"periods: a genderless function" FFS!!!

[whistleblown]

How greedy and selfish of us to keen periods to ourselves all this time. 🙄🙄🙄

'This nuanced topic'.

There's nothing fucking nuanced about feeling like the life is being drained out of you for seven days every month.

How about we start using a take on NAMALT for this shite?

"Not all women have periods, but only women have periods."

NAWHPBOWHP.

Not catchy but sounds like dozens of several 'genderless' egos crashing to the floor.

Is this Modibodi? Shame, I need some more period pants and it's not going to be from them this time!

This is what happens when people believe that gender and sex are the same thing.

It's also known as fucking ignorant stupidity.

It's sex not gender you illiterate fools.

Jeez there are some stupids around.

how come they get a platform or is it so the rest of us can see

Sounds like a song na wa a bo whap

Yes periods is nothing to do with gender and everything to do with sex

A man with a period should be going to a and e not tescos for chocolate

And what conversation ? Ffs. Away with the fairies that company

Oscar is an uneducated muppet.

Some people just have to have something to moan about don’t they?

I mean, I rarely have conversations about menstruation. What’s there to say? What’s there to leave someone out of?

I might say “aah me period pains are gripping me” and if a woman who identifies as non-binary, or a man responded “ooh yeah, mine were pretty brutal last week” - I wouldn’t say “sorry, but this conversation is only for women who don’t identify as something else”, I’d say “really? Were you alright?”.

Such tedious, made-up barrel-scraping for gripes.

Periods don't care what gender you feel like. That doesn't "make periods genderless". That makes gender-feelings irrelevant when determining who has periods or not. 🤷‍♀️

I know what is a gender less function…. Having a shit!

It's getting to the stage where I'm thinking people who believe this shite are actually spectacularly stupid

The problem is that we've always had people who are summarily unable to understand what to most people is blatantly obvious, for a variety of reasons; but the key difference is that it is usually left to those who DO understand to manage/educate/legislate/organise things that depend on that particular area of knowledge.

We are now seeing this all completely turned on its head, with those who do not understand the absolute basics assuming that they do; and that it's everybody else who doesn't - and they are then arrogantly taking it upon themselves to attempt to de-educate everybody else!

It's basically like turning to a 4yo child to tell all of us adults what we need to do to end poverty and homelessness and make sure that everybody in the world has what they want - and then humbly and gratefully accepting the simple, straightforward solutions with which they have to confidently educate us, involving Santa, Lego and the genie from Aladdin.

I mean, I rarely have conversations about menstruation. What’s there to say? What’s there to leave someone out of?

I genuinely believe we'll see 'transabled' people before too long, who will rail at all of the bigoted somethingorotherophobes (i.e. genuinely disabled people) for selfishly and arrogantly trying to keep the things they actually can't do to themselves - denying the inclusive people who fancy a day or two at identifying themselves as needing a wheelchair - and make accessible facilities 'all about them'.

This post is not about transwomen claiming to have periods, which always sparks such fury on here.

This is about transmen actually having them. The fact that the words are muddled is a problem. But all they are saying is that biological women with dysphoria who want to be known as men still menstruate. And they don't want to have to revert to identifying as women to be able to say so.

Reminds me of this great post from another thread:

How very #mean of you. #periodmonopolist, #femalebloodprivilege

#womenhaveallthefun

We should not obsfucate what is happening because some people are sufficiently struggling that they can't face biology

They are facing biology. They just don't want to be called women.

I was just thinking similar.
I mean I dont know about every woman, everywhere, but I reckon I've talked about my period a handful of times in my life. Have I mentioned discomfort pain, swelling, sure, but that's not my idea of talking about my period. Its not the dirty details, it's not which products to use for which day, it's not that detailed. Except for those handful of times when I had to see a GP.

So what is this conversation? I think it would probably make me very uncomfortable if someone, anyone started a convo about my periods. I would assume a pervert/fetishist and shut down or not respond to such a convo

Ive thought this for a while

We who have daughters and need to educate them about their biology can live without this muddling. It has to be clear, straight and honest, not arsing around with accurate language to facilitate someone's self image.

If they want to think this nonsense, let them think it at home rather than trying to make it the public discourse around periods.

Of course periods are genderless - come on, this isn’t news to any of us.

‘Gender’ is utterly meaningless. An indefinable (non-definable) set of regressive stereotypes.

Periods are 100% sex-based.

Well to be fair, it does seem to be the women who wish to be known as men who keep harping on this subject. No one cares how they identify or whether or not they menstruate. They’re the ones keeping talking about it though.
As PP have said, most women have too much going on in their lives to sit and have long navel gazing conversations about how they identify.

Honestly, if wishing periods away could make it so then i wish my periods on any man who wants to claim them for his own.

They are facing biology. They just don't want to be called women.

But why is it always the vast majority who are expected to change to accommodate their beliefs and feelings? Why can't they refer to themselves as 'period-havers' or 'menstruators' and leave the women and girls whom everybody knows full-well and uncontroversially are women and girls alone to be referred to as such.

If they want to be considered effectively men - and absolutely not women - why are they fighting so hard to insist that 'not all people who menstruate are women' and never that 'not all men [the category they believe they belong to] do not menstruate' ?

Anyone else getting nothing but modibodi ads on this page?

Woman is adult human female

Nothing more

Woman is not gender