He will also explain menopause
The buffoons who hired a man to be Period Officer are saying they were right to do it and shut up.
A group in Tayside has defended its decision to appoint a man as a period dignity officer.
Jason Grant’s hiring sparked a heated online debate, with critics saying the job should have gone to a woman.
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The job advert said the suitable candidate needed a “successful track record of engaging and empowering a large range of people from a diverse range of cultural and socio-economic backgrounds, in particular young people who menstruate”.
Maybe everybody all along the line was confused – maybe none of them realized menstruation is something male people are not equipped to do, ever, under any circumstances.
Mr Grant will also discuss issues around menopause as part of his role.
Ah great, what menopausal woman doesn’t want some very young man explaining menopause to her?
The period dignity working group, which has representatives of Dundee and Angus College, Perth College, Angus Council and Dundee City Council, said Mr Grant was the strongest candidate for the job.
A spokesperson said: “The role builds on some fantastic work which has been gathering speed across the Tay region for several years, led by a passionate group of people of all genders, ages and backgrounds.
“By changing the culture, encouraging debate and removing the stigma around periods, we look forward to supporting the delivery of this important work across the region.”
They can’t. The insult of hiring a man for that job will render all their clueless attempts to “remove the stigma” not only worthless but yet more insult.
Are they really all such halfwits that they don’t understand it’s women and girls who are stigmatized when menstruation is stigmatized? Are they really all such halfwits that they don’t understand that excluding women and girls from this job of all jobs just underlines what contempt they have for women and girls?
How does a potential candidate know if they have a “successful track record of engaging and empowering . . . young people who menstruate”?
I mean, presumably you would know if you have engaged and empowered young people. But how do you know if those young people menstruate? Are you supposed to ask them? I thought it was considered rude to ask people about their genitals. Or are you just supposed to infer that based on if you’ve engaged and empowered young women? In which case, the job description could just refer to “young women” instead of “young people who menstruate”?
Well, he did the grocery shopping once, and his girlfriend had put tampons on the list and he actually bought them, so….
It wouldn’t be unreasonable to have a male OBGYN take the role… but this guy isn’t one of those either.
Screechy – of course nobody asks anyone about their genitals. There’s a mandatory pronoun check before the engaging and empowering commences!
Via Twitter, I saw this comment on Mumsnet:
It’s all such a series of amazing coincidences, isn’t it.
Mumsnet is an absolute treasure. For many reasons.