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I did think it was funny that they included 'women' and 'female' in that list. Medicine is gonna have a hard time with that one, "this drug has some adverse eff

by Spivak 2y ago

I did think it was funny that they included 'women' and 'female' in that list. Medicine is gonna have a hard time with that one, "this drug has some adverse effects with uhh… ovulating persons?"

llamaimperative 2y ago
I don't find it funny at all.
- dpkirchner 2y ago
  I found it exactly in line with everything I know about right-wing politics.
  - llamaimperative 2y ago
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elgenie 2y ago
The candidate “solution” to that problem is to remove any representation requirements in medical trials, so adverse effects that manifest just in specific subgroups aren’t found. I wish I were joking.
jl6 2y ago
They didn’t include 'women' and 'female' in that list.
- llamaimperative 2y ago
  Consider for a moment: what if it did include those terms? What do you think it'd indicate if some hypothetical government decided to hunt down those words across the scientific literature and subject them to review? Would that indicate something meaningful to you? Now keep that thought in mind... and now acknowledge that that hypothetical government is actually the current one. Pay close attention to what your mind is doing and let us know if you notice any interesting contortions that somehow draw a line between the obviously fucking insane hypothetical government you were imagining a second ago and the current real one. Report back! https://www.insidehighered.com/news/quick-takes/2025/02/05/nsf-hunts-female-other-flagged-terms https://www.insidehighered.com/news/quick-takes/2025/02/05/n...
  - jl6 2y ago
    There is no executive order banning use of the words women and female.
    - llamaimperative 2y ago
      Thanks for sharing your contortions! Honestly impressed with your candor, I appreciate it.
      - jl6 2y ago
        I replied to someone who thought the words had been banned and scientists would have to use phrases like “ovulating person”. It seemed to be based on taking your post (“scrub all mentions of the word "women"”) at face value. You understand now that that isn’t true? That the word “women” is not being scrubbed, and nobody has asked for it to be scrubbed?
WillPostForFood 2y ago
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- miltonlost 2y ago
  Trans women are real women.
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  - pessimizer 2y ago
    Rule #1 of feminine-ism.
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by Spivak 2y ago

I did think it was funny that they included 'women' and 'female' in that list. Medicine is gonna have a hard time with that one, "this drug has some adverse effects with uhh… ovulating persons?"

llamaimperative 2y ago

I don't find it funny at all.

dpkirchner 2y ago
I found it exactly in line with everything I know about right-wing politics.
- llamaimperative 2y ago
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elgenie 2y ago

The candidate “solution” to that problem is to remove any representation requirements in medical trials, so adverse effects that manifest just in specific subgroups aren’t found. I wish I were joking.

jl6 2y ago

They didn’t include 'women' and 'female' in that list.

llamaimperative 2y ago
Consider for a moment: what if it did include those terms? What do you think it'd indicate if some hypothetical government decided to hunt down those words across the scientific literature and subject them to review? Would that indicate something meaningful to you? Now keep that thought in mind... and now acknowledge that that hypothetical government is actually the current one. Pay close attention to what your mind is doing and let us know if you notice any interesting contortions that somehow draw a line between the obviously fucking insane hypothetical government you were imagining a second ago and the current real one. Report back! https://www.insidehighered.com/news/quick-takes/2025/02/05/nsf-hunts-female-other-flagged-terms https://www.insidehighered.com/news/quick-takes/2025/02/05/n...
- jl6 2y ago
  There is no executive order banning use of the words women and female.
  - llamaimperative 2y ago
    Thanks for sharing your contortions! Honestly impressed with your candor, I appreciate it.
    - jl6 2y ago
      I replied to someone who thought the words had been banned and scientists would have to use phrases like “ovulating person”. It seemed to be based on taking your post (“scrub all mentions of the word "women"”) at face value. You understand now that that isn’t true? That the word “women” is not being scrubbed, and nobody has asked for it to be scrubbed?

WillPostForFood 2y ago

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miltonlost 2y ago
Trans women are real women.
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- pessimizer 2y ago
  Rule #1 of feminine-ism.
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