Greens Leader, MP for Melbourne, calls himself a “dad” in his Twitter profile.
Of course “birthing parent” excludes anyone. It excludes mothers, which is a word that applies only to women, so it excludes women. It excludes half of humanity, which is not a small or trivial exclusion.
It never stops taking my breath away to see how comfortable men are excluding and erasing women.
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9 responses to “Easy for him to say”
Then it is a useless phrase.
Language needs only two words: everyone and everything.
It also excludes all males… So it applies to almost no one, making it exclusive as fuck.
Actually, birthing parent might include L, if the L gets pregnant. I presume it could also include B, Q, or NB. It does not include the G and it only includes a portion of T. No matter how you cut it, birthing parent excludes someone – those who do not carry children in their bodies.
Yebbut in the context of this post and this whole issue, “birthing parent” excludes women specifically, because the whole point of it is to replace the word “mother” because “mother” applies to women only. In that sense it doesn’t exclude men and has nothing to do with LGB.
Yeah, I was trying to be satirical, but I don’t think I accomplished my goal.
I wonder what small children are encouraged to call their birthing parent. I guess “mummy” no longer cuts it.
“Everyone” is exclusive of trans-Chesterfields, you damnable CERF.
“Junior said their first word today! ‘Birthing parent’!”