Reply from the Body Shop re JKR... just so dreadful...

I find it amusing that TBS think that "people" menstruate but only men shave. Perhaps they need to warn Gillette that their (absurdly gendered) line of women's razors has no customer base.

I emailed the CEO when the tweet came out. Thanks for the advance notice of the shit canned reply I will be getting, so that I can draft my next email.
Menstruators, FFS. Men menstruate! How many impossible things will we be asked to believe before breakfast tomorrow? But what can you expect when the UN tweets in support of “People Who Menstruate”. (That was today. From their UN_Women account. Tweet seems to have disappeared now though.)

Any man who starts bleeding from his genitalia needs to get himself to A&E ASAP!!

AIBU to think you should write to the Body Shop's CEO about their transphobia? www.mumsnet.com/Talk/womens_rights/3938995-AIBU-to-think-you-should-write-to-the-Body-Shops-CEO-about-their-transphobia

So who are the Body Shop referring to then when they have products for men?

It looks like an own goal from here.

@SunshineCake You're not missing anything, it just all seems so bonkers that you can't actually believe what you're reading

Yep David is getting an email from me tonight also....

I’ve just told DH that according to The Body Shop men can menstruate and he’s a bit worried now because he hasn’t had his period, do they sell pregnancy tests for prostate havers? He doesn’t want one in a pink box though, grey and orange packaging please so he won’t be triggered.

Well the Body Shop can fuck right off.

I've emailed David with my views!

AIBU to think you should write to the Body Shop's CEO about their transphobia? www.mumsnet.com/Talk/womens_rights/3938995-AIBU-to-think-you-should-write-to-the-Body-Shops-CEO-about-their-transphobia

Hang on, so men menstruate? How do biology teachers cope with having to explain the FEMALE reproductive system in lessons without being accused of transphobia? Or that some women have penises too?

No more Body Shop either then. I'll add them to the lengthening list...

Oh it's the the exact same email as I received for complaining about exact same email about all menstruators

Fucking twats the lot of them.

I'm so confused by it all. I have read JKR post. I have read stuff on here. Still feel like I must be missing something.

There's a kindness around accepting that not all of those women wish to call themselves women, but equally there's major rudeness and dehumanisation to women in declaring that we now have to refer to women by body functions in some insane attempt to protect a tiny proportion of the population from possibly offensive reality. I am not a 'menstruator' or a 'lactator', stop reducing me to body parts.

This expresses really well what I mean.

I've had this conversation once today Cloudy , there's a problem with ejaculators because there will inevitably be some dreadfully distressed and offended soul who wants to demand are they not men then because they have ejaculation issues or a low sperm count. Once you start down this road of hair splitting and pandering there is no end to it, the spiral disappears up its own offended bottom.

I suggested wankers as an alternative, but I wasn't being entirely serious at the time.

It would be nice if all these 'use inclusive language' types actually gave a shit about including females already struggling with equality of access to resources, who don't speak English as their first language, or have a disability, who will be unable to make sense of 'menstruators' and 'cervix havers' and be further distanced from equality to health care. Largely because of some very vocal, very privileged people virtue signalling how very very inclusive they are.

I think it's absolutely friggin gross and bass to refer to anybody as a menstruator. Perhaps it would be clearer if I talk about ejaculators when referring to men.
Or maybe just stop the fecking nonsense and stick with men and women. It usen't to confuse anybody.

Men menstruate? That's just your piles, pet.

Everyone who has a body of the type that menstruates is a woman. Only women menstruate.

There's a kindness around accepting that not all of those women wish to call themselves women, but equally there's major rudeness and dehumanisation to women in declaring that we now have to refer to women by body functions in some insane attempt to protect a tiny proportion of the population from possibly offensive reality. I am not a 'menstruator' or a 'lactator', stop reducing me to body parts.

We could have women and others who menstruate. Except there will then be fits from males complaining that this suggests that they might not be equal women because they don't menstruate.

Thanks for the science lesson re what a man is.

I'm just pointing out they are using backwards language and it's silly but they obviously not saying bio men are "menstruators"

I'm not saying I agree with the terminology they're using. I think it's absolutely friggin gross and bass to refer to anybody as a menstruator. Perhaps it would be clearer if I talk about ejaculators when referring to men.

You need female biology to menstruate. What you like to call yourself in your battle against biology is irrelevant, really.
Some people mightn't see an issue with women being reduced to menstruators to bring all those who refuse to admit to having a sex at all but still need sanitary protection into the fold, but I'm not one of them.

So, by logical extension, men (those well-known menstruators) also have babies? Well, thank you Body Shop (BS for short). Thank you for teaching us what centuries of Science, academia, and learning has obviously failed to understand....
HONESTLY, what achingly woke, half-brained cretins write these emails and form these policies?