On another platform this morning, a bunch of women were discussing menopause and peri-menopause, the OP was specifically about how the issue was still taboo and neglected.
Cue a younger woman turning up and proclaiming that framing menopause as a women's issue is transphobic.
Cue a younger woman turning up and proclaiming that framing menopause as a women's issue is transphobic.
I am bloody sick of this. (Of course not just for this reason).
Women were discussing a major life event for almost all women and a challenging one for many of us, and another woman (of course significantly younger), in a feminist forum, makes it about males.
Women were discussing a major life event for almost all women and a challenging one for many of us, and another woman (of course significantly younger), in a feminist forum, makes it about males.
Newsflash
Women talking about our bodies is not transphobic.
Males do not have periods.
Males do not experience menopause and peri-menopause.
Silencing women talking about our bodies is misogynistic.
Deflecting attention away from women talking about our bodies is patriarchal
Women talking about our bodies is not transphobic.
Males do not have periods.
Males do not experience menopause and peri-menopause.
Silencing women talking about our bodies is misogynistic.
Deflecting attention away from women talking about our bodies is patriarchal
Honestly, you're not going to get very far dealing with actual transphobia, discrimination, hate crime etc etc - if you accuse women talking about our bodies of transphobia and your impulse is to try to silence us and virtual signal your disapproval.
I shared my opinion bluntly, fueled by peri-menopausal PMT, I have zero fucks to give. She huffed off somewhat promptly, claiming that she didn't have the time for awful transphobes like me, tho'I suspect it was more that she
couldn't come back with a counter argument.
couldn't come back with a counter argument.
