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Not the happiest of pregnant people

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UsedUpUsername · 16/02/2020 07:21

So Kate Middleton is using a phrase I thought was rather a joke: She mentioned in a recent podcast that she was ‘not the happiest of pregnant people’

IABU to be annoyed that she’s using such an awkward and politically charged phrase?

(IABU in caring about this, but whilst the royals are shoved in our faces, I feel entitled to complain)

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NoWordForFluffy · 16/02/2020 09:41

But it's not awkward. It's less awkward than using 'women' in place of 'people' due to the alliteration. It flows because of the alliteration.

Cookiecrumble888 · 16/02/2020 09:45

She felt how she felt. She is human. If she had the HG sickness that the media said she had she would of felt awful! I had constant nausea for 12 weeks. I was down in the dumps and struggling to get any energy to do anything. I was doing alot better than she was. Personally for me I liked 14-34 weeks. The first and last 6 weeks were the weeks I had symptoms I didn't like. Such as bleeds, nausea and uncomfortable.

Just the hormones make you feel different in yourself. Not everyone is in the healthy excited glow that you can get. She's normal and the money and lifestyle doesn't stop her body reacting the same as others.

Nixby3 · 16/02/2020 10:21

YANBU

I completely agree with you. WOMEN get pregnant. Whereas I support people's right to live as they want, the trans movement often seems at the detriment to women.

Walkthedinosauuuuur · 16/02/2020 10:26

Ffs she probably didn't even think about it before she said it.

yellowallpaper · 16/02/2020 10:29

I think YAB bloody U. How infuriating it must be for people in public life to have every single word that comes out of their mouth dissected and analysed for microscopic deviations from 'acceptable' speech.

The phrase 'pregnant people' is innocuous to most normal people.

yellowallpaper · 16/02/2020 10:29

....bugger of to the transphobic section of the Feminist threads.

FizzyIce · 16/02/2020 10:30

Ffs .. really ?

Nixby3 · 16/02/2020 10:31

She wouldn't have said it by accident. They are so coached as it were before interviews so as not to make a blunder.

EC22 · 16/02/2020 10:33

You’re reading too much into it and I cannot stand the use of people over women regarding pregnancy. But when she is talking about herself it is completely innocuous.

Ninkanink · 16/02/2020 10:34

Must add, I absolutely am 100% gender critical (since there is no other sound, factual, scientific and truthful position to hold), and definitely hold to the biological fact that only females get pregnant, I just don’t think Kate meant it that way at all.

And the feminism board is not ‘transphobic’, it is pro women’s and girls’ rights.

ReallyLilyReally · 16/02/2020 12:02

And the feminism board is not ‘transphobic’, it is pro women’s and girls’ rights.

Just as long as theyre not trans women, right?

Ninkanink · 16/02/2020 12:11

If you want to argue you’re going to have to find someone else to engage with.

Nanny0gg · 16/02/2020 12:14

Both words begin with P...

She said it for the effect not for political correctness.

BecauseReasons · 16/02/2020 12:21

I dunno. I mean, people can become pregnant as women are people. I don't tend to refer to myself as a woman- it's not a crucial part of my identity, more a label that can be applied to me. So I do often refer to myself as a person more. I don't think it's necessarily a political statement.

ArriettyJones · 16/02/2020 13:34

And the feminism board is not ‘transphobic’, it is pro women’s and girls’ rights.

This.

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UsedUpUsername · 17/02/2020 06:11

Well it seems IABU 🤷‍♀️

The interview was innocuous enough, although she really doesn’t seem to get regular people life. I’d feel insulted if I didn’t already know about her background.

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NoSharon · 17/02/2020 07:51

I don't get her life.

I'm sure she's not insulted.

Letsallscreamatthesistene · 17/02/2020 08:03

Do you always try this hard to feel offended?

snappycamper · 17/02/2020 08:07

YANBU OP. The naivety of most women here is quite distressing.

Noodlenosefraggle · 17/02/2020 08:10

I think it was just a turn of phrase. I was more offended by the 'Oh George asked me why I had to go to work today'. Sensible have told him that people have to work to put 2 roofs over his head and food on his plate, and sometimes mummy has to go and visit them for 2 hours a week and show fake concern so they carry on doing it Grin

Noodlenosefraggle · 17/02/2020 08:10

she should

Amanduh · 17/02/2020 08:13

Oh for fucks sake. You are being absolutely bloody ridiculous.

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UsedUpUsername · 17/02/2020 08:23

Sure is a lot of people who seem more offended in their replies than in my posts. I was just asking to see what others thought.

After all, this absolutely had to have been scripted with all questions pre-approved, so it’s a fair question I’d have thought.

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MindyStClaire · 17/02/2020 09:09

The naivety of most women here is quite distressing.

Or maybe we're equally as intelligent and informed as you (or maybe even more, heaven forbid!), have considered the same issues and reached a different conclusion.

snappycamper · 17/02/2020 09:35

Or maybe we're equally as intelligent and informed as you (or maybe even more, heaven forbid!), have considered the same issues and reached a different conclusion.

I didn't say posters were not intelligent, but the majority of the responses here do not indicate consideration of the issues.