Hey so a female horse is only a "mare" after it's given birth for the first time, before then it's a "filly" Same with a female pig (which goes from a "gilt" to a "sow"), or a "heifer" becoming a "cow" Do you make this distinction with humans? Why or why not https://twitter.com/BelleSanders_/status/1223043368986431488 …
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We even have a term to distinguish a female bovine born intersex and infertile from a heifer or a cow, a freemartin (which writers like Aldous Huxley used to describe infertile women in a fairly insensitive way)
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wait till they find out about freemartins
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The human parallel to gelding, steer and capon is "eunuch" - as I believe you are well aware.
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Do you think it's okay to call human beings eunuchs
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Hang on, you've gone full circle. You started by criticising women who say that labelling infertile people as a third sex, is dehumanising. But that's exactly what you're now arguing.
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I'm saying that it's dehumanizing to use animals as a reference at all
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It is not based on wether they are infertile, it is based on the knowledge that the behaviour of castrated males is likely to be much less aggressive than entire males, which has been known for thousands if years.
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