Posted on 02/07/2017 10:25:17 AM PST by rey
(snip) Therefore doctors should not use the expression expectant mothers but expectant people, for fear of offending all the pregnant transsexuals. Whether anyone has ever met an expectant transsexual offended by the term expectant mother is not stated; nor is the possibility aired that, if such a being actually existed, he or she should simply be told not to be so silly. The BMA now lives, or wants to live, in a world in which taking offense is its own justification: The offended, or yet-to-be offended, have taken over from the victims as the world’s heroes.
In the BMA’s brave new world, no one is a woman, there are only people who identify as women. Likewise, one must not say of someone that she is biologically a woman, but rather that she was assigned as a woman, or rather as a female (according to the guidance, the word girl should also be avoided as demeaning), at birth. The process of assignment, of course, has been purely arbitrary over the past millennia, and has had nothing whatever to do with biology. What a relief to belong to the first enlightened generation in the history of mankind—oops, sorry, humanity.
Come to think of it, humanity is wrong also, containing within it as it does the syllable man. How about hupersonity then, as a sexually neutral—sorry, another mistake, I should have said gender-neutral, for as the booklet tells us, we should endeavor to “move away from the sensitive sexual word”—collective term for featherless bipeds? But it is no better, for it implies that everyone is a son, namely the son of Per (which must, etymologically, have been another name for Adam).
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Oh fer .... !
Sorry, that word won't work either ... it has the word "son" in it. That's another big no-no ...
As a transregnus, I am offended when people do not refer to me by my preferred title, His Royal Highness, King of England, and Defender of the Faith.
Do not use the term “serial killer”. It will offend all the seria.....um, you know what I mean.
Frankly, a transsexual offends me. But, I guess the sane don’t count.
Bump.....
i you are the eggman, they are the eggmen
I am the walrus Dauphin
Goo goo g' joob
Born Joshua Abraham Norton c. 1818 London or other parts of England[1]
Died January 8, 1880 (aged 61–62) San Francisco, California
Parent(s) John Norton Sarah Norden
Years active 1859–80
Known for Proclaiming himself "Emperor of the United States"
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