Nolan show Radio Ulster now - 'people' have periods

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www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/live:bbc_radio_ulster

Maya Forstater on too.

Link to show for later www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b007cpsh

He's really got the bit between his teeth now.

"Will we never hear the SDLP use the word 'woman' again? Will it always be person?" (not exact wording)

Every caller to the show is horrified. Male and female callers.

bookmarking!

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Great that this is getting more and more exposure.

He's beyond peaked now.
Once the scales fall from your eyes there is no going back.

SDLP spokeswoman: 'periods affect everyone, so it does make sense'
Nolan: 'I'm never going to have a period. It doesn't affect men'
SDLP spokeswoman: 'it does affect men. A family income in poverty may be affected by the purchase of period products'

SDLP spokeswoman: 'it does affect men. A family income in poverty may be affected by the purchase of period products'

I haven't listened to it yet, but I do hope they keep saying crap like that 🤣

@Datun

SDLP spokeswoman: 'it does affect men. A family income in poverty may be affected by the purchase of period products'

I haven't listened to it yet, but I do hope they keep saying crap like that 🤣

Oh yes there is plenty more in that vein!

Wound back to the beginning. SDLP said they don't want to "debate" about gender issues. This is a nonsensical statement, because the very fact of removing the words "women" and "girls" from a bill about periods is asserting a political and social point of view that it is not only women who have periods, which is simply not true and against the grain of common understanding. How can they claim that no debate is remotely valid.

Who is this Emma numpty? All those poor men who have to go out and buy period products for their wives, won't anyone think of them and their burden!

Loving the callers. “My mother is a woman, my sister is a woman and my daughters are girls.”

Emma is a bit out of her depth. She's getting angry at perfectly reasonable questions.

SDLP spokeswoman saying men need to access free period products in public body buildings for their girlfriends so it's inclusive....tying herself up in her word salad knots.

Nolan: 'one of the major political parties seems reluctant to say women use period products'
SDLP spokeswoman: 'but I don't think it does just affect women. I think it affects families and relationships and couples. So I don't think there's anything wrong with including everyone in this'

Thanks OP. Can't wait to listen later.

Nolan: 'Are you saying Emma that you believe men use period products?'
SDLP spokeswoman: 'No I'm not saying that at all. I'm saying they need to access them and they need to be aware of women and periods and period poverty'

I did wonder whether Nolan would move onto other issues but like I wrote a while back, if there's one thing journalists love doing it's triggering a politician to say plainly nonsensical things and then pulling the politician apart.

So the SDLP reaffirmed their stance as a pro-life party, and now they can’t specify “women and girls” in period legislation?

Away and get out.

Delighted to see Nolan isn’t letting this slip after the success of the podcast.

Blows my mind any NI party is attempting this. The second largest party believes that dinosaurs didn’t exist and the world is a few thousand years old, and the SDLP think this nonsense is going to wash with that electorate?

talking about Scottish government calling mothers chest feeders on Stonewalls orders

Just listening now.

Its painful isn't it.

Some period poverty occurs because male partners working full time financially abuse their wives and girl friends so don't pretend these men suddenly need to access them ffs.

@FindTheTruth

Nolan: 'one of the major political parties seems reluctant to say women use period products' SDLP spokeswoman: 'but I don't think it does just affect women. I think it affects families and relationships and couples. So I don't think there's anything wrong with including everyone in this'

This is one of the fundamental problems with 'inclusiveness'. Taken to an extreme, which is where it's been driven to in recent years, it becomes that everything is for everyone.

If someone wants to educate men and boys about periods then knock yourself out but don't erase women and girls in the process and make it impossible to talk about our lives without pandering to others.

My husband buying some tampax in the weekly shop every so often does not put his experience of periods on a par with mine or our daughters.

We were at Murrayfield on Sunday for the Scotland v Australia game. There's a 'no bag' policy but the match programme reassured attendees that 'male and female sanitary products will be available' in the toilets. DH was baffled. He was only slightly less baffled when I explained what I thought it meant.

I'm not 100% sure myself to be honest.

Rebecca the GP is an idiot. Can she not understand that nobody is objecting to the substance of the bill, nobody is opposing improving period health. But the bloody terminology dilutes the purposes of the bill that she is so passionate about. Why can't she - sorry people - understand that?

They're going to do more episodes on these topics. I hope de-transitioners get a voice