Melody Pool was recently greeted with a rude surprise when she attempted to sign into her Facebook account. According to the Melbourne singer-songwriter, the social media giant had banned her over an “inappropriate” post.

“I posted a mild status on Facebook about having period pain and some waste of space reported me for it, and Facebook deemed it ‘inappropriate’ and suspended my account for 24hrs, including no posts, comments, messaging or even ‘liking’ anything,” Pool told News Corp.

As a result of the totally innocuous post — which read, ‘Does anywhere deliver codeine to you because lady blood moon is waging war upon me’ — Pool had her Facebook account suspended for 24 hours over the weekend.

According to Pool, Facebook claimed her post “violated their community standards”. As News Corp notes, the status was posted to Pool’s private page and not her artist page, suggesting that one of the singer’s friends reported her.

Whilst the status was not shared on her artist page, since both accounts are linked, being restricted from accessing your private Facebook account would also restrict one from accessing their artist page and effectively managing their career.

“For one, I’m furious that Facebook considers being a woman with a menstrual cycle ‘inappropriate’ but I’m even MORE furious that some conservative misogynist managed to become my friend on Facebook, so now I speak directly to this person — delete me right now,” Pool said.

“You and your patriarchal mindset are not welcome on my personal Facebook page, you sour old dinosaur. In the words of my beautiful friend Laura, I’m going to keep bleeding and keep being loud!”

However, Pool believes that Facebook may have also had an issue with the reference to codeine, which has become a drug of abuse in recent years, referenced in many hip-hop songs.

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