Queeriods. "How to talk inclusively about periods."

I have no problems with 'menstrual products', but the rest is utter bilge. And potentially harmful, too. Reproductive care is completely different for females/women/girls and males/men/boys.

I’ve just wasted eleven minutes of my life reading that tosh.

You know, the amount of effort that so many people are putting into these changes, the linguistic gymnastics and thought policing, I just wish they could have devoted themselves to something really life enhancing.

We know that global warming is going to finish us all off in time, regardless of our pronouns. I can’t help but think that if they’d chosen that as a campaign they could have turned the whole thing around. I’m staggered at the professionals and organisations that have dedicated themselves to this. It baffles me.

It’s like 99 people huddled around a chip pan fire with dampened tea towels when there’s a fucking inferno behind the door to the room. I’ll never understand it.

Well it’s as clear as day isn’t it. There’s literally a new word for women.

I actually know Chella Quint. It makes sense of this more if you know that she is an American (lives in UK now though). She honestly seemed VERY American to me, if you know what I mean. She's behind a lot of the period stuff

I see there's a (very fuzzy) logo for Sheffield Hallam University on that unfortunately named flowchart. Does any one know what the connection is? I've googled Period Positive and can't find anything.

Bland male corporate-style drivel. "Menstruation management"?

Being UNable

Stupid phone

That was my first thought when I saw that they donate to girls in Africa

Think they should also hit reddit and the farms to see how many men with a period fetish there are and how being able to answer male under the gender heading and fill out a survey about period products would play right into that.

Course the actions of a few men shouldnt result in transmen being able to offer their feedback. But it highlights why sex should be what's asked and an option for transman/non binary added perhaps. In fact they could add extra empty feed back boxes there couldn't they? So that transmen could mention about what improvements could be made to accommodate any issues they have from medication etc?

Someone must have had to think really hard to produce that flow chart. (And yes, the unintended fun in the name of it.)

@SarahTancredi That was my first thought when I saw that they donate to girls in Africa.

*then

This really is the most dipshit incoherent statement

It's made even worse given rubycup know lack of products means that girls miss school In africa so much so they donate a cup to a school girl fir every one purchases.

How much do you think they ask the girls if they identify as girls. How do they identify which children to give limited supplies to?

Does it not strike them as odd that it's only privileged snowflakes in developed countries who are making a fuss about this. How many school girls in kenya have got in a strop and walked out the line refusing their cup because no one asked for their pronouns

I'm really confused, if we aren't allowed to use the word "women" than "trans women are women" doesn't work as a statement. Or are we just not allowed to use the word "women" for menstrual products? Because I'm pretty sure women would want to know about menstrual products. (Genuinely confused).

Queeriods? surely that is offensive to someone?

I would be interested to know how many men need to buy their product versus women.

They’ll be doing away with Mother’s Day soon. I give you “People’s Day“ folks!

“Women and children first” nope, “People and children...”

If I were a trans man I have to say that one of the first things I would do would be to go on the depo injection or take the pill back to back to get rid of my periods.
I’m a woman and I’ve done that because I simply got fed up with having them.

Halfwits everywhere 😝🤷‍♀️🤷‍♀️🤷‍♀️

The automatic association between menstruation and women that almost everybody makes seems impossible to break. Whenever an ad comes up for a menstrual product, it shows young women

This really is the most dipshit incoherent statement.

1. How do you know they identify as women? And not men or non-binary? Why are you presuming someone's pronouns?!

2. Many, many transmen have said that they don't appreciate people constantly pointing out the fact that they have a vagina/menstruate. Are we going to put transwomen in men's shaving adverts showng them shaving their stubble every morning? No - of course we're not, because it's only ever women who must be inclusive of trans people, never men.

Why isn't there a massive push to get sanitary product bins /dispensers into ALL men's toilets

I think there is talk about this. Not for period products but for bladder control products. Which makes a whole lot of sense for everyone.

But it doesn’t mean that women can be dehumanized by erasing the word women from communication about periods and other biological processes unique to us.

TM don't have this kind of power or voice because they are female, and many TM who haven't taken medication to stop their periods use female facilities for obvious safety reasons. This is for TW, not TM

Precisely. They dont want or need it but they dont want women to have it either. Given it was only very recently the tax on tampons was abolished so they have been seen as luxury products for decades, in their eyes women and girls are getting freebies that men and boys arent .so they want to make damn sure they are included even if that means girls get less.

Are they really going to waste half of the limited funds/supplies putting them in the boys toilets?

If they were one of the schools that have fallen to the woke, then why not? If they are letting boys into the female toilets then I, as a parent would be demanding that they provide sanitary bins in the male toilets. They can put their money where their mouth is.

Why isn't there a massive push to get sanitary product bins /dispensers into ALL men's toilets ... You'know if men menstruate too?

Because the root of trying to separate menstruation from female people isn't about TM and meeting their needs. TM don't have this kind of power or voice because they are female, and many TM who haven't taken medication to stop their periods use female facilities for obvious safety reasons. This is for TW, not TM.

Why isn't there a massive push to get sanitary product bins /dispensers into ALL men's toilets ... You'know if men menstruate too? Why aren't men asked to give up space and resources to include people who identify as transmen

It's only a fairly recent thing isnt it, that schools have started providing free period products to girls in school to enable them to attend if their parents were neglecting their needs or unable to afford sanpro.

Are they really going to waste half of the limited funds/supplies putting them in the boys toilets?

I'm a non-menstruator but I'm still a bloody woman. Being a woman has dictated huge parts of my life.

It's definitely time to move to a smallholding at the end of a lane.