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Period activists? There are people who dedicate their entire lives to increase human rights for others. Those are activists. What is getting a picture of a drop of blood on my phone supposed to achieve? I know women have periods. What am I supposed to do about it? Keep your problems to yourself.

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I don't really understand what you're saying, who should keep their problems to themselves? Are you saying you're offended that this emoji exists because you don't want anyone messaging you about periods?

Do you know that girls are excluded from school when they have their period? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seclusion_of_girls_at_puberty

Or that girls avoid school because they cannot afford tampons or pads? This doesn't just happen in poor countries, it happens in the UK: https://www.independent.co.uk/news/international-womens-day-...

I‘m sure that adding a blood drop Emoji is the most efficient solution for these problems.

m-(

If it helps women and girls talk about it then yes, it's one of the small things that will help.

Do you know that in the UK girls consistently do better at schools than boys year after year? Whatever problems they have it doesn't seem to affect them much.

Worry about your own problems. 75% of suicides in the UK are men. 70% of homeless in the UK are men. This is happening while people like you are busy worrying about whether women can effectively communicate about periods on whatsapp.

I work in suicide prevention - I'm well aware of the statistics and I spend most of my time looking at the wider determinants of mental ill-health and suicidality in middle aged men.

> Worry about your own problems.

> men, men, more men

So should we worry about our own problems, or about men's problems?

Our own. I'm a man and virtually everyone here is a man too.

> virtually everyone here is a man too.

Unsurprisnig when we consider the absolutely toxic arseholes who flood threads like these.

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