Delete all the women
The Huffington Post, or Alanna Vagianos who writes for it, or both, doesn’t/don’t know which people do the baby-having.
They know, of course, but they pretend not to.
Emphasis added:
[Kris] Kobach has continually called for the Supreme Court to repeal Roe v. Wade, and believes there should be no exceptions for abortion restrictions. In 2018, Kobach supported legislation to ban all abortions once fetal cardiac activity is detected. In 2004, he was a proponent of a bill that requires people seeking an abortion to get an ultrasound and mandates the state to tell patients that an abortion will cause a fetus to feel pain — an often cited anti-choice talking point that has not been scientifically proven.
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Since Roe fell in June, around a dozen states in the South and Midwest have severely restricted or banned abortion — making Kansas an unlikely sanctuary state. And the fact that Kansas is now a refuge for millions of Americans seeking abortion shows just how dire access to care really is.
Abortion is already heavily regulated in Kansas: It’s banned after 22 weeks except to save the life of the pregnant person, and government funding for abortion care is outlawed.
It’s the new burqa.
Between Huffpo and Kobach, no one comes out smelling good.
These are the [journalists] that thought that [a person] was 98% to win in 2016…
I think that distinctive garment was developed as an understandable response to desert sandstorms. But further to that, would the term ‘person,’ as used, cover those of us who choose to identify as giraffes? Maybe also pregnant giraffes; at whatever position on the sexual spectrum such might choose?
I hold this to be an important matter to be resolved without any further delay.
Omar, I was wondering what incentive struck me to put a giraffe in the book I am writing. I think it was all your posts about being a trans giraffe. Just between us, I think there isn’t enough recognition of trans-giraffes or trans-otters. I think we should start a Twitter dogpile of anyone who denies our existence.
I had the distinct displeasure of listening to an NPR segment on “self-managed abortions”. Every time someone said “person”, “people”, or “folks” instead of the verboten terms, I couldn’t help but provide a correction. In ten minutes, I didn’t hear “women” once. Not once.
What. The. Fuq.
Iknklast, @#4:
Giraffes are very trustworthy. To my knowledge no person or other living being has ever been led astray by one, had their pocket picked by one, defrauded or brought to grief or harm by one. They are towers of absolute purity. And I look forward to the publication of your book. I am sure it will sell well.
NiV–I heard the same NPR program. I had to turn it off.
The US is f*cked.
Article by (she/her) Vagianos (?) explaining how women who have conniptions about being called women, even though they are female, justifies the erasure of the category of women (a few years ago). >> https://huffpost.netblogpro.com/entry/women-arent-the-only-people-who-get-abortions_n_5cf55540e4b0e346ce8286d3 Because abortions are really for everyone, but especially for people who don’t call themselves women, the mostest importantest ones. :P
Seeing things like this and something that happened at work recently, it occurred to me that this feels like the ultra-Orthodox Jews erasing women from photos. I’ve been seeing a lot of genderwoo mentioned in the health insurance company I work for, but I’d been so relieved to see internal messaging about women’s healthcare still say the word women. Until last week. An article was posted on our intranet; I recall the title included “babies and moms and milk”. I thought to myself, “thank you! but uh oh, you’re going to get in trouble”. Two days later it was changed to “babies and parents and milk”. Why? Because an employee commented asking if they could change “moms” to “parents” because some “folks” with babies don’t identify as mom and sometimes “chest feed”, and changing that word would be more inclusive. The article was then updated because “words matter” and we (and the horrible people who dared write the article with the unapproved words) were directed to our DEI style guide as a reminder – which tells us to use “parent” instead of “mother” or “father” because those words are gendered and heteronormative. They kept the word “maternal” though!
That article is unreadably irritating.
It’s such a bizarre belief system, from an epistemological perspective. Normally, reality itself provides a sort of safety net. You believe something stupid and come face to face with the truth, so you’re forced to abandon your nonsense. This culture of enabling prevents that natural process from happening, leaving people unable to learn and grow.
PC, the word “chestfeeding” is downright creepy. It reminds me of those diagrams of cows with the meat cuts drawn on in white lines, indicating the parts humans plan to eat.
And stupid. Men have breasts. Men can actually get breast-cancer, though it is much more rare.
I dread the day when we are required to start saying “chest cancer”. At that point, I may quit reading the news ever again.