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Feminism: Sex and gender discussions

Green periods??? I think I've seen it all now...!

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Moonandstarz · 09/06/2023 11:07

https://twitter.com/greenperiods/status/1664351392306216961?s=46&t=R-nZp_sfzy2HZ85HAK-l3g

Can anyone please shed light on this?! The last time I checked only women can get periods & it's been that way since time began! Am I seriously missing something?

https://twitter.com/greenperiods/status/1664351392306216961?s=46&t=R-nZp_sfzy2HZ85HAK-l3g

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CliantheLang · 09/06/2023 16:25

It says inclusive of trans men - in other words, women.

FIFY

CliantheLang · 09/06/2023 16:28

SunsetBeauregarde · 09/06/2023 15:23

See now, I'm a woman who doesnt menstruate (PCOS and very early menopause as a result) and I actually like the idea of separating having periods from my identity as a woman. I AM a woman, but I don't menstruate and I like that some language exists that means period information can be directed to people without making me feel like im less of a woman because I don't menstruate. I don't think anyone is suggesting you should refer to WOMEN as menstruators, the suggestion is to refer to people who menstruate as menstruators and I don't think I mind that.

Men accessing womens spaces and sports can get in the bloody sea though, I just dont think this is the same.

But being a woman is not an identity. If you're a woman it's because you are one, regardless of your current reproductive capacity.

Moonandstarz · 09/06/2023 16:34

Exactly, I'm peri menopause, my periods are going to stop in a couple of years but I'm still a woman after menopause & my periods stop!

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aloris · 09/06/2023 16:53

I think it's interesting when the word "menstruator" is justified by the claim that women past menopause do not menstruate. I think this illustrates one of the creepy purposes of using dehumanising terms such as "menstruator", which is to separate women into different groups and pretend like those groups have nothing in common with each other. It's basically a "divide and conquer" strategy, splitting women up into different groups and placing them in different silos, socially, politically, linguistically. And yet, women past menopause are the same group as women who menstruate, just older!!!!!! You can't be in menopause unless you are female.

The dehumanisation is not only in the redefining of the words 'girl' and 'woman' and 'female' and their replacement with "menstruator" "cervix-haver" and "pregnant person." It's also in the pretense that the only thing that's important about you is today's biological function, and the pretense that you can be categorized solely on the basis of this particular function, as if all the other aspects of being female are something totally unconnected, as if we are all little lego toys, with parts that can be disconnected in space and time.

But in the real world, the baby born with a uterus is the same person as the adolescent girl a few years later who gets her first period, who is the same person as the young woman a few years later who gives birth, who is the same person as the woman 20 years later who undergoes menopause, who is the same person as the woman 10 years after that who gets uterine cancer, who is the same person as the woman who gets a hysterectomy for that uterine cancer. We're not just female in the one moment where a man looks at us and says, "menstruator." We're female for the entirety of our lives!

Moonandstarz · 09/06/2023 17:00

Exactly, my mother had a hysterectomy at age 50 after menopause but she's still a woman, an amazing, strong woman who is completely GC.

It's nonsensical language, woman only have a menstrual cycle. When menopause hits & it hits every woman periods stop but we are still women!

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GnomeDePlume · 09/06/2023 17:00

@aloris very well said

Moonandstarz · 09/06/2023 17:02

@aloris I think you should email Green Periods & educate them!

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teaandtoastwithmarmite · 09/06/2023 17:07

I am so pissed off with this shit. The other day I saw something about a pregnant man. No this needs to end.

thatsn0tmyname · 09/06/2023 17:09

Is there green semen? Or are only periods affected?

teaandtoastwithmarmite · 09/06/2023 17:17

mumda · 09/06/2023 12:32

"Not only have our cramps reduced with reusables, but we also haven’t spent a penny or sent a single product to the landfill in 10 years!"

From their website.
Incredible claim there that reusables help with cramps.

Actually I do use cloth pads from bloom and Nora and my cramps are better. And periods generally better overall. This company is still full of bollocks though

Moonandstarz · 09/06/2023 17:26

So basically speaking Green Periods is a company for women supplying menstruation products for women who get their periods. No need for the Alphabet Soup GP, just don't alienate your target audience!

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aloris · 09/06/2023 17:29

corlan · 09/06/2023 14:00

Have you got nothing else to direct your anger to. There’s far bigger problems in the world. Who cares what word is used
Words matter. George Orwell (I think) said that if you wish to destroy a culture, first destroy it's language. If the word 'woman' is taken from us, how can we describe our common experiences as women? How can we describe the ways we are opressed as women if the term 'woman' includes men?

The redefining of the words "women" and "girls" is not just a little thing. Trophies and records, that should rightfully belong to women, are being given instead to male-bodied people. This is because, having convinced the general public that it's no big deal to say TWAW, tautological (aka meaningless) statements ("Trans women should be in womens sports because they are women") are being presented as if they were "reasoning."

Via the same redefinition of the word woman, the swimmers at UPenn were expected to disrobe in front of a biological male, their privacy and dignity taken from them. It is truly shocking that so many people, even other women, will no longer support the right of women to participate equally in society while keeping their naked bodies from the view of men. This is a very big thing!!!!!

EdithStourton · 09/06/2023 17:46

zibzibara · 09/06/2023 11:27

There's even an emoji for that --> 🫃

https://emojipedia.org/pregnant-man/

It looks more like a bloke celebrating what the Germans call 'beer muscle'.

ApocalipstickNow · 09/06/2023 18:00

Green periods?

Everyone knows periods are blue.

JamSandle · 09/06/2023 18:01

Why do these people even want periods anyway? If they had a real one they'd realise its nothing something you'd want!

Alliswell3 · 09/06/2023 21:17

forgotmyusername1 · 09/06/2023 13:56

When you have bearded, fully penised trans women (men) suing a business because they told them they were not allowed to go to the naked women spa (their words) and the business loses - there is legitimately no greater threat to women at the moment than the trans community. We are being erased, degraded, assaulted, insulted and told that we don't matter.

Did that really happen?

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LBFseBrom · 09/06/2023 21:26

Maybe Martian men have periods which are green.......just a thought.

borntobequiet · 09/06/2023 22:18

LBFseBrom · 09/06/2023 21:26

Maybe Martian men have periods which are green.......just a thought.

Apropos of not very much, this post inspired me to research periods in space. Happily the words “woman” and “female” appear to have their traditional meanings in the extraterrestrial community.
https://theconversation.com/how-women-can-deal-with-periods-in-space-58294

How women can deal with periods in space

We are only starting to understand the impact of space travel on women’s health. But a new study has just made it easier for astronauts to decide whether they want to stop their periods.

https://theconversation.com/how-women-can-deal-with-periods-in-space-58294

borntobequiet · 09/06/2023 22:30

By “research”, I mean “Google”, of course.

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TheBiologyStupid · 09/06/2023 23:54

MerelySnark · 09/06/2023 14:08

One of the Twitter comments (sorry I can’t manage to copy it)

Respect my pronouns while I call you a chest feeder and birthing human

Yes, some brilliant responses to that tweet in the thread. And the most decisive ratio I can recall seeing, too!

MistyGreenAndBlue · 10/06/2023 00:56

Vulcan women ARE women 🖖🏼

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