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Sigh. Another period product company erasing women.

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Blueblisters · 19/05/2022 19:15

Unfabled, on Instagram. Helpfully suggesting we stop talking about ‘women having periods’ and say ‘people who have periods’ while at the same time banging on about destigmatising menstruation. Do these useful idiots ever stop and think about the misogyny they are unwittingly promoting?
www.instagram.com/p/CdvgQ12OoqK/?igshid=YmMyMTA2M2Y=

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ChiefInspectorParker · 19/05/2022 20:16

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USaYwHatNow · 19/05/2022 20:11

They've disabled comments now 😂

Badger1970 · 19/05/2022 20:08

Their FB page seems to be completely different, though. None of the woke on there.

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Blueblisters · 19/05/2022 20:01

Yes, I think you’ve been blocked. They won’t listen to a word women say, unfortunately. Just delete and block and write women off as trolls. Much easier than taking time to consider you might have got it wrong.

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Badger1970 · 19/05/2022 19:59

I commented but the page now shows as deleted....... does that mean I've been blocked 😂

KittenKong · 19/05/2022 19:52

Well every comment is basically telling them to ‘do one’ so there’s hope…

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Blueblisters · 19/05/2022 19:52

Men are allowed to keep their words, it’s only women whose language has become unsayable.

I notice Unfabled are deleting comments as fast as women can type them.

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nepeta · 19/05/2022 19:48

MrsOvertonsWindow · 19/05/2022 19:38

The captured by male lobbyists NHS is also not very keen on the word woman when talking about women's gynaecological cancers:

www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-10833585/NHS-removes-word-women-ovarian-womb-cancer-advice-pages.html

The article doesn't mention that pages about testicular cancer and prostate cancer explicitly refer to men. It is the usual "erasing the female sex only" trend.

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Blueblisters · 19/05/2022 19:43

I saw that the NHS had done that. Absolutely disgraceful. Ovarian Cancer UK were blocking women on Twitter last week who objected to their refusal to say ‘women’.

How has it come to this?

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MrsOvertonsWindow · 19/05/2022 19:38

The captured by male lobbyists NHS is also not very keen on the word woman when talking about women's gynaecological cancers:

www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-10833585/NHS-removes-word-women-ovarian-womb-cancer-advice-pages.html

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Blueblisters · 19/05/2022 19:38

It is deeply insulting. I’m so sick of these woke period based start ups - last one was the idiot who called us all bleeders - who sweep in boldly declaring they’re here to revolutionise menstruation and how we talk
about it and they are either too cowardly or misogynistic to even saying the word women. They are so utterly delusional in their belief that they’re doing something progressive for women when they won’t even fucking name us as they’re so desperate to pander to a men’s rights movement! It’s pathetic and has given me the absolute rage tonight.

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Abra1d1 · 19/05/2022 19:32

It is insulting.

octagonspoon · 19/05/2022 19:30

It’s 2022 and 58% of people said they still feel embarrassed by their period

No they didn't. 50% of people are never able to have a period in their entire life.

We are so over the phrase sanitary products

They are also, apparently, so over the phrase 'women'. Whilst boldly wanting to destigmatise periods, they are also cravenly stigmatising the word 'women' when associated with anything womanly.

These people really need to think a bit more deeply about what lies behind the values they claim to hold.

Abra1d1 · 19/05/2022 19:24

That is awful.

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Blueblisters · 19/05/2022 19:17

They’d also like to know what makes ‘people’ feel ashamed about their periods. How do they have the gall to start a conversation like that when they will not even name the sex class of human who have periods?

I am SO OVER THIS SHIT!

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