TiM Young Adult author,"i wish i lived in a world where i didn't have to have sensitive zoom meetings during my period because i'm crying at the drop of a hat *and* incredibly irritable.the next time someone tells me trans women don't have periods im gonna dump a whole tub of period diarrhea on them

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[–]MarkTwainiac 25 insightful - 7 fun25 insightful - 6 fun26 insightful - 7 fun -  (5 children)

This is just part of the larger campaign on the part of these sick fucks to liken the vagina, the female reproductive tract & female biological processes - menstruation, childbirth - to the anus/asshole, lower alimentary tract & defecation.

I am reminded of the Martin Niemoller poem about the Nazis & the Holocaust, First They Came For...

First, they came for the vagina and rechristened it the "front hole."

Then they came for pregnancy and said they could simulate it by sticking a hose in their asses and pumping their bowels full of water so their abdomens became grossly distended.

Then they came for pregnant women's waters breaking when they said evacuating all that fluid from their intestines was essentially what pregnant women go through when the amnio sac ruptures & amnio fluid leaks or gushes out of the vagina

Then they came for childbirth and reframed it as "shitting out a baby" or "crapping out a kid."

Then they came for menstruation and likened it to having diarrhea.

Then they came for menstrual cramps and likened them to bowel spasms.

Then they came for the bloody imagery in the book & movies Carrie, but instead of buckets of blood being dumped, it was "a whole tub of period diarrhea"

And so on.

*Fortunately, one variation of "front hole" I heard a few years ago - "franus" - didn't catch on. The two college-age TIFs who tried to convince me of the merits of this neologism a couple of Thanksgivings ago told me that giving birth vaginally is inherently debasing & disgusting, much more so than defecating. Defecating, in their view, was far superior to giving birth because males defecate - and whatever males do counts as superior & constitutes the ideal. In their view, the female ability to bring new life into the world makes us inherently inferior to males. They had lots of other cockamamie misogynistic ideas. One was that males are biologically superior coz they have the ability to jizz every day - or several times a day - whereas us slow & lazy women take 9+ months to "shit out a spawn." I had already "peaked trans" years before meeting these two loons, but they brought me to new heights where I thought to myself, "the extinction of the human race can't come fast enough. Bring on climate change & ceaseless meteor showers."

[–]aloris342 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

"The two college-age TIFs who tried to convince me of the merits of this neologism a couple of Thanksgivings ago told me that giving birth vaginally is inherently debasing & disgusting, much more so than defecating."

Wait, what?

[–]MarkTwainiac 4 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 0 fun5 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

I told them I found "front hole" vile & demeaning, so they suggested "franus" as a more anodyne alternative. IKYN. They were two of the most crackers people I've ever met. And amongst the most misogynistic. They also claimed to be gay men. Since then, I've heard through the grapevine that both have cut off all ties with their families & moved to who knows where, adopting new names. I don't know their parents well or really at all - I met them at a very large neighborhood gathering whilst visiting someone else in a different state to where I live, so I didn't know most people there. But I have often wondered what happened to them. They saw all aspects of distinctively female biology to be inherently disgusting & demeaning, & males to be superior & ideal in every way. Sadly, some other young TIFs hold similar views.

[–]aloris342 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

wow, their attitude to their own biology is very sad.

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

But the problem is, it's their attitude towards other people's biology too. Just like internalized homophobia in gay men & lesbians often gets directed at other people (& people of all sexual orientations too), internalized misogyny rarely remains solely internal. These young women don't just hate themselves & their own biology, they hate all girls & women - and they expressed a special disgust & disdain for women who have borne children. I remember thinking they had mommy issues x 1000.

Look at Chase Strangio - a young(ish) woman so hating of her own sex that she's dedicated her entire life to removing the sex-based sports, spaces, services & privacy & safety provisions that women have worked hard to obtain over centuries.

[–]BEB[S] 16 insightful - 6 fun16 insightful - 5 fun17 insightful - 6 fun -  (0 children)

It's been awhile, but I don't remember diarrhea leaking from my uterus when I had my period - you?

[–]Femaleisnthateful 17 insightful - 1 fun17 insightful - 0 fun18 insightful - 1 fun -  (5 children)

Ah yes, transwomen claiming that feminism needs to centre them while unironically rolling back feminist gains by portraying women as emotionally unstable prisoners of their biology (something something biological essentialism?)

[–]BEB[S] 10 insightful - 6 fun10 insightful - 5 fun11 insightful - 6 fun -  (3 children)

Although he's right - women often throw tubs of period diarrhea at each other when we disagree on whether we are men or not.

[–]Femaleisnthateful 10 insightful - 4 fun10 insightful - 3 fun11 insightful - 4 fun -  (0 children)

Yes, but it's hard what with our muscles all weak and atrophied from all the estrogen.

[–]MarkTwainiac 6 insightful - 3 fun6 insightful - 2 fun7 insightful - 3 fun -  (1 child)

But who flings shit at other people? Insane people & certain animals, such as howler monkeys in the wild and a host of animals kept in captivity like chimpanzees, rhinos & elephants.

Do TW really want these to be their comparators? Is collecting your feces in tubs & "dumping" it on those who disagree with your deranged POV now the height of "femininity" & daintiness? Have TIMs come up with a way to delicately & girlishly dump vats of their own runny feces on people so that it makes their skirts go spinny & their cocks hard? In their twisted imaginations, is shit flinging what girls do to one another at slumber parties after the sexy pillow fights & diddling?

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

Is collecting your feces in tubs & "dumping" it on those who disagree with your deranged POV now the height of "femininity" & daintiness?

Hahaha! Perfection. Thank you for this.

[–]limeindecoconut 15 insightful - 1 fun15 insightful - 0 fun16 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Bet. Transwomen do not and will not ever have a female menstrual cycle.

[–]hfxB0oyA 10 insightful - 4 fun10 insightful - 3 fun11 insightful - 4 fun -  (1 child)

next time someone tells me trans women don't have periods

They don't. You're deluded.

period diarrhea

That's a clue.

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

TiMs don't really know what is period diarrhea. When some women get their periods, they poop more and sometimes it's diarrhea (of the more liquid part of the bristol stool chart) and some women on their periods experience constipation more. TiMs seem to think that pooping is the hallmark of the period experience and is unaware of the differences.

[–]censorshipment 6 insightful - 6 fun6 insightful - 5 fun7 insightful - 6 fun -  (16 children)

https://www.womansday.com/health-fitness/womens-health/a27611578/diarrhea-during-period/

Stool changes during your period could be the result of progesterone levels and uterus contractions.

According to one theory, changes in stool during your period might have something to do with levels of progesterone, one of the sex hormones involved in menstruation and pregnancy. “In the luteal phase of the period, or second half of your menstrual cycle, which is just before you menstruate, the progesterone levels go up,” McGuire said. “And progesterone, we think, slows down the motility of the GI tract and might have some impact on why people have constipation first, and then frequent stooling or diarrhea as soon as that progesterone drops.” Levels of progesterone dropping is what also causes you to have a period, she said.

[–]BEB[S] 11 insightful - 2 fun11 insightful - 1 fun12 insightful - 2 fun -  (3 children)

But he doesn't have a uterus. Someone needs to break it to him. Probably from behind a bullet proof shield as he doesn't seem that hinged.

[–]MarkTwainiac 10 insightful - 1 fun10 insightful - 0 fun11 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

If they have ovaries or an ovary, women without a uterus still can have various symptoms associated with the menstrual cycle such as PMDD, bloating, breast tenderness, stool changes, etc. This can happen in women who had their uterus removed but kept one or both ovaries, or women who were born without a uterus but with functioning ovaries as in MRKH.

Absent the uterus, the ovaries or ovary will still function normally, producing the ebb & flow of estrogen & progesterone and maturing & releasing an egg as in a normal ovulatory cycle. No uterus means there's no uterine lining to shed. But the fluctuating hormones made by the ovaries/y still have, or can have, the same or similar impact on various other body systems such as the GI tract.

[–]ralph 3 insightful - 2 fun3 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 2 fun -  (1 child)

Fair enough, but he doesn't have ovaries either.

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

Yes, but there's a lot of confusion about biology about these days & women's bodies specifically. So for clarity's sake, I pedantically throw my two cents in. Censorshipment was talking about the hormonal changes that occur girls & women over the course of the menstrual cycle. I was just pointing out that even without a uterus, women can still experience these changes.

Just like many people nowadays use the word vagina to refer to the vulva, lots of people assume hysterectomy involves removal of the uterus and the ovaries. When, in fact, lots of women who have hystos keep one or both ovaries.

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

People get the trots for all different reasons. Stool changes are common in both sexes over the course of any given month.

Sure, some women get diarrhea when progesterone drops & their menses start. Some women get migraines & other headaches, joint pain, intensification of allergies, etc. But none of these side-effects are defining characteristics of menstruation/periods.

Also, the current standard medical protocols for TIMs do not include taking progesterone because of all the health risks that particular hormone poses. TIMs usually take estradiol and testosterone/androgen blockers. Many TIMs are pushing for progesterone to be added to their drug regimen, but one of the obstacles they face in mimicking female endocrinology is that oral exogenous progesterone has very low bioavailability and produces very weak effects even when taken at high doses.

Even if they did take progesterone, males & females have different hormone receptors and ways of metabolizing and making use of sex (& other) hormones.

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

The prostaglandins that cause cramps also cause diarrhea, as they cause the bowel to contract.

I get stomach cramps as well as uterinal during.

[–][deleted] 5 insightful - 2 fun5 insightful - 1 fun6 insightful - 2 fun -  (5 children)

Yeah, I get this too-- and my uterus is tilted, which further serves to aggravate everything there.

Evidently you can mitigate this to a degree by taking an ungodly amount of ibuprofen during the first days of your period. It's something like 600mg every 6 hours? Possibly more than that, I can't recall.

[–]MarkTwainiac 4 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 0 fun5 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

I used to take 800mg every 3-4 hours. When ibuprofen was still prescription-only, 800 was one of the dosages it came in, & the recommended interval between doses. It was only once ibuprofen became OTC that the 200mg dosage & wider spacing became the norm. The max daily intake is supposed to be 3200mg, but some doctors used to advise much more. For a lot of drugs, the Rx versions & OTC versions are differently dosed & administered.

Hope your periods get better in time.

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

Did you not have any stomach issues? I'm on a prescription for ADHD, so I try to avoid taking meds that aren't supplements/vitamins unless absolutely necessary-- plus the remembering to take it part. Thank you though-- I wish.

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

No, I didn't - which is sort of amazing. But a friend of mine did. He'd been taking large amounts of ibuprofen for sinus headaches & one day started vomiting coffee colored puke. He ended up in hospital & had a rough go of it. But he's okay now.

[–]GConly 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

Oh yeah, the ibuprofen helps. I start taking about six 200mg a day as soon as I get to the premenstrual stage and for the first few days. It's really cut down the amount of bleeding, as well as the cramps.

I think anymore than that is probably going to mess up your stomach.

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

Yeah, I had major success with it one month. I only had a few heavy days, and then it just stopped. Like uterosorcery, it ended. I took it along with 200mg of magnesium glycinate and a mixed calcium supplement. I need to stay on top of my crap and try to take everything on time and give it another attempt.

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

Hm. Do they even take progesterone? I could see any hormone levels raising or dropping causing some sort of digestive distress, and I can't imagine they're eating all that great-- but who knows.

[–]MarkTwainiac 4 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 0 fun5 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

No, they don't usually take it. Though they are pushing to make it part of the standard regimen. Problem is, exogenous progesterone a) has very little bioavailability & thus they'd have to take a ton of it to get to the levels ovaries produce; and b) is dangerous, increasing the risk of breast some other cancers & heart problems.

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

Initially, when I became more aware of all of this I had assumed they took both. They prescribe us both to decrease the same risks with hormonal contraceptives, so I thought it was weird that they wouldn't have an arsenal. I would have thought the whole process would have been more intricate, honestly. Since it's a cycle involving estrogen, progesterone, FSH and LH too, it would have made sense to me to try to replicate all of that (assuming testes have gone to ball heaven). Since physiology is still male though, I guess that all the other shit going on surrounding those hormones won't work the way they would in women anyway though.

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

(assuming testes have gone to ball heaven)

That's a mistake. Hardly any TIMs nowadays have their testicles removed. 90-95% have intact, functioning dicks & balls. It's why they have invented the terms "feminine penis," "lady dick" & "girl cock."

These figures are from trans advocacy orgs and trans medicine specialists. One study by doctors where they actually saw the people IRL & reviewed their complete medical histories showed that only 4.7% of US TIMs had undergone genital surgery. That's more reliable data than the typical "research" put forward, which usually relies on what trans people say in anonymous online surveys.

Lots of these guys lie about having had genital surgery. Gigi Gorgeous publicly pretended for years that he'd had genital surgery, then one day he made a video revealing he had misled everyone. Jenner did the same thing. Claimed publicly that he'd said goodbye to the dick & balls, then several years later he said he didn't actually get rid of them, just retired them.

[–]MarkTwainiac 7 insightful - 3 fun7 insightful - 2 fun8 insightful - 3 fun -  (3 children)

Sorry to make so many posts on this thread, but this has really captured my imagination & caused me to make a number of associations that have me laughing my head off. Which is good, coz what's been going on of late has sent me into a nearly catatonic depression.

For example, one of the movies I loved most as a child was about a poor, put-upon transwoman in Paris who was mercilessly mocked, marginalized & physically abused.

But Quasimama got back at her tormentors in a memorable scene where from on high in her digs in the belfry (aka the penthouse) of Notre Dame Cathedral, she pelts the mob of pitchfork-wielding transphobes & TERFs assembled below with her fecal matter.

At first, she rains her excrement down on them in solid cuboid form she's baked using oversized molds. (This is how the term "shitting a brick" originated.) But halfway through the scene (circa 2:30), Quasimama realizes that to really get the haters for all their aggressions - large, small, micro, negligible, non-existent & wholly imaginary - she's got to pull out the big guns: a huge vat of diarrhea brought to near boiling point, which she dumps out so that it spews out the drainpipes that come out of the mouths of the gargoyles:

https://youtu.be/-K2ADmMkiwo

Note that at the end, gleeful Quasi in her cute minidress twirls so the skirt goes spinny.

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

You're killing me, and you've been on a roll. After seeing about your dilemma a few weeks back, I've hoped to hear something positive coming your way.

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

Glad to give you a laugh. Your user name gave me a chuckle. As a kid I used to say "pissghetti." Couldn't say "breakfast" either - it came out like "ferris" only with a B.

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

Those are the two that seem to trip kids up the most, and my grandmother still has problems with saying "Massachusetts." My son still goofs up on a few, and I'll miss the days when he won't anymore like I do for my daughter.

It was from "What We Do in the Shadows." That scene from the movie gets me every time.

[–]Greykittymomma 7 insightful - 1 fun7 insightful - 0 fun8 insightful - 1 fun -  (5 children)

So tired of little boys pretending to understand what being a woman is like. I've been one 30+ years so why don't you play as a lady for a few years before even opening your stupid mouth.

Oh, gee I invalidated a little asshole.... Cry me a river of diarrhea 🤮

[–]BEB[S] 5 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 0 fun6 insightful - 1 fun -  (4 children)

I've never heard of him, but apparently he's a young adult author and has an agent.

Did you see his twitter profile? It says "YA fiction for unpopular high school sophomore girls" - so I'm guessing he envisions himself, and behaves like, an "unpopular high school sophomore girl."

So it seems in his mind it's normal behavior for "unpopular high school sophomore girls" to dump buckets of period diarrhea on each other if one accuses another of being male. My high school must have been abnormal because I never saw one sophomore girl dump shit on anyone, much less a boy-girl.

[–]lefterfield 5 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 0 fun6 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

What a weird, fetishistic way to define yourself, speaking as a writer. I write YA fiction. Mine is targeted at people who read YA fiction. Period, end of. And the only reason I say 'YA fiction' as opposed to 'fiction for people who read fiction' is because YA is more marketable. This man has issues, and should not be around high school girls.

[–]BEB[S] 4 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 0 fun5 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Fetish is right. IMO the fact that so many men claiming womanhood are in fact fetishists is what we need to make clear to normies.

Normies need to understand that these aren't harmless, castrated, uber-"feminine" gay men wanting access to spaces where women and children are naked and vulnerable, but often, angry, violent, fetishistic, narcissistic, straight men who get off sexually on LARPing as and humiliating women.

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

Reminded me of Ja'mie: Private School Girl, a comedy that today would be considered transphobic, just like all the transvestite skits on Little Britain are because they show that there is something inherently absurd about men who pretend to be girls & women: https://youtu.be/WDLxNnQQiwU

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

Yes that frustration was in general but I do take issue with categorizing his fans as unpopular, ya dickhead!

I was an unpopular teenage girl, we don't need ya!

[–]WhiteRose 6 insightful - 1 fun6 insightful - 0 fun7 insightful - 1 fun -  (12 children)

I used to get ‘period shits’ before my hysterectomy, and I didn’t mind too much. It felt like a cleansing of my bowels, a relief to constipation.

It also blows my mind that TRAs act like having a period is this magical ~uwu~ experience when it’s absolutely hideous for many of us.

I’ve also been told that radfems think that women like me are no longer a real woman due to my hysterectomy. Is this legit or just TRA propaganda?

[–]lefterfield 8 insightful - 2 fun8 insightful - 1 fun9 insightful - 2 fun -  (3 children)

TRA propaganda. Women who were identified as female by a doctor/midwife/parent are all real women. The hysterectomy argument is idiotic. I saw some twit once ranting about how the mean radfems think she's not a woman because her breasts were removed, had a hysterectomy, and idk what else. I asked her how scientists determine if a skeleton is from a male or female if it has no organs or fat tissue, and I think it broke her.

[–]WhiteRose 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

Thanks for your reply :) that argument really is ridiculous.

I’m glad that radfems don’t feel that way. I’ve been a libfem my whole life, but GC has me tipping more and more towards radfem.

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

Yeah, I used to be a libfem myself. They got too crazy for me.

[–]MarkTwainiac 7 insightful - 1 fun7 insightful - 0 fun8 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

TRA propaganda. I've had a hysterectomy too. No one, radfems or anyone else, has ever suggested that I'm no longer a woman as a result.

Saying a woman is no longer a "real woman" due to the loss of her uterus is like claiming that Beethoven was no longer a real composer & musical genius once his hearing loss advanced to the point where he was completely deaf.

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

So very true, thanks for your reply.

[–]BEB[S] 7 insightful - 1 fun7 insightful - 0 fun8 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

Pure TRA propaganda - typical of their lies.

Feminists believe the truth: There are two biological sexes only; intersex people are either male or female. There is a clear cut definition of female, and therefore of woman, so it doesn't matter if you've had a hysterectomy or not, you are still a woman. It's like a car missing a tire - it's still a car.

[–]WhiteRose 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

Thank you :)

That is an excellent analogy.

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

I saw this analogy on twitter:

Humans are bipedal, so if a man loses a foot is he no longer human?

[–]WhiteRose 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

That’s an interesting analogy. But they would screech about ableism instead of actually thinking about it.

[–]aloris342 7 insightful - 1 fun7 insightful - 0 fun8 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

In order to have a hysterectomy, one first has to have had a uterus. This, to me, is part of an argument that sees people as mere collections of cells outside of space or time, like dolls with parts that can be attached or detached with surgery. Attach one part, add some hormones, and you become a woman. Remove a part, you become a man. In reality, human beings are a unity of all our parts, adapted along a lifecourse that is either male or female. Just as menstruation is a normative part of the female lifecourse, so is menopause. It's very strange, the idea that since men do not have a uterus, then any person who does not have a uterus must be a man (unless the person is a transman, in which case they can have a uterus and still be a man, by some reasoning process that I don't understand).

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

You’re right. The idea that simply removing a woman’s uterus = she’s now a man is more aligned with TRA propaganda than it is with GC feminism, from what I’m starting to learn.

(unless the person is a transman, in which case they can have a uterus and still be a man, by some reasoning process that I don't understand).

And they can carry a pregnancy to term, give birth, and breastfeed a baby and still be a man.

[–]WrongToy 5 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 0 fun6 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

Sounds like Jonathan Yaniv. He insisted that he had periods before his SRS. He put pictures of the post-SRS out on Twitter, publicly, trolling Blaire White about how this bleeding is "something that us girls do." Last week, wait for it, he went to get it waxed somewhere. Even though it was purulent and granulating as per his pictures.

Sounds like that guy who was I guess post-op who hung out in debate sub. Made it a point to carry to the loo a big bag he carried feminine supplies in...just in case "someone needs."

Sounds like this other TIM who blocked me over Twitter because I defended some trans teenager who has this account "pass or not?" There's a whole subreddit where TIMs discuss that, which is public after all.

The results for Yaniv, btw, were 86.5 "not pass."

The other "13.5" need some reality help.

[–]BEB[S] 4 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 0 fun5 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Is the sub where trans ask if they pass called r/transpassing or something like that?

That subreddit should be mandatory viewing for every single person who wants to let TiMs into women's spaces. Most of them look frightening, rather than sexy, or girlish, or whatever the hell they're trying for.

[–]aloris342 5 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 0 fun6 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

I'm worried about this because I feel it is very confusing to children who are trying to learn basic biology. Remember the kid who asked why women couldn't just hold their period blood inside until they can get to the bathroom? The reason society needs a word for periods and menstruation is because of the logistic and practical considerations around menstrual bleeding (or, if you want to be pedantic, shedding of the endometrial lining), not because of the hormone flux. Girls and women in certain countries are/were considered ritually unclean because of the period blood, not because of how they feel.

Even in my local community, there is a lot of political pressure to erase legal protection for girls as biologically different from boys. The general public seems to be unable to see how wrong this is because they are unable to reason through the issues clearly. The campaign to change public opinion by using language that obscures reality seems to be working, and anyone who speaks the truth is labeled a bigot and socially ostracized.

[–]TheOnyxGoddess 4 insightful - 2 fun4 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 2 fun -  (1 child)

I remember reading a post of how a TI deliberately took pills to "stimulate" having periods at a specific time of the month and he said his periods would last a specific amount of days. A woman's periods aren't that consistent. Sometimes her periods are a day late, some last a little longer and when she gets them, it's often inconvenient or a very inconvenient annoying mess to deal with. I'm using singular so any morons don't think that I'm being vague saying that "different women would have different periods from each other". I'm saying a single woman can have fluctuating cycles and it is always unplanned.

[–]MarkTwainiac 5 insightful - 2 fun5 insightful - 1 fun6 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

I remember reading that too. IIRC, the person always had their "period" start on the same numbered calendar day every month, LOL. Not only did he not take into account all the variations & fluctuations that occur in the length of women's cycles & periods, he also didn't take into account that different calendar months have different numbers of days - & that only one month, February, is the same length as the average menstrual cycle.He assumed women have 12 periods a year coz there are 12 months. When in fact, women whose cycles are regular usually have 13 periods a year coz except for February, all months are 30 or 31 days long.