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Would you wear the "M" badge?

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Chewbacca Fri 16-Mar-18 13:12:03

In the news today, Andrea McLean advocates women wearing a badge to show that they are menopausal and should be "cut some slack, like pregnant women". She feels it would be the same as having "Baby on Board" stickers in your car or "Please offer me a seat" badges. I think it's a bonkers idea and would not want to wear one personally. Would you want to wear one?

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-43429713

Ramblingrose22 Sat 17-Mar-18 10:16:46

How about men wearing a MLC badge (Mid Life Crisis)?

Then women will be warned that men with this badge are looking for a bit on the side.

sarahellenwhitney Sat 17-Mar-18 10:13:20

What next? PMT? I stopped watching that programme when Penny Lancaster announced she wore a certain bracelet that would inform RS she was having her period.

angie95 Sat 17-Mar-18 10:10:32

Never in a million years!

Gaggi3 Sat 17-Mar-18 10:07:48

I can think of several badges people should wear. There's GOW- grumpy old woman or -GOM -grumpy old man. I'd quite like DAMT- don't annoy me today. Or for the younger ones it could be RH -rampant hormones, and for the parents of young children TTTT- to tired to talk. Everybody would probably qualify for some kind of badge, from H for hungover to NFG - not feeling great.

Nanna58 Sat 17-Mar-18 10:05:27

I’m presuming she has now reached the menopause, otherwise she wouldn’t have given it a minute’s thought like any self absorbed ‘sleb’. Ridiculous! I have HRT patches which I wear on my butt, perhaps I should wear them on my face now to alert people of my ‘ condition’ !!

grandtanteJE65 Sat 17-Mar-18 10:02:31

Heavens no! And I didn't wear a red plastic ring when I had my period either, even although the Women's Lib tried to get us all to do so!

Agree with the sensible comments that medical help is available if the menopause, menstruation or pregnancy are troublesome and that otherwise it should be very much a woman's own business.

Tessa101 Sat 17-Mar-18 10:00:47

Definitely not, stupid idea.

Barmeyoldbat Sat 17-Mar-18 09:58:53

No.

threexnanny Sat 17-Mar-18 09:46:35

My first thought was if there were an M badge there should be an MM badge for the men as previously mentioned. Also a SC badge for those going through their second childhood!

Oldwoman70 Sat 17-Mar-18 09:39:30

For me the menopause was brought on by chemotherapy and 20 years on I still suffer with hot flushes and really bad night sweats. I don't need to wear a badge, if I am not have a hot flush - no-one needs to know, if I am having a hot flush everyone close by will know because they can feel the heat radiating off my body!

Teetime Sat 17-Mar-18 09:36:04

NO!!! Why would we?

Marthjolly1 Sat 17-Mar-18 09:34:10

Just one more reason to make me sigh, raise my eyes to the heavens and despair of this crazy planet we are living on.

ruthjean Sat 17-Mar-18 09:34:07

NO

lovebeigecardigans1955 Sat 17-Mar-18 09:33:38

I never, ever wear badges which proclaim which political party I support or which causes I believe in. (Oh hang on, I wear a thumbs up emblem for the MNDA, but that's it). Who needs to know anyway? Luckily the menopause is just a memory now. Just jolly well get on with it, that's what I did.

Kim19 Sat 17-Mar-18 09:32:00

Oh how I wish someone would introduce Ms/Mrs McLean to GN just for this particular thread. Celebrity indeed!?? Most of us haven't heard of her. No wonder, if this is the kind of self centred indulgences she comes out with. Pathetic.

Aepgirl Sat 17-Mar-18 09:20:33

No way. Just get on with life and take whatever it throws at you. There are millions of women keeping going who have far worse things to deal with.

Neilspurgeon0 Sat 17-Mar-18 09:17:03

Absolutely reduculous, seriously what sort of nanny state do these TV parts think we live in ?!?

Sennelier1 Sat 17-Mar-18 09:14:39

Now I get it! That McLean person.....SHE is menopausal and she wants all the world to know it! ? Forget about the badge, that was never her real intention, she only wanted to share her intimate natural status with all of us! Ridiculous woman.

radicalnan Sat 17-Mar-18 09:10:32

Women can't be equal to men, if they reserve the right to be pre menstrually unstable one week of the month, and then menopausal for 5+ years.

We all have problems. Might as well have a badge with H for human, if we need to explain anything.'

NfkDumpling Sat 17-Mar-18 07:37:40

I don't need a badge. The physiotherapist told me I have to use a walking stick. It's wonderful. Nobody comes too near, seats are given up for me, doors held open. Waived in front, it even stops the traffic. I can highly recommend it. Mine's shiny silver and covered in bright red poppies (Boots £29.99) so as not to be missed!

(I would like to have a GN badge.)

Synonymous Sat 17-Mar-18 00:26:01

grin

However -
I thought that they had got Snowflake badges for those without any backbone. confused

NanKate Fri 16-Mar-18 22:31:34

Yes Chew if you had your own designated BUS badge from the Council. Budge Up Swiftly. ?

Chewbacca Fri 16-Mar-18 21:26:42

There are so many badges on here that I'd like now....

I'd like the TWAT one from Phoenix
Bollocks To Bercow from POGS
And FAST from NanKate
And a BO from BlueBelle

Much more sensible but would they get us a seat on the bus?

sodapop Fri 16-Mar-18 21:26:12

I'd like a " Bollocks to Jeremy Hunt" badge .

POGS Fri 16-Mar-18 21:19:28

I'd like a 'Bollocks to Bercow' badge.