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I wonder if it would be useful/helpful to send reusable products like cups, reusable liners, reusable pads, period underwear. Knowing the lack of water situation would this be more of a hassle? Could the disposable products go with the first few rounds and reusable products get sent after when water is more available? Anyone have insight?

Reusable products would have to be discarded due to the lack of water and access to fuel that would be necessary to wash and sanitise them between uses. Unfortunately, it would most likely lead to more problems than solutions.

If you’re going to do this and send over menstrual products, please keep in mind the culture in MENA. Don’t send tampons. Don’t send cups. These things will not be used. Send pads, and try to go for quantity. I could look into the best options available on Amazon if anyone is interested. And please, please don’t send Always if you can at all avoid it. The quality of Always pads in MENA is horrendous, iirc they’re held up in a lawsuit about it. Always pads might lead to chafing and friction burns that could get infected, and with the lack of access to medical supplies that can get bad fast. Go for compressed pads (more pads per unit area), overnight/extra long, and try to prioritise higher absorbency ratings to make sure they’re usable for longer. The goal is to make sure women don’t have to die or live in stained and infected clothing.

Feel free to reach out if you have more questions <3

Here’s the address from the video! Select the “Office” option for type of address as well, and use it to check out products from the Egyptian Amazon page, linked here.

I do menstrual health work for the global south and I second the suggestion on NOT sending reusable pads, menstrual cups, or tampons, both due to cultural reasons and lack of access to clean water to sanitize reusable menstrual supplies. Single use pads and maternity pads are likely the best menstrual supply donation!

Here is Motherbeing’s Instagram page as well.

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This is some beautiful lack of understand of the biology of sex and construction of gender. Because “female” and “male” tend to be adjectives, you see. And, for example, a female clownfish does not menstruate (in fact, most animals don’t. Humans are fucking weird). And a male clownfish, for example, may have given birth (all animals are weird, actually)! Biological sex? Actually, kinda weird and wibbly wobbly.

So Mother Nature is EXTREMELY inclusive! It’s just your dumb ass that isn’t.

I mean, there are humans who are assigned female at birth, but who have never menstruated or given birth and males who have the possibility to do so. Intersex humans exist, as do other people with weird chromosomes, weird bodies, and complex physical experiences. Because biology is fucking complicated and y’all should stop pretending that your sixth-grade Bio class is the be all and end all.

(I have never gotten pregnant, needed an abortion or given birth and my menstrual cycle has been p questionable. I guess I’m a valid “male” now, hooray?)

And, anyway. “Female” is not “woman” and “male” is not “man”. Biology is not destiny, and y’all are shit at this.

Addendum: Hey, @walking-chillul-hashem, you know that Jewish tradition holds there are six sexes, right?

*sees absolute biological truth*

*goes apeshit trying to deny biology*

If you bothered to read the charts before throwing a shit fit you would see it says “sex of people who have ever ______” …..no mention of clownfish

I am pretty sure the female clownfish produces the eggs and the male clownfish fertilises it so biological sex remains even when their sexual dimorphism is different to ours (for instance humans aren’t born male then the most dominant one turns into a female and men are usually not smaller than women like clownfish)

“Female clownfish don’t menstruate”

Mother Nature doesn’t want aquatic animals bleeding in the water. It attracts the wrong crowd. Mother Nature knows what she’s doing (most of the time)

“a male clownfish, for example, may have given birth”

You’re thinking of seahorses which aren’t even a mammals species (pick a species in the same clade/class and then we’ll talk)

Clownfish are sequential hermaphrodites which means they have the ability to change sex in certain circumstances

“So Mother Nature is EXTREMELY inclusive! It’s just your dumb ass that isn’t.”

I wouldn’t be calling people dumbasses after trying to use clownfish as a comparison to humans. It is quite hypocritical

Mother Nature (or evolution) isn’t about liberal ~inclusivity~ that doesn’t fit into her grand plan

Natural selection is quite the exclusionist bitch

You should call it radical evolutionary natural selection it makes about as much sense as ‘terf’

Mother Nature is diverse but not in the sense how you define ~inclusive~ she doesn’t have time for wishful thinking

“Because biology is fucking complicated and y’all should stop pretending that your sixth-grade Bio class is the be all and end all.”

People don’t need to know the reproduction process of clownfish to know how sexual dimorphism in their own species works

“(I have never gotten pregnant, needed an abortion or given birth and my menstrual cycle has been p questionable. I guess I’m a valid “male” now, hooray?)”

I guess that makes me a man too…oh wait the first graphs covers this with “people who have ever menstruated” all female

If only you knew how to understand categories and absolutes

As for your inappropriate use of Intersex people for this argument:

If I said mammals give birth to live young would you shit yourself screaming about the two monotreme species on earth?

Ahem, clownfishkind.

Including guards, officers, wardens, staff, etc

and yet heterosexuality is not offensive... really makes you think

Both words were coined by the same person too 🙃 and he was gay! And yes, then words were used in psychiatry but they are still descriptors that we’ve used for ourselves ever since they were created.

The definition also changed. Now a homosexual can be romantically OR sexually attracted to the same sex. Ugh. How long until it changes to “gender” I wonder?

the OG radfems lol

Judith Butler be like : 19 year old from an abusive low-income home sucking 50 year old business man's dick for lunch money is feminist due to notions of agency and queering the sexual politic of social performance further revealing spaces in which the pedagogy of fuckmastic power is able to transmogulate the universal cumshit, particularly for trans and non binary youth further subverting the oogly boogly-

your sex is literally just your body. it is a completely neutral biological characteristic. it says nothing about you. nothing about your personality is incompatible with your body. you can act/dress/behave any way you want regardless of your sex! neither your personality or body need to change!!

baffling how this take has become so demonized

The context behind this tweet is that a TIM beat up a woman…

I think the deleted post is possibly the post above that she is responding to.

Literally disgusting seeing that they have no problem admitting they don't even care.

basically this person is a *black woman* who got physically assaulted by a black trans woman that she does not even know! this trans woman kept taunting her and saying “come out bitch” and waving at her window from outside, basically constantly making the woman feel threatened. and the police btw did absolutely nothing.

and this person is on their insta ignoring what ppl r saying but clearly around still. while all these ppl are attacking a black woman for reporting being assaulted. apparently black women should just shut up and let ppl harm them otherwise they’re evil, “terfs”, and lying.

I'm still not over "the moral necessity of being sexist to JKR" or whatever the exact title was, like imagine the same performative liberal crowd was talking about "the moral necessity of being racist to Ben Carson" or "the moral necessity of being homophobic to Milo Yiannopoulos" or "the moral necessity of being antisemitic to Michael Cohen" hello how progressive can you pretend to be if you only oppose bigotry when it's directed at people who agree with you

for the record, this is what I was talking about:

someone in the notes added a similar one that I hadn't seen before, which seems to be in response:

but to all the misogynists accusing me of strawmanning or fearmongering... 😘🖕

I'll say it again:

how progressive can you pretend to be if you only oppose bigotry when it's directed at people who agree with you?

how progressive can you pretend to be if you condone and/or actively encourage bigotry directed at people who disagree with you?

And it’s always the people who say you can’t misgender even evil trans people like rapists and murderers because it hurts all trans identifying people. They really tell on themselves that they don’t see women as people/sexism as a real issue.

came here to say precisely what @feminist-furby-freak said!!!!!!!!!!

can someone let boymoms know that these are normal baby things that pretty much all babies do regardless of sex

Men can nuke humanity to extinction but women who choose not to have children are the ones men fear the most to kill their bloodlines. Men develop weapons that can kill tens of millions of humans at once but it's women who need to be controlled so we don't bring nations to their knees. Humanity can be destroyed by men committing mass murder on an apocalyptic scale or humanity can be destroyed by women refusing to give birth.

"you're a feminist but are you normal about transgender women?" yeah I'm normal about gender. I don't believe in that shit

I couldn't help but share my fav part from the interview.

"Whatever a man is,he is always experiencing his male body.

There is no point in time where he begins having a female experience"

Suggestion to women: stop wearing makeup

Suggestion to feminists: stop wearing makeup

Suggestion to radfems: stop wearing makeup

Benefits:

I’m proud of me not wearing makeup 🔥

okay maybe I’m an insufferable feminist but I find borderline every movie made by men or with a male main character nearly unwatchable. the amount of make-up on women. ridiculous cosmetic standards. poorly written sexist plot lines. basically inanimate female characters. like I see any historical drama and I’m like this literally shows the most severe sexism ever with zero criticism. fantasy? patriarchal societies. rape. comedies? rape. woman without any agency. horror? rape. sexualisation of female pain. can I watch a show about female Vikings or some shit with hairy legs and zero men. escapism for women is so rare.