March London still called them menstruators. "There are x number of menstruators in Parliament". Proving that it's bullshit, thoughtless woke washing.

How is the reproductive biology common to all (afaik) mammals, and most plants reptiles insects

And In humans the axis of oppression for half the population for as long as we can remember, globally

Analogous with religious beliefs?

Is it like how some USA schools fought to teach creationism alongside the theory of evolution?

Is that the angle about respecting beliefs?

Well we have to wait and see what the men decide to call us bewilderness cos that’s how it works.

What do you suppose men will decide to call women who do not have a uterus or no longer menstruate? Hags?

Is there a male equivalent?

I've just been tipped over the edge by this

I’ve no problem respecting people who are different. Someone wants to be called a “menstruator?” Fine by me.

In return, please respect me and anyone else who rejects “menstruator” for themselves. We are women and girls. Thanks.

I don't see a problem in being respectful to people who are different.

Following a wrong and misguided ideology, IMO. Not just "different". And causing problems for women and girls.

I can see that some people think they are not the sex they actually are. It’s far from respectful to have me collude in that belief. Particularly when that belief is steeped in a deep misogyny of the sort that encourages the rejection by young girls of their sexed bodies.

Your equivalent is to have us all named Non Muslims so that Muslims don’t get offended by my view that their religion is a belief system, not a fact.

Justhadathought

I believe Muslims exist and I respect their religious beliefs. Doesn't make me a Muslim myself or means I believe in the religion.

I don't see a problem in being respectful to people who are different.

My new theory is that all this would stop if we could find a way to ensure that anyone declaring themself to be a woman could then immediately have full on, flooding, cramping, hideous periods. Menstruate away

So people can’t change sex and transboys are actually women (because people can’t change sex) but we can’t possibly be ‘an arse’ and say this in words because the world would actually implode.

To be fair this is also the MNHQ position but it makes no sense from them either.

@Justhadathought I don't believe anything of the sort

But you said that you "believe that trans men exist.......?" If you believe that people can change sex then it surely follows that you believe or accept all of the rest......That's how it goes with an ideology.....You can't pick and choose.

And no, I'm not " being an arse" I'm simply confirming what you have said yourself - along with its inevitable and logical conclusions. I've also explained that this is where the problems and issues begin.

......Because you seen unable to comprehend that people might believe and see things differently to you - hence your dismissal of people's concerns as being somehow false, hyperbolic, misplaced, or over the top; or somehow distracting from 'real' issues.

Batshite agree

And good luck with telling, for instance, black people, that you are changing the words that they use to name themselves. I mean, really. Good luck.

Or gay people. I don’t think the word gay includes kind of gay people who I think it should include. So I’m renaming them.

Oh and Welsh people. Should really be West Of England people. More inclusive of those who don’t actually identify as Welsh but understand that their location is to the West of England.

This is all going to go swimmingly.