You have GOT to be kidding.

The National Post [Canada]:

The Supreme Court of Canada ruled in a recent sexual assault case that it was “problematic” for a lower court judge to refer to the alleged victim as a “woman,” implying that the more appropriate term should have been “person with a vagina.”

In other words it’s “more appropriate” to call victims of sexual assault cunts.

In a decision published Friday, Justice Sheilah Martin wrote that a trial judge’s use of the word “a woman” may “have been unfortunate and engendered confusion.”

While “person with a vagina” would engender no confusion?

Martin does not specify why the word “woman” is confusing, but the next passage in her decision refers to the complainant as a “person with a vagina.” Notably, not one person in the entire case is identified as transgender, and the complainant is referred to throughout as a “she.”

I wonder if Justice Sheilah Martin herself would like to be referred to as a person with a vagina. Maybe that should be a requirement – all women have to have “with a vagina” included in any mention of them. Justice with a vagina Sheilah Martin, novelist with a vagina Margaret Atwood, actress with a vagina Catherine O’Hara. Good?

To be fair, the judge’s ruling may have been more narrowly focused than the usual “women must stop calling themselves women” bullshit: it was in reference to testimony about the complainant waking up to find the accused penetrating her, and to arguments about whether or not she could tell. It was about the particular body part in question. But still…without a social background in which we’re constantly bullied to stop saying “women” would a judge have come up with “person with a vagina”?