Erasing women as a category of people and hiding periods

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“Today, male-run governments are provoking debates about gender neutrality to distract from the fact they failed gender equality.”
Please do not call me person with vagina, human with a clitoris, pregnancy-capable person or birthing person or part of a group of people with uteruses and person with cervix or body with vagina. Get out of my pants before I break your face. I am a woman. Babaeako.

By Sharon Santiago a RINJ Woman

“Historically, the anatomy and physiology of bodies with vaginas (WTH? You men mean ‘women’?) have been neglected,” said a statement in the Lancet medical journal not too long ago.

To the Lancet team this writer can only say, “don’t fret over the terms you use, please continue the discussion.”

How do women feel about erasing their gender
How do real women feel about having their gender erased? Photo credit: Micheal John/FPMag ~ Art/Cropping/Enhancement: Rosa Yamamoto / Feminine-Perspective-Magazine

“Women whose wombs have delivered babies” most often must deal with children growing up, eager to learn and shy about discussing these matters like menstruating, having babies and yes, even sex. In the process, kids are using terms you cannot imagine over there at The Lancet. Bring it up at any PTA meeting. That is to say, real women have heard it all. Keep discussing, please. Health and science are crucial to real women.

Today, male-run governments are provoking debates about gender neutrality to distract from the fact they failed gender equality.

Real women are not down with men dressing up as girls to win at sports. In order to get into women’s category Olympic competitions, we have seen men beating the women all for a big testosterone win over the “weaker sex”.

It’s not funny. Deriding women in any manner is not worth a laugh unless it is the women laughing. In fact, real women seem not to be keen on losing their gender to the patriarch in any arena. It’s another form of marginalizing women and letting men take over and control the gender. That thought was heard loudly in a massive survey conducted by The RINJ Foundation three years ago.

A more important crisis is not what to call women but is instead the fact that tens of millions of women and girls out of the 300 million or more having their period today lack access to clean household water and bathroom facilities. Women need facilities where they can care for their menstrual hygiene, replacing one-time-use women’s hygiene products which by the way are not available everywhere in fact millions of women must do without.

“The silence, shame, and stigma surrounding menstruation are increasingly being challenged from various cultural domains. In a bold, comical, and highly digestible book, It’s About Bloody Time. Period. (2019), Emma Barnett busts taboos about menstruation. Others have focused on period poverty—the lack of access to sanitary products and safe, hygienic spaces in which to use them.” Citing:  Periods on display – The Lancet.

Menstruation products should be found wherever toilet paper is present or wash-up hoses.

Women don’t count any longer?
Video:

https://media.rinj.net/march-2023/What-is-a-Woman--Tulsi-Gabbard.mp4?_=1

Watch the video.
“There is no greater expression of hatred and hostility towards women than to try to erase our existence as a category of people and to minimize us to being a construction of anyone’s imagination. Such an expression of hatred towards women is now the position of the Democratic Party, and one of the reasons why I could no longer remain in that party. “Tulsi Gabbard.