The deliberate degradation of motherhood,without which none of us would be here continues unabated.https://twitter.com/Lionessque/status/1319922013788643328 …
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That was my initial thought but SANDS could have used ‘birth mother’ to allow same-sex couple inclusion in this instance.
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Sands in amazing charity. I get your point but surely with all their experience they should have known the hurt it would invariably cause. If someone has lost their baby, they are a “mother” and that word means so much when someone is going through that loss
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It never goes away You learn to bear the pain, but it is always part of you
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They didn't say "birth mother" but "birthing parent". Reducing the woman to an unnamed someone, an instrument, a tool, who engages in birthing, not a woman who has the relationship of "mother" to her child.
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"Parent" is a word for a person, just as much as "mother". Both reflect the relationship to the child.
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You just wrote "mother" twice and they couldn't write "mother" at all.
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This is not an isolated phenomenon. There is a broad initiative to disassociate the words for women from their lived, physical reality. The reason for this is that these words are wanted by people who do not share the lived, physical reality of women.
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Were this simply a matter of “inclusivity”, we would not also see women deprived of the right to use these words for themselves and their experience without consequences. But we do.
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