Verso Books are breaking the ratio record

[achillestoes]

This independent publishing company thinks referring to Indian women as ‘womb carriers’ on Twitter is acceptable language to use when talking about women being forcibly sterilised. I think they’re about to break the internet. Piers Morgan and Andrew Doyle are on it.

It might be the straw that breaks this dehumanising trend’s back. Certainly worse than any other phrase I’ve come across.

"Non-sperm-chuckers allowed on the Internet again"

'womb carriers carry on'

'uterine receptacles spout bigoted bile'

I am also available for Pink News gigs, btw.

By blocking it from trending, or not titling it at all.

It’s not a hashtag. It’s picking up every tweet using womb and discussing it - not just those who are commenting in reply (only c. 1000) or those quote tweeting and retweeting. So I am assuming someone had to look at the situation and physically title it.

Have to give credit where credit.

I'm waiting for a neutron star level of density to form around that tweet.

I find it impossible to believe that the author of that tweet didn't realise for a nanosecond that were continuing to perpetuate the dehumanisation and reduction to metonymic parts that allowed that atrocity in the first place! 😡

Surely, there will be a day when that person is going about their business and they will be struck to the ground by the realisation of what they wrote in that tweet, with what they've colluded, and the consequences that will ripple through for women.

Today we have naming of metonymic parts (thanks, @EmbarrassingHadrosaurus).

Now I've been around for a while, but just been pondering how "womb carrier" or "uterus haver" or "vagina owner" isn't more upsetting to those with gender dysphoria than "woman". I think I'm missing something, but wouldn't it be triggering to have people talk about body parts you wish you did/didn't have?

They’ve deleted it. Re-Verso Books.

A womb carrier? Is that literally a bag for life?

A Womb With a View.

www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10946105/Fury-independent-publisher-Verso-calls-women-womb-carriers-degrading-Twitter-thread.html

A womb carrier? Is that literally a bag for life

😂@

And the Daily Mail has asked them for comment.

Fancy using the terms "womb-carrier" and "misogynistic" in the same sentence. I'm sure you can only be misogynistic to one type of human...

By that logic trans men wouldn't get pregnant, because that would be rather triggering!

I think that your question might inadvertently reveal the truth.

Being a trans woman has nothing to do with wombs or uteruses or eggs, because womanhood is nothing to do with the female body, it is about a set of rights (using the safer, women's toilets) and rituals (giggling with your friends about boys and make-up) and physical signifiers of your brains thoughts (such as having long hair to prove your brain is female). Being a trans woman isn't even about fake tits or an inverted penis in most cases.

In other words "woman" is triggering because they want to be a woman but they know they aren't. Body parts are not triggering because being a woman has nothing to do with a physical body.

Likewise trans men are identifying out of the male gaze and sexual harrassment. They have no problem with having a vagina, their problem is that other people - men - know they have a vagina.

Holding my breath for the apology...

Boom boom! 10/10

So sick of this revolting, degrading and dehumanising language being used as if it’s perfectly acceptable.

It’s not even thrown as an insult which would still clearly be not ideal but it’s so outrageous and outlandish a term, that it couldn’t be taken that seriously, also if levelled through fury then it’s easier to dismiss and laugh at.

Its the gall of it being some kind of disgusting ongoing attempt to implement this degrading terminology as a perfectly acceptable new common parlance, used with no overt sense of how offensive and ridiculous it is - when that’s not hard to understand… simply by flipping the script to use bollock-touters for men it’s obviously equally unacceptable!!!

This kind of deeply offensive bullshit is why I left Twitter tbh 🤬🤬🤬

Just as well @PurgatoryOfPotholes screenshotted it.

Lest we forget

I've got the first two tweets in my clipboard, in case anyone is using a screenreader, too.

Tweet 1 In the 1970s up to 50% of Native womb carriers were sterilized against their will by the Indian Health Service (IHS).

Tweet 2 Stripping our womb-carriers of their ability to have children is the continuation of over 500 years of misogynistic violence against Indigenous peoples.

Have they deleted it? I’m hoping for a full and grovelling apology…

Now they’re saying they’re quotes from a book. So the way (the new way) to publicise a ‘feminist’ book is to... be offensive to women.

oh I see… so I CAN sing all the lyrics to Gold Digger then…? Great…

okey doke - if anyone is looking for me later, I’ll be in Charing Cross hospital…

Apparently Indian is an insult in the US for N.A, cf. Cowboys and Indians.
Verso are cowboy publishers, they’d know.

😂

So they think that the sterilisation of intersectional Native American womb carriers is appalling, but of autistic teenage girls not so much? I guess I really MUST educate myself, because any non-consensual sterilisation is bad in my opinion.