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[–]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.