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For anyone who thinks calling pregnant women 'birthing people' is not a big deal, here's where that leads

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Clymene · 26/10/2020 19:00

Femcare is an organisation in Canada which provides education and advocacy around periods, seeks to end period poverty and end the stigma and health issues associated with periods.

Look at this tweet in their series about PCOS: 'another complication that may arise as a result of polycystic ovary syndrome is a menstruator having a miscarriage or premature birth of the baby'

A woman who is pregnant is not menstruating you fucking idiots. AngryAngryAngry

This is where this shitty language gets us. Organisations which are created and funded for women's health have completely erased us.

We are menstruators, birth givers, ovary havers.

Ps I am gratified to see that my iPad doesn't like the word menstruator. I'm sure that will change with the next update Hmm

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twoglassesofprosecco · 26/10/2020 20:12

Nice messaging.

Paraphrase: "Hey! Those ('women' in old money) with PCOS may have trouble breastfeeding and might not produce enough milk! Byee!"

Translated as: you might not have enough to worry about, so here are a few more things. Happy fretting, menstruators.

For anyone who thinks calling pregnant women 'birthing people' is not a big deal, here's where that leads
OneEpisode · 26/10/2020 20:09

Did anyone notice “ We’ve all been there – curled up on the sofa with a hot water bottle, a bar of chocolate and a good chick flick streaming on Netflix.”
In the middle of that “Femcare and the trans community” post above.
Do transmen all like chocolate?
Non-binary menustrators all like chick flicks?

EdgeOfACoin · 26/10/2020 20:06

[quote Awning10]... and from their website:

crimsonconversations.andsisters.co.uk/femcare-and-trans-community/[/quote]
You can email them here:

[email protected]

CaraDuneRedux · 26/10/2020 20:04

Christ on a bike - from the Twitter feed:
"One of the partners of Fem Care is the Minister for Women and Gender Equality."
(One Maryam Monsef.)

PurpleHoodie · 26/10/2020 19:56

Canada is a worldwide lesson in "PR the Leadership"

ByGrabtharsHammerWhatASavings · 26/10/2020 19:56

It's hilarious to me how they're all soooo desperate NOT to let women be identified as a biological sex class. But when they want to describe the set of people formally known as women how do they do it? By referring exclusively to our different female specific biological functions. Because that's the only thing that unifies us as a group, our biology and the unique challenges associated with it. It's so fucking stupid that I feel like my eyes will start bleeding each time I read it.

Menstruators. What garbage. After the birth of my second child neither I nor my husband menstruated for the next 14 months. But only 1 of us felt the need to ask the health visitor if that was normal. I wonder why that could be 🤔. Morons.

EdgeOfACoin · 26/10/2020 19:53

I went to their website. It said: periods aren’t a ‘woman’ thing.

What, pray tell, is a 'woman thing'?

Perhaps someone could enlighten me.

Whatwouldscullydo · 26/10/2020 19:50
Angry

Even when talking about miscarriage they cant even use the word women can they.

Fuck off.

Wtf is this shit

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Clymene · 26/10/2020 19:49

I notice one of their board is wearing a hijab. I wonder if she's wearing it because she is a menstruator or just because she identifies as one?

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twoglassesofprosecco · 26/10/2020 19:47

I just looked at their website. Founded and mostly run by women, but their Director of Digital Marketing is.... drumroll... a man (aka a spaffer)

Awning10 · 26/10/2020 19:41

... and from their website:

crimsonconversations.andsisters.co.uk/femcare-and-trans-community/

bellinisurge · 26/10/2020 19:37

Still waiting for the word "ejaculators" to be used by these clowns.

CaraDuneRedux · 26/10/2020 19:35

Glad to see them getting ratio-ed to fuck and back in the replies.

fuckers.

ErrolTheDragon · 26/10/2020 19:32

There are a couple of other threads where I've commented on this. The idea of a 'menstruator' miscarrying is plainly wrong and unnecessary. In general though, referring to women with PCOS as 'menstruators' is misguided and unkind. I have PCOS - I'm post menopause so not a menstruator any more. But before that, by far the most serious symptom I had was subfertility and not regularly menstruating - once in a blue moon, which made diagnosing and treatment so much harder.

And this shit is supposed, somehow, to be supportive? ConfusedAngry

Worldwide2 · 26/10/2020 19:31

What absolute cunts 😠😡

The word you are looking for is 'WOMEN'

Absolutely vile these people surely have mothers and sisters ect makes me so angry

WhatNameToChooseNow · 26/10/2020 19:30

As a pregnant woman that's really upset me.

umbel · 26/10/2020 19:28

There is CharleyParley - menstruators. Confused

Delphinium20 · 26/10/2020 19:25

Thankfully the commentators are all appalled at this insanity. I'm still angry...I'm raging at the cruelty of calling a woman going through a miscarriage or stillbirth a "menstruator."

CharlieParley · 26/10/2020 19:25

Misinformation is another result. There's a period app that apologises for being forced to use the words female biology and female reproductive system when talking about menstruation. But at least they managed to get rid off that horrible word woman and so their article on PMS read (at the time I saw it) that "80% of people suffer from PMS".

Hmm. My newborn grand niece doesn't. She's people.
My father doesn't. He's people.
My husband, brothers, sons don't. They're people.

If only there was a word for the people who do suffer PMS...

Datun · 26/10/2020 19:24

So menstruator is now a generic for women? Even when they're not menstruating??

It's just bleeders, breeders and feeders isn't it? The dehumanising, age old way to describe women as a service/function. Even when they are not actually involved in that 'service'. Just a bloody collective term.

Ok. I'm going to call all men wankers.

yourhairiswinterfire · 26/10/2020 19:20

@ZombieOtter

They don't even need to use a word at all there - they could've just said that polycystic ovaries increase the risk of miscarriage or premature birth!😡
Exactly. They're doing this deliberately, all of them. Getting off on finally being given the green light to be raging misogynists in public.

Bastards, the lot of them.

LaVitaPuoEsserePiuBella · 26/10/2020 19:18

Agree - dystopian

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Clymene · 26/10/2020 19:18

@ZombieOtter

They don't even need to use a word at all there - they could've just said that polycystic ovaries increase the risk of miscarriage or premature birth!😡
That is a very good point. The Sands tweet could also have been written in a similar way.

But I expect they have to appease the terminally offended who feel overlooked if they're not explicitly using approved terminology.

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jdoejnr1 · 26/10/2020 19:17

What is frustrating is that UK law makes it clear than if you give birth to a child you're a Mother so just use that word...'Mother'.

DrDavidBanner · 26/10/2020 19:16

@Sexnotgender

Fucking pile of shite. Fuck them all.
I was trying to think of an elouqent way to express how disgusted this makes me feel but I think this sums it up perfectly.

Inhuman wankers.

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