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[–]Spicylikegumbo 11 insightful - 1 fun11 insightful - 0 fun12 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

LOL at one of the top comments from a guy that says "people who menstruate" is the more accurate term since some women can't menstruate but they are no less women. Um...that statement did nothing to justify the term "people" over "women." It would make even more sense to say women who menstruate in that case.

[–][deleted] 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

I think "menstruators" and "people who menstruate" is more exclusive than using women in these instances. For example, not all menopausal women have been inductrinated into this "new speak" and may not be aware it means them. They regards themselves as women as they have always done, during their menstruating years and before. Suddenly they are in a different category of "woman" then they were before. This is needlessly confusing.

[–]MarkTwainiac 4 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 0 fun5 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

For example, not all menopausal women have been inductrinated into this "new speak" and may not be aware it means them. They regards themselves as women as they have always done, during their menstruating years and before.

We post-menopausal woman don't simply "regard ourselves" as women, we know that since menarche and reaching legal majority, we've always been women. Also coz a lot of other reasons, such as all the human beings we've grown in our wombs and brought into the world through our vaginas or our abdomens (in the case of CS).

Most female human beings nowadays who live out our full life expectancy will spend as much or more of our lives without the capacity to ovulate and menstruate as with this ability. The average age of human menarche is 11, average age of menopause is 51. That's 40 years. But in much of the world today, the normal female lifespan is more than double this. In many countries today, it's 89!

This new terminology that's been made up by misogynistic, covetous young men no one else wants to have sex with isn't just "needlessly confusing" - it's incredibly insulting to real girls and women of all ages.

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You are right. "Regard" was the wrong word to use. I apologize.