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Wonderful piece... and well crafted. Thank you. Yes. Absolutely. Words matter. A lot. As a woman, a mother, and an adult human female.... I am beyond disturbed at this effort to erase the words that describe our experience in these sexed bodies... and give women a place to stand to describe it. I appreciate your clear and informative article. Sharing.
Insightful article with some excellent points, this is a subject of particular interest to me. Language and more specifically, semantics and pragmatics, are the tools humans use to interface with and describe the world. For this reason, I insist on repeating that a rigorous defense of the biological sex category is inconsistent without equal rigor in defending its definition in law and policy.
The Muddling of the English Language
Wonderful piece... and well crafted. Thank you. Yes. Absolutely. Words matter. A lot. As a woman, a mother, and an adult human female.... I am beyond disturbed at this effort to erase the words that describe our experience in these sexed bodies... and give women a place to stand to describe it. I appreciate your clear and informative article. Sharing.
Insightful article with some excellent points, this is a subject of particular interest to me. Language and more specifically, semantics and pragmatics, are the tools humans use to interface with and describe the world. For this reason, I insist on repeating that a rigorous defense of the biological sex category is inconsistent without equal rigor in defending its definition in law and policy.