What do you mean women are "the sex that dare not say it's name"? Surely you are aware that men are subject to exactly the same sex erasure for exactly the same reasons? The only difference is that we are not used to constantly playing the victim and special pleading, so you don't hear much about it. I was reading a very prominent health…
What do you mean women are "the sex that dare not say it's name"? Surely you are aware that men are subject to exactly the same sex erasure for exactly the same reasons? The only difference is that we are not used to constantly playing the victim and special pleading, so you don't hear much about it. I was reading a very prominent health site yesterday (Healthline), and discovered that I am no longer a man but a "person with a penis." This in increasingly the house style in a lot of US medical publications. Fathers disappeared from much legislation and literature around child birth a long time ago. I am generally on board with the desire to retain sex designations, but the attempt to pretend that women are special victims here, or victims of men, is divisive and wrong.
Women are being raped in prisons by men who claim to be women. Men in prison are not being raped by women who claim to be men. This dichotomy happens because of biology: men are physically stronger and inherently more aggressive than women. I suspect that you agree with that.
What do you mean women are "the sex that dare not say it's name"? Surely you are aware that men are subject to exactly the same sex erasure for exactly the same reasons? The only difference is that we are not used to constantly playing the victim and special pleading, so you don't hear much about it. I was reading a very prominent health site yesterday (Healthline), and discovered that I am no longer a man but a "person with a penis." This in increasingly the house style in a lot of US medical publications. Fathers disappeared from much legislation and literature around child birth a long time ago. I am generally on board with the desire to retain sex designations, but the attempt to pretend that women are special victims here, or victims of men, is divisive and wrong.
Women are being raped in prisons by men who claim to be women. Men in prison are not being raped by women who claim to be men. This dichotomy happens because of biology: men are physically stronger and inherently more aggressive than women. I suspect that you agree with that.
So, yes, women are indeed "special victims here".
Oy you two, make nice! You can have the victim contest later!