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#IfMenHadPeriods

Absentglare said:
I believe that we're in ideological agreement and this is just a semantic distinction.
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Pretty much. But it's a semantic distinction that really bothers me. There are feminist groups that won't allow trans women in because they're not "real women with real uteruses" (uteri?), and even though I'm nothing like that, I kind of understand why such people would be triggered by the semantics of a "man having a period".
 
Aunt Spiker said:
Mental gender and your physical sex either work in unison or separately.

Transgenders are transgenders. They are physically one thing and mentally identify as another. Their physical and mental work separately.

You're trying to claim their physical and mental work together? That contradicts the entire reason why they're transgender to begin with.

The mind isn't having the period flow. The body is. Separate.

:shrug: You're over-complicating this and turning it into something it's not.

Now if physical men started bleeding from their penises then we can seriously address this topic. But as long as someone has the physical characteristics of a female then they're trans with a period.

Of all the stupid ****ing conversations to even goddamn have. Next up: pregnancy is no longer gender exclusive. :roll:
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Well, isn't this kind of oversimplifying a 'period' as simply the physical process of losing the womb lining? I have always been told it has much more to it than that both physically AND mentally?
 
Nilly said:
How is showing a basic level of respect to someone 'following them into crazyland'?
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If you don't consider them human, then you can justify not having respect.
 
Northern Light said:
Calling them PC-garbage fundamentalists is just a way of insulting people who are in possession of the scientific, psychological and medical facts.

If someone is trans they are trans, doesn't matter what they look like or what you feel they are like. I'm not even talking about that. Just trying to reconcile what I perceive to be a certain level of dishonesty when people say a man (with a uterus because he used to be a she) got pregnant for the first time... when the authors of such articles know full well that that's not what people are expecting.
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The fact that a #ifMenHadPeriods is assaulted for not being inclusive of "men" who have periods is pretty much the definition of PC-garbage run amok.
 
William Rea said:
Oh right. So it's not as black and white as you always argue. You do read the studies that you link to don't you and, put them into the context of what you argue?
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How is me always saying characteristics of the brains in men and women overlap black & white?
 
Nilly said:
How is showing a basic level of respect to someone 'following them into crazyland'?
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Oh, I'd say having to think twice before making fun of how issues of feminine hygiene, such as periods, are treated now versus how they would be treated if men had periods is a good start. "Can't make fun of men not having periods because...well, some unhinged woman who identifies herself as a man will have a hissy."

That's following people into #CrazyLand.
 
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