Twitter can't find the right word

[littlebillie]

Twitter are struggling to find the right word

But the word woman isn’t being erased we’re all just hysterical bigots 🙄

Bloody hell - is this a joke?

I wonder if the writer gets paid by the word

I just saw this, and it send my head spinning! Is the 'or are post-menopausal' to stop it sounding like menstruation is affording especial safety and people who don't menstruate (i.e. are post-menopausal) are therefore at higher risk? Otherwise why would post-menopausal people be mentioned at all, given that it's specifically about the vaccine affecting menstrual cycles and fertility?

'No evidence that vaccine affects menstrual cycles or fertility' would have made much more sense.

Word salad.

Fuck!

Good god.

Important medical information and needs to be directed in a way that everyone its aimed at will understand.

Bloody dangerous and irresponsible

So. Are they trying to say that vaccination doesn't affect women's periods?
It's not terribly clear.

Or that you can't catch menstruations from a vaccinated person?

Where is this from?

It looks like the Twitter news stories.

@QuimReaper

I just saw this, and it send my head spinning! Is the 'or are post-menopausal' to stop it sounding like menstruation is affording especial safety and people who don't menstruate (i.e. are post-menopausal) are therefore at higher risk? Otherwise why would post-menopausal people be mentioned at all, given that it's specifically about the vaccine affecting menstrual cycles and fertility?

'No evidence that vaccine affects menstrual cycles or fertility' would have made much more sense.

‘Menstrual cycles or fertility’ wouldn’t work because the study wasn’t looking at male fertility or sperm. Hence the daft efforts to dance around the correct word.

Why didn’t they just say ‘Women and trans men’ if they wanted to be clear?

What about women post birth whose cycles haven't returned yet, is it safe for them?

Why didn’t they just say ‘Women and trans men’ if they wanted to be clear?

Because males would complain that it implied you needed a female body to be a woman. It's usually about them.

Why didn’t they just say ‘Women and trans men’ if they wanted to be clear?

Because that would make women comfortable too, it would show us a little respect, and we can't be having that, can we?

They won't say 'women and trans men' because everyone has been given the green-light to be vulgar little misogynists with no consequences, and it seems no one wants to pass up the opportunity to unleash how little they think of women. Hence ''black birthing bodies'', ''autistics with a cervix''.

@Ereshkigalangcleg

Why didn’t they just say ‘Women and trans men’ if they wanted to be clear?

Because males would complain that it implied you needed a female body to be a woman. It's usually about them.

Fair point. And if they had said ‘women (excluding transwomen)’ then it would imply the vaccine isn’t safe for transwomen.

Evidence indeed that it isn’t possibly to use the word transwomen to mean a subset of women without damaging communication about women.

When transwomen are included they should be named.

‘Women and transwomen at risk of male violence’
‘Women and transmen at risk of cervical cancer’
‘Men and transwomen at risk of prostate cancer’
‘Men and transmen and transwomen at risk of being excluded from women only spaces due to their preference, anatomy or appearance’

So much simpler. TWATW and TMATM. No word salads needed.

Who are these mysterious 'people who experience menstruation'?

Christ. If I'd eyerolled any harder I might have caused damage. Great to see some solid scientific reporting here. Lumping all the vaccines in together. Not specifying if the experts have actually studied this properly, or if there is no evidence of a link because they can't be arsed looking into it. Still, I'm delighted for DH that he won't catch my cramps from me after we get vaccinated.

'No evidence that vaccine affects menstrual cycles or fertility' would have made much more sense.

If they really couldn't bear to use the word 'women', they could have said 'menstrual cycles or female fertility'.

I just ranted about this to DH, who is WELL used to my fucking righteous exasperation by now.

If it was affecting prostates you can be very sure they'd say men. Why is it only women who are subject to such erasure??

And so another day begins with more of the same.

"Some people have reported irregular menstrual cycles following their COVID-19 vaccination"

My DH hasn't had a period at all following his. Should he be worried?

Well, it’s par for the course now isn’t it 🙄, but it was the bit at the end that struck me - who the fuck was thinking that just ‘being around’ someone who was vaccinated might affect your periods? 😂

It’s an antivax thing to think that you can catch something from someone who’s been vaccinated. My mother who is antivax is convinced she caught the flu from my father after he had the flu vaccine; in fact she had a minor cold she could have caught anywhere, a few days later.

That article, tho...

Shit I'm not on that list due to being peri-menopausal, should I be very worried?

What about long term contraception which stops periods? They neither experience menstruation or are post menopausal.