People with cervical cancer. Eve Appeal.

[Smurftastic]

Eve Appeal is at it again, on FB:' Globally nearly 600,000 PEOPLE are diagnosed each year with cervical cancer and approximately 300,000 PEOPLE around the world die each year from this disease (....)'. I commented on their previous posts, I don't feel like getting into a fight with woke cervix havers again. I'm going to unfollow them now. Are there any women's health charities that still use the word 'women'? I'd like to support them instead.

Seems like a reasonable compromise. I suppose you could issue two sets of every tweet as well? That way if someone pipes up saying ‘not everyone with cervical cancer is a woman, you bigots’ They can just respond with ‘See our other tweet - we don’t lump trans men and masc of centre NB people in with women, maybe you should consider not doing that either?’
Which would be checkwoke, I believe.

No compromise necessary. It’s a medical/biological issue here.

Compromise is necessary if dysphoric female humans avoid language that upsets them, especially when FtM transition drugs increase the risk of gynae cancer. They need the info and support the Eve Appeal provides.

I’m not willing to give up the word woman, but I’m also not willing to throw dysphoric females under the bus. That’s not feminism.

'checkwoke'

And. As long as there is NO reference, or deference to males/trans males - whatever they may call themselves, then...

Checkwokemate.

@littlbrowndog

45% don’t know

45% of people or 45% of women?

By referring to people, incidence is halved. 45% of people sounds a lot less serious than 90% of women. It is like the statistic I saw once that 90% of people were considering reusable menstrual products. Of course they weren’t! Men and boys weren’t, young girls weren’t, post menopausal women weren’t. But I guess as they were promoting them it didn’t look quite so compelling to say 23% or people were which is more accurate.

(littlebrowndog I wasn’t meaning your statistic, just the problem with this ’people’ approach)

It was women

They need to be called out on this. I wouldn't necessarily be that upset if charities used 'inclusive' language across the board, but it is NEVER 'people with penises' for men's charities. It's always just women getting reduced to our body parts. That seems cruel and almost sinister.

It is sinister. Very.

@itsor

They need to be called out on this. I wouldn't necessarily be that upset if charities used 'inclusive' language across the board, but it is NEVER 'people with penises' for men's charities. It's always just women getting reduced to our body parts. That seems cruel and almost sinister.

Just had an advert pop up on my FB posted by one of my young relatives.

‘Whatever you grow will save a bro’

Help me change the face of men’s health this Movember’

No problem with sex identification there, 6 photos all men.