If f you read rather than sneer, they're using "feminine" for femme, not the sex. E.g., what about butch moms?
Pregnancy has been socially gendered as feminine http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/10894160.2012.653766 …pic.twitter.com/sdjsC2zKb9
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it's pretty normal and not particularly harmful to make associations based on common observations
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that's why we think of beard as masculine and pregnancy as feminine
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But common assumptions can cause problems when they become prejudices or stereotypes. Not all moms are femmy.
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Mike you are disregarding identifyble reality. Female is a scientific term. All moms are female.
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"Feminine" means female sex or "girly." The article refers to pregnancy being linked to girliness.
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feminine refers to things typically associated with females, hard to argue pregnancy doesn't belong there
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I used to enjoy these tweets. Now I just feel disheartened. I might have to unfollow...
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please stay! :)
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I'll be Bach.
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:) I never left, though... decided to laugh at the insanity instead.
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@asherahresearch "Female-bodied people." Hilarious.Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UVDjrPS3_7k … [Watch my personal anecdote regarding the "sexism" of pregnancy.]
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Imagine the brainwashing it takes to think like this.
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@RealPeerReview Reality is just soooo heteronormative!Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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feminine (n) the female sex or gender (adj) having qualities or an appearance traditionally associated with women,
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Yes, but they do have 99% overlap and are not arbitrarily 'gendered'
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Show me a masculine uterus, and I'll show you a confused mangina.
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The point is that you're conflating behavioral and biological traits. Pregnancy is a feminine biological function.
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