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obviously, language is essential in conveying ideas - without it, we'd be screwed.. but it goes beyond that in terms of its importance.. first, it's a good idea to use accurate language, especially when talking about important things or discussing difficult topics.. second, we should be free to use the words we want to use.

unfortunately, there is an attempt by certain people to control what words we can and cannot say.

LoveUniHateExams

For older women the distinction may be important, because they don’t stop being “women” when they are no longer fertile - yes, you're right: after menopause, women are still women.

When I originally said that the vast majority of women have eggs and are fertile, did you honestly think I meant that those women don't go through menopause? I thought that was a given, lol.

Female fertility cannot be disentangled from the word 'woman' because most women are fertile for a certain period of their lives. This isn't difficult to grasp.

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The Importance of Language

by LoveUniHateExams in

language is obviously a very important thing.

obviously, language is essential in conveying ideas - without it, we'd be screwed.. but it goes beyond that in terms of its importance.. first, it's a good idea to use accurate language, especially when talking about important things or discussing difficult topics.. second, we should be free to use the words we want to use.

unfortunately, there is an attempt by certain people to control what words we can and cannot say.

LoveUniHateExams

As I understand JK Rowling, she is saying there should be a word that describes someone whose biological sex is female, and that word should be “woman” - As I understand it, Rowling came across the following term in social media: 'people who menstruate'. She mocked it by responding thus: 'mmhh, there used to be a word for that'. She got a lot of verbal abuse, including death threats, apparently.

A lot of the more extreme debates are just nonsense on both sides - well, not in the recent case of Rowling. She implied that people who menstruate are women, and a bunch of social media activists called her names and made death threats.

How? Most women are not between 15 and 45. Not all women are fertile until 45. Some women are never fertile. I don’t think we need an expert demographer to deduce, from there facts, that most women are not fertile - ok, let me try and reason with you on this.

The majority of women will be fertile for approximately half their adult lives. This means that the average woman will be fertile for approx. half her adult life.

Some women are born without a uterus. Some women are born with a uterus but are infertile. Some women are fertile for longer than the average woman. But all these types of women are atypical because they lie outside the average. None of these groups is a majority.

So, it is intellectually dishonest to try to disentangle female fertility from the word 'woman' because the majority experience fertility in their lives.

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The Importance of Language

by LoveUniHateExams in

language is obviously a very important thing.

obviously, language is essential in conveying ideas - without it, we'd be screwed.. but it goes beyond that in terms of its importance.. first, it's a good idea to use accurate language, especially when talking about important things or discussing difficult topics.. second, we should be free to use the words we want to use.

unfortunately, there is an attempt by certain people to control what words we can and cannot say.

LoveUniHateExams

The average woman will be fertile between roughly 15 and 45 years of age. This is the case for the majority of women.

It is intellectually dishonest to try and disentangle female fertility and women!

But most women are not fertile - pure nonsense (see above).

I don’t think “egg provider” is any more problematic than “sperm donor”. It has a reasonable meaning in that context - this is a fair point.

But there is a tendency for activists to try and disentangle 'female fertility' from 'women' that is having an impact on free speech. Look at the recent case of JK Rowling if you want to know what happens when you disagree.

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Voter Fraud !

by Sea Breeze in

dick morris sounds the alert:.

https://www.dickmorris.com/fight-massive-democratice-fraud/ .

LoveUniHateExams

Mmmhh, this is interesting …

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fRJGg2UrnWE

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The Importance of Language

by LoveUniHateExams in

language is obviously a very important thing.

obviously, language is essential in conveying ideas - without it, we'd be screwed.. but it goes beyond that in terms of its importance.. first, it's a good idea to use accurate language, especially when talking about important things or discussing difficult topics.. second, we should be free to use the words we want to use.

unfortunately, there is an attempt by certain people to control what words we can and cannot say.

LoveUniHateExams

What I’m not in favour of, is just making stuff up - I didn't make stuff up, I just got it wrong.

The use of “egg providers” was apparently a fertility context, not a general replacement for the word “women” - but the word 'woman' would be ok here, because the vast majority of women have eggs and are fertile.

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The Importance of Language

by LoveUniHateExams in

language is obviously a very important thing.

obviously, language is essential in conveying ideas - without it, we'd be screwed.. but it goes beyond that in terms of its importance.. first, it's a good idea to use accurate language, especially when talking about important things or discussing difficult topics.. second, we should be free to use the words we want to use.

unfortunately, there is an attempt by certain people to control what words we can and cannot say.

LoveUniHateExams

But there is a strong influencing group who are becoming Word Nazis and it is becoming silly - indeed.

People should be able to express themselves however they wish, as long as they're not using abusive language, or using words in an abusive context.

'Word Nazis' - I think I'll nick that. ;)

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The Importance of Language

by LoveUniHateExams in

language is obviously a very important thing.

obviously, language is essential in conveying ideas - without it, we'd be screwed.. but it goes beyond that in terms of its importance.. first, it's a good idea to use accurate language, especially when talking about important things or discussing difficult topics.. second, we should be free to use the words we want to use.

unfortunately, there is an attempt by certain people to control what words we can and cannot say.

LoveUniHateExams

Learning how not to make horrible faux pas like that is one of the hardest things about learning a new language - very much so.

I was reading a book in my local library by a British guy who lived with and photographed Bedouin people. Many Arabs are urbanised/settled, but some still roam the deserts of the Arabian peninsula and the Levant, rearing camels and/or sheep/goats (some Bedouin even consider Bedouin who raise sheep/goats as not true Bedouin XD).

This British author apparently highly offended a Dubai businessman by calling his ancestors 'Bedouin', lol. He didn't mean any offence, he obviously holds a romantic view of Bedouin people, unlike the Dubai businessman. XD