Bloody good period writes a painfully woke letter to JKRowling

[Clymene]

The charity which buys menstruation products to refugee WOMEN has written an open letter to JKR telling her to read some munroe Bergdorf. And no I'm not joking. It's an absolutely dreadful embarrassing letter, with arguments you'd expect in a gcse essay.

Signed by a load of misogynists like jolyon Maughan and some some that should know better like Jack monroe and that stupid guilty feminist woman.

docs.google.com/document/d/1EEbzyncbkIy27j8gAEQ03JNz0nla6EHZRU_Ng8zUuEY/edit

For shame.

That is bollocks (the person menstruating through the penis)

It basically stems from how little so many people know about women's anatomy - the whole 'weeing through the vagina' thing... Not realising that we have multiple orifices, connected to multiple internal organs....

Many years ago, I met one of the signatories to that letter. She was selling “energy-giving” T-shirts which were supposed to increase the wearer’s physical strength. She said the T-shirts has been “put through a Chi machine”.

This person has since gone on to do some good charity work, so I don’t want to ridicule her. But I do wonder how many of those signatories have a good grasp of science, or have thought about this issue beyond the request for a signature.

Very sorry to hear that you're having a rubbish day, floral, hope you have some smashing days soonish.

I got as far as 'cis' and gave up. I don't 'identify' as cis.

It's kind to lie. This is what all this ends up at. The mature, 'educated' thing to do is lie. That this is anti female, has whopping undercurrents and is neither kind, nor basically intelligent, is soaring over the head of many well intentioned people.

BaronessFloralBunting

Radish, it's actually not that bad, tbh. It's not out of the ordinary, which was my point, really. The reality of my biology and all the culturally gendered nonsense layered over the top of it that means I am slogging through because that is just what a woman will do.

To have these patronizing wokebeards and quisling women write that sanctimonious bullshit with such ignorance about the 'lived experience' of so many ordinary women is an extra kick in a day that just proves that Anti-Woman is just who they are.

It isn't a DSD of any kind but if someone has a clump of cells from an absorbed twin, that symptom could theoretically be possible. I considered that it was all too far a reach that I didn't bother looking it up.

We urge you, among other actions, to make a public apology and would welcome a significant donation to charities best placed to serve the trans folk you so deeply hurt.

Wow.

Hmm @Thelnebriati - I'm not convinced. To be absorbed, it's my understanding that has to happen in the first trimester and with an absence of oestrogen, how did the tissue develop into uterine lining which goes through puberty to begin menstruation? And even if that did happen, what are the chances of it happening in his bladder so that the cells are shed via the urethra?

Given the number of men with period fetishes, I think up this being the fantasy of a febrile imagination is more plausible.

Why do they always call them “folk” ? So peculiar.
That letter is depressing on every level, mainly that critical thought or self awareness seem to have been sadly lacking in teaching over the past twenty five years.

I think up this being the fantasy of a febrile imagination is more plausible.

yes. This.

I have also today seen posts of activists admitting to each other that they had fetishes about the things their body could not do just to shine the light on these people.

Of course, this includes pregnancy and I followed links to see the spouse of the prominent blue tick who worked for Warren with their 'pregnancy' photo shoot. And the blue tick has the audacity to be so aggressive and violent in their tweets towards JKR by calling her scum etc while their partner appropriates pregnancy and get's called brave and stunning.

I have also today seen posts of activists admitting to each other that they had fetishes about the things their body could not do just to shine the light on these people.

Oops this should be

I have also today seen posts of activists admitting to each other that they had fetishes about the things their body could not do. The posts were there just to shine the light on these people.

More likely bleeding from lady-prostate I would think

Don't they realise that she wasn't saying you have to menstruate to be a woman, but if you do menstruate then you are a woman? Most of those points show they didn't read it.

But Munroe Bergdorf has never had a period in their life!

And would not know about how utterly awful it can be when you're 14 and bleeding through; caught without towels or tampons; in pain that gives you nausea, dioerrhea, and cold sweats; feel like you smell; put up with boys/men teasing, taunting or otherwise abusing you because you menstruate; be considered 'unclean' in various religions ...

I could go on.

J K Rowling is a hero!

This whole movement does so remind me of cultists. I was listening to a podcast earlier on the BBC about a guy who grew up in a cult. He had to spend ages checking his words before and after he spoke to outsiders.

for you @BaronessFloralBunting

I love your posts here.

I always thought I would be bereft at menopause (childless, single, would-have-liked-a-family) but gosh, it was such a relief and freedom.

'cis white women'

White Cis women, shirly?

Or are we into ciswhite and transblack now?

Do transmen menstruate on testosterone or puberty blockers?
I am menopausal but since no tense was included I understood that JK included me as I expect did most biological women.Maybe that is uncomfortable for a few transmen planning to have children but a campaign to help them rather obliterate all other mother's to be would be the best coarse,educating midwives and taylorind services to our ndividual need.

I find the word “folk” odd too. It seems a popular descriptor but why? Is “people” too run of the mill?

I find the word “folk” odd too.

It's been appropriated from anti-racism campaigners in the US.

The problem is that in the UK you sound as though you are talking about The Folk of the Faraway Tree.

I grew up with folk music so don't mind the word folk but hate the Americanism "y'all"

Yes I think of folk music, the Folk of the Faraway Tree, or Fairy Folk in twee 1930s children’s books.
“Trans Folk” makes me wince. Is it code for Heavy Rock that wants to be more melodic ?

Worse than “folk” is surely “folx”. Apparently it’s more gender neutral than folk