17 comments

CryingInYourInbox [OP]August 25, 2024

It's so funny how the very second we started destigmatizing periods they started claiming it and trying to police our language around it

[Deleted]August 25, 2024

This is what started my peakening. My childhood family friend transed when we were in our mid-twenties. He felt like a member of the family, my parents took him in, my dad have him a job at his barely-getting-by company, he borrowed our cars, could always count on a meal at our home, etc. One day, me, my brother, another close friend, and the TIM were at a favorite restaurant where I was paying with my first ever real-ish paycheck. This dude goes to the restroom, comes out all giggly and whispers in my ear saying he clogged the toilet with his period. I'm freaking out wondering if he's actually bleeding from somewhere or an injury or something. I go back into the bathroom with him, and he's stuffed like 5 heavy pads down the toilet. Mortifying. I told the owners there was an issue in the restroom and I'm sure they thought it was my fault. Didn't go back for years.

It turns out the TIM hadn't hurt himself, nor was he bleeding from anywhere due to a medical issue. He was in the throes of his first psychotic break due to bipolar disorder. My brother had to lure him out of the house to go get breakfast and took him to the local ER after the dude sat up all night covering himself and the walls in lipstick while wearing women's lacy underwear.

I have so many stories about this person. Can't believe it took me so long to fully come to my senses about all this bullshit. I just kept looking away because it was the "wrong" way to think.

coordAugust 30, 2024

wow this is ew, but at least he didn't smeared with shit ๐Ÿ˜จ

[Deleted]August 30, 2024

Silver lining! ๐Ÿคฃ

Carrots90August 25, 2024

I'm so sorry for you and actually even sorry for him

When you're close to people, it can be hard to see them 'clinically'

Hope you're safe

[Deleted]August 25, 2024

Thank you, I am. โค๏ธ

It is a sad situation. People like him who need a very specific type of medical help are being taken advantage of and sold lies that further harm their bodies and estrange them from loved ones.

RappaccinisDaughterAugust 25, 2024

That's a shocking story. Unfortunately, BPD is one of those mental illnesses that is dramatically overrepresented in the trans population.

CryingInYourInbox [OP]August 25, 2024

Um wow

coordAugust 30, 2024

Who is this person on the second image?

sunsethibiscusAugust 25, 2024

Seeing TIMs try to explain why they totally have periods too is rage-inducing. Some of them have had the audacity to claim that crying a lot and craving chocolate = period, because their only understanding of it is from pop culture. Or that they have 'every symptom except the bleeding' ๐Ÿ™„

CryingInYourInbox [OP]August 25, 2024(Edited August 25, 2024)

I've literally had men tell me if they had a period they would kill themselves (the strongest gender ladies and gentlemen) and now we have to pretend the penis people haven't been totally fucking gross and weird to us about periods and acknowledge their diarrhea as menstruation.

I'll pretend they had a period after they've killed themselves about it like they promised they would.

It's actually really unironically hard for me to respect males because they don't menstruate. It's like you kind of live life on easy mode dude. Like anything bad that happens to men happens to us while we're fucking bleeding and cramping so maybe cry to someone else.

SaintlyTheGhostAugust 26, 2024

I wish we could speak and post freely about our topics on Reddit. I would love to be able to post this and not be immediately silenced. But that would take away some of these guys' power, and we certainly can't have that. Men, even and especially men in makeup and spinny skirts, must be coddled and tiptoed around at all times. ๐Ÿ™„๐Ÿ˜’

coordAugust 30, 2024

try maybe r/femaleseparatists and r/FemaleAntinatalism I found some good discussions there hope someone can archive them

RadicalPajamasAugust 25, 2024

Yep. It's rage inducing, because if you get visibly upset or object to any of this nonsense you're a bigot and transphobic.

Carrots90August 25, 2024

And, according to the guys who fixate on their boobs, a genital fetishist.

IggyanaAugust 25, 2024

I'm stealing this.

CryingInYourInbox [OP]August 25, 2024

By all means lol