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DancelikeEmmaGoldman · 26/10/2020 05:59

It’s genderwoo whack-a-mole.

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ErrolTheDragon · 26/10/2020 09:01

As someone who has PCOS (or had... it may have abated since meno) one of the main symptoms I had, which was a very serious issue when TTC, was not menstruating, or at least very rarely und unpredictably. Labelling women with PCOS as 'menstruators' is unkind and unfeeling. I'm pretty sure that their rates of depression are unrelated (or possibly inversely related) to their ability to menstruate.Hmm

ErrolTheDragon · 26/10/2020 08:56

@Deliriumoftheendless

Uh oh! The W word slipped through in that second one, someone’s off to The Gulag for that fuck up!
Given the systematic muddying of health statistics by asking about 'gender' instead of sex, the depression stats may well now be 'women' rather than actual women (adult human females). Hmm
PurpleHoodie · 26/10/2020 08:47

Saddo incels from the Northern Americas for example......

BaronessWrongCrowd · 26/10/2020 08:47

@HecatesCats

What do menstruators even look like? A sort of bloated, blobby mass that plops out menses & babies, while transwomen get on with womening?
I always think of the film Carrie when I hear the term menstruators.
MedusasButterDish · 26/10/2020 08:39

Canada. Of course the FemCare lot were in Canada. The country which made #waxmyballs possible when it made gender expression and gender identity "protected grounds [in] the Canadian Human Rights Act, and also [added them] to the Criminal Code provisions dealing with hate propaganda, incitement to genocide, and aggravating factors in sentencing." en.wikipedia.org/wiki/An_Act_to_amend_the_Canadian_Human_Rights_Act_and_the_Criminal_Code

A Canadian women's rights group, caWsbar, has been demanding to see the "gender-based analysis" (well, sex-based impact assessment) carried out on C-16. Was one carried out, one wonders? Canadian politicians stonewall all who ask for the GBA... Hmm

AnyOldPrion · 26/10/2020 08:22

Yesterday was bizarre on Twitter.

It was truly awful. Lots of us felt the same. Not sure why it ramped up this time, but it’s the first time in a while that I felt it might be necessary to post in the reinstated mental health thread.

FannyCann · 26/10/2020 08:17

I was on holiday last week and promised myself a total SM break. I did have one or two little lapses but for the most part it was peaceful and relaxing and I was engrossed in JKR's Troubled Blood and doing holiday stuff. Yesterday I was back on Twitter. It felt like stepping into a new dystopia, discovering the nightmare was even worse than I remembered.

War on women indeed.

EdgeOfACoin · 26/10/2020 07:39

All this is happening because women are expected to be inclusive and kind, as a default. So I have begun writing and complaining every time I see something of this sort.

Yes. Women have to push back or this will carry on.

HecatesCats · 26/10/2020 07:29

What do menstruators even look like? A sort of bloated, blobby mass that plops out menses & babies, while transwomen get on with womening?

Escapeplanning · 26/10/2020 07:18

Such biological essentialism.

nepeta · 26/10/2020 07:14

@EdgeOfACoin

Are these all American organisations?
I think the first is the American branch of La Leche League, the second a Canadian organisation.

All this is happening because women are expected to be inclusive and kind, as a default. So I have begun writing and complaining every time I see something of this sort. The La Leche League USA does not tell us how to contact them, however, so the international one gets my complaint. (I have form letters ready...)

NeedToKnow101 · 26/10/2020 07:07

FFS what is the world coming to?

I'm the bitch you hated, filth infatuated, yeah
I'm the pain you tasted, fell intoxicated
I'm a menstruater, twisted menstruater
You're the ejaculator, twisted ejaculator

Menofsteel · 26/10/2020 07:07

I’m on all of those threads! Yesterday was bizarre on Twitter. I was still fending off 2 TRAs at 1am this morning 😡. It really ramped up yesterday.

EdgeOfACoin · 26/10/2020 06:58

Are these all American organisations?

BaronessWrongCrowd · 26/10/2020 06:57

Really? Can they not bring themselves to say the one word that they are tying themselves into linguistic knots over. I'll say it for them

*WOMEN
WOMEN
WOMEN

It belongs to us. It's not theirs to give away.

justanotherneighinparadise · 26/10/2020 06:37

Are they still only accepting women exist in developing countries?

Deliriumoftheendless · 26/10/2020 06:33

Uh oh! The W word slipped through in that second one, someone’s off to The Gulag for that fuck up!

nepeta · 26/10/2020 06:30

Hello people,
Did you know that ejaculators began ejaculating at some age x in the past, now it is at age y?

I am so tired of this crap.