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People who mother

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IamAporcupine · 18/10/2021 15:26

It was mother's day at my home country yesterday.
A friend shared an IG post critisising how all the advertisement for presents was still around cooking/cleaning/household appliances (shocking, I know). It had a 'fuck off' caption, and then a blurb with a 'happy people who mother's day!'

So who the hell are we trying to include here?

It must be 'persons' who have children (biological or adoptive) but because they do not 'feel' they are women cannot be called mothers?!
But surely if they feel they are men/male, then they would be happy to celebrate father's day. So this is cattering only for those who do not feel either male/female, or that they change 'gender' every day, or any other combination, correct?

Allegedly, they are OK with using the word mother as a verb to describe their role, but not with the same word used to describe them?
Again, it's OK to use a 'gendered' verb but not the word itself? Confused

I know we are bodies with vaginas / persons who menstruate / etc etc, not sure why this one upset me so much. I guess because I love being a mother.

Also, when I commented with a 'this is crap', my friend asked a desingenious 'why?' so I can see the argument comming...

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Avarua · 18/10/2021 15:47

Just roll your eyes. It's teenage silliness. They'll grow out of it.

NecessaryScene · 18/10/2021 15:46

I would hazard a guess this isn't a gender thing but a weird general Woke thing.

They don't like nouns or possessives for people cos it makes them sound like "objects". So not "my wife" (horror) but "the person I am married to". And so on and so forth.

Fuck me, they're annoying and stupid.

IamAporcupine · 18/10/2021 15:40

Also, would 'because people who mother, are mothers' be a reasonable reply?

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