World menopause day....no mention of women!

Well, not sure what we all should expect.

Here is an article from last month defining lesbians as non-men.

hellogiggles.com/love-sex/sex/lesbian-sex-positions/

Ding ding ding, Leeds

I know where this is!
Not Red Wall, not West Yorkshire either.

Unless there's more than one (likely)

As a perimenopausal mess of hot flushes, irregular periods and acne this gives me the rage! Was very pissed off earlier by a post by a fellow member of staff at my large place of work (deliberately vagueness as v outing) re money she had raised for a cervical cancer charity. She avoided the word woman throughout by using people Thank god it wasn't people with cervixes or I may have exploded or just melted in a sweaty puddle It just didn't sound right! We should not have to use this language, it's clumsy and ridiculous!

Maybe it is to point how more susceptible women are to complain from things in a way that men don't.

You see, all the men going through the menopause never complain about the symptoms or difficulties in a way women do.

You have to admire the way men sail through the menopause, and the way they put a brave face on it and plough ahead is an example to women. Tut, tut complaining women.

We are so far through the fucking looking glass
Agree with whoever said “fuck this shit”

I've hit the point now of please don't witter at me about the importance of female biological issues or virtue signal with it unless you have the guts or care for females to name them. Because they are 100% of the target group, 99% of them prefer to call themselves women, and you're excluding many of the most vulnerable by exclusively catering to a few.

It makes an absolute hypocrisy of pretending to care about women when you make it clear that they are a dirty word.

'They are proud Stonewall supporters'.

Well you may find that they're doing a U turn on that before very long. Idiots🙄

I don't blame you for feeling scared to raise this issue, which is very significant and important by the way! We had a virtual webinar about menopause in my workplace recently, led by a very experienced and no-nonsense nurse. I found myself feeling pathetically grateful for her constant references to 'ladies', as in 'some ladies experience hot flushes' and 'a few ladies report X symptom'. She knew exactly who needed to be included in her content, and who didnt

Red Wall area?

I see Liz Truss is speaking up for Professor Kathleen Stock - haven't seen much support from Labour MPs.

I do despair - when will this lunacy end?

West Yorkshire or somewhere in Scotland.
Loads of woman-erasing options I fear.

I think if my organisation pulled a stunt like this I'd try to devise a very positive response thanking them for initiatives to help women in the workplace through what can be a difficult time, and how good it is to see actions which help combat structural sexism and ageism.

@Bonsaibreaker

Ahh Frances I won't take your house as its not Brighton. It's a lot more Nothern

Now, where could be more wokey than wokier-than-thou London by the Sea??

Do you think that organisations that are Stonewall champions or whatever it's called,have to have a little detector installed. One that automatically activates if someone uses the words 'women,females or girls'. A claxon sounds at SW HQ and inclusivity points are deducted. For major transgressions,the person causing the activation is identified and sent for 're education'?

It’s Brighton and Hove - I bet my house on it…

It’s ludicrous - please can you point this out to them??

Have you got any Tory councillors you could approach in confidence? A lot of them hate this kind of money-wasting ideological nonsense and you're often pushing at an open door.

I heard something about male menopause the other day. A man mentioned it (trying to be kind about actual menopause) - I scoffed loudly and pointed out that a mid-life crisis is psychological and not physiological, and man has never suffered from the menopause (or there’d be an effective, universally available treatment by now).

If only I were male - I'd be tempted to identify as menopausal - is there someone who could do that for your place of work?

My employer also has a Menopause policy that somehow does not mention that word woman at all. Employees, team members, individuals. Makes it sound like it happens to everyone (mentions the ageing process). Has anyone challenged this at work?

Which council - can you say (Bristol, is it Bristol?)?

O my fucking god.

Being inclusive of the young girls forced through meno by pbs because they think they're male.

Fuck off.

I would be tempted to push for prostate awareness day and erase men at all points in the same way. And argue how important consistency is.

But it is probably not the right way to go.