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Feminism: Sex and gender discussions

BBC calling women 'menstruaters'

46 replies

ageingrunner · 21/11/2016 14:47

twitter.com/bbcradio4/status/799030970288635905

BBC calling women 'menstruaters'
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Xenophile · 21/11/2016 17:59

As long as we can refer to men as ejaculators?

No?

FreshwaterSelkie · 21/11/2016 18:13

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

YonicProbe · 21/11/2016 18:57

Me neither, Selkie.

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

Xenophile · 21/11/2016 19:22

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

VestalVirgin · 21/11/2016 19:56

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.
Wink

FreshwaterSelkie · 21/11/2016 20:02

vestal Grin

ItsAllGoingToBeFine · 21/11/2016 20:03

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 · 21/11/2016 20:08

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

Amalfimamma · 21/11/2016 20:14

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 · 21/11/2016 20:23

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

HermioneWeasley · 21/11/2016 20:27

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 · 21/11/2016 20:33

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 · 21/11/2016 20:37

They can fuck off with that Angry

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 · 21/11/2016 22:56

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 · 21/11/2016 23:46

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 · 21/11/2016 23:56

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

ItsAllGoingToBeFine · 22/11/2016 10:57

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 · 22/11/2016 11:55

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

Prawnofthepatriarchy · 22/11/2016 12:05

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 · 22/11/2016 12:10

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

ITCouldBeWorse · 23/11/2016 22:15

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