6 TW talk menstruaion. Ooh - let's all play: 6 White people talk being black; or 6 tone- deaf people talk being concert pianists...

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[–]Maly_Querent 30 insightful - 1 fun30 insightful - 0 fun31 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

All of these people are AGPs who fetishize pregancy and who then obsess about periods as a result. How utterly disgusting that they still tie the mysogynistic concept that women are for breeding into their fucking mirror-world delusions.

[–]sisterinsomnia 10 insightful - 1 fun10 insightful - 0 fun11 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Yup. This is the kind of AGP which focuses on menstruation or pregnancy or giving birth.

[–]crodish 26 insightful - 4 fun26 insightful - 3 fun27 insightful - 4 fun -  (0 children)

A well-meaning cis friend will say, ‘Welcome to being a woman.’ And that can be problematic because I have experienced being a woman and not being seen as a woman for years. And these things make it seem like my womanhood is contingent upon presentation,” Tess says.

So what the fuck do they actually want

We validate them and they say no, not like that

Can you imagine if this article was about cancer? "You're lucky you don't have to experience cancer" "BuT Im MiSsiNg OuT oN tHe FULL CANCER EXPERIENCE tHatS nOt FaiR"

[–]sisterinsomnia 24 insightful - 3 fun24 insightful - 2 fun25 insightful - 3 fun -  (0 children)

This is probably one of the weirdest things I have ever read. Now male-bodied people are interviewed about their ghost periods on a site which sells menstrual supplies to people who actually do menstruate and none of it is a joke!

[–]our_team_is_winning 22 insightful - 2 fun22 insightful - 1 fun23 insightful - 2 fun -  (3 children)

< “It's similar to the first time you get catcalled as a trans woman or the first time you get talked over at a meeting or interrupted. A well-meaning cis friend will say, ‘Welcome to being a woman.’ And that can be problematic because I have experienced being a woman and not being seen as a woman for years. And these things make it seem like my womanhood is contingent upon presentation,” Tess says.

Yes, when you looked like the man you are, other men did not shout out sexual harassment at you on the street and you didn't get talked over by other men, but really you WERE a woman. Everyone was supposed to somehow know that. And yeah, it's like womanhood is contingent upon how you look -- you know, the way women are judged on their looks their whole lives and how dare you age past 30 and lose your looks, or ever gain weight or not conform to men's standards. PS: You're still a man!

[–]MarkTwainiac 12 insightful - 7 fun12 insightful - 6 fun13 insightful - 7 fun -  (2 children)

Yes, when you looked like the man you are, other men did not shout out sexual harassment at you on the street

Even when these men think/claim they are getting the same sort of sexual harassment that girls and women get, it's usually not the case, LOL: https://youtu.be/GMbrj10zuWE

[–]yousaythosethings 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

I'm absolutely howling at that video.

[–]Yayme 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

LOL!!!

[–]Yayme 14 insightful - 1 fun14 insightful - 0 fun15 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

Honestly, to me, this whole article just makes it even more obvious that they're not women. They just want to live the experience they think women have.

When I decided to get pregnant, it wasn't because I wanted to get pregnant. It was because I wanted to have a baby. The pregnancy was a means to an end, not the goal it's self. And I HATED being pregnant. Not just because of the acid reflux, or the shortness of breath, or the dietary restrictions, or the never-ending doctor visits, or the daily shots of blood thinner in my stomach (I had a blood clot in my 20ies) - I hated literally the act of being pregnant.

I hated having something inside of me. Maybe I was damaged by the movie Alien when I was a kid, but it completely freaked me out to have this thing living inside me, moving around, peeing in me. It completely freaked me out when she'd kick her foot out to hard my stomach would distend, and you could see there was something living inside of me.

Plus there was the constant worry that this baby, who I already loved so much, might be dead inside me and I wouldn't even know it. How awful - to be carrying around inside me the corpse of something I loved so much.

No, I HATED being pregnant.

And the lie of them being women "because they feel like women" is really obvious in this article to me. They don't know what women feel like, they know what they think women feel like.

[–]yousaythosethings 6 insightful - 1 fun6 insightful - 0 fun7 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

I've never been and never will be pregnant but there was a time in my life when I was considering the possibility and researching pregnancy and holy moly. That I couldn't take my medications that are basically necessary for me to be a functioning human being and work my extremely demanding job while being pregnant kind of made it a non-starter. The amount of lifestyle changes you have to make including the personal care products you use, what you eat, your career, etc. is immense and no joke and then to have to keep that up while breastfeeding. It's no joke. Men will never experience that and more importantly men will never have the experience of having to consider all of this in deciding whether they want to have a baby. All of these men who "transition" in some form also have the option of freezing their sperm.

[–]Yayme 9 insightful - 6 fun9 insightful - 5 fun10 insightful - 6 fun -  (0 children)

I think part of the aggressiveness of the TWAW campaign is because if all of society believes they are women, then maybe they will finally feel like women themselves. Because this article makes it pretty obvious that they know they're not women... when they talk about wanting periods for validation, and the altering their hormones so they can have a "cycle."

I wish trash TV was still a thing. I would love to see a Maury Povich episode where he brings a bunch of TIMS on, and gives them lie detector tests. "We asked you if you believe you are a woman... you answered yes. The test determined.. THAT IS A LIE"

Maybe TIMS are like fairies. And if we don't all sit around saying "I do believe in fairies! I do believe in fairies! I do believe in fairies!" They'll just go away?

Jesus, I watch too much TV.

[–]Spikygrasspod 11 insightful - 1 fun11 insightful - 0 fun12 insightful - 1 fun -  (5 children)

What do they mean about a cycle? Is HRT designed to mimic a natural cycle, with different levels of different hormones throughout the month?

[–]FlickingMarvellous 11 insightful - 1 fun11 insightful - 0 fun12 insightful - 1 fun -  (4 children)

Not if taken as medically directed, but they play around with their doses.

[–]MarkTwainiac 13 insightful - 1 fun13 insightful - 0 fun14 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

Yup, they play around with their doses for two reasons: to try to more closely mimic the female menstrual cycle, and to keep their testosterone-driven male sex drives, erections and ability to "nut" like the men they are.

[–]Spikygrasspod 7 insightful - 1 fun7 insightful - 0 fun8 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Oh, I see. So they might well have mood swings from hormone fluctuations. Once again, the experience of wanting to be female and trying to be female and medically simulating femaleness is necessarily different to the experience of being female. Also, it must be a strange kind of dysphoria when you still want to maintain your favourite male functions.

[–]sisterinsomnia 10 insightful - 1 fun10 insightful - 0 fun11 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

I have never heard them taking progesterone., either.

[–]grixit 6 insightful - 1 fun6 insightful - 0 fun7 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Or LH

[–]ekitten 8 insightful - 2 fun8 insightful - 1 fun9 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

How can TW say that they don't have a uterus but insist that they have a period? I guess the definition of period is also transphobic now.

[–]dandeliondynasty 6 insightful - 6 fun6 insightful - 5 fun7 insightful - 6 fun -  (0 children)

They may not be able to have periods or pregnancy, but happily there are machines that can deliver electric shocks to male genitals to emulate the pain of childbirth. Don't see them lining down the block for that though.

[–]ekitten 8 insightful - 1 fun8 insightful - 0 fun9 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

I was amused by the title but after reading the entry what the actual fuck? If their issue was JKR saying only women menstruate, then shouldn't they have spoken with transmen and female non-binary people about menstruation? Instead they're speaking to males who cannot and will not ever menstruate omfg.

[–][deleted] 7 insightful - 1 fun7 insightful - 0 fun8 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

They will never experience (Warning Very Graphic) the dagger like to mule kick pain of large raw liver like uterine lining sloughing off and trying through gravitation forces, to slide out of a tiny undiliated cervix. In my day, it was this occurence from the second through fourth days of menstruation every month for many years that I suffered on top of regular cramps. No OTC painkiller could halt pain, or stop the physics of this. How could they envy this? How could talking about this trigger their jealousy? How could they experience this? EDITED GRAMMER

[–]dandeliondynasty 5 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 0 fun6 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Any child who's had sex ed understands better than these adult "women" what a menstrual period is. Your HRT-induced hormone swings are not a period.

[–]PassionateIntensity 5 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 0 fun6 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Hey autogynephiles -- we see you.