Is this going too far? Always removes Venus symbol to acknowledge transmen who menstruate

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Anonymous wrote:Imagine if our great grandparents could all come back down to Earth.
They would be very confused.

Why because we all look down at our phones instead of engaging in conversation.

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Anonymous wrote:Imagine if our great grandparents could all come back down to Earth.
They would be very confused.

I can imagine seeing a mass-produced sanitary napkin for the first time would be confusing.

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Anonymous wrote:It’s going too far. This is how trump got elected.

Damn you, Poe's Law!

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Imagine if our great grandparents could all come back down to Earth.
They would be very confused.

I can imagine seeing a mass-produced sanitary napkin for the first time would be confusing.

Especially for great-grandpa!

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Imagine if our great grandparents could all come back down to Earth.
They would be very confused.

Yes, but not primarily by this. This would be very, very, very, very far down the list of things to be confused about.

They always knew uncle john dressed like a woman and aunt mary was the one you called to carry a piano.

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NBD

Honestly it does not affect me. Why would I care about this stupid shit?

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LOL, google "Jessica Yaniv". She's a trans-woman who tweets about this a lot, and specifically the Always/Venus thing . She's apparently convinced herself that she menstruates and has cramps, etc., despite having male reproductive organs. At first I thought it was a joke Twitter account, but she's real and files tons of lawsuits, mostly targeting brazillian waxers who discriminate against her for refusing to give her male genitals a brazillian wax.

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Anonymous wrote:It’s going too far. This is how trump got elected.

No, Trump was elected by fearful, judgmental a-holes.

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I definitely don’t care, but am surprised this is even worth it. I guess it’s just a marketing thing for non trans people’s benefit because, seriously, how big are the trans men customer numbers? Don’t many of these people take hormones to induce menopause? How many people out there are menstruating but calling themselves men? Probably not enough to affect sales in any material way. So, it’s a marketing gimmick and it’s getting tons of press, so it’s probably working.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It’s going too far. This is how trump got elected.

No, Trump was elected by fearful, judgmental a-holes.

The cynic might say Proctor and Gamble is just fanning the flames. Big corporations would rather keep Trump.

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Anonymous wrote:I don't pay attention to symbols on my box of tampons - so its absurd to be "outraged" about something I wasn't even aware of. This is kind of dumb altogether -- who cares?

I DO think tampons, pads, and menstrual cups should free or at least heavily subsidized. It's kind of unfair that 50% of the population has to shell out some $$$ for something that's inherent in our DNA no matter what we do or don't do.

totally. what venus symbol???

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The more I think about this the more I kind of agree that I don't love the slow eradication of woman centric language.

I don't really care whether there is a feminine symbol on pads, but I really disagree with trying to have periods not be something that happens to women. Childbirth etc is like the foundation of the female experience. Not childbirth but the whole like, having feminine reproductive organs and dealing with that, either disappointment in how they aren't functioning well or happiness about wanting them to function. Just generally it is formative and I don't think that should be erased.

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Anonymous wrote:Hmm.

I find intriguing all these posts saying if it doesn't affect you then why do you care?

One could use the same argument about a lot of things that don't affect me, so why should I care? Why should I care about poverty, for example, when it doesn't affect me. Or bad schools, or a whole host of other social ills.

The transgender issue has complicated things in ways some of you want to pretend it hasn't because you don't think it affects you and you'd rather be seen as welcoming. I take a more nuanced perspective on the subject. There are certainly areas that have been greatly impacted, at the woman's expense, by transgender rights. Women's sports, for example. Regardless of what a transgender person wants to think of their gender, they still very much have a specific biological body and there is no ifs and buts about it. There is definitely some truth in that the more aggressive aspects of transgender activism is little more than another form of mansplaining and the byproduct is men invading what was considered the woman's identity. One of my friends astutely observed that the byproduct of the rush to support transgender rights and acceptance has mostly resulted in men taking over women's identities and effectively neutralizing the public perception of what it means to be a woman. It's rarely ever the man's identity that's being challenged.

You may not care and think it doesn't affect you, but I sure do see why many women feel uncomfortable by a lot of what's going on.

Well said.

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The change hurts no one and includes a group who have been excluded. How can that be going too far?

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Anonymous wrote:Imagine if our great grandparents could all come back down to Earth.
They would be very confused.

Yup. Black people have civil rights, many women are working professionals, wives are not their husbands' property... There would be a lot to be confused about.