hgtff wrote:
Tatar wrote:
Concerning the voices supposedly speaking for women's rights are now not speaking of 'women' but of 'females'. Reminds me of the incel alt-right use of 'femoids'.
Most of the voices I hear that are speaking about the mistreatment of black happen to be white. Non of their business?
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Many of the people using the term female are doing do for specificity, not because they hate women. Why?
A group of women in the UK made a billboard that read "women = adult human female," and activists had it taken down on the grounds that it's hate speech. Sexual health materials geared towards women have started to use language such as, "people who menstruate," "people with uteruses," and "bleeding people." I'm not kidding. All of this is related to the fringe trans-rights stuff we're talking about here. Using the term "women" to refer to females is considered exclusionary because, "some women have penises," and, "some men can get pregnant."
I'll say that again: women can't even talk about their bodies or sex-based interests without being called hateful. What's worse is that so many women are susceptible to guilt and claims of victimhood, so they go along with this nonsense.
To be clear: I'm not against gender dysphoric people taking cross-sex hormones, having surgery, and living in the social role of the opposite sex. I'm against using the existence of these people as grounds to erase the category "women" and all of the legal protections that come along with it. Trans people should have rights and protections, but we should not allow an unfalsifyable ideology to take prededence over science.