Don't call us menstruators: a poem

[HairyLittlePoet]

A few posters asked me to start a new thread for this poem which I had posted in the middle of another thread.

Thanks for the request, happy to oblige.

Menstruator, and other words that rhyme with 'hate her'

For those that don't like links:

Menstruator, and other words that rhyme with 'hate her'

if you wish to be inclusive
please amend your language usage
'woman' has now been disabled
this is how you shall be labelled:

ovulator, menstruator, gestator, incubator
procreator, lactator, child-curator, care-taker
homemaker, meal-maker, vacuum-cleaner-operator
titillator, conciliator, erotic-roleplay-stimulator

if a woman should resist
any title from this list
please ensure her full compliance
here is how to squash defiance:

moderate, invalidate, ensure that you re-educate her
irritate her, frustrate her, make sure you exasperate her
do berate her, denigrate her, obviously you castigate her
deprecate her, do deflate her, tell her you depreciate her

dominate, humiliate, and certainly manipulate her
subjugate, domesticate, and if you can, you abnegate her
penetrate her, impregnate her, all her life administrate her
regulate, incarcerate, and you shall incapacitate her

violate her, desecrate her, let your actions devastate her
decorate her, mutilate her, crush her and debilitate her
obviate, excoriate, and with your words eviscerate her
decimate, intimidate, until you can subordinate her

designate her, emulate her, mimic her and obfuscate her
appropriate, adulterate, mock and then impersonate her
exterminate, obliterate, and finally annihilate her
disintegrate, evaporate, replace and then eradicate her

just negate her
just negate her
just negate her

hate her

Brava!

Brilliant and devastating.

For posters here asking about what to say on social media to show people why it's a bad thing to refer to women as 'menstruators' or 'uterus-bearers', I recommend just posting this poem without further comment, along with a link back to this thread. I think its powerful directness will resonate with a lot of women in a way that intellectual arguments won't, and it might even stir something in the heart of the most compliant of libfems.

Thank you, HLP.

👏 very good

Brilliant!

hairy this is so good I feel quite tearful. Do you write professionally? You are v v talented.

Totally amazing

Backingvocals thank you for such lovely words. I don't write professionally, no - I'm neither a writer nor an actual poet.

I'm just an occasional rhymer. Who in this instance discovered a plethora of words that rhyme with 'hate her'. I thought that very fact was quite poetic.

It really sums up the evilness of it all.

Excellent poetry! I love it.

I think you’ve got something there hairy.

That's good

Yes it's brilliant. I read it in Rex Harrison's voice

Brilliant!

this perhaps seems pertinent, smashyourglasses

That'll be it! How good are you though!

Yes it's wonderful, thanks.

Brava Hairy.

I put your poem on FB and tumblr and now here I am asking permission or perhaps forgiveness.

Bloody good stuff.

This is brilliant

Brilliant

Gosh Hairy. Just when I think I couldn't be more grateful to you - because of the hairy ball theorem - you knock me out of the park with this

@CertainHalfDesertedStreets much as I would love to take the credit for this, HairyLittlePoet is a different poster! I am the poster formerly known as prickly ball (namechanged about a month back).