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Feminism: Sex and gender discussions

US lawyer sacked for using the word "woman"

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Coyoacan · 28/02/2023 21:01

I'm not very eloquent but just thought you should all know about this case

socialistdemocracy.org/RecentArticles/RecentUSLawyerSackedForUsingTheWordWoman.html

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HereForTheFreeLunch · 28/02/2023 21:27

I would like to say I'm shocked but I'm really not.
Good luck to Ann. I hope she gets support in her fight back. And may the DRC rue the day they threw her out.

redastherose · 28/02/2023 21:44

Sadly, it's hardly a surprise! I despair of what the world is becoming.

WhatIsGenderQueerAnyway · 28/02/2023 22:15

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Kennykenkencat · 28/02/2023 22:22

l want them to come up with a person who was born with a penis and is biologically male and who is it has been pregnant.
If they are so convinced that biology doesn’t count.

HereForTheFreeLunch · 28/02/2023 23:25

That's just it, isn't it. So many news reports of the first man giving birth but it's all women/female/ovary people giving birth - not a single man/male/penis person.
So what changed? Just their definition of words, that's all.

Boiledbeetle · 28/02/2023 23:39

From the article
"Despite the obstacles and the opposition of “progressives” Ann is taking them to court.
Hers is not the first case in the US, but as far as she knows she thinks that she is the first to take a test case.
She puts this down to people being afraid to say anything and as she says she wants to change that.
She says that “I believe in evolution, that sex is binary, in abortion rights for women and that shouldn’t be considered a horrible thing to say”.
The reactionary nature of Gender Ideology is that it does convert ideas into horrible things, but only those ideas the employer disagrees with.
No one is likely to be sacked for thinking capitalism is wonderful.
Ann’s case is about women’s rights, but it is also about workers’ rights and freedom of speech.
Hers is a test case, somewhat like the case taken by Maya Forstater in Britain.
Her campaign deserves the support of all socialists and feminists."

Grammarnut · 01/03/2023 10:47

Sick of this 'white colonialism' introduced the sex binary to the rest of the world claptrap. It is so racist, suggesting other societies had no ideas till Europeans turned up! Also stupid. Were people confused when some couples had no children, not realising the partners were of the same sex? Utter bilge-swirling codswollop nonsense. Ffs, dogs know sex is binary. Cats know sex is binary. Birds know sex is binary. Or are dogs, birds and cats the victims of 'white colonialist propaganda' too? Where these people get these ideas from suggests they are somewhat ninepence in the shilling on the ability to critique ideas front. Or just plain evil and wanting to erase women. Second, on reflection.

nepeta · 01/03/2023 17:30

All the old feminist institutions and the Democratic Party have been captured in the US. Also Biden. So change will be some time coming.

Still, I see the first cracks in the edifice. Just so tired after a decade of things getting worse.

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