Jameela Jamil just tweeted this....

[GizmoBasil]

She's mainly being pulled apart in the comments due to, you know, lying.

No doubt in my mind that she's getting puberty blockers and the contraceptive pill mixed up.

Such a shame as I have been following her since my early 20's and found her feminism very accessible back then.

Am I being unreasonable to say she's talking nonsense??

I was a teenager in the 90s. As were a lot of women here probably. This tweet makes me really angry. Most of us were expected to put up and shut up about heavy periods in the 90s. If you were lucky you got a prescription for the contraceptive pill. We'd never even heard of puberty blockers in the 90s.

But JJ tweeting this isn't just her rewriting history. She's making it appear to today's teenagers that this is something they should be entitled to, something they can take easily, pop some puberty blockers and you'll be fiiine.

@RoyalCorgi

Jameela Jamil is the one who's always being attacked by bees, isn't she?

Anyway, you wouldn't prescribe puberty blockers for heavy periods. You'd prescribe them for premature puberty. I'd be very surprised if there were lots of children at her school going through premature puberty.

LOL at ‘the one who’s always being attacked by bees’ lying in bed roaring at this.

Run over whilst fleeing bees.

But JJ tweeting this isn't just her rewriting history. She's making it appear to today's teenagers that this is something they should be entitled to, something they can take easily, pop some puberty blockers and you'll be fiiine.

This. ☝️

I was also coming on to point out that Jameela went to a small, posh, but not very academically selective girl's school, just north of Oxford Street. (Peaches Geldof was another Queens College alumna.)

Girls would have had better access to private healthcare and so more likely to be treated for heavy/painful periods, but this is unlikely to have taken the form of a novel and experimental treatment. I would not be surprised if parents of some of the more 'sociable' in the cohort encouraged the use of the contraceptive pill to treat heavy periods, given the main side effect is, well, contraception.

Lies that are actively encouraging harm to children. Who is she being paid by? No interest in child safeguarding whatsoever.
Her tweets need to be catalogued and recorded for when the lawsuits hit.

@SingingSands

I was a teenager in the 90s. As were a lot of women here probably. This tweet makes me really angry. Most of us were expected to put up and shut up about heavy periods in the 90s. If you were lucky you got a prescription for the contraceptive pill. We'd never even heard of puberty blockers in the 90s.

But JJ tweeting this isn't just her rewriting history. She's making it appear to today's teenagers that this is something they should be entitled to, something they can take easily, pop some puberty blockers and you'll be fiiine.

I was a teenager in the late 80s/ early 90d and then the cure was a Paracetamol, a hot water bottle and a lie down if it was really bad.

So - if you were to take PBS for heavy periods... what exactly would happen when you stopped taking them? How would taking them affect your body on the meantime?

I hope live long enough to see JJ become (the dreaded!) middle aged woman. I am 99% certain she is going to cringe to the high heavens at her prolific social media nonsense spouting.

Well from the ‘school days recollection’ accounts by a supposed ex classmate that I’ve read on twitter (of course it could be all made up but there seemed to be an interaction between the tweeter and JJs mum, so who knows) I suspect the apple doesn’t fall far from the tree - so I suspect no Damascene conversion will ever occur.

Most of us were expected to put up and shut up about heavy periods in the 90s. If you were lucky you got a prescription for the contraceptive pill. We'd never even heard of puberty blockers in the 90s.

Mine started in 2004, and even then the GP's were shit. I was made to feel like I was exaggerating the pain and amount of blood loss, told the pain was normal and it's something that would settle and I'd eventually 'get used to it' . Dismissed with painkillers that I'd already told him didn't work every time I went to the GP and advised to use a hot water bottle or heat pad, use those long, thick night time sanitary towels for the blood loss.

No mention of the contraceptive pill. I was an adult by the time I realised that was an option to help, it was never something my GP suggested. Definitely no mention of puberty blockers.

Now I'm late 20s and my periods are still torture, and still no mention of puberty blockers. I've done a fuckton of research to try and find something that works for me, and I haven't seen GnRHs mentioned once.

GP is only bothered to investigate the pain and heavy bleeding now because I'm struggling to conceive. I find it really hard to believe that things were better than this for teens in the 90s.

Honestly, people must think we came down in the last shower if they think we're going to fall for this shit.

@HotTomatoes

I hope live long enough to see JJ become (the dreaded!) middle aged woman. I am 99% certain she is going to cringe to the high heavens at her prolific social media nonsense spouting.

I dunno, she's in her mid 30s, I can't see her coming over entirely sensible in the next decade or so. She's only got worse over the last few years really.

I'm sure she'll age into the wisdom of Naomi Wolf.

Ha! A real world LOL from me.

@sleepyhead

I'm sure she'll age into the wisdom of Naomi Wolf.

@UnderHisAye

I think given how popular Mooncups are now that we can safely put that 'few teaspoons' nonsense to rest!

Pretty certain I read somewhere that this measurement is because they actually don't measure everything that comes out when you menstruate, just the blood bit, which it turns out isn't necessarily the majority of the fluid.

@sleepyhead

I'm sure she'll age into the wisdom of Naomi Wolf.

Pfffffttttt!!🤣🤣🤣

Jamil is super woke and doesn’t appear to be very bright either. It’s not a great combination.

I was also coming on to point out that Jameela went to a small, posh, but not very academically selective girl's school, just north of Oxford Street.

@Needmoresleep

Really not sure why it’s relevant that the school is “not academically selective”? Especially since most of us think JJ is full of bullshit here? Let’s not be snobby bitches about those that weren’t at academically selective schools. You’re saying that some parents may have put the more “sociable” girls on the pill because they were having sex. Again, there seems a whiff of judgment and looking down at the “sociable” girls here from you.

Read as you will. My point really was that it is a small, albeit very posh, school.

Not typical at all, even in London. It would be astounding if loads of these girls were on puberty blockers. But not that surprising if several of her year group were on the pill.

I think she is confused.

@needmoresleep If that was your point, then that’s what you should have said. Girls at academically selective schools also were and are on the pill btw.

It would have been a bit of a News of the Word/Sunday Sport ‘news’paper scandal report ‘op-err-missus - girls at posh top girls school taking gender-bending drugs’ (or some such)

Ringbinder, rewrite my post if you want. I have no doubt girls at academic private schools with a similar demographic were also prescribed the pill for "heavy periods".

Why do you think Jameela's memory is so conveniently inaccurate?

And yes. toffee. And not what parents would have wanted for their well bred fillies, many of whom, even in her day, would have been expected to marry well. .

Aw the girls aren't like that - well not the ones I bump into in Waitrose!

Jameela is not as young as she thinks she is.

I am assuming that QC girls are still very urban. TopShop Oxford Circus in their lunch hour?

(I will confess that the only girls I know who were there recently both left, actually both for co-eds, essentially after having outgrown the school.)