An adult female
The discussion continued.
Oh look, he said the Forbidden Words – adult female. He said it in quotation marks, but he forgot to tell us the words are forbidden, and transphobic, and terfy, and deserving of punishment.
He doesn’t think he has a right to a specific surrogate, but he does think he has a right to a surrogate in general.
Which is quite an extraordinary thing to think, and all the more so for a man who despises women so thoroughly in every other context.
Because he’s a man and she’s a woman. That’s how it works.
Also thinking that his desire for a surrogate is the most important thing…during a goddamn pandemic! Someone this self-centered is not ready to be a parent.
English really needs a word for “adult human female”.
Yes! Maybe one that sounds a bit like ‘man’, but that suitably differentiates from Men.
Thought experiment, what do people say when they see a non-man out and about leading independent lives, thinking and speaking for themselves. I bet they say something like “Whoa, what’s that thing? It looks like a Man but different. We should call it a Whoa-man.”
Fast forward a generation or two and it will get abbreviated to Woman. There, job done.
Today I realized a way to pronounce “womxn”.
The “x” is silent like “faux”.
Ah, so I guess to him women are fungible. Big surprise. ‘I don’t need a specific woman, any woman will do.’
My understanding, from reading some of the commentary around this, is that the ‘blood test’ he’s whining about is to determine if there are any issues with his fertility. It’s for men who have been trying to have a child with their (female) partners and not succeeding. What does he think he needs this for right now? As someone tweeted to him, it should not be a huge surprise that he and his partner have failed to conceive so far. (At least I hope not.)
Guest, he’s pretending that having children goes like this:
Step 1 – hey, let’s have children!
Step 2 – make appointment to get tested, to make sure fertility is a-ok
Step 3 – have procreational sex. Once should do it.
Step 4 – let pregnancy commence!
Of course if he really thought that, he’d believe all the straight people (with or without children, conceived with or without fertility treatment) who are telling him that the purpose of blood tests is to investigate what’s going wrong when pregnancy doesn’t commence. He is demanding something more of the NHS than straight couple get, the way he demands more rights for men who say they are women than actual women get. Can we make this work by legalizing paid surrogacy…. for trans women?
Anyway, it’s awfully good of him to allow that he doesn’t have the right to “a specific surrogate”. Just picking a woman off the street to bear his validation-child is a step too far even for him.
https://www.etymonline.com/word/woman
What are the odds that it also derives from ‘womb’, as in ‘wombed one’?
No, on reflection, that could not possibly be right, because a trans-whatever bloke born with a donger hanging off him instead of a womb inside him could never on such a basis lay a claim to being a woman.
https://www.etymonline.com/word/womb
I find it all very confusing.
Nobody has ever deserved to be ratioed more. All the mockery he is receiving is not only obvious but overdue. How many versions of “Just declare you’re a woman – sorted!” and “I’m sure you can find a transwoman who wants to do this – after all, they’re biologically female” are necessary? An infinite number would suffice.
So NOW Benny knows what an adult human female is? Right at the moment he wants one?
Late-breaking on Penis News: Man who has made a career denying women exist suddenly realizes women are good for something, demands one. Further demands the state pay him to get one. Fails to see the hypocrisy.
Conceivably he could also search for a transman with a functioning uterus.
If commercial surrogacy is illegal in the UK, why do some women agree to be surrogates?
Only slightly off-topic, but I can’t see this going down well in certain circles:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-54246686
Those same certain circles will hate this, too, but for women it’s bordering on good news.
. Yes, it’s only a Law Commission report but it’s at least a step in the right direction.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-54254541
Omar,
A couple of things: first, the formation is peculiar to English and Dutch, as your link says. Second, note that “man” originally meant “human being”, not specifically a male human being.