Health experts raise concerns about “inclusive” language Are our efforts to introduce "inclusive" language backfiring? (states, claims)
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A paper written by 10 authors renowned for their work in the field of women’s health, published on the online science platform Frontiers in Global Women’s Health this week, claims this could indeed be the case. The authors, based in Australia, Asia, Europe, the United Kingdom and the United States, have suggested that highly respected medical journals such as The Lancet, by introducing terms that replace words such as ‘women’, may have “potentially deleterious consequences”.
Those consequences, argue the authors, include decreasing overall inclusivity; dehumanising; including people who should be excluded; and being imprecise, inaccurate or misleading.
The authors provide a table that lists some of the “sexed terms” and their replacement “desexed terms”. One example is the sexed term ‘breastfeeding’, which has been replaced at times by such desexed terms as body feeding, chestfeeding, feeding from the body, human milk feeding, and lactating.
Total unadulterated BULL KA KA
Don't these idiots have anything better to do????
Health experts, my hiney! Libs who want their agenda of whatever spread
So, wait ... You're saying that replacing gender-specific words (ie mother) with non-gendered words (ie birth person) isn't "KA KA"?
Because that's what this paper referenced in your link is saying: that replacing words such as "breastfeeding" with "chestfeeding" etc., does not seem to have the effect originally intended.
So, wait ... You're saying that replacing gender-specific words (ie mother) with non-gendered words (ie birth person) isn't "KA KA"?
Because that's what this paper referenced in your link is saying: that replacing words such as "breastfeeding" with "chestfeeding" etc., does not seem to have the effect originally intended.
Exactly. The paper is questioning the changing of long-standing terms to stupid "woke" terms. It's about time more people openly criticize Bull Ka Ka words like "chest feeding."
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So, wait ... You're saying that replacing gender-specific words (ie mother) with non-gendered words (ie birth person) isn't "KA KA"?
Because that's what this paper referenced in your link is saying: that replacing words such as "breastfeeding" with "chestfeeding" etc., does not seem to have the effect originally intended.
Exactly.
OP doesn't realize the article he posted is singing his song.
Health experts, my hiney! Libs who want their agenda of whatever spread
Dude….. they don’t like losing gender specific terms such as breast feeding and having them changed to gender free terms such as chest feeding because it is confusing, imprecise, misleading, and most likely will ultimately lead to poorer medical services and therefore outcomes for women. These particular scientists want science to matter more than feelings in research, journals, and communication.
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The authors provide a table that lists some of the “sexed terms” and their replacement “desexed terms”. One example is the sexed term ‘breastfeeding’, which has been replaced at times by such desexed terms as body feeding, chestfeeding, feeding from the body, human milk feeding, and lactating.
I thought that "lactating" was the internal process of producing milk. Does it also include the feeding of said milk to an infant? If so, then I guess "lactating" isn't a bad word to describe what's going on. But if only there were a clearer, more easily understandable term to describe the event of a postnatal person transmitting milk to an infant via her mammary glands. Something like, I don't know, "breastfeeding" or something. Nah, that can't be right. I'll have to keep working on that.
Dude….. they don’t like losing gender specific terms such as breast feeding and having them changed to gender free terms such as chest feeding because it is confusing, imprecise, misleading, and most likely will ultimately lead to poorer medical services and therefore outcomes for women. These particular scientists want science to matter more than feelings in research, journals, and communication.
I think the OP is complaining about the "sexed terms/desexed terms," not the researchers who are calling them out on it.
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