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Social media is protecting men from periods, breast milk and body hair (theguardian.com)

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[–]Freya-Freed 16 ポイント17 ポイント  (2子コメント)

How to raise a generation of misogynists? Teach people that women's bodies are disgusting and that their bodies and bodily functions need to be hidden. Unless it's fuckable bodies were talking about of course!!!

[–]timeonmyhand 8 ポイント9 ポイント  (1子コメント)

It always makes me sad how many women find their own bodies disgusting - the shape of their breasts or the size of their labia or their stretch marks, not to even get into how women feel about themselves during their period and their inability to handle period blood. I felt disgusting for 15 years and hated even the though of getting period blood on my hands. Then I got a menstrual cup and had to deal with it and realize it wasn't that bad at all. I wonder how much stress and negative self talk women go through on a regular basis without even realizing the don't have to.

[–]Freya-Freed 8 ポイント9 ポイント  (0子コメント)

Yeah. And I'm pretty convinced it's because of this whole taboo that society has around periods. Specifically, that as a society we "protect" MAAB people from the dirty and scary periods.

I'm a trans woman myself. So I don't have any personal experiences with periods. But my mom never really acted like it was a shameful thing or anything and talked about it freely. And I think this is what really helped normalize it for me.

My current partner is a cis woman, and we are very open about this sort of stuff. It's actually given me a lot of insights that I wouldn't otherwise have had.

Then I got a menstrual cup and had to deal with it and realize it wasn't that bad at all.

I've also had period blood on my hands (and uhm, other places? :P) and it really isn't all that bad. Plus it also serves as extra lubrication ;)

[–]ceeho 3 ポイント4 ポイント  (6子コメント)

I was already pissed about the period blood,and this is making it even worse!

[–]Freya-Freed 6 ポイント7 ポイント  (5子コメント)

blood

But I'm sure bloody violent imagery from Hollywood movies would be totally fine. As long as the blood didn't accidently touch a tampon of course!

[–]ceeho 5 ポイント6 ポイント  (4子コメント)

There was a thread on TwoX about a month ago where someone was trying to improve access to Tampons and pads for the third world, and get rid of luxury taxes on these products in the first world. The website she linked to had a CARTOON drawing of a tampon with a little bit of blood on it. Everybody was going on about how the cause was good, but the website was obscene and vulgar and they would never link it to any of their friends etc.... GROW THE FUCK UP

[–]Freya-Freed 2 ポイント3 ポイント  (3子コメント)

But this is perfectly fine.

UGH. Like, I have nothing against gore in media at all. But, seriously? It's fine then but put it on a tampon and its obscene and vulgar?

[–]ceeho 2 ポイント3 ポイント  (0子コメント)

Yep the hypocrisy is fucking ridiculous.

[–]fishmagician1 -3 ポイント-2 ポイント  (1子コメント)

why do you want people to be ok with used tampons

belly laugh

[–]Freya-Freed 2 ポイント3 ポイント  (0子コメント)

what?

[–]c4tbug 3 ポイント4 ポイント  (1子コメント)

This is interesting. I wonder how images on these different sites get removed. If it is by user based reporting, then we are looking at a bias in the kinds of images viewers report.

Also, just wanted to note this line: "images of women’s bodies doing normal women body things are not" seems kinda of trans-exclusionary to me.

[–]Freya-Freed 11 ポイント12 ポイント  (0子コメント)

I don't think that's trans exclusionairy at all really? Like, periods are hidden because they are culturally associated with women. That's just the unfortunate (transmisogynistic) truth of the society we live in. As a result of it's association with women and their bodies, these pictures are removed.

That doesn't mean trans woman aren't women, it just means social media removed images that are seen by society as being associated with women's bodies. I don't think making that obervation is exclusionairy.

"images of women’s bodies doing normal women body things are not"

Could mean literally anything. An "unnatractive" trans woman in a bathing suit at a beach is a normal woman body thing. But it would face equal erasure.

I'm sorry but it feels kind of like you are saying: "trans women don't face X, so we shouldn't phrase it as a women's issue". Western women don't face FGM, but it is also still a women's issue. Women in my country can freely access abortion, but restricted access to abortion is still a women's issue.

My point is not literally ALL women have to face a certain problem for it to be a women's issue. And not facing a certain problem doesn't mean you aren't a woman.