Edinburgh Science Festival - Humans with Uteruses

[AuntieRae]

Browsing through the events at the Edinburgh Science Festival, always a wide-range of things for non-science people like me. I noticed there's an event called "Period Power" for "humans with uteruses".

www.sciencefestival.co.uk/event-details/period-power

Not sure if the language is the Science Festival's or the presenters so I have asked them to clarify. Is it just me or does "humans with uteruses" sound like something from a dystopian novel? Why can't they just say "female"?

Dear Maisie Hill,

Stop this madness, please.

Yours,
A WOMAN*

*Adult human female. NOT a "human with a uterus," a phrase I find so insensitive and insulting that it makes me want to vomit.

Yeah just grab a man, shove a uterus up his backside and bingo! Who could possibly tell the difference?!

she has completed a BSc in Chinese medicine acupuncture and has diplomas in the Arvigo techniques of Mayan abdominal therapy, reflexology, aromatherapy, and paediatric acupuncture

I think her claims to be a 'highly qualified health practitioner' are bobbins.

‘Humans with Uteruses’ sound like they might have collected tens of uteri and are now hauling them around in a bloody sack.

Maisie Hill is a really interesting person and a fountain of knowledge about the menstrual cycle. Unfortunately she's been totally woke for the last couple of years.

Chelsea football club know exactly what women are:

www.telegraph.co.uk/football/2020/02/13/exclusive-chelsea-become-first-club-tailor-training-menstrual/

If this takes off in womens sport I think it'll help crap like this.

Slightly pissed off now that I've bought tickets to the science festival, which is a fantastic event I've taken the DCs to for the past three years.
I always filter events by "family friendly" so missed this.

Your opportunity to ask questions!

Maisie Hill is a really interesting person and a fountain of knowledge about the menstrual cycle

She sounds like a gobshite, to be perfectly frank.

If you are a transman, who has an incredibly conflicted relationship to your body and specifically biological functions such as menstruation, just how likely are you to attend a talk about periods in the first place? Maisie is trying to us language to include those highly likely not to attend this talk, and to exclude and offend those who are most likely to want to attend. I would love it if nobody turned up, or some women asking awkward questions about her understanding of language and biology.

I just came on here to have a rant about this myself. I'm going to email them and explain how offensive this is

Its bloody rude to women ffs.

What is so wrong about the word women that she is afraid to say

I find offensive that this is how she describes me

It’s offensive ms hill

Offensive and rude

I think Ted Bundy owned several uteruses he kept in the fridge.

I have found this mail and retweeted it. I wrote my original complaint to the generic address on their site. But this is better.

You can complain to Emma Pirie: [email protected]

I've emailed her.

Great. I hope she has to deal with very many angry emails from humans with and without uteruses today.

Humans with uteruses? It’s just such clunky and clumsy phraseology - if only there was a single word to express the same concept.

I have emailed them via the website to tell the (because they have their ears stuffed with cookies) that is is an insult to women. I can't imagine I will get a response.

Also, I have a uterus but no longer have periods - does this mean I have to find a new Superpower? Does middle-aged invisibility syndrome count?

Well if we don't get a response we can email again and complain about that!

I've emailed Emma who their web-site says to contact with any queries on marketing, asking her to not erase women but instead be more inclusive by eg saying women and trans women .....

Shame Im not near Edinburgh - I would have liked to turn up and ask the questions (channelling my inner toddler)

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@refusetobeasheep

How would including transwomen be relevant? They don't have uteruses!

It would potentially upset one who may be passing to be reminded of the fact.

Stuff the fact that a woman who had had a hysterectomy may also be a little upset at seeing this (and told to grow up, the world doesn't revolve around them, etc).

Roy Orbison