An acquaintance of mine is on the board of a new period charity and has contacted me about donating to their fundraising appeal.
I think it’s a great cause (their vision relates to achieving period equity, smashing period stigma, access to period products etc) however I can’t find a single reference to women or girls on their website and they use the term ‘menstruators’. Other sentences use ‘kids’, ‘students’ ‘people with periods’ but not ‘women’ or ‘girls’.
I’d like a sense-check here please: I was going to reply to say I think the cause is great but their terminology has an impact on my decision to donate to them. Do you think that’s a reasonable reply?
I honestly do admire the aims of the charity but feel so frustrated that it has to be done with that language.
On the one hand I feel they should know they are alienating potential donors. But equally I could just delete it and say nothing and let them get on with it.
I think part of my hesitation is that if I reply and don’t donate, I’m not actually doing anything constructive myself to change period inequity. (And if I don’t reply, I’m not challenging the approach)
Would love some thoughts on my best approach please. (By the way I’m not in the uk if that’s relevant).