BBC calling women 'menstruaters'

[ageingrunner]

twitter.com/bbcradio4/status/799030970288635905

[Xenophile]

As long as we can refer to men as ejaculators?

No?

[FreshwaterSelkie]

Can't make head or tail of your post, Pizan.

[YonicProbe]

Me neither, Selkie.

Pizan, are you saying the BBC promotes radfem propaganda? Or that it doesn't?

[Xenophile]

Oh, please say it does, I need a laugh.

[VestalVirgin]

There is literally no other way to be a feminist.

True. Though the honorific "Totally excellent radical feminist" (terf) is often used to honour those valiant few who stand by the truth while the rest of the world goes crazy.

We could therefore say that there are feminists who are not self-proclaimed.

[FreshwaterSelkie]

vestal

[ItsAllGoingToBeFine]

As long as we can refer to men as ejaculators?

But that excludes transmen, young boys etc. Would be more correct to call fathers' ejaculators.

[DanaBarrett]

Technically women who are on the pill don't menstruate either, it's a withdrawal bleed, not an actual period...

[Amalfimamma]

Would it be transphobic to say that female animals menstruate (most do have
covert menstruation albeit)? Do we need to call the female species of animals menstruaters Too?

[Xenophile]

Transmen are biologically women, so of course they aren't ejaculators. And young girls don't menstruate. So not really seeing your point

[HermioneWeasley]

I can't imagine the mental knots you would have to tie yourself in to convince yourself that you're a man, but to carry on having periods, and insist that all language be changed so that your manliness isn't compromised.

[kua]

noun. 1. the periodic discharge of blood and mucosal tissue from the uterus, occurring approximately monthly from puberty to menopause in nonpregnant women and females of other primate species. 2. the period of menstruating.

Women & Females seems simple enough statement.

[Backingvocals]

They can fuck off with that

I just would love to hear the BBC deciding that some white man who has decided he feels like a black man is going to rename all the vocabulary around race based on his feelings. I would just love to see that. Oh but wait - that would never happen.

[Datun]

There is a debate on 1 December about the transgender report. 'Itsallgoingtobefine' has posted at the end of this thread

www.mumsnet.com/Talk/womens_rights/2783139-Trans-media-watch-are-lobbying-mnhq?msgid=65053544#65053544

[Datun]

If women are to be known as menstruaters we need to call it out every time 'men' is mentioned that need to be called ejaculators. Otherwise it's discriminatory towards women. Let's see if men like to be named only by their biological functions.

[Tartyflette]

Fugly and utterly unecessary. 'Women who menstruate' is simple and factual.

[ItsAllGoingToBeFine]

YY. It's ready bizarre. In every category other than women, we deliberately don't make people their characteristics.

We don't tend to call people blacks, or wheelchairs, but somehow calling women who menstruate, "menstruators" is the correct thing to do.

[CoteDAzur]

I'm saving a special right-hand uppercut for the 1st person who calls me "menstruator"..

[Prawnofthepatriarchy]

The BBC has a news story about a documentary, Guns, Girls and IS about former Isis sex slaves who are fighting. The piece spells out the age of these "girls". They're in their early 20s, i.e. women.

Not content with calling us menstruators, the BBC is now infantilising woman soldiers. Time for some stern letters.

[Manumission]

Oh, that's Stacey Dooley. It's a very Essex usage of 'gels' and probably immune from criticism as 'regional' under BBC guidelines