> For my partner's entire pregnancy, our providers only referred to "birthing people"
Calling my wife a "birthing person" just made her feel like some gross vessel for having a baby. We purposefully chose providers that didn't use that language.
"Chestfeeding" is another one that's cropping up and makes zero sense. Men have breasts, so breastfeeding is already gender-neutral. But it's seen as female-centric so out the door it goes.
There seems to be this weird erasure of women taking place at the moment. To the extent that it's now controversial to ask "what is a woman?"
Calling my wife a "birthing person" just made her feel like some gross vessel for having a baby. We purposefully chose providers that didn't use that language.
"Chestfeeding" is another one that's cropping up and makes zero sense. Men have breasts, so breastfeeding is already gender-neutral. But it's seen as female-centric so out the door it goes.
There seems to be this weird erasure of women taking place at the moment. To the extent that it's now controversial to ask "what is a woman?"