Compare and contrast the opinions in the linked article to the FB comments

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The former is woke beyond all woke.

The latter is just your average man or woman going "WTF, don't be ridiculous!" Hopefully we'll see more of this.

www.facebook.com/someecards/posts/1948331421870441

Pretty much everyone is like oh don't be ridiculous
Some people made me laugh as they seem to think it's an actual man pretending to have a period. To be fair it is all a bit confusing

I don't interpret this in quite the same way, although the sign irritates me beyond belief

That picture just puts me in mind of someone cutting then showing their wounds; That's what she's trying to convey - psychological distress.

But gender dysphoria's not a mental illness - right?

Hahaha I knew it was going to be that! Circulated on twitter about a year ago, general public not liking it at all! Though interesting comments to transmen (females) are always harsher than those to transwomen (Male).

Same

I have more empathy for transmen because I know what is difficult about being a woman.

I also have less annoyance because she won't be trying to get in on women's spaces, women's awards etc. Unlike transwomen

What this piece of art (this person is an artist) is trying to convey (i think) is the horror of still having periods when you think you are a man. It's shocking because blood is shocking and she's trying to get that over. she wants people toto have a strong reaction because she wants them to see a little of her dissonance.

But I can't believe she's a man. And that's why the sign irks

That doesn't make me transphobic

.... The harshness may be about the fact she's a women (misogyny), and a deep-seated fear of womanly bleeding. I am sure someone who has studies feminism could explain this better than me.

Having now read the accompanying piece I see that I was right in my interpretation. She sees her periods as a terrible betrayal - an open wound. It's distressing stuff to read. She talks in the poem about her periods "signalling a child dying". But the 'man bleed too' thing is one too far for people to accept. Because it involves accepting her delusion

Here's her poem:

Y’all know I’m trans and queer,
And what that means for me all around,
Is something that’s neither there nor here,
It’s a happy, scary middle ground.
So when I talk gender inclusion,
And I wrote these rhymes to help you see,
I’m not tryna bring up something shallow,
Periods are honestly pretty traumatic for me.
See my life is very clearly marked,
Like a red border cut up a nation,
A time before and a time beyond,
The mark of my first menstruation.
So let me take you back,
To the details that I can still recall,
Of the day I gained my first period,
And the day that I lost it all.
I was 15 and still happy,
Running around, all chest bared and buck,
Climbing trees, digging holes,
And no one gave a single fuck.
I mean I think my ma was worried,
So I went and grew out my locks,
A sign I was normal, still a girl,
A painted neon sign for my gender box.
So, the day I got my period,
My god, a day so proud,
This little andro fucked up kid,
Had been bestowed the straight, cis shroud.
The relief got all meshed up in my pain,
In that moment, I sat down and cried,
Just thanking god I was normal,
While mourning the freedom that had died.
Everyone told me my hips would grow,
I looked at them and couldn't stop crying,
"What's wrong with you? You'll be a woman!"
They kept celebrating a child dying.

See my body had betrayed me,
That red dot, the wax seal,
On a contract left there broken,
A gender identity that wasn’t real.
Most people deal with blood and tissue,
And yet my body forces me to surrender,
Cause every time I get my cycle,
Is another day I shed my gender.
My boobs betray me first,
I feel them stretching out my binder,
I send up questions, "am I cursed?"
And wish to god that she was kinder.
The five days it flows,
I try to breathe, I dissociate,
While my body rips outs parts of me,
Leaving nothing but a shell of hate.
The blood drips from an open wound,
Of a war waging deep inside my corpse,
The battle between mind and body,
Immovable object; unstoppable force.

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