Oof, sex-vs-gender fail! (Although once long ago in the wild early days of the internet I saw a photograph of a man breastfeeding an infant. It was super weird! Apparently it’s possible though! But I just googled and it’s only possible if the man takes special drugs. Anyways, breastfeeding is a female thing, not a femiladygender thing lol!)
The efforts toward “male breastfeeding” seem totally focused on letting men have the experience of lactating, and are entirely unconcerned with whether the practice is safe, let alone beneficial, for the baby.
Re the OP, if Harker had just said “mum feeds me (or ‘the baby’)” instead of “breastfeeds”, there would be no issue. But he didn’t.
And it just occurred to me that this stands as a great example for why people say ‘biological sex’ so often – we need to in order to reduce the conflation with gender demonstrated above.
Yeah, that was the basis of an argument I had with PZ. He made a blog post in which he pretended not to understand why many GC feminists use the term “biological sex” and (unconvincingly) criticised the term. It’s an annoyance that we should have to use the phrase (and I don’t like it) but it’s one of the few tools we have for trying to bring conversations back into spitting distance of reality.
Speaking of PZ, a week or so ago he posted something about women’s orgasms that uncritically applied them to women, not biological women or cis women, and it wasn’t made an issue in the comments either. So is all the anger directed towards gender-critical people actually sincere, or is it just because that’s how they roll?
Oof, sex-vs-gender fail! (Although once long ago in the wild early days of the internet I saw a photograph of a man breastfeeding an infant. It was super weird! Apparently it’s possible though! But I just googled and it’s only possible if the man takes special drugs. Anyways, breastfeeding is a female thing, not a femiladygender thing lol!)
The efforts toward “male breastfeeding” seem totally focused on letting men have the experience of lactating, and are entirely unconcerned with whether the practice is safe, let alone beneficial, for the baby.
Re the OP, if Harker had just said “mum feeds me (or ‘the baby’)” instead of “breastfeeds”, there would be no issue. But he didn’t.
Wow, they genuinely can’t see what sex is any more.
And it just occurred to me that this stands as a great example for why people say ‘biological sex’ so often – we need to in order to reduce the conflation with gender demonstrated above.
Holms @4:
Yeah, that was the basis of an argument I had with PZ. He made a blog post in which he pretended not to understand why many GC feminists use the term “biological sex” and (unconvincingly) criticised the term. It’s an annoyance that we should have to use the phrase (and I don’t like it) but it’s one of the few tools we have for trying to bring conversations back into spitting distance of reality.
Speaking of PZ, a week or so ago he posted something about women’s orgasms that uncritically applied them to women, not biological women or cis women, and it wasn’t made an issue in the comments either. So is all the anger directed towards gender-critical people actually sincere, or is it just because that’s how they roll?
How about profoundly sincere but not altogether thought through?