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Menstruators and people who have periods

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HuckfromScandal · 09/02/2020 12:19

Well, this has enraged me, and I am wondering if I am being unreasonable?

Audible has a sale on, and I was looking to see if there was anything worth buying, and the book “period power” was listed.
The blurb has left me enraged, and I wouldn’t now buy it even if I really was interested. (Aware I am cutting off my nose). Is it just me???

Menstruators and people who have periods
OP posts:
Mlou32 · 09/02/2020 16:57

Where will this madness stop?? This book is for girls and women who have periods. End of.

Binterested · 09/02/2020 17:00

Can we stop lying to transboys please. They have female bodies and are therefore biologically the same as me - a woman. It’s the lying that kills me.

FrogsFrogs · 09/02/2020 17:06

'To all those who have started or expect to start their periods...'

Right so anything to do with sex ed or female biology in schools, female students should be referred to that way.

Announcements defining females by a part of their biology many find embarrassing and many boys use to insult them are the way forward.

How would you make an announcement for all the male pupils? Interested to know. All those who have or are expected to ejaculate? All students with a penis?

Keen to know the answer.

midgebabe · 09/02/2020 17:11

Ejectulators

SentimentalKiller · 09/02/2020 17:25

Use female. Trans men are still female and trans women are still male

missnevermind · 09/02/2020 17:42

FrogsFrogs With a husband and 3 sons as well as 1 daughter I have been known to start a sentence with "Will all the owners of a penis....."

FrogsFrogs · 09/02/2020 17:45

Would you say that's how they should be addressed in schools then?

Do you refer to your daughter as a menstruator?

The question was specifically to SapphosRock.

Mockersisrightasusual · 09/02/2020 17:53

Ejectulators

Prostate-Havers, IF you don't mind!

FrogsFrogs · 09/02/2020 17:55

I really want to know what SapohosRocks would call the boys when needed to go to male specific talk at school.

Girls should be called 'To all those who have started or expect to start their periods...''

Catting · 09/02/2020 18:06

How about we keep our words, and anyone who says otherwise can be told that a woman (human female 18+) who rejects the word woman will already have been taught all they need to know about periods and can now deal with them how they see fit including ignoring the subject totally.

Girls (females under 18) are not legally allowed to change the words on their legal documents yet, so in law they are still called female and the words girls and women can still apply.

midgebabe · 09/02/2020 18:26

No because many transboys may convince themselves they won't have periods because they are a boy really

midgebabe · 09/02/2020 18:27

That was to frogs, the following post is sensible

FemiLANGul · 09/02/2020 18:28

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R0wantrees · 09/02/2020 18:31

Girls should be called 'To all those who have started or expect to start their periods...''

Some girls may not be aware that they will start having periods, this would be a very important lesson for them.

MadamePewter · 09/02/2020 18:57

As an aside, I am very happy to donate my periods free of charge to any “Person Who Would Like To Menstruate But Can’t Because They’re Male.”

FrogsFrogs · 09/02/2020 19:00

'To all those who have started or expect to start their periods...'

Is SapphosRocks suggestion for how to tell which children in a school need to attend a talk on periods (my hypothetical), it's not my suggestion.

I want to know how she would announce a talk aimed at something related to puberty that boys only were to attend.

I can only think of

To those who have or are expected to ejaculate
Or
Children with penises

I'm keen to hear what Sapphos thinks is best.

Thelnebriati · 09/02/2020 19:52

Girls are caught between a rock and a hard place, with both sides shaming them about their bodies and about periods. Its not acceptable.

Sex and relationship education was originally intended to teach respect and tackle ignorance around issues such as this, and to deal with the epidemic of sexual assaults in schools.
That has been forgotten.

PhoenixBuchanan · 09/02/2020 20:03

I actually don't mind menstruators that much because not all women menstruate. It could also be seen as shorthand for "women who menstruate". People who menstruate is daft.

I think Maisie Hill does brilliant work and is a fountain of knowledge about women's health but unfortunately she is super woke.

MrsDoylesTeaBags · 09/02/2020 20:09

Too right Inebriati Society keeps coming up with these names and slurs to demean and dehumanise us and too many women are willing to comply wholeheartedly.

How can anyone think this helps young women or girls come to terms with their developng body, no wonder teenagers are becoming so fucked up and rejecting who they are when this is what they are being taught.

FrogsFrogs · 09/02/2020 20:09

But that's the point. Periods come and go for various reasons throughout a life. But it's not only people who are currently menstruating who need to know about them.

And calling women and girls menstruators' is just grim. It really it.

What's the equivalent for men and boys that is actually being pressed to be used. No answer to that on the thread. I can't imagine them being called ejaculators for eg in real life in a serious way.

FrogsFrogs · 09/02/2020 20:13

Probably because men are while people, while women have always been defined by their reproductive biology and around their sexed bodies.

On the one hand we're referred to as hole or gash or piece of arse
On the other people with vaginas, menstruators

Society is used to reducing us to parts

Men it's not the norm which is why it feels more jarring

Note no reply from SapphosRocks who is in favour of this language as to how to address boys in a school who are to attend a male only session about something relating to puberty

SapphosRock · 09/02/2020 20:25

Frogs

What's so difficult? 'To all the males' is fine. It's not like trans girls are not aware they have male anatomy. I am sure the teachers would be able to figure out that boys who identified as girls should still go to the talk about male puberty. Even my 4 year old can grasp this stuff.

FrogsFrogs · 09/02/2020 20:31

What on earth Sapphos

For girls you suggest
'To all those who have started or expect to start their periods...'

For boys
'to all the males'

Well that shows up on glaring fucking neon the double standards, hypocrisy and misogyny built into this movement.

Anyone reading who had any doubts - there you have it in black and white from a proponent of this language.

FrogsFrogs · 09/02/2020 20:32

And is an excellent example of what I talk about in my post just before.

Lordfrontpaw · 09/02/2020 20:34

And yet I read a piece in the paper today about men getting prostate cancer. Men men men men men men men MEN.

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