.@MarleyTJay esp given that we're nowhere close to anything like reproductive justice in the U.S. "women" = really important shorthand
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Replying to @jessesingal @MarleyTJay
honest question: are there past instances where opting for a shorthand has unambiguously fixed something material?
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Replying to @bekkhylle @MarleyTJay
That's a fair question. But let's say nonblack victims of police violence said they didn't like all this focus
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Replying to @jessesingal @MarleyTJay
on race. Wouldn't that be missing the point? Black people, as a class, are more affected. Not exclusively.
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Replying to @jessesingal @MarleyTJay
? but black victims are black whereas menstruators are not necessarily women or vice versa. So I guess my question
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should be refined. Are there instances where an *inaccurate* shorthand has helped things?
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Replying to @bekkhylle @jessesingal
bleh, I think I'm failing at being clear, but am basically just interested in how using women over menstruators helps things
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Replying to @bekkhylle
oh, because I think it's important that we maintain "women" as a political class people can use w/o feeling transphobic
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Replying to @jessesingal
and it is important to refer to that class when discussing things that pertain to it. But how is menstruation one of these?
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because it's one of a broad range of issues where the people affected are 99.9(ish)% women
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Replying to @jessesingal
yeah, I think that sounds sensible and maybe I agree.
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Replying to @bekkhylle @jessesingal
Though I've never heard of an instance where organization has been undermined by being more accurate, tho it'd be hard to show
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