Re:The erasure of women from online pregnancy literature
by LawTalkingGuy on Sunday November 20, 2022 @05:37PM
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> ultimately language is use, and use is always changing
Maya Forstater was fired, and JK Rowling still receives death threats for their use of the word "woman" to signify adult human females. That's domestic terrorism, to present it as "the language is always changing" is Orwellian.
> It's not really any different than terms for ethnic minorities
What if the USA declared all citizens to be "black"? Blacks would now perfectly match all the USA's demographic averages, income, crime, lifespan, etc, etc.
Racism solved, right? Or the beginning of a vastly worse racism that must be endured in silence because the words to describe it have been taken away?
Maya Forstater was fired, and JK Rowling still receives death threats for their use of the word "woman" to signify adult human females. That's domestic terrorism, to present it as "the language is always changing" is Orwellian.
> It's not really any different than terms for ethnic minorities
What if the USA declared all citizens to be "black"? Blacks would now perfectly match all the USA's demographic averages, income, crime, lifespan, etc, etc.
Racism solved, right? Or the beginning of a vastly worse racism that must be endured in silence because the words to describe it have been taken away?