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"Most bleeders know how they are impacted by their period"

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PurgatoryOfPotholes · 15/03/2022 17:09

New business on the block selling organic tampons via post and so on, called Yoppie. This is their instagram.

Text of instagram post:

'Most bleeders know how they are impacted by their period, but unfortunately aren't in touch with their feelings & symptoms in the other phases of their cycle. We are here to change that.'

I just can't stop laughing at this one. Grin

www.instagram.com/p/CbFxHM7IWDE/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link

"Most bleeders know how they are impacted by their period"
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KittenKong · 22/03/2022 08:44

They wanted attention. The whole ‘no publicity is bad publicity’ but they forgot Gerald Ratner didn’t they?

Goodbyeeeee

SpidersAreShitheads · 22/03/2022 07:56

Yoppie can get in the bin along with Modi Bodi, another brand that felt unable to bring themselves to utter the dirty word of "woman".

Just looked at the Yoppie Insta feed and there's a follow up post where they double down on the use of the word bleeders, and there's another pile on from the comments.

They've since posted a few times more and not mentioned bleeders again - seem to be using the word woman now, but still no apology? They can fuck right off.

MzHz · 21/03/2022 14:29

@ChiefInspectorParker

I’m looking forward to Bleeder & Home magazine.
Well Beat me on the bottom with a Bleeder’s Weekly Grin
NitroNine · 21/03/2022 13:42

Yoppie sounds like a brand of [frozen] yoghurt (thought may be due to Yoplait 🤔) rather than a company that makes menstrual hygiene products.

Obviously it may have a very different resonance in Swedish, but… do you really want to sell tampons with a name that’ll make people associate them with [treating] thrush? Confused

Smokeahontas · 20/03/2022 21:59

Pretty bleeder,
Walkin down the street,
Pretty bleeder,
The kind I like to meet,
Pretty bleeder
You’re not the truth, I don’t believe you

ImInStealthMode · 20/03/2022 19:23

Honestly I'd rather just bleed onto the floor than spend a single penny on san-pro from a company that reduces me to a 'bleeder'.

ChiefInspectorParker · 20/03/2022 19:15

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IcakethereforeIam · 20/03/2022 19:10

They call me a working jizzer, I guess that's what I am..um..isser

miri1985 · 20/03/2022 18:51

When they were discussing the new Texas abortion laws last year, I remember seeing an interview with AOC where she kept describing the law as effecting menstruators. I kept waiting for someone to pull her up on it and say that an abortion law would surely effect non-menstruators more given the general lack of periods while pregnant

Growltiger22 · 20/03/2022 18:40

Only women bleed, Daniella. Women™️ Will be boycotting your company in droves.

IcakethereforeIam · 20/03/2022 18:31

After the jizzers of summer have cum - Bruce (got the)Hornsby and the Range

Soubriquet · 20/03/2022 16:41

Big Bleeders Don’t Cry - Fergie
Bad Bleeders World - Halestorm
Californian Bleeders - Katy Perry
I Kissed A Bleeder - Katy Perry
Bleeder On Fire - Alicia Keys
It’s An Ejaculators World - James Brown
Jessie’s Bleeder - Rick Springfield
Kiss The Bleeder - Disney
Pretty Bleeder - Roy Orbinson

VelvetChairGirl · 20/03/2022 16:24

Its raining ejaculators hallelujah.

west end bleeders.

ejaculator in the mirror.

the spice bleeders.

bleeders aloud.

bleeders on film.

FrancescaContini · 20/03/2022 09:04

Bleeder Diana Spencer, perhaps??

Seema1234 · 20/03/2022 09:03

Bleeder in red.

All the single Bleeders.

Who's that Bleeder

Bleeder Gaga.

😁

IcakethereforeIam · 19/03/2022 09:43

Cos I'm a bleeder!
B,L,E,E,R (sorry),D,M,A,N (dammit, sorry),E,R
I'll say it ag....d'you know? I can't be arsed.

IcakethereforeIam · 19/03/2022 08:20

Frosty the snow white male

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PurgatoryOfPotholes · 19/03/2022 01:05

@Furries

Before this thread, was anyone else aware of their company? I’d never heard of them - and their name will now be a “no” from me.
I had passive name recognition: if someone mentioned them first, I knew they were a new niche tampon company.

But I didn't have active name recognition; that is, if you'd offered me £50 to name as many sanitary product companies as possible in 3 minutes, I would never have remembered this one.

I suppose I definitely would name them now. Grin

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IcakethereforeIam · 18/03/2022 23:49

John lennon

Bleeder
I can hardly express
How pissed off I am at all of the mess

Seema1234 · 18/03/2022 23:30
Grin
latetothefisting · 18/03/2022 22:58

@PaddleBoardingMomma

Which one of you legends commented this under her wedding day pic of her and her husband? 🤣

"What song played at the wedding? When an ejaculator loves a bleeder by Percy Sledge?"

amazing GrinGrinGrin

I'm sure we could give her a whole playlist

"She's always a bleeder to me" and "uptown (young) bleeder"- Billy Joel
"You make me feel like a natural bleeder" - Aretha Franklin
"Oh, Pretty bleeder" – Roy Orbison
"Ejaculator! I feel like a bleeder!" - Shania Twain

Super catchy...

DPotter · 18/03/2022 20:12

Thank you @PurgatoryOfPotholes - that's very interesting

It's been my recent experience that older women 'get' the issues pretty quickly. The concern i have is younger women who have fully signed up to the 'be kind or you're a bigot stance', have a lot invested in that stance and therefore the loss of face potential is high, if they admit / agree with the idiotic situation we currently find ourselves.

SirSamVimesCityWatch · 18/03/2022 16:32

how to handle awkward interpersonal interactions over parking

Best description of parking threads ever. Grin

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PurgatoryOfPotholes · 18/03/2022 15:50

Fuck, posted by accident.

The amount of cognitive dissonance needed to post on MN, believing that, when at the same time I hugely value the same women's advice on everything from employment law, relationships, to how to handle awkward interpersonal interactions over parking is unreal. So I actually read posts properly when women explained their worries. I decided everyone on both sides meant well though and everyone needed to listen more.

Also, hanging out in a predominantly female space online meant I was conscious of just how inconvenient it was to no longer have a verbal shorthand for "adult female human". So imagine my reaction when I saw gender identity theorists taking female.

And finally, overspill threads in AIBU where a pair of trans activists used the word ableist to shut down mumsnetters' concerns for autistic children. Concerns which I, as an autistic woman, already shared, having noted various issues away from MN. At that point, I stopped giving trans activists the benefit of the doubt and read what they were saying with a much more critical eye.

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PurgatoryOfPotholes · 18/03/2022 15:41

[quote DPotter]@PurgatoryOfPotholes

Because I used to be "Daniella" and used to insist that female humans could be men and male humans could be women

Out of interest - what changed your mind ?[/quote]
Well, there were lots of little steps.

Some of the big things were:

I started lurking on mumsnet at 21 and started spending a good portion of my online life here. So, initially, I was obviously saddened and disappointed by other mumsnetters' transphobia, and their refusal to understand that they were misusing the word "woman". Grin

But carrying on posting here broke down my own internalised misogyny about being Not Like Other Girls as I realised so many of us feel like that. Also, gender identity theory relies on the idea that all women over 40 who express the slightest doubt concerning it are brain-dead bigots.

The amount of cognitive dissonance needed to post on MN, believing that, when at the same time I hugely value the same women's advice on everything from employment law, relationships, how tohow to handle awkward interpersonal interactions over parking seek advice from older women on everything from know also meant that I

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