"Most bleeders know how they are impacted by their period"

[PurgatoryOfPotholes]

New business on the block selling organic tampons via post and so on, called Yoppie. This is their instagram.

Text of instagram post:

'Most bleeders know how they are impacted by their period, but unfortunately aren't in touch with their feelings & symptoms in the other phases of their cycle. We are here to change that.'

I just can't stop laughing at this one.

www.instagram.com/p/CbFxHM7IWDE/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link

Thanks

How offensive and dehumanizing .She’s been taking business advice from Gerald Ratner!

She must be certain that young women will buy her product because they appreciate her attempt to lump all possible customers together as bleeders.

Perhaps she's right.

I’ve added my comment too, the more we speak up about this BS the better. Perhaps her brand can be kept afloat by the handmaidens, there seem to be a lot of them.
Would have actually used this company too.

@Blackandwhitehorse

I’ve added my comment too, the more we speak up about this BS the better. Perhaps her brand can be kept afloat by the handmaidens, there seem to be a lot of them. Would have actually used this company too.

I only see two handmaidens on there out of hundreds of posts.

We recognise the menstrual cycle is a biological function. We should be proud of this cycle, of bleeding from our uterus, it’s what makes us different.

Why on earth should we be proud of our menstrual cycles? It's just a bodily function. I'm not proud that I poo My period is just a minor inconvenience but for many of my friends it's something to be endured while they wait and wait for medical treatment. Bleeders was offensive enough but she appears to have made it worse by suggesting that we all need to be proud. Sod all of you who are struggling to conceive or living with endometriosis. While I'm at it, there are many many things that make me different but my period isn't one.

You’re right @VelvetChairGirl i thought there were more as they have pinned their comments to the top - pathetic!

I have a new collecting interest: All the contemptuous and ridiculing terms which are now used to replace what used to be 'women' or 'girls' when they were understood by all to refer to biological sex:

Egg-producers (quack, quack), ovary-havers, vagina-owners, bleeders, menstruators, non-prostate-owners, vulva people.

It would be interesting to see how this new language explains the reasons for sex-selective abortions in places such as India, given that they have zero to do with gender identity.

non men, cervix havers, fishies, birthing parent, breeders, bodies with vaginas.

witch, bitch, karen, cunt, corpse.

@Ohsugarhoneyicetea

Everybody bleeds, and last time I cut the top off my finger I was very in touch with my feelings.

having read that I am also in touch with my feelings...

mainly feeling faint and light headed and a little sick.

poor you, hope your finger has recovered.

I've just had an email that refers to pregnant people. I don't know whether to scream or tell them that only women can be pregnant. Or both!
Advice please.

@TheCovidHalfStone

I’m looking forward to the toilet roll manufacturers following suit.

Snorted my tea at this. Hahaha

@loislovesstewie

I've just had an email that refers to pregnant people. I don't know whether to scream or tell them that only women can be pregnant. Or both! Advice please.

Depends on the consequences for you, of course. But if it was from a friend, say, you could muse over the possibility that lots of female people identify as women because they live with a female body and because that affects them both directly and indirectly (discrimination, sexism, misogyny, and expectations by the wider society), and when it is 'people' who get pregnant, those women are no longer women or don't know what they are. The basis of their identity has been erased and their identities invalidated.

We should be proud of this cycle, of bleeding from our uterus, it’s what makes us different.

Different from what? Different from default humans, ie males, I suppose?
But then what of those of us who are past menstruation - have we lost some source of 'pride'?

What utter drivel.

@TheCovidHalfStone

I’m looking forward to the toilet roll manufacturers following suit.

Ha ha! "shitters love our toilet roll"

Yup that’s going down well. So she never even considered that this could just possible split the jury (99-1)? Wonder if she will apologise?

er aren't periods one of the few things that the vast majority of females of childbearing age have in common?

our personalities, interests, achievements and dreams are what make us different

She says she wants to take away the social stigma of talking about periods, but has used deliberately evasive language.

Danielle love, listen up. Women have periods. Some girls also have periods. your key words are periods and women and girls. No need to beat around the bush (excuse the pun)

Social stigma? So use the words loud and proud.

Periods! Menstruation! Women!

@Seema1234

She says she wants to take away the social stigma of talking about periods, but has used deliberately evasive language.

Danielle love, listen up. Women have periods. Some girls also have periods. your key words are periods and women and girls. No need to beat around the bush (excuse the pun)

Exactly

And stop the dehumanising language.

@nepeta

I have a new collecting interest: All the contemptuous and ridiculing terms which are now used to replace what used to be 'women' or 'girls' when they were understood by all to refer to biological sex:

Egg-producers (quack, quack), ovary-havers, vagina-owners, bleeders, menstruators, non-prostate-owners, vulva people.

It would be interesting to see how this new language explains the reasons for sex-selective abortions in places such as India, given that they have zero to do with gender identity.

Screenshot them all print them and slap em all over a wall as an art piece, bet places like the Tate modern wouldn't touch your "provocative" artwork with a barge pole.

We also understand there are many women who don’t have periods and some people who menstruate who are not women.

They qualify as "women" and "people", yet they refer to their target demographic as "bleeders", completely pissing them off?

That's a good idea.

@ErrolTheDragon

We should be proud of this cycle, of bleeding from our uterus, it’s what makes us different.

Different from what? Different from default humans, ie males, I suppose?
But then what of those of us who are past menstruation - have we lost some source of 'pride'?

What utter drivel.

I was going to say this but I see you beat me to it. She needs to read Invisible Women ffs