Does Dwight Schrute write tweets for Tampax?
I missed this one from September last year.
Not a fact. All people with periods are women. (Some are girls, but by some definitions once they have periods they’re women, and anyway this stupid tweet didn’t mean “Because some are girls!!”) No men have periods. We don’t need to “celebrate” the sexual “diversity” of “people who bleed.”
Also everyone bleeds – see Shylock: If you prick us, do we not bleed?
But men don’t menstruate. Men don’t gestate babies so they don’t need a place to gestate babies so they don’t need a uterus, and they also don’t need to feed gestating babies so they don’t need an endometrium so they don’t need to shed part of it once a month to make room for the next installment. Hope that helps.
Oooh, I know! You could post this as a “daily reminder” on Tampax’s website! What it lacks in short, pithy sloganeeringness, it makes up for with being accurate and truthful.
In fact, looking at their picture, you would think it is only transwomen that bleed! (Those pictures are not transmen; they are clearly transwomen, and I suspect that is the intent, and under no biological reality could you make the argument that transwomen have periods. THEY DO NOT),
I am a woman. I do not have periods. Because I am an old woman, and I have had a hysterectomy. It does not offend or insult me for Tampax to address their customers appropriately as women, even though I am excluded from the group to which they speak. I am not their customer. Feel free to exclude me. If transwomen want to waste their money on period products, that is their choice. If transmen need period products, it’s because they are women.
If you are sure of what you are (as I am sure I am a woman though I no longer have periods and I can no longer carry a child) you do not need validation. If you are actually what you think you are, you don’t need other people telling you that.
If, however, you are delusional, but still manage to recognize that your delusion does not look the same as reality, you very well may need or desire validation to feel okay about yourself. Fine. Go to group therapy, get over it, and get on with your life. Leave the lives of women alone.
This is your daily reminder…
Trans women are men.
Elementary, my dear Watson.
“Trans women are men” — yes, they are men by definition. Men who (say they) think they’re women. Well they’re not.
While we’re at it, here’s another definition:
I’m not having any luck finding why Dwight Shrute is relevant here. Would someone please explain?
Heh. Sorry. There’s one episode (or maybe more) where he harangues everyone about something, starting with “Fact!” and then making some absurd claim, repeat several times. In-joke between me and me.
In other words “Fact: not all women have periods” reminded me of Dwight because…that’s not a fact.
(I tried to find it on Youtube but no luck.)
Worst. Show. Ever. :P
(sorry) ;)
That’s just pointlessly rude.
Nah, just subjective. :)
No, rude.
I think the one in the middle might be a female… No head tilt.
The “fact” thing was a running joke with Dwight. In trying to find some examples, I came across this, in which he does talk about menstruation (at 0’22”), along with some other differences between men and women.
He’s not wrong about the difference between salesmen and saleswomen.
If I could hate The Office less in order to be less rude, I’d still opt for rude. I apologize for that, but there ‘s no way for me to convince myself that it’s not the suckiest show I have ever seen. At least I’m honest. I wish I could like it, but I just don’t. All I can do is apologize for my rudeness and hang my head in shame. :(
I will say that it’s marginally less sucky than Seinfeld, so maybe that counts for something. :D
Radio 4 has a 28-part series about the menstrual cycle (28ish Days Later, if anyone wants to check it out) which I thought was an impressive amount of time to dedicate to the subject. I’m most of the way through but struggling a bit now – it started off with the interesting detailed biology stuff and then went off into New Age Moon Goddess hippy dippy territory. Anyway. The presenter explains right at the start that they will be mostly saying “women” but of course not everyone who has a menstrual cycle identifies as a woman blah blah blah but they stay reasonably on track after that I think.
There is a whole episode with the first transman to front a period product campaign (how did I miss that happening!?). It was…. interesting. Things that stood out for me:
If I worked this out right, this kid was 15 in 2010, at an all girls school, convinced she was a boy, and presumably with everyone around her playing along, in the UK. I didn’t realise that’s where we were 12 years ago. It’s always worse than you think!
First period was traumatic because “the narrative” was that only girls get periods and she was a boy. Her mother didn’t tell her this would happen because she thought it would be too upsetting. Seriously? More upsetting than getting your period when you believe that you are somehow exempt because of how you feel? Poor kid.
The dissociation from her body to the point of total absurdity such as “there’s not enough research into trans bodies” – what does that even mean? Aren’t trans bodies the same as other bodies? Isn’t it their mind that we are told is different?
The obligatory reference to “harm”. Messages from trans people who didn’t agree with her doing the ad campaign were upsetting because she didn’t like the idea that she had “harmed” people in her “community”. When your own movement bullies you, something’s not right.
Message of support from someone she went to school with: “I’m so glad you exist!” What? Who says that to anyone, on any occasion? Unless the poor girl has been so confused by the nonsense about how evil transphobes don’t want trans people to exist that she thinks this is the right way to be supportive?
It’s worth a listen just to hear from a gender-confused female person for a change.
twiliter,
Your hatred of The Office (or any other sitcom) isn’t rude. Bringing it up in the context of this conversation is. And continuing to harp on it even more so.
That. Good grief, twiliter, I don’t care what you think of The Office, much less consider it rude to think it. The rudeness is in bothering to say so.
I get it now, very OT. Sorry folks.
There you go: OT in a rude way. Apol accepted.
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