Okay so leaving aside all the philosophical stuff, the GCs in the comments "defending" this article are actually attacking it The article says "If pregnancy were seen as something that affected men, we'd have better obstetric care" The comments are saying the exact oppositehttps://twitter.com/LaborProject/status/1383879008899670028 …
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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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