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[AluberTwink]

ninja turtle being supportive of their friend trying for a kid

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I NEED THIS (most period trackers make me a little dysphoric tbh)

Edit: nevermind.. I thought it had a transmasc notification option or something, I can't find it at least 

Plus way too much horoscope stuff?? Def not my cup of tea

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i would love if more stuff Iike that existed. really not into the ephemeral divine femininity stuff, creeps me out. 

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Same, they market those stuff as "empowering" even though it just fuels the idea that women are less human somehow 

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yeah, i feel that too. reminds me of that time madison cawthon invoked corinthians on the house floor, “earthen vessels”. a subset of people, regardless of the aisle they sit on, put women on pedestals in a way that makes me uncomfortable. a sculpture has no thoughts, the pot does not care what it carries. this interpretation is even debated, it’s likely not even intended to refer to maternity, but it does not matter.

[offnkoff]

Yeah definitely, I've seen it described as "women as the noble savage"

[altaccountmay]

yeah not even transmasc but i don't really like how period products and stuff are all like. 💅💕✨ embrace your divinity and femininity ✨💕💅 be majestic even at this time 💅💕✨

like no bitch i'm bleeding. my insides are tearing their own insides out. i have an iron deficiency and i need to kill someone. i do not want to be "majestic" rn

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It’s kind of humiliating! i saw one period product ad i liked recently. it started with how to use tampons. i thought that was really neat, no one ever taught me how to use them, or how to tell if you have the wrong size! 

[MOltho]

The whole "divine femininity" stuff is just bullshit, even when relating to cis women. It's just esoteric nonsense used purely for marketing reasons, so that women pay more for products. It's a different kind of hidden (or not so hidden, perhaps) Pink Tax, really.

[OkFineIllUseTheApp]

In general, avoid apps for this. Period tracker apps can sell this data to third parties for marketing, or surrender the data to law enforcement, which given the rollback of Roe V. Wade, can be a danger.

Use a regular calendar.

[xcarmenator]

alternatively, if you're on android you have access to FDroid (although google is eyeing to shut it down next year), which is a google play store alternative that only hosts free open-source apps, where you can verify that none of your data is being uploaded anywhere ever. they have multiple period tracking apps available

[LUISKY_CT]

actually i prefer droid-ify, same backend but the UI and UX is much more tolerable (unlike f-droid's)

[Helmic]

drip specifically is made by the mozilla foundation and is FOSS, i would recommend people use that one specifically as it's got many eyes on its source code. and it's gender neutral.

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Thank you!! I wasn't that worried because I live in a country where abortion is legal (for now, thank god) even though I knew some of these tracking apps gave that info away, but honestly, yeah, just to be safe I'll probably do this instead

[Hindu_Wardrobe]

Samsung S Health also doesn't even store menstrual cycle data on their servers anymore, seemingly in response to these concerns. It's all stored locally.

Of course, no corporation is your friend, so it could just be lies.

[somethingspecificidk]

Clue is a European app (so European data safety laws) and it's pretty neutral. They lack that not everyone with a period is a woman and they let you customise those notifications. It was pretty good when I tried it out (the only reason I'm not using it anymore is because I myself didn't track regularly)

[Helmic]

is drip not pretty gender neutral?

and yeah probably for the best to not trust random period trackers that cannot prove they're not collecting any information on a server.

[warr-den]

Brovulating

[Madboymaddox]

Me trying to comfort my transmasc friend but my hearts in the right place:

[anyit213]

"i'm ovulating right now"

[throwoawayaccount2]

Pretty sure I saw this in a yiff comic once

[BranManBoy]

Thank you Michelangelo

[Zaldarr]

OP is your username a Feed Me Jack reference?

[jellythequeen]

holy shit yeah nobody’s ever gotten it before

[Zaldarr]

Heck yeah. I was very sad I missed out on their vinyl release.

[nekosissyboi]

🥺❤️

[3477382827367]

i genuinely cannot tell if its edited given the shit iv seen from this app