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

When I hear phrases like that, to me it's dehumanizing in that it sounds like it's just reducing women to their reproductive organs. Isn't that what people argue against anyways? But also some women don't have periods or can't get pregnant so if we're going to call women "people who menstruate" are those women just not women then?

I saw an ad today for the pain reliever Midol and they just used the phrase "menstruators" which definitely felt dehumanizing.