The BBC does know who has periods

[GrandmaMazur]

Sad when it's a relief to read an article about volunteers in Nepal helping women and girls with their periods because it uses the words girls and women, and is lacking in whataboutery.

Article here:
www.bbc.co.uk/news/in-pictures-53685825

I feel thankful not to live in a country where life is made so much harder just by being an actual female.

Which country is that then?

@BaronEssoStation

Which country is that then?

Comparatively speaking

Could it be that identifying out of your oppression doesn't actually work ?

everyone knows who has periods. I few people lie and pretend otherwise.

Wow. It wasn't so long ago I complained to the BBC for not using the words women and girls in a period poverty article and they defended their choice.

So they don’t have this gender shit in Nepal? Interesting.

So they don’t have this gender shit in Nepal? Interesting

Well yes. No ones identifying into not being able to drive or consent to medical treatment or dying in menstrual huts..
Very much a developed country issue...

Funny how it’s very much a rich man’s naval gazing game.

The argument I’ve read is that trans women are EVEN MORE oppressed in those countries, somehow, than Actual female women. I guess because it’s not safe to express their gender so they are stuck in the horrible pain of dyspepsia which is much worse than dying or genital mutilation. Would be great if they thought for 2 seconds about why it’s not safe.

Omg autocorrect Dysmorphia to dyspepsia

Nepal and India has a long tradition of a small minority of men living as women. They are mostly involved in sex work.

@Roswellconspiracy

Wow. It wasn't so long ago I complained to the BBC for not using the words women and girls in a period poverty article and they defended their choice.

I think it must depend on who is writing an article and which section of the website it goes on as to whether it gets genderified or not. It doesn't seem to be a consistent strategy.

It was just after last Christmas I complained to them. Still waiting...

I remember once complaining about a cooking show that crystallised daffodils and called them ‘edible flowers’ (daffs are poisonous). Their response was that it was recorded in advance so they couldn’t change it. They were literally telling people to eat poison and didn’t see any issue with it!

Seriously? Eat daffs?

@FWRLurker

Omg autocorrect Dysmorphia to dyspepsia

If only the horror of what happens women and girls could be solved with a glug of gaviscon.

Perhaps because in Nepal people have REAL issues? They don't have time to decide whether they conform to male or female stereotypes and therefore feel like a man/woman