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Feminism: Sex and gender discussions

Your peaktrans moment for today! Top this if you can.

388 replies

Ritzsaltedcrackers · 25/04/2018 13:21

A woman was thrown out of a FB feminist group for challenging the idea that transwomen get periods.

apparently they DO get periods just without the small aspect of bleeding.

She was told that she was minimising transwomen's periods.

www.facebook.com/beth.rep/posts/10216741083464856

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Rufustheconstantreindeer · 26/04/2018 09:21

Oooh i did nit think of it that way positively nice one

I had more that i biologically (as apparently that word means whatever i want it to now) HAVE to eat chocolate and deal with the subsequent weight gain

Whereas DH doesn't

Rufustheconstantreindeer · 26/04/2018 09:22

Hotel chocolat has done pink chocolate for ages

Your peaktrans moment for today! Top this if you can.
Rufustheconstantreindeer · 26/04/2018 09:22

Have...not has

AngryAttackKittens · 26/04/2018 09:22

This is why DH lets me steal the best ones from boxes of chocolate, he knows that I need it more than he does.

AngryAttackKittens · 26/04/2018 09:23

No this isn't food coloring, apparently the beans are pink and it has sort of a berry undertone to the flavor.

Rufustheconstantreindeer · 26/04/2018 09:25

Are you dissing hotel chocolate

'We’ve whipped tangy real raspberry with opulent white chocolate, then piped pools of it into creamy milk chocolate to create this smooth yet zesty Slab. A sprinkling of cocoa biscuits and real raspberry pieces finishes it with nibbly, satisfying texture. Exuberantly moreish!'

Its real raspberry!!

I dont like raspberry

Terfulike · 26/04/2018 09:28

This discussion seems increasingly ludicrous. What's it all about. Can't we be straightforward. Men are non-gestational and lack a uterus. Menstruation involves the passing of uterine blood. Enough said on that.

AngryAttackKittens · 26/04/2018 09:29

Never had Hotel chocolate, but that one above looks a bit plasticky.

This is the pink chocolate I mean btw. Maybe if anyone has tried it we can talk about that instead of tea next time our late night friend who works in finance turns up, or someone similar.

www.eater.com/2017/9/5/16256992/ruby-chocolate-callebaut-millennial-pink

Rufustheconstantreindeer · 26/04/2018 09:31

Good plan angry

Someone in FWR has tried it i think...may have been on the pub thread

AngryAttackKittens · 26/04/2018 09:34

Also I'm very suspicious of the word "zesty". Never had anything that described itself as zesty that didn't taste like disappointment.

Datun · 26/04/2018 09:38

I remember the Pink Chocolate of Yore.

The pink panther brand.

A wiley male panther, all in pink. How nonconforming of him. Serendipity!

Unless...? He was male, wasn't he?

He didn't speak, though, did he?

Worried now that it was mass unconscious bias that made him male.

Your peaktrans moment for today! Top this if you can.
FairfaxAikman · 26/04/2018 09:40

@AngryAttackKittens I've tried it. It's minging. Would rather have a nice manly Yorkie tbh.

AngryAttackKittens · 26/04/2018 09:41

Disappointment again!

FairfaxAikman · 26/04/2018 09:42

Oh and if finance friend turns up I can properly chocolate geek.

Ever heard of Femme de Virunga chocolate? It grown by women, with profits sent back to help more women become cacao farmers.

Bowlofbabelfish · 26/04/2018 09:46

Tried the pink choc. Unimpressed.

Even the toddler spat it out. ‘Not good mama’

Into my hand, the charming little chap...

AngryAttackKittens · 26/04/2018 09:46

Pink Panther doesn't appear to have any genitalia, thus leading to the question of where little panthers come from.

Terfulike · 26/04/2018 09:50

Well that went down like a lead balloon. Might you start a new thread called "Pink panther chocolate lovers". This thread is becoming seriously off point.

GrooovyLass · 26/04/2018 09:52

To carry on with this tangent for a moment: DD and I shared a pink kitkat the other day. She (favourite kitkat is white chocolate, very sweet tooth) found it too bitter. I (favourite kitkat is dark chocolate, would rather have cheese than chocolate) found it too sweet and sickly. Make of that what you will.

I've showed those screenshots to a couple of people now and people are starting to see my way of thinking. I timidly approached the subject with a transwoman I know who was enraged that "fucking stupid TIMs could be so fucking stupid" - her words. She was so angry she was incoherent.

AngryAttackKittens · 26/04/2018 09:55

Being serious for a moment...if you (regardless of "gender identity") have unexplained abdominal pain, go see a fucking doctor. If you have a uterus and are any good at keeping track of time then the pain won't be unexplained. If it is, doctor! Could be anything from IBS to appendicitis.

Noqonterfy · 26/04/2018 10:02

Male bodies have periods eh? Who'd have thought it. Periods of insanity maybe. Menstrual periods? Less likely. Or were all those years of biology I did pure lies!

Merrykegs · 26/04/2018 10:05

I got deleted for saying transwomen can't get pregnant. I may have mentioned a particular person in my post.

AngryAttackKittens · 26/04/2018 10:07

If you are male and find that your abdominal area is becoming protuberant and enlarged...that's a beer belly, mate.

Theinconstantgardener · 26/04/2018 10:10

Periods of insanity maybeGrin

LaSqrrl · 26/04/2018 10:12

Backtracking to Maisy: it makes perfect sense to discuss the impact of female hormones on biological men (even open to the idea it may mimick some features of our cycles)

Not really. The word 'cycle' always implies one thing following another. The female cycle is roughly, an estrogen building then progesterone dominant cycle (the first part building the uterus lining, the second involved in shedding the lining if no implantation). Post-menopausal women with a uterus getting HRT have to have both hormones, post-menopausal women without a uterus only get (synthetic usually) estrogen. TIMs only ever get estrogen-only hormones, because... no uterus.

So how on earth can a female 'cycle' be mimicked with only one of those hormones and no uterus? Rhetorical question, because it cannot. Not even in females without a uterus only taking estrogen.

Face it, males really have zero idea of what a period is, how it feels, how it affects you outside the uterus. Only females who have menstruated, past or present, know what it involves.

I have to say, that one of the earlier comments listing what a TIM said in the way of symptoms (including chest pains), they should get to a doctor real quick. Although estrogen does actually protect the heart from heart attacks. But still, those symptoms were disturbing, but not in a menstruating way. It always amazes me that these people would risk disability to death in order to role-play.

Noqonterfy · 26/04/2018 10:17

I got deleted for saying transwomen can't get pregnant

But they can't. Transmen can (wonder why 🤔) But transwomen can't. Simply not possible. The biology does not lie.