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Re:The erasure of women from online pregnancy literature by rejectfinite on Saturday November 19, 2022 @04:19PM (#33674825)
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.

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Re:The erasure of women from online pregnancy literature by lostlogin on Saturday November 19, 2022 @04:36PM (#33675029)
What size minority counts?

Medicine has done a great job excluding groups as a large as ‘women’ historically. Still does in many areas.

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Re:The erasure of women from online pregnancy literature by detaro on Saturday November 19, 2022 @04:24PM (#33674889)
"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.
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