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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:
itsnotdeep · 15/03/2022 19:04

I saw it and thought it awful. the website also refers to people who menstruate and tampon users. I hope they get no custom at all.

sophienelisse · 15/03/2022 19:04

@WutheringHeights66

I’m going to look back in a couple of days and see if the post is still up, can see any supportive comments.
So am I
sophienelisse · 15/03/2022 19:03

Would love to be a fly on the wall at tomorrows meeting about marketing Wink

EggBanjo · 15/03/2022 19:02

If no one bought the product then she wouldn't have a company.
Action speaks louder than words

WutheringHeights66 · 15/03/2022 19:02

I’m going to look back in a couple of days and see if the post is still up, can see any supportive comments.

Clarabe1 · 15/03/2022 19:02

Excuse my ignorance but what is a bleeder? I am assuming it’s a woman who is menstruating? Why are we being called bleeders? If this is about men becoming women they don’t have a womb so why don’t they just say menstruating women? Am I being thick?? Don’t pile on me- I am genuinely confused!

Onionpatch · 15/03/2022 18:57

@ScreamingMeMe - that was my thought.
There are women who have periods who view themselves as non binary or male, whether I like it or not and this brand clearly wants to appeal to them. But i would hope they still recognised themselves as humans not a function, and would if a function was mentioned - name the right one.

MarshaBradyo · 15/03/2022 18:54

How base is that

Irritates me hugely to be reduced like that

ScreamingMeMe · 15/03/2022 18:52

Except that one poster who is going along preaching at everyone that it’s more inclusive to pander to the tiny minority who prefer to be called bleeders than the huge majority who prefer to retain their fucking dignity!

Does anyone prefer to be called bleeders? I can't imagine transmen actually liking this term either. The misogynistic undertones are obvious.

TheWeeDonkey · 15/03/2022 18:44

I'm glad I no longer have periods because I actually find this language really offensive and upsetting. I grew up in a matriarchal family, so very feminist when I started working and used to have to deal with my male colleagues and superiors using this kind of language in the name of banter I found it really degrading and dehumanising, but speaking out against it was humourless, hysterical and over sensitive. My how things have changed

Briannashoshanna · 15/03/2022 18:43

Do these idiots not learn that women really do not like being referred to in these terms? Or do they just sigh piously, dismiss all the comments as ‘hate’, and take any criticisms simply as evidence of all the Very Important work they have to do to combat transphobia and brainwash people into believing men have periods?

I cannot think of a single instance where a brand spouting this nonsense has gained them customers rather than alienating women. But still they do it.

Ionlydomassiveones · 15/03/2022 18:43

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VelvetChairGirl · 15/03/2022 18:39

@Onionpatch

Not keen on bleeder! If i wanted to be super inclusive i would go with 'people who menstruate'.
what you mean females?
Onionpatch · 15/03/2022 18:37

Not keen on bleeder! If i wanted to be super inclusive i would go with 'people who menstruate'.

VitalsStable · 15/03/2022 18:37

I'm not sure I even understand the quote, after bleeders my brain started stuttering and still hasn't recovered.

Next time they shout we've got a bleeder on a hospital programme I will be relaxed in the knowledge it's just as mundane as a human female menstruating.

EsmaCannonball · 15/03/2022 18:33

Missed a trick not having Alf Garnett or Reg Varney fronting their ad campaign, chasing after a group of apple-scrumpers, shaking their fist, shouting, 'You little bleeders!' That is what this is about, isn't it?

VelvetChairGirl · 15/03/2022 18:32

@Fairislefandango

Except that one poster who is going along preaching at everyone that it’s more inclusive to pander to the tiny minority who prefer to be called bleeders than the huge majority who prefer to retain their fucking dignity!

Yes, there's always one. Sometimes a lot more than one. And look at her picture- perfectly womanly-looking woman. But no, she's non-binary, because that makes her more speshull I expect.

I reckon its the CEOs mum.
UKRAINEwearewithyou · 15/03/2022 18:32

bleed not blood!

Myee · 15/03/2022 18:32

Women, suffering the ways of men, but they don't bleed - only women do.

UKRAINEwearewithyou · 15/03/2022 18:32

@IdentifyingAsAPrincess

They don't advertise tampons like they did ten years ago.

Well only women blood not men in drag! They told it as it is.
FemaleAndLearning · 15/03/2022 18:30

Fucking hell.

VelvetChairGirl · 15/03/2022 18:30

@CharlieParley

I've spent enough time with my son in A&E after Rugby games and can categorically state he too bleeds.

I still wouldn't buy him tampons though.

(This might just be me but doesn't "bleeder" refer to either a hemophiliac and/or to a blood vessel experiencing traumatic bleeding?)

are you sure? one up the nostril is sure to stop a nose bleed
Soubriquet · 15/03/2022 18:29

@UKRAINEwearewithyou

Bleeder! WTF Enough of this bollocks.

I'm a woman. Men don't bleed only (some) biological women bleed.

Men do bleed. Just not every month from the uterus
FrancescaContini · 15/03/2022 18:29

It has to be satire, surely? Confused(clutching at straws)

UKRAINEwearewithyou · 15/03/2022 18:28

Bleeder! WTF Enough of this bollocks.

I'm a woman. Men don't bleed only (some) biological women bleed.