#Menstruators

[hyperdemona]

Serious discourse time - Radfems, give me all your best arguments why "menstruator" is bad, properly articulated.

[coochiequeens]

This is the perfect example of how transwomen have male socialization. He does something tasteless and gets criticized by women. And instead of looking inward and asking himself if there are more productive ways of breaking down gender roles (like maybe showing himself doing laundry and how to take care of clothes instead of collecting more props) he calls the women hateful.

A controversial male social media influencer is sparking backlash after an Instagram video he made scolding women began to circulate on social media. In the video, Jeffery Marsh, who identifies as non-binary, addressed a past sponsorship he had been offered to promote tampons and other feminine hygiene products.

Last month, Marsh posted a video to his Instagram page speaking to “the ladies of Twitter, especially” over “hate” he received for a tampon ad campaign he took part in. After being uploaded to other social media platforms, the video began to spark backlash, amassing hundreds of critical comments from women concerned about female erasure.

In the video, Marsh addresses the “hate” he received for a paid campaign he took part in with feminine hygiene product brand This is L. The partnership had actually taken place in 2020, but had recently begun receiving new attention after images from the photoshoot with Marsh were shared on Twitter once again.

As new comments began to pile under his campaign photos, Marsh filmed a video addressing his reasons for taking part in a tampon promotion. 

“I made the video for 2 reasons. So that women would feel less stigmatized, so that people who menstruate would feel less stigmatized,” Marsh said, noting that menstruation is often seen as “gross, disgusting, a joke” by “cis” men. 

Calling himself a “non-binary person who does not menstruate,” Marsh claimed his intentions behind taking the paid gig were to help end the stigma associated with periods. He continued: “And then the hate came for me,” and scolded the women who took issue with his participation in the tampon promotion, claiming that they were “policing” gender by criticizing him.

“We should be working together. The more you police your gender role the more you are policing the idea that one gender role is the best. I will keep fighting for your rights even if you hate me to my core because women are not second class citizens.”

Marsh’s claimed reasons for his participation in the ad campaign fell flat on social media, with many pointing out that Marsh frequently uses the term “TERF” when addressing women who vocally support the basic rights and safeguarding of women and children. TERF – an acronym standing for “trans exclusionary radical feminist” – is often used in a derogatory fashion and coupled with threats and abuse.

Jeffrey Marsh is well-known amongst advocates for women’s rights and child safeguarding due to his catalogue of videos denying the existence of biological sex, as well as those where he directly addresses the “kids” in his audience. Marsh has advocated people to go “no contact” with families or relatives who invalidate their gender identity, and has advised parents to provide“gender affirming care” for their children.

Marsh’s most recent video on his past collaboration also referenced popular trans-identified male influencer Dylan Mulvaney, who similarly defended his decision to become a spokesperson for Tampax last year. Both Tampax and This is L, the brand Marsh promoted, are owned by mega-conglomerate Proctor & Gamble. 

In 2020, This is L partnered with the Phluid Project in a promotional video featuring individuals of varying “gender identities” to spread the message that periods are not specific to females. Amongst the “queer” influencers who shilled their “gender neutral” menstrual products were Blair Imani and Alok Vaid-Menon. 

Phluid is a “gender free” clothing and lifestyle brandbased in New York which also often involves itself in trans activism. On its website, Phluid states that it “…support[s] the most at risk of the LGBTQIA+ community [by] supporting trans-led organizations.” Phluid has provided direct support to the Sylvia Rivera Law Project, which provides assistance to incarcerated males who wish to change their gender or be moved to a women’s institution. 

Among the inmates the SRLP has worked with are convicted child murderer Synthia Chyna Blast, who was invited to be part of their prisoner action committee, and Xena Grandichelli, who raped a toddler yet assisted with SRLP’s community outreach. 

This is L also features multiple partners on their site, most of which equally propagate that women are not the only ones who menstruate. In particular, the Period Project, which strongly advocates for “gender neutral” language around menstruation.

On its website, the Period Project writes: “Not all women menstruate, and not all menstruators are women. At The Period Project, we are dedicated to supporting all menstruators, and we want to make sure our fight for menstrual equity is gender inclusive. We use the term ‘menstruators’ to refer to all people who experience menstruation, including cisgender, transgender, nonbinary, and genderfluid individuals.”

[sameore]

"Strong With A Womb": how about heights?

Earlier this year (and more especially for my birthday!), I posted a fanfiction entitled "Strong With A Womb" (that you can find here).

While I wrote an article about the fact Alastor was depicted as having his menses in hell, and I also questioned the fact he had antlers in another post... Well, another question has made me feel somewhat perplexed since so.

And how about his height?

Indeed, I also mentioned the fact Alastor's height made him pass as male (through Charlie's point of view).

But, is there truly any correlation between the biological sex of a demon, and their height in Hazbin Hotel/Helluva Boss's universe by the way?

Well, the answer isn't that obvious!

Because, there is something I've noticed: it is that it didn't seem that uncommon to see female demons being tall, and even taller than their male counterparts!

For instance, if you look at Charlie's parents, her mother is actually taller than her father...

Still in Hazbin Hotel, Velvet might be about the same height as Vox and Alastor (thanks, Wiki!)

(I would also tend to think other female sinners including: Rosie, Katie Killjoy or even Cherri Bomb might be pretty tall?)

In Helluva Boss (that I have briefly checked last night), well... you might as well notice Loona, and Verosika Mayday are quite tall!

And even taller than the main male protagonists, who look shorter compared to them (Blitzo, Moxxie).

Sallie May, being a trans woman (so, technically born male), also looks somewhat shorter.

As for Millie, her size seems to be quite similar to Moxxie's, Blitzo's or Sallie's.

Now, the major answer for this is probably because Sallie, Blitzo, Moxxie and Millie are imps (unlike Verosika and Loona). So, as demons don’t seem to equal each other, I suppose it might as well depend on their species to begin with. It remains yet interesting to notice there is no big difference in terms of size between male and female imps.

Obviously, and more generally, you can also find the other way around, where male demons are typically taller than their female counterparts.

These elements put together make me think that it is hard to define a clear correlation between these two factors. But it seems like the biological sex of a demon might not be very predictive of their height (?), unlike humans in real life who statistically have males being taller than females (though there are always exceptions!)

We could also imagine that the height a sinner might have in hell might not always be very representative of how tall they were as a human. (By the way, I noticed that in Helluva Boss, some demons could actually take a human appearance? Ôo)

So, as the doubt grew, I deleted this part about the Radio Demon's height.

I suppose it wouldn't really make sense to say "his height makes him pass as male" (while he was born female), if this distinction isn't as obvious in their world.

(Of course, I don't exclude the fact you might as well headcanon one or several of the characters mentioned above as transgender(s))

[toastymangoes]

why does my abdomen hurt so much? my period has not yet begun! am i dying??

*wipes*

oh.

[megafaunatic]

gay people house meshi

[sayruq]

Palestinian girls and women are forced to use tents as pads. People boost. Donate if you can

[mostly-funnytwittertweets]

[myautisticpov]

"People shouldn't post about how the contraceptive pill can be prescribed for non-contraceptive reasons because it's sex negative" feels like a take that can only come from people who don't realise just how young some people end up being prescribed the pill

Like, fine, you, person in your twenties, might be comfortable being like "this is the pill I take to fuck without getting pregnant", but I don't think it's sex negative for a thirteen-year-old who has been prescribed it for debilitating period pain to not want to have to hide their medication from their classmates on an overnight school trip because their classmates think that the only reason anyone would take it is that they're sexually active

[gaylactic-fire]

The Curse

Aka Hylia's favourite transmasc gets amnesia and forgets what periods are

PART TWO!

[momochanners]

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Looks like *someone* rolled a Nat 20 in a Persuasion check and is mighty pleased about it…

[luminarai]

hey, hi, I was just on the former bird app and came across this info from a brand new study and now I cannot stop screaming internally??? what the actual fuckkkk

theres' an article from the guardian here and here is the actual study:

[incognitopolls]

Anon feels like getting their first period was almost traumatic because of how deeply ashamed they felt about it, even though everything about it was normal and they knew it would happen.

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We ask your questions so you don’t have to! Submit your questions to have them posted anonymously as polls.

[sameore]

Meanwhile, in France…

I noticed these ads in different locations while going to malls, basically asking for a period emoji!! Well, uhm… that’s interesting! x)☝🏻

As I’ve seen a few posts on this platform talking about the representation of menses in media, I thought this might perhaps interest Tumblr?

[irhabiya]

i'm curious how many people also don't experience cramps as their main symptom, because back pain is the worst for me by far it's usually how i can tell my period is coming up too

[sayruq]

CONT the delivery of essential items into Gaza.

[xaeyrnofnbe]

new period poll but i remembered to change the duration this time

once again, don’t want any terfs touching this. also: doing this a second time bc a lot of people found the old one after it was done (i forgot to change the duration from day to week. this new one will last a week)