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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Don't forget the fun part! They should be locked in stocks in the public square as well.
Shut down this bad excuse for an educational facility. All these morons should never be allowed to teach again. Ever!
Why do parents allow their children to attend these places so they too can be brain damaged? That this is allowed tells me their parents are NOT paying attention.
Correct. Because sex really is binary and heterosexuality actually is the norm.
Here in this thing called reality.
Why? They’ve worked for thousands of years. What science NEEDS TO DO is make all these fake “researchers” with bogus college diplomas (tuition reciepts) extinct.
Right now, however, there is a revolution underway to destroy that country and its system of government in favor of a dictatorship.
Many are saying that they want a Marxist/collectivist form of government, but that is just a ruse--a bait and switch facade--behind which the wannabe dictators are hiding.
“Experts” tell scientists….
Someone please tell those idiots to f right off. Why would this nonsense even make it to an article?
If Jesus were to return like in the Book of Revelations...I would vote for NOW please!
That’s not “science”; it’s lies from the devil.
Hah, so now feelings overrule science and facts LOL. This is how “progressives” eliminate the truth and replace it with “feelings”. How unprogressive of them
He’s coming back..................AND HE AIN’T HAPPY!...............
The stupid is strong. If sex is not binary how come there are egg producing & sperm producing??? Just different names for binary subsets.
If ONLY it could be just these lunatics that die off!
But normal sperm-carriers and egg-producers keep making them.
No. They don’t get to change the language, or the way I talk.
These people should be flogged mercilessly, tarred and feathered, ridden out of town on a rail, and dumped in the nearest body of water.
Ph.D. Environmental Science, Policy, and Management, UC Berkeley, 2019
WRONG.
UC Berkeley......................I think I see the problem.....................
IIRC during the Carter years the US tried to switch to the metric system and that failed quickly. I suspect this will be the same situation.
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