This erasure

Katha Pollitt said a thing.

Women, do you describe yourself as a birthing parent? A chestfeeder? A person with a vagina or uterus? A menstruator? This erasure of woman language has gone pretty far in the worlds of medicine, science, research, and academic feminism. It’s weird and insulting and dehumanizing, reducing women to body parts and functions. Why are feminists promoting this? PS Is the male partner of the birthing parent called the inseminator? No.

There are plenty of sane comments but also plenty of the other kind. The stupid continues, year upon year…

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