Pumper
A few months ago there was an amendment going through Parliament regarding the maternity bill. I can't remember the precise details, but it was something along the lines that provisions had to be made specifically for MPs, which it hadn't done for some reason.
The debate, according to Hansard, mentioned women or mother something like 300 times.
The amendment, when written up, didn't mention mother or woman once. It had been eliminated.
The bill was going through, and it was only stopped by the House of Lords, who flagged it. (I think it might have been due to Baroness Nicholson who is very aware).
They had to take a vote, but managed to reinstate the word mother (although not woman).
This is an amendment that was only stopped at the 11th hour, from completely erasing the word mother in a bill about maternity rights.
This isn't about ordinary, everyday people being aware they mustn't use certain words, or else. This is about a concerted effort to decouple women from anything to do with their biology. So that the word woman, or in this case mother, is not dependent upon it.
'De-gendering' terms is a well documented political policy, spearheaded by groups like Stonewall.
The fact that the campaign has run into a brick wall is because of the efforts of women like those on this thread.
I can't help thinking that if they hadn't relentlessly and painfully confronted the issue, many women, maybe even you, would be saying why didn't you say something? Instead of complaining that we are saying something.