Guardian article about periods does not mention girls or women ONCE

[BobLobla]

….until they quote doctors who start using female pronouns. Look at how the guardian bits of the article are written. Ffs! https://www.theguardian.com/society/2025/aug/31/teenagers-period-pain-menstruation-chronic-pain-adults-research-study

The NHS advice page on domestic abuse during pregnancy doesn't mention women.

''People who are pregnant are at an increased risk of domestic abuse.''
https://www.nhs.uk/pregnancy/support/domestic-abuse-in-pregnancy/

Absolutely. I'm sure there used to be a word. Wumben? Wimpund? Woomud?

It would certainly be useful when sharing information about health and biology.

I bought The Guardian for about 25 years, I wouldn’t line my cat’s litter tray with it now.

But men do get breast cancer, I think it's like 400 men a year, so tiny, but the majority of them are later stages because they don't check those areas, or aren't thinking about it. Obviously it's still majority women, and that should be highlighted, but there should be some slight pointing out to men that they could get it, so maybe they'll check more etc.

This is one of the reasons that it's important that we use clear, neutral language for breasts, and don't confuse things by suggesting that breasts denote femininity and chests masculinity.

An additional note / section to suggest eg. 0.0001% of men in the whole male uk population can get breast cancer, so they need to check too, would suffice I should think.

0.8% of diagnosed cases are male but that’s not quite the same.

Well it’s just another example of men’s needs being more important / visible than ours. Nothing new.

And of course saying "people" get breast cancer isn't really because some men get it too - it's to stop the blue-haired alphabet folx having a tantrum

FFS

Further evidence that trans ideology is all about the menz.

Sorry - wrong FWR thread.
That's my fault for having several screens open at once.

Exactly

Quite. Peter Criss, the former drummer in Kiss, is a breast cancer survivor. He's a man's man, so if you wanted a male celebrity to raise awareness, he'd be great at that.

But I don't think that's what the blue fringes have in mind.

Yep my work do this too. Enraging. I will eventually say something as the hypocrisy is what gets me about it. They had a thing on our internal comms about getting feedback from "people on maternity leave". The words woman, women or female were not mentioned once.

I went into their policies and OF COURSE the information about paternity leave said man, men, fathers. Enraging.

OOh, yes, I wonder how quickly they will be calling for more female teachers to support poor white girls now that the exam results have changed in favour of boys. Or whether we'll see all the horror about the masculinisation of education. What we should be seeing is horror at the masculinisation of work and destruction of the economic value of traditionally female roles, but clearly, we won't. I should start my own thread on this but, being female, I have to work and don't have the time to keep it up.

The Guardian is a notoriously sexist/misogynist paper. I used to read it regularly until it became impossible to ignore the number of 'articles' attacking women.

Well, they should assign us all male, then, shouldn't they? I mean, Duh! What are they up to, condemning us all to a higher likelihood of chronic pain when they could have avoided it. Honestly! Grr.

assign verb [T] (CHOOSE)

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If you assign a time for a job or activity, you decide it will be done during that time: Have you assigned a day for the interviews yet?

If you assign a characteristic or value to something, you say that it has it: Each visitor to the site chooses an online alter ego, which is assigned a name.

The Guardian should just rename itself The Misogynist.

I was listening to a podcast yesterday about a miscarriage of justice in the US. Part of of the evidence related to the victim of the crime - a girl - and whether she used pads or tampons. The lawyer speaking said 'we have 2 people familiar with periods in our office so I asked them'. So not only are we just people now, we're just people who are familiar with periods.

What an interesting point, thanks MissScarlett. It’s exactly how I felt when I was approaching puberty. Horrified at the boring drudging restricted life that awaited me as a woman. Then Women’s Liberation happened and the future was transformed. How sad that girls face the opposite now: a movement to reduce women’s rights and liberties.

The only times women and girls are mentioned specifically is when the drs and minister are being directly quoted. The rest of the article (ie the bits the journalist wrote) its all young people and as adults, its a disgraceful attempt at erasing women and girls imho

Bit like the article about 75% of people getting thrush in their lifetime when the study quoted said 75% of women

I have XO karyotype and have periods. Some people wouldn't consider me a woman, I've been told that quite a few times, yet I do have a period.

By definition, Turner syndrome only affects women.

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Or premature ejaculation!

I don't think it's misunderstood. I think it's blatant lies!

… which means that’s about 38% of the population (as women are a little over 50% of the population, except in countries where they manage to kill us off through infanticide or misogynistic practices).

So the article on that subject was not just misleading but deliberately and massively inaccurate. Brilliant journalism!