Foolsplaining
The utter patronizing stupidity of these people.
Of course by “inclusive” they don’t mean what sane people mean by “inclusive.” Of course they mean exclude women by talking about people instead of women.
No it is not “exclusionary” to “center” i.e. talk about women and women only in pro-abortion “messaging.” Why? Because men don’t need abortions, that’s why. Why don’t men need abortions? Because they can’t get pregnant. Most adults know this kind of thing.
It doesn’t matter if some women “don’t identify as” women. That’s just childish trivia. A few adult women want to play let’s pretend, ok, that’s embarrassing but it’s their business, but the rest of us do not have to avoid using the word “women” to humor them. Abortion rights are deadly serious business, and this frivolous nonsense about make-believe genders is a grotesque intrusion. Go all the way away.
“We just ask that you remove all mention of women from your protesting.”
Fuck all the way off.
What’s more, all this constant calling attention to the special gender people is just encouraging more women to get on the bandwagon. Every time the word woman is replaced with gender-“inclusive” language it’s another signal to the women reading it, encouraging them to think, maybe I’m not a woman, maybe I’ve got a special gender identity. Of course the more women opt out of “identifying as” women, the worse things are for all women, but it comes with additional harms to the gender-identity-havers themselves, including a massively increased risk of gender dysphoria and other negative mental health consequences, which could lead to physical health consequences if the sufferer takes up hormones and surgeries.
It is well understood that abortion bans are a form of control over women’s bodies; this is reflected in the phrase abortion campaigners often say: ‘if men could get pregnant, abortion would be legal’. This is and has always been about the female body, and the word woman has been used with that in mind for as long as the word has existed.
Of course the women who want to pretend that they are somehow not women because of their unique special personality are still included in that category by the people who want to control women. There’s no way of identifying out of that (or into it). That’s also why it makes no sense to narrow the language down to “impregnables”. It’s extremely likely that I cannot get pregnant and even if I can, I don’t want to, and time is running out. That doesn’t mean I’m off the hook regarding any and all laws and social rules governing women’s bodily autonomy or legal rights. Even women who are against abortion are negatively affected by abortion bans because it affects the way they are seen and treated by society. “It’s ok, I like sitting at the back of the bus anyway” said no black person ever.
(The Impregnables. Worst. Pixar movie. Ever.)