Posted on 02/15/2023 5:24:05 AM PST by Red Badger
Alternatives to terms like “male” and “female” and “mother” and “father” should be sought in science because they assume that sex is binary and heterosexuality is the norm, a group of researchers from the US and Canada suggests.
Male and female should instead be referred to as “sperm-producing” and “egg-producing,” the Ecology and Evolutionary Biology (EEB) Language Project said, according to the Times of London.
Meanwhile, father and mother should be labeled “parent,” “egg donor” and “sperm donor” in the scientific field.
The group has called on the scientific field to use words that are more “inclusive and precise,” according to a press release from the University of British Columbia, which has three researchers part of the initiative.
“Much of western science is rooted in colonialism, white supremacy and patriarchy, and these power structures continue to permeate our scientific culture,” some project members wrote in the Trends in Ecology and Evolution journal.
UBC assistant professor Dr. Kaitlyn Gaynor said the undertaking began from a Twitter conversation between a few people about terminology that is potentially harmful.
“We reached out to different networks in ecology and evolution that were focused on increasing inclusion and equity in the field to rally support for one very specific action —revising terminology that might be harmful to certain people, particularly those from groups historically and currently excluded from science,” she said according to the press release.
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Another day, another step closer to Idiocracy.............
And government money for "research" demands they support the cult.
30 years ago these people would have been put in a rubber room.
Today they are revered educators....................
Bias and the scientific method are mutually exclusive.
NO
Science, in it’s simplest form, is simply: “Stuff happens. And the solution is communism.”
“Much of western science is rooted in colonialism, white supremacy and patriarchy”
Yes. And we did a pretty damn good job. If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it.
To assume otherwise will ensure extinction.
“Science needs to stop using terms like male, female, mother and father, researchers say”
And we have people bitching here that Russians are ‘brainwashing’ Ukrainian orphans. Perhaps so, but there is NO EVIDENCE that the crap like the title of this article is allowed over there (nor is genital mutilation, for that matter).
Sciene should be referring to the earth as ‘flat’ because it is obvious that it has an edge....Any scientists knows that.
Biology 101: Sex is binary, and heterosexuality is the norm
See, that’s how a species propagates.
sperm donor
LOL, that is what my step daughter calls her father and it was not endearing.
Biology deniers are so tiresome.
Egg donor...how I love ya,how I love ya,my dear old egg donor!!!
If scientific research doesn't follow the evidence wherever it leads, regardless of the outcome, it isn't science.
There is no scientific proof that gender is not binary, therefore their proposal is absurd and their academic degrees should be revoked. In short, Go F—k yourselves.
Prep everyone’s mindset for the day when there will only be unGodly, non-gender, non-sexed, transhuman, cyborgs.
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