The lancet on periods “bodies with vaginas”

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twitter.com/thelancet/status/1441372277786951681?s=21

For fucks fucking sake!!! Incidentally heard the prostate cancer ad about half an hour ago “what a creature is a man” funny how men are not bodies with penises innit

Oh, the fucking RAGE. I AM NOT A BODY THAT HAPPENS TO HAVE A VAGINA, AND A WHOLE LOT OF OTHER SHIT THAT GOES ALONG WITH HAVING A VAGINA. ME POSSESSING A VAGINA (and the stuff that comes with it) IS CENTRAL TO WHO I AM. AND WHO I AM IS A WOMAN. ADULT HUMAN FEMALE.

I can't escape it. I can't identify out of it. It is a fact of my life. A fact of all female life. I AM NOT A VESSEL THAT HAPPENS TO HAVE A FUCKING VAGINA.

Unbelievablably f*king offensive. I am horrified and Raging about this. I feel like as woman I am Hated by so many

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Remember that outrage when republicans were calling women bodies 'host' in relation to rolling back abortion rights, this is the same dehumanising shit, but from the lancet.

They still use the word men though.

That's so awful, the comments are very interesting though and give me hope that more and more people are standing up to this nonsense.

The comments are all gold as far as I can see. The Lancet is getting rightly pasted.

Justcameout I hear you Please wake me up when all this bullshit is over, I don’t have the strength for it anymore.

It’s so depressing that this dehumanising language is coming from the medical profession.

Boom

Wow. Posting that cover under a tweet
'Our new issue is here! On the cover—'Periods on display' and the cultural movement against menstrual shame and #PeriodPoverty.'

Does anyone have access to the journal to see what the piece itself is like or is it all that awful woman-avoiding nonsense?

La Scapigliata commenting on Twitter that The Lancet 'are refusing to publish letters by concerned clinicians'. Their total capture by this cult is so blatantly clear now. This cover will come back to haunt them in the years to come.

My sister my wee girl my cuzzies my grandma

Just lumps of meat

Tragic. This all feels very handmaid's tale.
Glad to see the outraged comments though.

What with this and the ACLU travesty this week I’ve had enough. I’m going zero tolerance on this bullshit and I’m going to shout and complain every time I see and hear it. Fuck being kind and shite.

How incredibly insulting. Don't they know that penises can be outie vaginas as well as becoming innie vaginas, sometimes with a bit of help from some bowel. How dare they suggest that bodies with vaginas are the type to have periods.

Lancet do better, educate yourself.

@ErrolTheDragon

Wow. Posting that cover under a tweet 'Our new issue is here! On the cover—'Periods on display' and the cultural movement against menstrual shame and #PeriodPoverty.'

Does anyone have access to the journal to see what the piece itself is like or is it all that awful woman-avoiding nonsense?

You can register for a free account which lets you read the whole article.

No such dehumanising descriptors for men though eh? Im beyond fuming tonight! Just as well I have alcohol here!

I had a look at the actual article. It does mention women and girls briefly, but also contains a lot of “menstruators”.

The author, Sophia Davis (a senior editor at The Lancet ) is a pretty full-on trans rights activist, to judge from her Twitter feed. Over half her posts are about trans rights, which seems odd for someone who - in theory - should have a wide range of health-related interests.

That tweet that references 'men' is from 4 fucking days ago as well! So it's not like they have had a change of policy. It literally is just one rule for men and another for the 'bodies with vaginas' and they aren't even trying to cover it up.

What the fuck is this utter bullshit? I am absolutely raging at this. Fucking 'Bodies with vaginas'?

And Owen Fucking Jones has given me the rage tonight as well with his hypocritical virtue signalling gaslighting bullshit on the Jeremy Vine show this morning as well. I'm a body with a vagina on the edge here!

Aaarrghhhh!

It’s great they’re being pasted in the comments but they’re not apologising or changing the wording…..

And this. Menstruators. Ffs we are human beings.

Surely logic would imply that they need to refer to men as bodies without vaginas

Men are men and women are whatever dehumanising phrase we can come up with this week

I just saw this. It's awful. Dehumanising. I'm a body with a vagina. Great

Surely anyone can see how ridiculous this is?

It’s disgusting. What the fuck are they thinking? It’s like the movement is trolling itself this week.