Not all Menstruators Menstruate

"Not all menstruators menstruate" is, I think, in my Top 3 claims of this whole movement. Stirling work, everyone!

I've long been trying to find out what a menstruator is - someone who is bleeding at the time, or someone who has had a period in the past, or someone who thinks they might in future, or someone who might have to mess around with their medication to check if that results in menstruation? But actually knowing now that you don't ever have to menstruate to be a menstruator makes life a lot easier - it's literally everyone!

It simply shows why we cannot give up women meaning adult human female where female is those with the body type that has large gametes.

Be kind let them call themselves woman, we can be females.
Be kind let them call themselves females, we can be menstuators.
Be kind let them call themselves menstuators, we can be cervix havers.
Be kind let the think they are cervix havers, we can be.....???

Someone might want to point out the WOMEN, those of us that have periods are unlikely to buy anything involving that word or support the ideology behind it, and so business failure is most definitely on the cards!!!
It is becoming a crowded market, we don't need to put up with this crap!

😂😂😂

Perhaps they're trying for a good piece of the fetish market

You’d think, but now it includes menstruators
who don’t menstruate it’s very inclusive as I assume that means people who imagine their soul is that of a menstruator.

I have laughed a lot at this thread. Partly at your very witty responses. Partly because I just don't know how else to deal with this madness.

@Choconut 😁 I think you're on to something there.

Maybe she's referring to people who have had hysterectomies or are post-menopausal who would still like to access information on these products for their children.

I would ask her if she realises she's excluding women and girls who have English as an additional language and women and girls who have additional needs. She nay be shocked to discover those demographics use Facebook too! And many girls with sensory issues prefer the feel of reusable period pants to pads or tampons.

I would also, very earnestly, point out that you'd been told "reducing someone to their genitals" was really offensive and un-progressive.

So sorry @DysonSphere ! It's really unpleasant but it is a thing, I assure you. There are bits of the Internet about menophilia if you wish to go hunting, but I suspect you may not and who could blame you? And they wonder why we don't want them in our toilets.

The language is all nonsense.

But, taking a step back- who the fuck needs a FACEBOOK GROUP about reusable sanitary products in their lives?

Is there that much to say about them that you need to have daily chats?

Step away!

@Rightsraptor

Or even someone who raids sanitary bins for used products, known to us here as menophiles

My head just exploded.

Supposedly it's to be inclusive of 'nonbinary' females and transmen. Wtf they should prefer biological language (let alone the mangling of it) escapes me.

Just call the darned things 'period products' ffs if you can't bear or don't dare to say 'women and girls'.

I don't even get the whole euphemistic "Menstruators" / "Birth-givers" whatever shit anyway. If I were a TW, I'd find that even more exclusionary than the term "women" as it specifies female functions I didn't share.

Horrified scream at the word “period”.
/s

I think what confuses me is the title suggests you could be a menstruator who menstruates but doesn't bleed. How does that work?

Or actually a menstruator who bleeds but doesn't menstruate but still classifies as a menstruator. If you are bleeding and it's not menstruation probably should get that checked out

Or that decoupage thingy

It makes me imagine someone bringing out a gruesome specimen jar

doesnt have to be gruesome

you could probably decorate it with glitter and ribbon and stuff

Just follow the supermarket example and call them reusable period products or sustainable period products?

I know the supermarkets changed the name as "feminine hygiene" was considered discrimatory apparently but it is at least clear language (in fact clearer language than the old one!)

'menstrual powers'?
WTAF are they?!

I no longer menatruate although I used to. Can't think why I would ever need to be on a FB group for it.

I find terms like 'cervix-haver' or 'uterus-owner' very creepy.

It makes me imagine someone bringing out a gruesome specimen jar while screaming "Look!! Look at my cervix! It's mine, and it means I'm a woman!"