A good story for a change:
My wife is a communications person for a health system. Over the past few years she has written stories about their breast feeding clinic winning awards. During that time the home office tried to force the term, “Breast feeding person” in the stories. She would replace it with “mother” when she re-wrote the story.
Yesterday, for the first time in ages, they referred to “mothers” in a story.
I guess its the small victories that we should embrace.
Yes, we should embrace small victories like that as steps in the right direction.
I’ve heard some of these awkward terms. Such as, talking about pregnant persons, and specifically avoiding saying pregnant women. And the reason for that is because they don’t want to offend the sensibilities of the one in a million women, who might identify as a man , who could be pregnant.
I know it’s laughable to us, but there are people who take this stuff seriously.