Period poverty / 'bleeders'

[Beagadorsrock]

"
❤️Jane Austen was a Super Plus fan, Lizzie preferred a Mooncup + Emma didn't leave Hartfield without her Thinx. But some bleeders in the UK can't afford sanitary products, imagine the scandal at the ball!💃🏽 Donate to @bloodygood__ this Festive Period & help someone's #flowhoho❣️"

twitter.com/ladycariad/status/1072068738147631104

Very disappointing. I can't believe we are back in the Middle Ages so comprehensively.
And no, using 'bleeder' is not "more inclusive" because it includes trans men. It is massively, massively reducing women to a (distasteful and historically considered 'impure') bodily function.

Can I start referring to men as "standuppissers"?

[MrsJamin]

The pool suck at women's issues, they are all just falling over themselves to be transinclusive as they have juno Dawson on their team of writers. Just so tiresome. Only women have periods. If society doesn't fix this kind of language in talking about periods, how do my sons not know that they will get a period too?

[Ereshkigal]

The Pool are reliably stupid on these issues.

[EeebyMum]

So now The Pool are at it. They’re part of a campaign to make sanitary products free for girls, and on their lastest tweet it has been rebranded ‘for all children’

Wtf. I don’t know where to start with this.

(The Pool has such form for centring TRAs)

[hackmum]

In the same way that we already know men can get away with rape because they argue the woman "consented', we now have a seemingly cast-iron way of allowing men to get away with murder. All they have to do is argue that a sex game "went wrong".

It's terrifying. It means that men can rape and murder with impunity.

[moimichme]

How awful. What a world we live in, where a man's actions leading to his partner's death is supposedly 'consensual' and he gets a slap on the wrist because his victim can't speak out against him.

[SirVixofVixHall]

Thank you Ereshkigal

[Ereshkigal]

Another thread about all the women whose killers have claimed it was "rough sex gone wrong"

Why is he crying? Laura Huteson death
www.mumsnet.com/Talk/womens_rights/3332144-Why-is-he-crying-Laura-Huteson-death

[SirVixofVixHall]

Yes. That poor woman and her family, her child. That story is sadly not the only one. In the thread (here a day or so ago )about that horrific story, there was a link to a thread a few months ago, that listed other cases where men have said in court that it was “a sex game gone wrong”. Made shocking reading.
Men are literally getting away with murder, by insisting that the woman wanted the violence.

[VickyEadie]

A culture that degrades and demeans women. And calls them 'cis' and 'bleeders' and 'menstruators'. This Broadhurst guy is the last stop on that journey.

Correct.

[Glinner]

A culture that degrades and demeans women. And calls them 'cis' and 'bleeders' and 'menstruators'. This Broadhurst guy is the last stop on that journey.

[ErrolTheDragon]

There are some things which should make good people angry, and that's one of them.

[AssassinatedBeauty]

That makes me feel sick. No one can consent to being assaulted or being killed. I thought that was established in law. But apparently that doesn't apply if a man can claim he was having consensual sex with you.

[Glinner]

I keep trying not to get angry but then I see something like that story...

[Glinner]

Maybe share this with anyone who tries to call women 'bleeders' again.

[welshgendercrit]

What a splendid article.

[Pennydrew142]

RedToothBrush oh that’s good to see

[RedToothBrush]

Article in the Scotsman from yesterday

www.scotsman.com/news/opinion/time-for-women-to-get-p-ed-off-in-fight-for-equality-susan-dalgety-1-4844182/amp?__twitter_impression=true
Time for women to get p*ed off in fight for equality – Susan Dalgety

She talks about a lot of things, but also mentions this.

There are many glorious aspects to being a woman. Stroking your baby bump to calm the fidgety foetus inside is just one of them.

We live longer than men. And we are less likely to go bald.

There are some downsides too. Menstruation is, often quite literally, a pain. Bleeding from your vagina once a month is no fun; worse, being described as a bleeder rather than a woman, so as not to annoy over-sensitive trans women, is simply offensive. Misogynist even. And so is the gender pay gap and blokes who think sexual abuse is office banter.

[LordProfFekkoThePenguinPhD]

Oh and the trans hate crime was ‘you are not a woman... (and I know where you live)’. A walk in the park next to the face to face groping and rape threats (aka ‘banter’) that women get (on public transport, in clubs, in the street, at work...)

[LordProfFekkoThePenguinPhD]

Just seen the police hate crime advert. I can’t say I’ve even seen one before - and hasn’t there always been shed loads of hate crime on the basis of sex, race and disability. Daily. But there you have it.

Mates in high places eh?

[FloralBunting]

Yes, indeed. But you know, it's like violence against women - ubiquitous. It's so usual to degrade women it's not even worthy of comment.

[RedToothBrush]

Exactly. But it's still got a front cover.

Unlike bleeders which does not provoke rage enough.

[FloralBunting]

Yeah, that one is daft. The mum is always present when a baby is born - the father not. It's perfectly sensible to acknowledge that a woman could have her husband, wife, boyfriend, girlfriend, mother, sister, friend, doula with her during labour, and not just assume 'father'.
It's utterly bloody ridiculous not go acknowledge that the person giving birth is a woman, because It always will be.

[LordProfFekkoThePenguinPhD]

I can’t read that but are they just referring to the person who is with the mum in labour? It’s not always the dad, and it certainly wasn’t often the dad in my mums day!

[RedToothBrush]

The NHS have replaced 'fathers' with the term 'birthing partner'.

And look what happens: front page of the Sunday Express

[OtepotiLilliane42]

Melamin
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