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[–]sisterinsomnia 16 insightful - 2 fun16 insightful - 1 fun17 insightful - 2 fun -  (2 children)

Slightly off the topic, but pay attention to what has happened to language, who now have the power of naming and which demographic group is being erased.

The 'assigned at birth' is just part of all those changes, such as 'woman' is now nothing more but a feeling inside one's head, perhaps to do with liking pink and sparkles, 'biological sex' is now complicated, perhaps a spectrum, perhaps socially constructed, equality of the sexes has been replaced by the equality of all sorts of neo-genders, all based on nothing but feelings in the head, 'gay' and 'Lesbian' are now problematic words as sexual orientation is replaced with preferences for certain gender expressions, and so on.

The way 'inclusiveness' (from queer theory) has invaded feminism is the same as others demanding that we keep our houses unlocked, invite everyone in, and never complain when they trash the house and steal our own identities and rights. But now not being inclusive enough is bigotry...

[–]our_team_is_winning 13 insightful - 3 fun13 insightful - 2 fun14 insightful - 3 fun -  (0 children)

'woman' is now nothing more but a feeling inside one's head

Excellent summary you gave of the current insanity. I can't believe we moved from the word "gender" usually being used by people who felt uncomfortable saying the word "sex," like on forms you had to fill out (to stop people from writing "yes please" right?) to THIS level of insanity.

Seriously the insanity of it. I woke up today and did NOT "feel" like a woman. I just felt like a person. Am I NB today? Yesterday I was writing a male character's POV in a story -- did I feel male? The other day I just wanted to curl up and sleep like a cat. Am I interspecies? Can they make some hormone treatments that would only last 24 hours, so I can keep switching around depending how I feel? I wonder if I could float the term "Multigendered, multispecied, MGMS"? I often feel like a little kid again. Can I get my birth certificate changed to show that I am forever 8? Like they could keep issuing me a new one and updating the year of birth? In all honesty, I DO know what it feels like to be 8 because I did it for a whole year once. OMG I'm panicking now because I don't remember what woman "feels like"! Gonna switchover to a TWAW forum for tips.

[–]Spikygrasspod 8 insightful - 1 fun8 insightful - 0 fun9 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

It's super scary when they're stealing the very language and concepts we need in order to talk about the theft.