No no no.
No no no. The point isn’t that all women have a cervix, it’s that only women have a cervix. If a woman doesn’t have a cervix then she’ll know warnings and information about the cervix aren’t relevant to her; problem solved. It’s silly and confusing to talk about people with a cervix not because all women have one but because only women have one.
It’s both ridiculous and insulting to detach the word “women” from the word “cervix” simply because of all this childish pretending and role playing.
And we don’t need any Joes explaining it to us.
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Sound like Joe O’Toole would perhaps be better off if he spent more time playing with it and less on what it might or not meet up with if it goes exploring in the big wide world. His toole I mean (archaic spelling I know.)
Is Joe a B&W reader? That’s the exact same fallacious argument I mentioned in a comment on your post A vehicle to attack women in public, less than 90 minutes before Joe’s tweet (unless Joe’s timestamp is GMT).
It’s really not difficult to understand that the statement every person with a cervix is a woman is not the same as every person without a cervix is not a woman or every woman has a cervix.
Word games, smoke and mirrors, diversions, misdirection and bullying – it’s all they have in their armoury.
Omar, looking at that photo, I have a sneaky suspicion that Joe began life as a Joanne, and sees the calling of cervix-havers ‘women’ as a cruel negation of her male identity.
Ah, the old logical fallacy. All people with cervixes are women, not all women have cervixes. It’s not hard to understand therefore people who claim otherwise are being deliberately obtuse.
All squares are rectangles; not all rectangles are squares.
“Excuse me, may Transwomen use the Ladies Room here?”
“Yes, indeed they may! We pride ourselves on our tolerance.”
“I’m sorry, but that’s wrong. Not all Transwomen live close enough. Some are in foreign countries.”
TRAs really suck at set theory, don’t they?
Hair is one of the identifying markers of a mammal. But if you shave a dog, it doesn’t suddenly stop being a mammal.
Like many men of my age, I have no prostate, though I had one once. I wouldn’t want “men” to be replaced by “people with prostates”. With respect to Acolyte’s remark I wonder if “Joe” has a prostate.
Well…some trans MEN may have cervices. But mysteriously, THEY don’t run around throwing threats of rape and death towards women who don’t grovel before TRA authoriteh.