Harvard biology prof attacked for rejecting term 'pregnant people'

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[–]SaltySkank 8 insightful - 1 fun8 insightful - 0 fun9 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

Jesus Christ, how did we get here? Now even a place like Harvard is playing along that accepting reality and biology is bigotry?! I wish I could say that I was surprised. I don't C A R E if it hurts someone's feelings that only WOMEN can get pregnant, because it's T R U E. Once again, I cannot fathom how any female could look at this and not see it as natal men once again trampling all over women, taking our term for ourselves away because it 'offends them' and reducing us to 'pregnant people. Over my dead body.

[–]FlippyKing 5 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 0 fun6 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Harvard is playing along with the idea that the world is not as you see it but as we tell you it is, they can't really play the game of being smarter than everyone if what is obvious is accepted as fact by everyone. Harvard would LOVE a world where you can't know what a woman is without a panel of experts from all their departments weigh in on what you should think.

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

I think it is high time we stop having any respect for these schools in light of the admission scandal and coupled with the fact that once into these Ivy leagues schools they bend over backwards to make sure you graduate. These are psychopath factories and finishing schools for narcissists, who cheat to get in, cheat to get out, and cheat everyone else when they enter their professions. The institutions exist not as schools in and of themselves but within a framework of political power, corporate power, personal prestige and money. If we question the drug companies that push the idea of "trans" people and especially the idea of "trans kids" (and you can't really question the latter while thinking the former is a legitimate concept), then we have to question the institutions that fill these corporations with the talking heads that spew the corporate BS.

I hope she wins her fight and all that, but the problem is not just bad ideas "invading" academia, the problem is the inherent authoritarianism and power in academia and especially in accepting the notion that there are elite institutions worthy of prestige. Perhaps there once was, but we do not live in those mythological times anymore.

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

When the tide turns I really hope boring, garden-variety gay people don't get vilified for the bullshit created by the trans mob. The T stood for Trojan Horse the whole time.

[–]linda_senora 6 insightful - 1 fun6 insightful - 0 fun7 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

It is incredibly and disheartening to witness once again how powerful the Trans lobby is and how stupid some women are.

That diversity and inclusion director is a dunderhead.

The students creating petitions should be expelled from the University. I thought people at Harvard had more sense than that.

[–]Femaleisnthateful 7 insightful - 1 fun7 insightful - 0 fun8 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

The real problem is that 'Diversity and Inclusion' has become an industry of its own. You can get degrees in this stuff; almost any large corporation or government body has a Diversity and Inclusion office or officer (I refer to mine as our Political Officer). They're making their money by 'cancelling' people, often their own staff and by directing policies which further these regressive ideologies.

[–]linda_senora 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

I have no reason to doubt that companies offering Diversity and Inclusion training/ indoctrination are making bank.

I am sure that Diversity and Inclusion officers are trans or non binary people themselves and/or the D&I department is filled with people who are trans identified or have a close relative who is trans identified.