Re:The erasure of women from online pregnancy literature
by detaro on Saturday November 19, 2022 @04:16PM
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How acknowledging a minority also exists "designing society after a minority"?
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Re:The erasure of women from online pregnancy literature
by rejectfinite on Saturday November 19, 2022 @04:19PM
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Because changing the sites/books/medical language that EVERYONE uses is exactly that.
I can "acknowledge" something, but I don't have to change anything.
Re:The erasure of women from online pregnancy literature
by lostlogin on Saturday November 19, 2022 @04:36PM
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What size minority counts?
Medicine has done a great job excluding groups as a large as ‘women’ historically. Still does in many areas.
Re:The erasure of women from online pregnancy literature
by detaro on Saturday November 19, 2022 @04:24PM
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"designing after" would to me suggest solely focussing on, not also including. The same way that we didn't "design society after women" when they got voting rights.
Re:The erasure of women from online pregnancy literature
by toqy on Saturday November 19, 2022 @04:22PM
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Some people just feel oppressed when they can’t treat those they consider “other” like shit
Re:The erasure of women from online pregnancy literature
by p0pcult on Saturday November 19, 2022 @04:58PM
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It is quite a stretch to refer to using the word "woman" to describe someone who is pregnant as treating trans males like shit.
Re:The erasure of women from online pregnancy literature
by toqy on Monday November 21, 2022 @08:26AM
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No, what's quite a stretch is the ancestor comment describing our society as being designed for a minority.
And yes actually, trans males would feel like they are being treated like shit by the people in this thread absolutely insisting that gender == sex.
Re:The erasure of women from online pregnancy literature
by p0pcult on Monday November 21, 2022 @09:11AM
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Well, listen, as Eleanor Roosevelt has said, "no one can make you feel inferior without your consent." I think it incredibly disingenuous to equate a literal debate about appropriate medical terminology around childbirth to anything less than that.
I support trans rights; what I dont support is the intellectual terrorism that underlies the notion that just because someone has a legitimate difference of opinion on appropriate language use, they are "treat[ing] people like shit" or worse.