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Re:'Drop of Blood' Emoji, Symbol of the Period, Is Praised b... by DanBC on Sunday February 10, 2019 @04:51AM (#19127103)
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-...

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Re:'Drop of Blood' Emoji, Symbol of the Period, Is Praised b... by lazyjones on Sunday February 10, 2019 @05:17AM (#19127177)
I‘m sure that adding a blood drop Emoji is the most efficient solution for these problems.

m-(

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Re:'Drop of Blood' Emoji, Symbol of the Period, Is Praised b... by DanBC on Sunday February 10, 2019 @05:32AM (#19127212)
If it helps women and girls talk about it then yes, it's one of the small things that will help.
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Re:'Drop of Blood' Emoji, Symbol of the Period, Is Praised b... by black-tea on Sunday February 10, 2019 @07:51AM (#19127585)
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.

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Re:'Drop of Blood' Emoji, Symbol of the Period, Is Praised b... by DanBC on Sunday February 10, 2019 @10:56AM (#19128258)
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.
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Re:'Drop of Blood' Emoji, Symbol of the Period, Is Praised b... by aeredhel on Sunday February 10, 2019 @08:23AM (#19127671)
> Worry about your own problems.

> men, men, more men

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

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Re:'Drop of Blood' Emoji, Symbol of the Period, Is Praised b... by black-tea on Sunday February 10, 2019 @10:01AM (#19128000)
Our own. I'm a man and virtually everyone here is a man too.
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Re:'Drop of Blood' Emoji, Symbol of the Period, Is Praised b... by DanBC on Sunday February 10, 2019 @10:58AM (#19128266)
> virtually everyone here is a man too.

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

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