4 ms·
If only we had a word for people who can get pregnant (under normal circumstances).
by selfmodruntime 3y ago
If only we had a word for people who can get pregnant (under normal circumstances).
- rsingel 3y agoWhat is that word?
- selfmodruntime 3y agofertile women
- nitwit005 3y agoAnd what is this word for women who might have sex, old enough to have children, have not yet hit menopause, and are not otherwise sterile?
- slaw 3y ago[flagged]
- rsingel 3y agoThe headline is more accurate than this formulation. None of this is hard to figure out if you have an iota of curiosity. If you let go of the rigid categories you were taught, you'll find the world is far more complex and interesting than your junior high textbooks presented it. https://www.today.com/health/thomas-beatie-reflects-his-fame-pregnant-man-t223681 https://www.today.com/health/thomas-beatie-reflects-his-fame...
- red-iron-pine 3y agothe number of people who would meet such a definition are so trivially small as to be irrelevant.
- slaw 3y ago[flagged]
- caraccas 3y ago[flagged]
- jaclaz 3y agoCould be four words "sexually active fertile women" but in these times each one of those words would likely be an ethical or privacy related violation.
- rondini 3y ago[flagged]
- fanatic2pope 3y agoIn the science of biology it is called being "fertile", but "able to become pregnant" works too. What does any of this have to do with the linked article?
- CommitSyn 3y agoI was a bit confused about the commenters wording as well because the subject made perfect sense to me, and coincidentally I also thought they were talking about 'fertile'. But they meant 'women'.