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[–]VioletRemiCat, homosexual one 25 insightful - 1 fun25 insightful - 0 fun26 insightful - 1 fun -  (7 children)

Same is happening with word "woman" there, for some reason they (and many other organisations) are naming transes and men, but everyone else is just "person".

[–]Eurowoman24 8 insightful - 1 fun8 insightful - 0 fun9 insightful - 1 fun -  (6 children)

scary af.

[–]VioletRemiCat, homosexual one 19 insightful - 1 fun19 insightful - 0 fun20 insightful - 1 fun -  (5 children)

Even worse, today I saw this: https://i.imgur.com/X9MdygT.png

"Birthing bodies" instead of "women" or "mothers". Just bodies. And photo without head too.

[–]Eurowoman24 13 insightful - 1 fun13 insightful - 0 fun14 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

god.. just human incubators of course.

[–]insta 12 insightful - 1 fun12 insightful - 0 fun13 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

I grew up in a pretty traditional household. If I ever referred to my sisters or my mother as "birthing body" I'm pretty sure my father would smack me over the head and tell me "wtf".

This is movement fundamentally anti-human.

[–]latuspodSuper Straight 10 insightful - 1 fun10 insightful - 0 fun11 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

Bodies is an applied postmodern term for when they want to highlight the identity and expose "systemic" oppression.

Black bodies Female bodies Queer bodies Disabled bodies Fat bodies BIPOC bodies.

It's a really dumb rhetorical device. They dont want individuals considered just the intersectional identity and its relation to power.

[–]reluctant_commenter 7 insightful - 1 fun7 insightful - 0 fun8 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Oh is that where that's coming from? That phrasing always really bothered me. It is objectifying, literally.

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

It's really backwards rhetoric and I despise it. It's very dehumanizing and objectifying to refer to a living human being as a "body", rather than a synonym for a "person". It's one step above referring to a person as a corpse IMO.