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Video"Fleabag" on women's awards, menopause, and built-in pain
I don't know how many of you out there have seen the British show Fleabag, but there is a fantastic scene [link to it on youtube here] where an older woman and the younger lead have a discussion about womanhood. The older female character laments winning a "woman's award" and gives her thoughts on periods as women being born with "pain built in," unlike men, who go searching for it, and how menopause is a release where you can just be.
I love this scene and it really speaks to so many thoughts and feelings I've had in my life and I know I'm not alone, just from perusing the youtube comments alone. But I was thinking about this clip the other day and it reminded me of a classic Reddit moment on the TwoXChromosomes sub a while back. I forget the nature of the post, but someone in the comments dared to bring up this scene as something that really spoke to her, and she was shamed into deleting her presence in the thread after a TIM berated her for her audacity. How dare she reference something so non-inclusive, something that dares to imply that TIMs aren't women because "not all women menstruate!" and the clip was downright offensive, don'tyaknow?
Beautiful moments of women sharing their innermost fears and struggles and experiences get derailed, belittled, bullied, and deleted by TIMs constantly. But not here. I still think this clip would get complained about if not removed on Reddit for its "transphobia."