ZW seems to be an embodiment to the point of caricature of the epistemic class that Matt Goodwin describes in his essay and book: Rise of the New Elite.
https://www.mattgoodwin.org/rise-of-the-new-elite
Did ZW even listen to the evidence of women like Ciara Curran who gave such compelling witness testimony at the 19 Feb 2024 Preterm Birth Committee?
CC set up Little Heartbeats in response to a personal tragedy. She spoke about the impact of dehumanising language about women who already feel dismissed and overlooked. I’m haunted by her advocacy for the retention of important words like “woman” and “mother”.
”I keep being told that we need medical research to back any changes and policies to PPROM, yet no research is in place to support the removal of terms such as “woman” and “mother” from health communications and policy, and no one appears to have taken into account the impact of the loss of these words on women who have lost babies…”
””We are erasing our language without any medically backed research and without understanding the impact that it is having. I have switched off from healthcare advice because it makes no sense to me when we erase language…The importance of understanding women’s health will help prevent preterm birth in the future, but I feel we are damaging this.”