How to personalise care
Last May, an interview with a woman who founded a company:
Daniella Peri is the Founder of Yoppie, a DTC subscription-based, organic period care and PMS solutions provider. As part of our FemTech Founder series, FemTech.Live interviewed Daniella about her mission to improve menstrual health care.
So Daniella, tell us a bit about yourself and Yoppie.
I’m the Founder and CEO of Yoppie – a FemTech company that enables women to take control of their menstrual health. It’s my one and only experience in the FemTech world.
Yoppie is a DTC subscription-based, organic period care and PMS solutions provider that uses smart tech to enable women to not only personalise and manage their menstrual care but also to better educate themselves while they do it. From convenient product delivery to content personalisation, we’re helping women to sync menstruation with the modern world using a tech-driven approach.
Ok. Sounds slightly unnecessary to me (it’s not that much trouble to buy a box of tampons), but ok. However…someone must have Said Something.
So much for “fem tech.”
Er… is the Twitter link broken, or does the grayed-out lines I’m seeing mean they deleted the tweet? Or is there something wrong on my end?
I can guess from context what it might be about, but I can’t actually see any content of the tweet or who posted it :-/
I imagine that most women do not really appreciate being called ‘bleeders’. Just a guess on my part. Personally, I’d consider it too derogatory to even imagine saying it to a woman or girl of my acquaintance.
Huh, mine too (greyed out); I don’t know. Will see if I can get a screen grab.
I see what happened: the person who tweeted it locked down, so I found another.
Oh phew! For a second there I thought dear Eliza had blocked me! Panic averted.
It will be… interesting… to see how this all plays out in the long run. It seems virtually — maybe even literally — impossible for any organization involved in women’s health to use the word woman anymore without some Twitter snoots jumping at the opportunity to grandstand and threaten to rally a mob of self-righteous bullies to their door.
Woman-erasure is so hard-wired into the social media and media-media culture right now, I can’t even think of what it will look like when society begins to backtrack on and undo such a gigantic mistake. We’re already so far gone, I can’t begin to lay out the contours of a roadmap back to sanity.
I don’t think dialog and debate alone is going to change the course of things. This ideology has achieved a critical mass, to the point that by now the debate is far too tribal, far too deep-rooted in a faulty sense of what our progressive cultural values ought to be, it’s imbedded in our psychological needs as individuals to maintain good standing in society…
I worry that it will take something more deeply disruptive, something that completely distracts everyone from the daily trivialities of social media vanity for a while, to make people reset their thinking. That means something like a massive global economic collapse, or even a global war. Unfortunately we may just be headed for both.
Not to mention climate collapse. A threefer.
Ha! As if. I knew Eliza would be a safe one to get it from.
I remember small, usually working-class boys being called ‘little bleeders’ in my (British) youth – though the term ‘little bleeder’ was certainly never used by my parents, I assure you, however much I may have deserved it. I wonder why the enlightened find it so suitable a term for adult women.
Phrases such as ‘little bleeder’ with or without additional modifiers such as cheeky ~ were not uncommon in my youth, but more so amongst older people I knew who didn’t otherwise use strong language.
Given context I would have said that bleeder was standing in for phrases such as bloody fool and could be used to denote contempt, anger, or pity (for example where a child has hurt themselves).That’s quite distinctly different to calling a woman or women in general Bleeders, which has distinctly derogatory, reductionist and dismissive connotations.
Ah, ok well that makes much more sense now!
… “That” being your post, not the now-visible tweet, which doesn’t make any meaningful sense to me given that the only time I’ve personally heard the term “bleeder” is in a medical context, and never meaning anything good O.o
Artymorty,
There is a meme (in the classical sense of the word) circulating among some young people, especially young men, that “hard times create hard men, hard men create soft times, soft times create soft men, soft men create hard times”. And this sentiment, while chauvinist and not true in the strictest sense — exigencies of political economy, the natural environment, and ever-present arseholes gaming social systems at those systems’ expense to the arseholes’ personal advantage are almost always at fault for “hard times” — it does reflect a true-ish instinct one gets from the cyclical nature of stability and collapse.
Only a decadent society can collapse, because only a wealthy society can collapse, and only a wealthy society can afford to become decadent. In turn, only a collapsed society can grow out of its ashes and rise to heights where decadence is possible. After the most recent collapse which began with the Great Depression and ended with a hundred million people being immolated across Europe and Asia and Africa for no good reason, our own society has been on an upswing for three generations with only temporary setbacks that have thus far been made up for with higher and higher levels of debt. This upwelling of prosperity and peace has peaked and is now beginning to ebb once more, as conflicts inch closer and closer to the heartlands of the West and we have less and less confidence in our ability to carry our collective debts.
There are social forces at play which we are witnessing get taken over by sociopathic narcissists in real time, whose dogmas are spreading to every corner of influence, where the sociopathic narcissists are sure to follow. We have myopic technocrats bragging openly of effectuating a “Great Reset”, after which “you will own nothing and you will be happy”, once the entire economy is on a pay-as-you-go seigneurial model that resembles nothing so much as feudalism for us with trips to the Moon for them.
Not for nothing, but these fly-me-to-the-Moon billionaires are also busy buying up as much of the world’s most productive farmland as they can, in countries where their money can help them write the rules on how that land is used; during the pandemic, for example, Bill Gates became the world’s largest agriculture magnate. Because, as much as the mid-tier tech-lords and genderists and anti-racists seem to think that food magically shows up at the supermarket and the economic system upon which their fantasy lives are predicated is inviolable, anyone who knows anything about how the real world works knows that land and its cultivation are the true keys to a society’s long-term stability and prosperity.
After the United States, Ukraine has some of the world’s most productive agricultural regions, which are responsible for feeding an enormous number of people in the Old World. That this land is as we speak falling under the control of one of the world’s last powerful gangster statesmen is perhaps not an accident, after Ukraine’s revolution ushered in a government much more amenable to the West than to Russia. As unknowable as Putin himself is, it is possible he understands that everything flows from the food supply; without that, all the social games in the world dissolve into dust.
Without a stable supply of food, in other words, the “hard men” show up with their friends and their weapons and take what they want, until more “hard men” show up to stop them. Perhaps the techno-feudalists know this and will, out of their own sense of survival if not out of the goodness of their hearts, ensure a stable and ample supply of food enough to keep the “hard men” away. But that is a lot of faith to lay in the hands of a few men, who even with the best of intentions can still be quite wrong.
Either way, the view from Germany is getting interesting these days.
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“organic period care”
‘Organic’ is a red flag that a lot more nonsense is coming, unless it is clearly used in the chemists sense of the term.
In the chemists sense of the term, your period would be organic regardless of how you cared for it. And organic, in the proper usage, also refers to things that the woke left don’t like to consider – fossil fuels, for instance. As for natural? I hear that a lot – I showed my students a picture of teosinte the other day, next to a picture of maize, and explained to them that, no matter how you grow it, there is nothing “natural” about maize. It does not grow in the wild. It is a human creation. I think they were stunned.
However, all corn is organic…even if not particularly ‘natural’. Also, arsenic is completely natural. I still wouldn’t want to drink it.
Organic is a pretty good marketing gimmick when it comes to food, isn’t it? The things allowed for organic farming are pesticides that are quite dangerous, such as Rotenone (also used as a piscicide.)
And of course, there are those who are under the assumption that organic sugar is healthier for you than sugar subsitutes such as stevia or aspartame.
I imagine they are using organically grown cotton, which does not allow bt-cotton since that’s all GMO and Bayer-Monsanto wants to kill us all for more profits, so they gotta kill those weevils someonow. But such cotton still requires irrigation and degrades the soil, so really, thanks but no thanks.