Scotland’s first Period Dignity Officer
Scotland is drunk.
Obviously men know more about periods than women do.
Dundee man and former personal trainer Jason Grant is the newly appointed period dignity officer for the Tay region – who has the task of promoting access to free sanitary products across schools and colleges – where he will also discuss issues around the menopause.
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Mr Grant gushed of his new role as he claimed it affects men and boys too and people regardless of gender in a nod to inclusivity toward a minority of young trans men.
No it doesn’t. Menstruation affects women and girls only. It’s not “inclusive” to hire a man to tell women about menstruation.
He told the Dundee Courier: “I’m absolutely buzzing about it. It’s definitely pioneering as Scotland is the first to do this. It’s about making people aware of the availability of period products for anyone of any gender, whenever they need it.”
But it’s not “people” in general who need to be made aware, it’s women only. It’s not “inclusive” to go out of your way to insult women.
“And it’s important whatever we do is done with dignity, so people know that there’s no judgement.”
Get out, sonny. This is none of your business. This is the opposite of dignity just as it’s the opposite of inclusion. Take your prurient “no judgement” somewhere else.
Mr Grant’s role is advertised online with a salary of between £33,153 and £36,126 a year on a fixed term contract running into 2024 – while it is expected other roles of this kind will be set up elsewhere.
All going to men?
This clown “has the task of promoting access to free sanitary products across schools and colleges – where he will also discuss issues around the menopause.”
Girls and women are the ones who are acutely aware of the need for menstrual products. This guy knows nothing about the “pink tax.” His £36,000 salary would buy a lot of free products for girls and young women in schools and colleges. What’s needed is product, and supply train/dispensing facilities.
If he knows anything about menopause, he should know that men demanding access to huge quantities of female hormones has hindered access for menopausal women who need hormones for genuine health reasons. I doubt he has anything to say that is any better than what a girl’s or woman’s health science instructor or personal physician would say.
“Dignity” my foot. It’s undignified, invasive, embarrassing, and prurient for this unqualified man to have the power to hold school- and college-age girls and young women as a captive audience for him to talk about — pry into — their very sensitive, personal, and private matters.
It’s a sign, I tell you, a sign! Never mind just things; logic itself is falling apart.! The end of the world is nigh! Freeloaders everywhere rule! It has to be a sign! What other explanation is there?
Those who can’t, teach?
Trans-men need to know about menopause. They’ll be experiencing it before they know it.
Now, now. Don’t be too harsh. Men do need this advice, too.
I remember that Jonathon Yanniv couldn’t go swimming because his period started and he’d left his tampons at home.
And remember, he also wasn’t sure if the “string should be left hanging out”.
https://pjmedia.com/news-and-politics/john-ellis/2019/08/12/biological-male-jessica-yaniv-cant-go-swimming-because-she-forgot-her-tampons-n67992
I don’t imagine very many young (or older) women will want to talk about either periods or menopause to a young man they don’t know. I struggle to talk about it with my doctor, and I know and trust him. There are some times when I wish there was a reserve of female doctors in our town. I have a female dentist, a female optometrist, and a female dermatologist. What I ain’t got is a female doctor I can feel comfortable discussing menopause with.
If some young man walked into any facility I was in and started lecturing about menopause, I would give him Paddington’s very hard stare, then I would walk up to him and invite him out. I know about menopause both from personal experience and from being a biologist. Doesn’t sound like he’s either. A personal trainer, FFS?
He looks just the type a young woman would love to discuss her access to period products with. Not. I mean, on the one hand, good on him for being prepared to take on a topic many men run screaming from, but, really…
I will quibble with you Ophelia and suggest that actually men and boys could do with a better understanding of period and menopause issues. So many males are utterly ignorant, or worse, about the topic and many have their lives shockingly inconvenienced by their wives, girlfriends, mothers, daughters experience of periods and menopause. Won’t you please, please think of the men!
Seriously though, I’m all for men and boys being better educated about this topic, but it’s a matter of focus and timing, right?