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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"
OP posts:
JustFrustrated · 16/03/2022 23:00

In my market research of, well admittedly a tiny sample:

The 12 year old, who is currently on her period, had literally no idea what the post was about until she read the caption. Then she laughed hysterically, said she'd never ever buy from them, and then came back later saying she'd discussed it with her friends and they all , boys and girls alike, found the term "BLEEDERS" awful and degrading.

The 53 year old laughed and asked me if I could still feel anything after the bowl of cake I had.

The early 30s group were all disgusted, and now gone to investigate the background of this (so I think I've started peaking them, so that's amaze)

I'm just...appalled. And bleeding.

MrsOvertonsWindow · 16/03/2022 23:00

Me too MrsTimRiggins Brilliant powerful comments.
So many powerful articulate women speaking out about women's erasure with confidence. Something is starting to shift - women are waking up to what's happening.

MrsTimRiggins · 16/03/2022 22:52

I just had to go and check this shitstorm out for myself. The comments on the latest post on Instagram, the statement, have restored some level of faith. Hundreds and hundreds of comments saying the same, the truth that seems impossible for the LOUD aggressive yet tiny minority to accept.

EdithStourton · 16/03/2022 22:43

I so wish these bloody idiots would stop with the wanky, dehumanising terminology.

Though, as @NitroNine points out,
(BTW, Tampons are also handy for gunshot wounds as well as nosebleeds.)
Legit, they are: I have heard this from both military and gamekeeping sources.

littlbrowndog · 16/03/2022 22:27

Jeez do any women or girls just think I am bleeding from my uterus.

We all just think we have our periods.

She’s off her head

KittenKong · 16/03/2022 22:18

You just have to vote with your purse. These cynical marketers/salespeople would sell their own granny if the they thought there was money in it. They see a trend and want to make a splash. They seem to think that ‘no publicity is bad publicity’.

But as someone with 30+ years experience in marketing I can tell you - give a prospect a bad taste in their mouth and not only will they avoid you, they will tell all their contacts too, and become extra loyal to the alternative who hasn’t pissed them off.

PenStation · 16/03/2022 21:49

Ha ha, they’ve truly had their arses handed to them on a plate by women. Good.

Seema1234 · 16/03/2022 21:41

50% of the population have periods. It's hardly 'different'.

I hate the way this language has crept in. It's so mysogynistic given you don't see the same with men. You don't see penis havers or person with testicles. What next? Will we be described as persons with chest bumps?

thinkingaboutLangCleg · 16/03/2022 21:19

@Manekinek0

This must be a publicity stunt. Surely she knows it's a derogatory term. I did check and it is in the urban dictionary so not just something that disgusting old men use in my area.
The stupid bleeders didn’t bother to check or ask anyone what it meant.
ChopinBoard · 16/03/2022 20:48

@ErrolTheDragon

We should be proud of this cycle, of bleeding from our uterus, it’s what makes us different.

Different from what? Different from default humans, ie males, I suppose?
But then what of those of us who are past menstruation - have we lost some source of 'pride'? ConfusedHmm

What utter drivel.

I was going to say this but I see you beat me to it. She needs to read Invisible Women ffs
ChiefInspectorParker · 16/03/2022 20:31

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Ladybyrd · 16/03/2022 20:19

We also understand there are many women who don’t have periods and some people who menstruate who are not women.

They qualify as "women" and "people", yet they refer to their target demographic as "bleeders", completely pissing them off?

That's a good idea.

VelvetChairGirl · 16/03/2022 19:52

@nepeta

I have a new collecting interest: All the contemptuous and ridiculing terms which are now used to replace what used to be 'women' or 'girls' when they were understood by all to refer to biological sex:

Egg-producers (quack, quack), ovary-havers, vagina-owners, bleeders, menstruators, non-prostate-owners, vulva people.

It would be interesting to see how this new language explains the reasons for sex-selective abortions in places such as India, given that they have zero to do with gender identity.

Screenshot them all print them and slap em all over a wall as an art piece, bet places like the Tate modern wouldn't touch your "provocative" artwork with a barge pole.
ChiefInspectorParker · 16/03/2022 18:56

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MarshaBradyo · 16/03/2022 18:03

@Seema1234

She says she wants to take away the social stigma of talking about periods, but has used deliberately evasive language.

Danielle love, listen up. Women have periods. Some girls also have periods. your key words are periods and women and girls. No need to beat around the bush (excuse the pun) Blush

Exactly

And stop the dehumanising language.

KittenKong · 16/03/2022 18:01

Social stigma? So use the words loud and proud.

Periods! Menstruation! Women!

Seema1234 · 16/03/2022 17:59

She says she wants to take away the social stigma of talking about periods, but has used deliberately evasive language.

Danielle love, listen up. Women have periods. Some girls also have periods. your key words are periods and women and girls. No need to beat around the bush (excuse the pun) Blush

namechange9357 · 16/03/2022 17:40

er aren't periods one of the few things that the vast majority of females of childbearing age have in common?

our personalities, interests, achievements and dreams are what make us different

KittenKong · 16/03/2022 16:49

Yup that’s going down well. So she never even considered that this could just possible split the jury (99-1)? Wonder if she will apologise?

ihavespoken · 16/03/2022 16:45

@TheCovidHalfStone

I’m looking forward to the toilet roll manufacturers following suit.
Ha ha! "shitters love our toilet roll"
ErrolTheDragon · 16/03/2022 16:37

We should be proud of this cycle, of bleeding from our uterus, it’s what makes us different.

Different from what? Different from default humans, ie males, I suppose?
But then what of those of us who are past menstruation - have we lost some source of 'pride'? ConfusedHmm

What utter drivel.

nepeta · 16/03/2022 16:31

@loislovesstewie

I've just had an email that refers to pregnant people. I don't know whether to scream or tell them that only women can be pregnant. Or both! Advice please.
Depends on the consequences for you, of course. But if it was from a friend, say, you could muse over the possibility that lots of female people identify as women because they live with a female body and because that affects them both directly and indirectly (discrimination, sexism, misogyny, and expectations by the wider society), and when it is 'people' who get pregnant, those women are no longer women or don't know what they are. The basis of their identity has been erased and their identities invalidated.
SirVixofVixHall · 16/03/2022 16:27

@TheCovidHalfStone

I’m looking forward to the toilet roll manufacturers following suit.
Snorted my tea at this. Hahaha
loislovesstewie · 16/03/2022 16:25

I've just had an email that refers to pregnant people. I don't know whether to scream or tell them that only women can be pregnant. Or both!
Advice please.

BlackeyedSusan · 16/03/2022 16:13

@Ohsugarhoneyicetea

Everybody bleeds, and last time I cut the top off my finger I was very in touch with my feelings.
having read that I am also in touch with my feelings...

mainly feeling faint and light headed and a little sick.

poor you, hope your finger has recovered.

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