What a tendentious headline. She rather contemptuously called women 'bleeders'. And it was that what women objected to.
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It’s called an agent noun, and it’s a common feature of the English language, contempt-free.
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Read it all again.
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This is a bit of an awkward one. I wonder if it might not be less potentially-offensive just to assume everyone knows whether or not they menstruate, address the message over-inclusively and just let everyone to whom it does not apply ignore it themselves?
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Males/men/boys don’t menstruate. It’s not awkward but is exclusive - of males.
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Me too. On the positive side she was talking about periods in public and trying to help women. Both good. Jane Austen will never be the same again for me though.
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"Bleeder" sounds like a haemophiliac, though. Why not "period bleeder"?
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