That word
Sometimes the juxtapositions on Twitter can be…I dunno, striking, ironic, poignant, something like that.
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Violence against women in Turkey. Not “individuals with a cervix,” not generalized “people,” not “non-men”; women.
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Sometimes the juxtapositions on Twitter can be…I dunno, striking, ironic, poignant, something like that.
One:
Two:
Violence against women in Turkey. Not “individuals with a cervix,” not generalized “people,” not “non-men”; women.
I see the point, but it’s not true, CNN still uses the word ‘women’, it’s the American Cancer Society’s own words, whoever wrote them, not CNN’s or Gisela Crespo’s. Still, Coach Caroline is fighting the good fight, and a click on those hashtags shows why.
It is true. In that particular piece, the CNN reporter says
The words “women” and “woman” do not appear in the story.
Some of this was copied verbatim from ACC’s own article. >> https://www.cancer.org/cancer/cervical-cancer/detection-diagnosis-staging/cervical-cancer-screening-guidelines.html
CNN has not stopped using the word ‘women’, not yet anyway.
Also, further down in ACC’s article, they do use the word ‘women’ as well, when describing the prevalence of cervical cancer in, yep, American women. The trans cult hasn’t won just yet. :)
Oops, ACS is a better acronym. :P
I don’t care that it’s just that one article. Ok @CoachCaroline overstated it, but I don’t care that CNN doesn’t do it everywhere; it shouldn’t do it at all.
I agree, they should not sidestep calling women women, no matter what. Reading through some of the #femaleerasure links was truly aggravating. I am definitely on Coach Caroline’s side on this one, but I didn’t want to believe that CNN had submitted to the trans cult pressure, so I did look into it. ;)
I certainly don’t want to have to boycott Anderson!
Ya me neither, I was a little stunned at the idea of CNN joining in the fray. First thing I did was look and see if they had pronouns in their bio’s (Anderson does not, btw). ;)
If CNN didn’t put it in quotes, it’s from CNN and not the ACS. I’m a stickler that way.
It is a direct quote, despite the lack of quotation marks. Where it originated from doesn’t change with the reporting. It’s CNN’s responsibility for republishing the piece, but it doesn’t mean they created or drafted it, and I’m a stickler that way.