Like I'm sorry but pick one Would it be good if people came to believe men could get pregnant, or bad? Would that advance reproductive rights or set them back? If you believe the latter, stop writing articles that outright say the former
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This actually does bother me on a fairly deep level I don't think the author of the article is an actual TERF but "If men could..." articles are just fundamentally thoughtless and they would be even if no trans people existed
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If your rhetorical imaginary world is something you've never seriously thought possible and therefore never actually tried to imagine, you shouldn't use it You don't actually mean this is what the world would look like "If men got pregnant" so stop saying it
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Using "If men could get pregnant" as a rhetorical substitute for "If women had power" is exactly the misogyny people piled onto Andrea Long Chu to complain about It's flattening out the gender binary into just "oppressors and oppressed", it's making that the definition
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(Hence all the people pointing out that the specific scenario the article is talking about is probably false Cis men are much more likely to withhold information about their medical problems and avoid medical treatment than cis women, that's one reason they die earlier)
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