I think I'm definitely done with EDI talks that refer to "people that identify as men/women" instead of just saying "men and women", the underlying implication that "identify as women" that some of those people might not actually be women is just not something I'm willing to accept anymore.
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Though I don't think my health woes will be helped by this in any way.
Simple as that
I really just have come to hate "identifies as" so much more than I used to.
If you’re gonna say anything about identifying it should be “I’m a woman. But YOU seem to identify as a full on bigot, as you want to force me to identify as something I never was… Seems like YOU’RE the problem, one that YOU’RE intent on forcing on the world."
*it's a butter knife but my deranged aura is highly motivational
Why the ‘co-‘? We are simply parents.
But that was in the era of “pretended family relationships”.
My family is not pretend.
Trans men are men.
Trans women are women.
I am a lesbian. I don’t “identify as…”.
https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2025/05/an-abundance-of-motherhood-trans-journalist-erin-reed-gushes-about-co-parenting-with-zooey-zephyr/
This is a slightly different use than the 80s version where any two women (or two men) bringing up a child were often described as ‘co-parents’. Rather than just ‘parents’.
Weird there should a different word for both parents spending time with their own children.
I guess it’s a move away from the “Dad as breadwinner, Mum as homemaker” trope.
‘Parenting’ or ‘co-parenting’ I asked.
“Most of the time it feels like ‘single parenting’.”was her weary reply