:why-post-this:

Also the only time I've ever heard this language was people trying to be inclusive for putting tampons in all bathrooms

I don't want to assume complete bad faith, but she also goes on Jacobin and talks about need more police bc there is so much crime etc. so maybe I should

edit: I've looked through the thread more and I think some of the stuff could be phrased better, although it is primarily used in medical contexts so it's not like you're likely to be referred by these terms in the first place, there were some suggestions in the thread for alternative terms that could get the same meaning across, but the comments were like 80% bigots so even if she didn't mean it, which she definitely might of, she gave them an excuse to be bigots, if she really wanted to make this point she should have wrote more than just the last sentence to preemptively silence some of the typical bigoted arguments, so I'm assuming she doesn't care enough or is just a bigot both bad

  • leftofthat [he/him]
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    2 years ago

    It's incredibly bad faith because "person with a uterus" is hardly "degrading" if it's factually true.

    She is purposefully conflating calling someone a "person with a foot" (factually accurate) versus going up to someone and saying "hey you, person with a foot" (potentially degrading, probably funny)

    • Dirt_Owl [comrade/them, they/them]
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      2 years ago

      It's not cool to define a woman by their genitals considering it was an old misogynist thing to call women "walking vaginas and/or a walking pair of breasts" then there's shit like calling them "a piece of ass"

      Basically, It feeds into that objectification trauma and can cause a kneejerk reaction.

      Unfortunately, terfs and other transphobes have made it hard to tell if people like this are good faith