Rather than talking about women all of the time
There’s a popular open Facebook group, Occupy Menstruation.
Today it has a post excited about degendering menstruation.
Degendering Menstruation: It’s Beginning
I see a shift happening in the collective consciousness of the menstrual activist community. People are posting simple reminders that it is not only women who bleed, and slowly this is changing the language chosen for posts—rather than talking about women all of the time, people can start talking about menstruators.
Well thank fuck for that, right? I’m so sick of people talking about women all the time. Goddam women – they suck up all the oxygen in the room and then ask for even more. Women dominate everything, and nobody else can ever get a word in.
There are some woo comments on that post.
Miranda Grey whose next Worldwide Womb Blessing is coming on on Monday, February 22, issued a very inclusive statement recently saying that the Divine Feminine energies belong to everyone. “The Womb Blessing is open to all who resonate with the energy, with or without a womb or a cycle,” she wrote and specifically welcomed trans gender people to explore her womb blessing.
Oh yes the Divine Feminine energies handing out womb blessings – it doesn’t get any better than that.
Menstrual blood is sacred. It contains coded dna reflections of our current levels of consciousness. As well as ancestral information. It also contains the building blocks of life…creating a human. Inserting a vagina onto a man will not be able to replicate that. He doesn’t have the necessary inner workings to bleed as a biological female does.
Man has his own sacred fluid which is sperm containing his genetic and spiritual codes. Yes the collective consciousness now wants to evolve beyond male and female restrictions and according to many it has been on the cards for some time for humanity.
Menstrual blood contains coded DNA reflections of our current levels of consciousness? I did not know that. I thought it contained chunks of endometrial tissue.
Me, I hate the whole linkage of women with that kind of bullshit. I identify as bullshit-averse.
“coded DNA reflections of our current levels of consciousness?”
Srsly?
As a biologist, whether they’re speaking of dead tissue in menstrual blood or brain neurons: Hahahahaha hahahahahahaha heeheeheeheeee.
As a human being: Hahahahaha hahahahahahaha heeheeheeheeee.
(I guess that means my bogosity meter is pegged too.)
“Divine Feminine energies”? What year is this again? (Also, barf. Also, “menstruators”? Seriously?)
Wait, I thought that trans women were “women, period.” Even if they can’t have a period, and even (especially?) if they have transplanted vaginas and uteruses into themselves. What does the writer mean by calling such people “men”? What do they mean by calling people who can menstruate “biological females”? What do they mean by saying that *men* have the sacred fluid of sperm? Hasn’t the writer just erased trans women and trans men from participation in being “women” and “men,” respectively? Does that mean that the writer is a TERF, pretending that persons who so identify as female that they have received transplanted vaginas or uteruses aren’t “real women” because they don’t menstruate? I don’t understand which side of the TERF wars that writer is on.
I think that particular comment may be on the wrong side of the wars, without realizing it. The woo signal interfered with the virtue-signaling signal, or something.
Woo on one hand and woman-erasing on the other. It’s a circus!
I honestly think the woo is bothering me more than the erasure of female-ness from menstration and womb-having.
Oh the woo in that particular comment is awful. But on the thread as a whole, it’s dwarfed by all the erasure.
I’m the one who made this post about the woo comment though so I shouldn’t argue!
They can have it but they have to take it all including cramps so bad you pass out, mental fuzz and viciously bad temper for two weeks a month, aching back, insomnia, and cravings. Take the whole goddamn package.
I have it in good authority that Our Blessed Creator has conceded that the whole sacred system is a gigantic mistake, a terrible design flaw.
Jesus this crap makes me want to slap people really really hard.
Me too. My pronouns are clenched teeth and an eyeroll.
I was just getting cross about referring to women and trans men as “menstruators” when up came the womb blessing and I fell about laughing.
I SO WANT to know the words of the Womb Blessing. So useful when talking to MRAs on the InterNet.
I guess now we understand why it’s call MENstruation.
The bell rang at ‘collective consciousness.’ Long before Womb Blessing (sounds like a papal ceremony don’t it?) and Divine Feminine ‘energies.’
Toxic deepity tailored to keep women incompetent and powerless. Can a ‘magic weight loss’ snake oil be far behind?
Menstrual blood is sacred? There was me seeing it as a kind of bodily waste being expelled from the system. Am I a blasphemer for just throwing it away?
I must also have stern words with my gynaecologist over the things she has done to my magic, sacred womb in order to relieve me of the pain it has caused. It was probably just divine punishment for not appreciating it.
I notice the author’s ideas about biology come straight from the ancient world. Aristotle though people were made with sperm and menstrual blood but then he had no way of knowing about ova.
“…menstrual activist community.” That’s a thing? Holy fuck Batman I’ve lived too long. Certainly too long to not have to worry about menstruation; my own or anyone else’s.