Check your equipment
Junior here is confused.
No, kid. Men can’t get periods because they don’t have the necessary uterus. No uterus=no endometrium. No endometrium=no need or ability to expel it every 28 days. No expulsion of endometrium=NO PERIOD.
A kitchen table can’t do 70 on the freeway because it doesn’t have an engine or wheels. A dog can’t fly south for the winter because it doesn’t have wings. The Chrysler building can’t stroll over to the UN because it doesn’t have feet.
Thank you for a much-needed laugh on a cold rainy day.
Your last sentence is so sad. I was hoping we had discovered a new gender/sexual preference: Archisexual, in which dramatically opposed building types (genders?) International Modernism and Art Deco, find love.
Wouldn’t that have been sweet? The visitation occurred to me because a thousand years ago I had a between high school and college job in an office building in Manhattan a few blocks from the Chrysler building in one direction and the UN in the other. 45th near 3d Avenue. I didn’t know how lucky I was.
Also I think we might as well go ahead and invent archisexual. Lots more fun than the other kinds.
I think the claim ‘trans women get periods’ etc. is based on confusing symptoms caused by a thing for the thing itself. I usually see this claim supported by the observation that trans women can get cramps and other symptoms that can accompany the period, therefore they are getting 95%* of a period.
No mention of endometrial lining, uterus, or vagina. The sideshow is the show.
* the number can vary
We don’t need archisexual, because the only morally permissible architectural and design orientation is Art Deco. One could call it decosexual, but that would imply that other options are, to use the Genderist lingo, valid. They’re not.
Obviously.
@Holms: It’s cargo cult biology.
According to the interwebs, there are roughly 22 million women in the US who have had a hysterectomy, and for the 500K procedures performed annually, roughly half remove the uterus and Fallopian tubes only, leaving the ovaries. So here we have a group of women who (if pre-menopausal) have no uterus, but similar hormones to what trans women are taking. The ones who have no endometrial tissue* simply cannot menstruate (which is a glorious relief for many women). But perhaps Troonytoons&co want to redefine “period” – if they consider that it’s all about symptoms due to hormone level changes, then granted that synthetic hormones can do that similarly to the way the natural ones do. (Perhaps interesting to note that, contra the sentiment displayed in this tweet, for human females who menstruate, the vast majority of them are inclined to keep it private from everyone except their most intimate associates.)
*Some may have had a “partial hysterectomy” which spares the cervix, and as a result may have retained some endometrial tissue that can grow and shed, resulting in monthly bleeding, but still nothing physically comparable to trans women.
Seanna, why not redefine period? They’ve already redefined woman. They might as well.