Insulters at Planned Parenthood
Planned Parenthood. A tweet.
Menstruators in New York started to #TweetTheReceipt celebrating the repealed tampon tax—but some are still charged. https://t.co/xnY5IaUZta
— Planned Parenthood (@PPact) September 2, 2016
Women. The word is “women.” Not “menstruators.” Women menstruate; men don’t.
Planned Parenthood should not be erasing women.
And not all women menstruate. Seems to ignore a lot of women in the interest of being “inclusive”. It’s very possible that there are none menstruating women fighting this alongside their daughters and granddaughters. We don’t quit caring just because we quit bleeding.
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It’s not possible there are men fighting this alongside their daughters and granddaughters (and wives and female friends)?
Yes, let’s make sure that parties that are unaffected by this in any way feel included…
Being an “ally” doesn’t require inclusion or acknowledgement… You do it cuz it’s the right thing to do.
BKiSA – if this was a single instance of this, I might agree with you. But this is part of an ongoing erasure of women. Women’s health care becomes pregnant people’s health care. But women who are not pregnant need health care, too, and things that women are the ones who are subject to. Just because I am not pregnant does not mean I have not stake in the issue. Women are affected by the erasure of women, period. Not just in this instance, but in every instance where we allow the erasure to occur.
Silentbob @ 2 – yes, absolutely! And all lives matter, and we don’t need feminism, we need humanism. Thank you for helping.