Treating the word “woman” as so offensive it cannot be uttered is bad enough. Replacing it with a butcher’s slab anatomical inventory is about as dehumanising as I can imagine.
It’s really is a pretty small step from referring to women using the C-word, or for the less vulgar as pussies. Extraordinary how a profession allegedly trying to make up for ignoring and dehumanising women think this improves the situation.
The “statement” linked there reads as follows… and it’s just as infuriating as I’ve come to expect such things to be:
I would like to thank all those who have responded to the words on this week’s Lancet cover and understand the strength of feeling it has provoked. The Lancet strives for maximum inclusivity of all people in its vision for advancing health. In this instance, we have conveyed the impression that we have dehumanised and marginalised women. Those who read The Lancet regularly will understand that this would never have been our intention. I apologise to our readers who were offended by the cover quote and the use of those same words in the review. At the same time, I want to emphasise that transgender health is an important dimension of modern health care, but one that remains neglected. Trans people regularly face stigma, discrimination, exclusion, and poor health, often experiencing difficulties accessing appropriate health care. The exhibition review from which The Lancet cover quote was taken is a compelling call to empower women, together with non-binary, trans, and intersex people who have experienced menstruation, and to address the myths and taboos that surround menstruation. The review, like the exhibition, puts these myths and taboos into historical context. The review calls for greater efforts to overcome the lack of knowledge and stigma too often associated with menstruation. These are serious issues that demand serious actions. We encourage people to read the full review and support a growing movement against menstrual shame and period poverty.
Re #4: Give Horton a shovel, and he’ll dig himself in deeper. And as any miner will tell you, the deeper you go, the hotter it gets.
The exhibition review from which The Lancet cover quote was taken is a compelling call to empower women, together with non-binary, trans, and intersex people who have experienced menstruation, and to address the myths and taboos that surround menstruation.
There are conceivably ways in which a male born XY and with normal male genitalia could “experience menstruation,” if say he cut himself at an appropriate in his groin with a sharp instrument, but as he will inevitably lack a uterus, from which normal menstruation begins, the above Lancet quotation can only add to his misery.
Women who wish they had been born male: XY and with the appropriate genitalia, can conceivably resent their own menstrual ability. So, it is unfortunately, something of a lose-lose situation.
Maybe if the trans movement continues to get even more ridiculous, people will begin to notice and get sick of it. Most women know they are not men, and most men know they are not women, and understand the differences. If enough people laugh loud enough at the foolishness, perhaps those people putting on a show of solidarity and inclusiveness will slink away from them and start behaving like adults again.
And yet it’s the GC side that’s accused of reducing women to their genitals.
It’s really is a pretty small step from referring to women using the C-word, or for the less vulgar as pussies. Extraordinary how a profession allegedly trying to make up for ignoring and dehumanising women think this improves the situation.
I’m getting major deja vu… Didn’t they already post this exact thing like a year ago? Or am I thinking of SciAm?
BKiSA: The issue in question is from 2021; here’s the link:
https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/issue/vol398no10306/PIIS0140-6736(21)X0040-2
The “statement” linked there reads as follows… and it’s just as infuriating as I’ve come to expect such things to be:
God that’s pathetic.
Re #4: Give Horton a shovel, and he’ll dig himself in deeper. And as any miner will tell you, the deeper you go, the hotter it gets.
There are conceivably ways in which a male born XY and with normal male genitalia could “experience menstruation,” if say he cut himself at an appropriate in his groin with a sharp instrument, but as he will inevitably lack a uterus, from which normal menstruation begins, the above Lancet quotation can only add to his misery.
Women who wish they had been born male: XY and with the appropriate genitalia, can conceivably resent their own menstrual ability. So, it is unfortunately, something of a lose-lose situation.
….if say he cut himself at an appropriate place in his groin ….
(It’s enough to give one an attack of the horrors, or maybe even of the screamin’ hab dabs.)
Maybe if the trans movement continues to get even more ridiculous, people will begin to notice and get sick of it. Most women know they are not men, and most men know they are not women, and understand the differences. If enough people laugh loud enough at the foolishness, perhaps those people putting on a show of solidarity and inclusiveness will slink away from them and start behaving like adults again.