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Feminism: Sex and gender discussions

Share your Pussy Bush style for cancer

75 replies

MiladyBerserko · 23/01/2021 21:47

What the fuck is this now?

We cant call ourselves women but we have to refer to our genitals as pussy, a la Trump.

For cervical cancer?

Fuck me, this is fucking HILARIOUS now

mobile.twitter.com/HJoyceGender/status/1353027352104759296

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ArabellaScott · 24/01/2021 11:17

And it's apparently endorsed by the NHS. I guess complaints could be sent there. This is just nonsense.

'“The spoonful of sugar impact of comedy-led health campaigns is really powerful, hence us using one of the Internet’s favourite talking points – cats.

“The campaign’s cheeky ‘Bushy, bare or half-way there?’ messaging allows the discussion of a serious issue under the veil of laughter, which makes it easier for everyone to participate.'

It's not cheeky, it doesn't make it 'easier for everyone to participate'. It's insulting, pointless and callous.

peak2021 · 24/01/2021 11:20

www.asa.org.uk/make-a-complaint.html

Disappointed if the statistic by Rachel Riley is true, or even if it not 57% but 7%.

Melroses · 24/01/2021 11:23

The thing is, they need to aim (rather less crassly) at the older women who have not been given vaccinations, grew up post 60s, probably have lots of peri-meno and meno stuff going on and have had them for years and are pissed off with the whole process. If your pubes are in a bad way, the last thing you need to know is that anyone gives a hoot about what they look like.

peak2021 · 24/01/2021 11:24

I have complained to the ASA using the link above.

HecatesCats · 24/01/2021 11:42

*'“The spoonful of sugar impact of comedy-led health campaigns is really powerful, hence us using one of the Internet’s favourite talking points – cats.

“The campaign’s cheeky ‘Bushy, bare or half-way there?’ messaging allows the discussion of a serious issue under the veil of laughter, which makes it easier for everyone to participate.'*

Except if you follow the #mycat hashtag it's not working out particularly well for them. I can see that comedy led health campaigns might work, if they're genuinely funny. Maybe the PR team went to bed and woke up in 1974?

DaisiesandButtercups · 24/01/2021 11:51

@newyearnewname123

They are now congratulating themselves that their "cheeky campaign" got us talking.

mobile.twitter.com/myGPapp/status/1352941882129711104

Fuck this shit.

Why couldn't they just run a normal campaign saying "don't worry, nurses don't care what your pubic hair looks like".

Manipulation and humiliation combined.

I feel sick.

Nighthawker · 24/01/2021 11:58

Wonder if they will now run a campaign encouraging men to think about shaving their hairy arses before booking their next prostate exam. In the name of equality, and all that.

vivariumvivariumsvivaria · 24/01/2021 11:59

You can always tell when a man is involved in women's issues, can't you?

Fucking idiots.

newyearnewname123 · 24/01/2021 12:00

When I did teacher training I remember an excruciating session about sex education.

The suggestion was to collect anonymous questions from the children and pick them to go through. Perfectly reasonable.

The twist was to put the questions into inflated condoms then put the whole lot in a black bin bag and get students to pick one out, open it and ask the question.

The idea was to make people laugh to put them at ease. I thought it was just extremely strange and plain speaking in a calm manner is a much better plan.

newyearnewname123 · 24/01/2021 12:01

They actually did this with the trainee teachers and I was just cringing the whole time, as an adult who had answered all my own children's questions straightforwardly.

DryHeave · 24/01/2021 12:03

It’s offensive, but it’s also really incoherent as a campaign. Terribly public health messaging.

Thelnebriati · 24/01/2021 12:06

Is it just me or is this infantilising?

HecatesCats · 24/01/2021 12:07

The more I think about it the more excruciating it becomes

Thatwaslulu · 24/01/2021 12:14

@OvaHere
Then further down the page If you are a transgender (trans) man registered with your GP as female we will send you invitations for screening.

(although the implication here that some might not be registered as female is slightly worrying)

I work in a school which is doing the covid testing, one of the kids is non binary so the school nurse asked DfE what to record the gender as, because the options on the test and trace website were male or female only. DfE sensibly said 'whatever is on the pupil's NHS registration card, as that is the legal gender and what they are known as in the NHS'. Took that advice. So far so good.

Registered more pupils on Thursday, NHS has adapted form to include a non binary option.

MissBarbary · 24/01/2021 12:27

@DryHeave

It’s offensive, but it’s also really incoherent as a campaign. Terribly public health messaging.
The hashtag also seems to be a hashtag for people who genuinely, with no other considerations or motivation, post pictures of their cat.
MissBarbary · 24/01/2021 12:36

Why couldn't they just run a normal campaign saying "don't worry, nurses don't care what your pubic hair looks like"

I don't go for smear tests- my last one was about 14 years ago. It has nothing to do with embarrassment or worry about who will do it, but it has never once occurred to me to think a nurse would care what my pubic hair looks like.

I've had several occasions in the last couple of years for other reasons where medical staff , female and male, have seen me with no knickers on and it never once entered my head any of them would care.

I'm glad to see the debunking of that statistic.

FemaleAndLearning · 24/01/2021 13:21

I agree the nurses who do the smear don't give a hoot what my pubic hair looks like. They are too busy trying to keep the septum thing in due to my prolapse womb and lack of pelvic floor muscle!
I think this will put more people off. There is nothing sexual about someone looking up your vagina with a bright light fiddling to find the centre of your cervix. Using language from porn to describe a medical procedure is just ridiculous.

ArabellaScott · 24/01/2021 13:35

@MissBarbary

Why couldn't they just run a normal campaign saying "don't worry, nurses don't care what your pubic hair looks like"

I don't go for smear tests- my last one was about 14 years ago. It has nothing to do with embarrassment or worry about who will do it, but it has never once occurred to me to think a nurse would care what my pubic hair looks like.

I've had several occasions in the last couple of years for other reasons where medical staff , female and male, have seen me with no knickers on and it never once entered my head any of them would care.

I'm glad to see the debunking of that statistic.

a campaign showing pictures of nurses with a sentence like 'I've seen it all, I don't care what your pubic hair looks like' would be far more effective, I daresay. This is just silly, lazy and embarrassing for the agency that came up with it.
ArabellaScott · 24/01/2021 13:36

I can't help feeling that these campaigns are thinking more about the people making them than the intended audience.

MissBarbary · 24/01/2021 13:42

My take on it is the wording suggests to women who might actually worry about this is, "yes, you do look awful, but never mind, nurses have seen it before"

And to women like me who have never once considered that medical staff, of either sex, cared, might have cared.

My own self- confidence permits me to dismiss that latter conclusion as improbable, or if not improbable, then such behaviour is the medical staff's problem not mine. I hope everyone who never worried about this comes to the same conclusion because otherwise this campaign will do the opposite of what it purports to do.

DaisiesandButtercups · 24/01/2021 14:06

I agree MissBarbary. In the past I have comforted myself that nurses don’t notice or care because they are professionals doing job for which they are trained and which they take seriously.

This campaign implies to me that they not only judge but also laugh. It also implies that the majority of women wax and care about how they look to nurses and doctors and that as I haven’t made efforts to wax prior to vaginal examinations something others would find shameful maybe I should feel ashamed and wax too!

I will be more self conscious if I go again rather than less!

Suzi888 · 24/01/2021 14:09

It’s a joke surely? Confused

NoCureForLove · 24/01/2021 15:15

Sadly it's really not...

peak2021 · 24/01/2021 16:02

@ArabellaScott or says a lot about the marketeers.

MrsBobDylan · 24/01/2021 16:04

This campaign feels more invasive and degrading than a smear.

I worked in PR for 20 years and the one good thing about it was it was female dominated.

The men I met were usually very sure they were recruited to lead and direct their female minions. I very much sense male PR at work here...

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