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Re:The erasure of women from online pregnancy literature by eganist on Saturday November 19, 2022 @04:54PM (#33675175)
> Why do you get to make that determination?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paradox_of_tolerance

I'm not making the determination. It's the only logical one to make if we're to live in a society that values tolerance as a first class citizen.

Relatedly, there's a distinction between freedom of speech v. freedom of reach, the latter of which nobody has.

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Re:The erasure of women from online pregnancy literature by SamPatt on Saturday November 19, 2022 @05:07PM (#33675296)
You are making the determination by declaring that this article is intolerant.

It's a woman's opinion about how language is changing in ways she disagrees with. It isn't her advocating for hatred or violence.

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Re:The erasure of women from online pregnancy literature by eganist on Saturday November 19, 2022 @05:11PM (#33675345)
> It isn't her advocating for hatred

Are you sure about this specifically? Her own subtitle disagrees: "I have no patience left for gender activists who pretend that men can give birth."

I struggle to understand what "no patience left" for [population] means other than human intolerance, which goes hand in hand with hatred.

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Re:The erasure of women from online pregnancy literature by SamPatt on Saturday November 19, 2022 @05:32PM (#33675521)
If you read that article and came away with the idea that you should hate or be violent towards trans people, then you are searching for hatred where it doesn't exist.

A woman expressing her opinion that "chest-feeding" and "birthing persons" are terms obnoxious to her is not hatred.

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