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"?

One or two posts on the twitter thread claim it's a joke that's been taken the wrong way. I can't see the humour in it myself.

How is twitter ok with this?

That's a thread that keeps on giving. I haven't seen a female roar of outrage like it in quite a while.

Posh kids then. Evidently they've ever heard the term bleeder used in context, spoken with a regional accent, or they'd know it's ludicrous to use it this way. Insulting little wankers.

There are few things quite so satisfying as seeing someone rightfully handed their arse on a plate, however. And that Twitter thread's a masterclass in handing someone their arse on a plate.

Spot on. A couple of handmaidens trying to support her and everyone else eloquently tearing her to shreds.

I see that they do repeatedly use "babes" when directly addressing women and girls on their own threads.

Tossers.

I’m not on twitter so I saw this and sent an email, firm and strong but not abusive ( obviously ) with my main point being I do not think erasing the words women and girls is either necessary or respectful and that I would not donate solely because they used the term, ‘bleeder’. I had never heard of this organisation before. How awful that the first time I hear of them, is using such a misogynistic dehumanising term. Then a snippy bitchy reply. Just wow.

FYI I regularly give to organisations like this, although never a refuge one, in both the UK & NZ. This is just rude and unprofessional

Hi there,

Thank you for alerting us to the fact that you will not be donating nor have you ever donated. We are an inclusive organisation and will continue to be. We are therefore not the organisation for you so no love (nor money) lost.

Kind regards

Gabby

I’ve just joined twitter specifically to reply to this ridiculous tweet!

They exclude women and girls.

TO which email address should the rest of us send our messages, in order to explain to Gabby that your feelings are shared?

Here it is:

[email protected]

I’ve used this on behalf of my daughters- it’s a buy one give one thing

www.heygirls.co.uk

That is a very unprofessional reply.

The Centre For Innovation In Voluntary Action (CIVA) is the company that is funding the BloodyGoodPeriod stuff.

I wonder if CIVA has a view on:

a) How women and girls are referred to in the campaign

b) How members of the project respond to emails expressing legitimate concerns

I regularly donate sanitary items to shelters for homeless people- my friend was homeless in her youth and it really doesn’t bear thinking about. There’s also a petition for those unaware, I might start another thread.

thehomelessperiod.com

I urge others to email using the address Pennydrew142 gave above.

I don’t often email like that so I was having a brave moment... don’t think I’ll be emailing anyone else! I was just so blimin irate at being referred to as a ‘bleeder’ How gross! My daughter goes to a Girls school. Imagine if they were referred to that way in class! Knowing these girls they’d be a lot less polite than us!

I've emailed. We'll see.

That's an obnoxious reply. She's not included me - she's labelled me a bleeder. She's excluded all women who like to be called women.

rightreckoner

Exactly, she’s excluded me too. Does she really think refugees are worried about pronouns and inclusive fucking words?

She wrote again after I told her that her shitty attitude would be shared here. I’m not even gonna bother sharing it. It’s embarrassing how childish she is.

Oh, I think you should share it, Penny!

I find the term extremely degrading. It does make me think of those women and girls banished to cow sheds during their periods. And I feel it smacks of the hand maids tale. Like gestators, an empty vessel to produce babies in.

Here we are again; Orwell x brave new world x handmaidens tale.

Funny how defining “woman” as “adult human female” is “dehumanizing” and “reducing people to their genitals” but calling women “bleeders” (or “uterus bearers” or “vagina havers” etc) is not.

Innit.

And I donate pads etc to my local food bank and The Red Box Project so not I’m not getting upset about the ‘wrong’ issue.

Ugh. Bleeders. What a diminutive ‘woke’ pile of wank.

They can go fuck themselves.
And then, go fuck themselves again.

Please do share that response Penny! It’s time this kind of stupidity was exposed!