Last month, the startup Clue tried an experiment.
"Help us evolve language around gender and menstrual health," the period-tracking app's account tweeted. "We're testing 'fem@le health' instead of 'female health' to be more inclusive of our whole audience: women and people with cycles. Thoughts?"
We're testing 'fem@le health' instead of 'female health' to be more inclusive of our whole audience: women and people with cycles. Thoughts?
— Clue (@clue) July 11, 2017
Responses were swift.
"Only women have cycles, right?"
"Do not ask me to be ashamed of having a period so that I can make other people feel comfortable." Read more...
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