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by zzrzzr 2y ago
Which non-human species do you believe are being referred to when the term "pregnant women" (or "pregnant people") is used?
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by zzrzzr 2y ago
Do you have a counterexample to illustrate your point?
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by zzrzzr 2y ago
But my point was about situations where the term "pregnant people" is being mandated or strongly recommended instead of "pregnant women".
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by zzrzzr 2y ago
How so?
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by zzrzzr 2y ago
I mean it's a matter of opinion as to whether any male who says he's a woman actually is a woman.
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by zzrzzr 2y ago
We're talking about humans. That some other animal species have a reproductive strategy of sequential hermaphroditism is not relevant to the conversation.
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by zzrzzr 2y ago
Regardless of sex chromosome aneuploidies or a desire to be the opposite sex, everyone who is, who could be, or who has ever been pregnant is female. Another point against using the phrase "pregnant people" instead of "pregna
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by zzrzzr 2y ago
The difference is that police officer and firefighter are roles that can be occupied by people of either sex, so the change of language from policeman and fireman made sense in that context. By contrast, pregnancy is a state of being that i
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by zzrzzr 2y ago
That is of course a matter of opinion.
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by zzrzzr 2y ago
That's because male-on-male violence, including sexual violence, is endemic in many male prisons. How any particular male victim may identify is secondary to this safeguarding failure within the male prison system.
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by zzrzzr 2y ago
Please consider reading the 4W article I linked above. It explains the problem. You may find this enlightening also: https://womensliberationfront.org/news/wolf-attends-prelimin... A relevant extract: " The four w
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by zzrzzr 2y ago
> Rape is endemic throughout the prison industrial complex, protections for prisoners are nowhere good enough. The most effective safeguarding measure against this for female prisoners is the segregation of inmates by sex. SB132 has de
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by zzrzzr 2y ago
> I wouldn't take anything they said seriously. Also I clicked two of those links and found no allegations of rape, See https://4w.pub/male-inmate-charged-with-raping-woman-inside-... . This is the inevitable conse