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When in doubt, pretend women don’t exist.
A BBC television doctor repeatedly referred to mothers-to-be as ‘pregnant people’ on the popular daytime show Morning Live.
Dr Xand van Tulleken was discussing the various groups who have so far declined to have the Covid jab when he said: ‘Pregnant people, for instance, early in the pandemic there were very mixed messages [on whether expectant mothers should be given a shot] so people didn’t get vaccinated when they were pregnant and they haven’t got it subsequently.
‘Pregnant people are not unreasonably nervous about putting things into their bodies.’
Whatever you do, don’t let on that it’s women who get pregnant, especially if you’re a doctor, even more especially if you’re a doctor saying things on the BBC. The word “women” is a foul obscenity, so don’t ever say it.
In 2016, the British Medical Association recommended that its staff use ‘pregnant people’ instead of pregnant women.
And in February last year, midwives at Brighton and Sussex University Hospitals Trust were told to start using terms such as ‘chest milk’ instead of breast milk.
If you mention “women” they get all uppity and confident, as if they’re real people instead of brainless dress-dummies.
As a male breast-haver (not moobs, thank you) I honestly don’t get the insistence on referring to chest feeding. How is that “more inclusive” of anything, when everyone has breast tissue and can get cancer there?
Here’s a nonsensical “FAQ” for the curious:
https://www.todaysparent.com/baby/breastfeeding/chestfeeding-faq/
Anybody with eyes to see and ears to hear can see what’s behind this movement. Women, move out. The enby’s and the Trans are moving in.
I’m curious:
Is there a corresponding movement to address “prostatic, erect, ejaculating people” (PEEPs) instead of “fathers”?
Just wondering.
Well, this is just prudery.
The trans dogma is that sex is what you think it is, regardless of your body. Thus, penis-havers (who might be women), cervix-havers (who might be men), and in the instant case, breast-havers, who might be men.
Ironically, this entire drive to eliminate the word “woman” is being instituted in order to be considerate of … women. Specifically, that small group of women who are convinced they’re not women, but something, anything else: men, non-binary, “queer,” what have you.
For some, women merit respect the most when they, too, consider women to be Other.
I suspect it’s more that it’s ostensibly to “be kind” to women who identify as men, but really I think it’s mostly for the sheer joy of erasing women from the language, the discourse, the politics, the arguments, everything. I think it’s same old same old misogyny, in an ill-fitting disguise.
Especially since that’s how they got into that predicament in the first place.
Sorry. I’ll see myself out.