Australian Senate passes motion to ban use of chest feeding

[DrJump]

www.news.com.au/lifestyle/health/senate-votes-to-ban-distorted-genderneutral-language-such-as-chestfeeding-from-official-materials/news-story/9e01b1ebab6dc6d6eece729e13bffe8e

I can never remember how to do links.

This is pretty exciting. I'm not sure if it will need to be passed in the lower house too.

Good good and good. I am so so pleased about this.

The madness has to bloody end.

I can’t see the survey results on the article but the comments are stating 97% agree with the result! I hope that’s true.

I wonder what Victoria will make of it?

Men have breasts too. Men can get breast cancer. Men may not use breasts for feeding but they have them.

@windymillertheecowarrior

Men have breasts too. Men can get breast cancer. Men may not use breasts for feeding but they have them.

Well, quite.

Breast is a gender neutral term.
Feeding an infant milk from a breast is breastfeeding

At last. Sanity beginning to prevail. As a doctor, feminist and autistic pedant, the nonsensical term “chest feeding” offended me on every level!

I am not in favour of banning words generally so the headline concerned me, but specifying what terms should be used for official publications is important for clear expression and the bill seems reasonable, reversing some of the institutional capture and giving authority to the more widely understood and used terms that many people value.

”An individual’s right to choose their descriptors and pronouns for personal use must not dehumanise the human race.”

But why does it take a rightwing male politician to point this out, while a Green woman calls him a disgusting, bigoted scumbag?

I wasn't able to breast feed and it did upset me. My body wasn't doing what I thought it should and I felt a bit inadequate as a mother and woman at times. But never in a million years would it have occurred to me to stop anyone talking about it, or ask everyone just call all baby feeding something daft like "milk providing" because of my feelings.
Who is the change in language to chest feeding for? I have very limited sympathy for someone who is able to breastfeed and has had a baby but baulks at the word "breast" because it makes them feel less of a man or less non-binary.

I did not think I would agree with one nation on anything. But here we are, this is very much a cross all parties issue. Maybe I should ask myself to ‘please explain’.

@thinkingaboutLangCleg

”An individual’s right to choose their descriptors and pronouns for personal use must not dehumanise the human race.”

But why does it take a rightwing male politician to point this out, while a Green woman calls him a disgusting, bigoted scumbag?

thinkingabout

Rumours are doing the rounds that the UK's Green London Mayor candidate has been bribed by GenderGP.

Rumours circulating that the Green's only UK MP has been pushed into a corner to support this chest-feeding sort of nonsense because of the threat of her losing the support of her home city (Brighton) from the LGBTQ+ voters (Brighton being a very 'woke' small city).

Is it surprising?