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Menstruators and people who have periods

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HuckfromScandal · 09/02/2020 12:19

Well, this has enraged me, and I am wondering if I am being unreasonable?

Audible has a sale on, and I was looking to see if there was anything worth buying, and the book “period power” was listed.
The blurb has left me enraged, and I wouldn’t now buy it even if I really was interested. (Aware I am cutting off my nose). Is it just me???

Menstruators and people who have periods
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nocoolnamesleft · 09/02/2020 15:26

It's erasing women.

SapphosRock · 09/02/2020 15:23

I don't understand all the rage. Women have periods. Trans men have periods. They are all people 🤷‍♀️🤷‍♂️

sweetkitty · 09/02/2020 13:25

PEOPLE who have periods! Not women who have periods.

Thelnebriati · 09/02/2020 13:23

How can it possibly be profound when it won't talk about reality?

Women and our nasty dirty bodies are becoming unmentionable again.

Oscars rejects postpartum support ad as 'too graphic'
“‘Feminine hygiene & hemorrhoid relief’ are also banned subjects.”
thehill.com/blogs/in-the-know/in-the-know/482167-oscars-rejects-postpartum-support-ad-as-too-graphic

AnyOldSpartabix · 09/02/2020 13:07

It’s not just you.

This push towards unclear language, which is meant to be ‘inclusive’ but ultimately puts many women off is such a backwards step.

I no longer menstruate, but I was never, ever a ‘menstruator’. How ironic is it, in a time when we are told it’s appalling to define people by their disorders or afflictions, that women’s right to be called women who menstruate is being removed.

I can’t wait for this excessive repression of women in the literary world passes and we can return to using normal language when we are speaking about women.

All that said...

Buy the book if you want it. Maisie Hill describes herself as a women’s health specialist in the very first line and carries on in the same vein. If that blurb is attached to Audible, is it possible to buy it from another source?

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