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How acknowledging a minority also exists "designing society after a minority"?
by detaro 4y ago
How acknowledging a minority also exists "designing society after a minority"?
- rejectfinite 4y agoBecause changing the sites/books/medical language that EVERYONE uses is exactly that. I can "acknowledge" something, but I don't have to change anything.
- detaro 4y ago"designing after" would to me suggest solely focussing on, not also including. The same way that we didn't "design society after women" when they got voting rights.
- lostlogin 4y agoWhat size minority counts? Medicine has done a great job excluding groups as a large as ‘women’ historically. Still does in many areas.
- HyperSane 4y ago
- toqy 4y ago
- p0pcult 4y agoIt is quite a stretch to refer to using the word "woman" to describe someone who is pregnant as treating trans males like shit.
- toqy 4y agoNo, what's quite a stretch is the ancestor comment describing our society as being designed for a minority. And yes actually, trans males would feel like they are being treated like shit by the people in this thread absolutely insisting that gender == sex.
- p0pcult 4y agoWell, listen, as Eleanor Roosevelt has said, "no one can make you feel inferior without your consent." I think it incredibly disingenuous to equate a literal debate about appropriate medical terminology around childbirth to anything less than that. I support trans rights; what I dont support is the intellectual terrorism that underlies the notion that just because someone has a legitimate difference of opinion on appropriate language use, they are "treat[ing] people like shit" or worse.