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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 acro
by 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 agoThere is no executive order banning use of the words women and female.
- llamaimperative 2y agoThanks for sharing your contortions! Honestly impressed with your candor, I appreciate it.
- jl6 2y agoI 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?