That simple
Golly, it was less than a month ago that NARAL was telling us (“reminding” us) that it’s not only women who get abortions. I must have given them some lip, because I now see they’ve blocked me. The big national abortion rights organization is blocking feminists who tell them to stop erasing women – that’s useful.
Anyway, they’re really pushing the “exclude women from abortion rights” line.
No it’s absolutely not that simple. It’s also not true. It’s not “inclusive” to pretend that men need abortion rights. What it is, instead, is a move to erase women, the way various civilizations have done as far back as we can see. Women are the people who get pregnant, women are the people who need to be able to get an abortion if they don’t want to be pregnant, women are the people who are imprisoned and tortured by their own bodies if they can’t get an abortion. Women. Just women. Women only. Not men. Men get to be free of this particular trap.
It’s because women are the people who get pregnant that women are also the people who are treated as suspect, and needing constant supervision and control, and subject to harsh punishment for doing things like going outside or not wearing a tent over their heads. The fact that women are the source of human beings is the reason women are treated as second class, aka inferior.
I’m pretty sure NARAL used to know this, but it seems that now all it knows is that “men can get pregnant too.”
It’s the opposite of “inclusive.” This obsession with using “gender neutral” “language” to make sure that .01% of women are “included,” has the actual effect of excluding 99.99% of women from their own biological category.
And, “black birthing people”? Really? THAT’s the rhetoric that will wake up the medical profession to care about black mothers’ pain? How more dehumanizing can you get? “Black birthing people” indeed. Black or African-American women. Black or African-American mothers.
Well said maddog, I agree. Such BS.
I’m sorry, but ‘black birthing people’ is a phrase that could have come straight out of a cotton plantation any time before the American Civil War.
“Say, Joshua, where’s all yer black birthin’ people at?”
“Oh, they work in the fields ’till their time’s almost due and then I has ’em moved to the new black birthin’ shed I had built over yonder.”
Or maybe from a dystopian future where the machines or extra-terrestrials have taken over and are breeding humans as slaves (not so different from the first example, really), as food, or even as pets. They must keep those birthing people seperated by colour or the pedigrees will be worthless.
How can all of those supposedly ‘woke’ people not realise how dehumanising their language is. Yes, I get that they deliberately dehumanise their opponents, but they’re also doing it to themselves.