Feminists’ #IfMenHadPeriods hashtag draws fire from Transgenders.
In this, the age of offending anyone and everyone with the slightest microaggression, we find feminists who are in deep sh*t with transgenders over a hashtag that was intended to ‘man shame‘ men for being misogynist brutes regarding the menstrual cycle of women.
…Or something like that.
However, while she may or may not have come up with the #IfMenHadPeriods hashtag, when a Canadian feminist ‘sexpert’ named Dr. Jennifer Gunter tweeted a rather derogatory tweet about men and their behaviors toward women and their periods, it appears to have blown up in her face.
#IfMenHadPeriods they would find a way for women to still bear the children
— Jennifer Gunter (@DrJenGunter) September 6, 2016
Dr. Gunter’s tweet was immediately met with scorn from the twitterverse—both from men and, especially, from transgenders who took offense at the slight.
As LGBTQNation.com noted:
Cisgender women and transgender men have one very sore topic in common: the awfulness that is menstruation. And in an attempt to call attention to institutional sexism, a Canadian OB/GYN decided to create a hashtag she thought would generate conversation.
But Dr. Jennifer Gutner‘s hashtag, #IfMenHadPeriods, has also called attention to other social ills: the erasure of trans men, the treatment of trans women as not women, and a backlash to the backlash by people who argue trans people just like to complain about everything.
Here are just a handful of the tweets that came about as a result of Dr. Gunter’s hashtag…
#IfMenHadPeriods… but they do… Ugh… It’s going to be a long day… pic.twitter.com/47NwaZ092x
— Raquel Willis (@RaquelWillis_) September 6, 2016
#IfMenHadPeriods is awfully cissexist. I know MANY men who not only have periods but give birth on a daily basis.
— Godfrey Elfwick (@GodfreyElfwick) September 6, 2016
Just how a man can “give birth on a daily basis” is unknown.
#IfMenHadPeriods news flash: some men DO have periods. this deadass hashtag influences trans erasure and cisnormativity. get outta here
— ㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤezra (@DYINGINHD) September 7, 2016
It's misogynistic to say the #IfMenHadPeriods hashtag is transphobic. Erasing female biology and women's right to name it is woman-hating.
— StephanieDavies-Arai (@cwknews) September 6, 2016
#IfMenHadPeriods
While this highly cisnormative hashtag is trending, I want to remind everyone that trans men do exist + some have periods.— Feminism Vibes (@feminismvibes) September 6, 2016
Not everyone joined in the fray, however…
Me: *Logs on to Twitter*
Me: *Scrolls through the #IfMenHadPeriods hashtag for 5 seconds*
Me: pic.twitter.com/yAhnuQPYAp— I H Laking (@IHLaking) September 6, 2016
If you’re left scratching your head at this collectivist infighting, don’t.
This is what happens when a society divides itself into subsets (or subgroups)—each subset devolves into fighting for its “turf” in the societal hierarchy.
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