Tuesday, June 21, 2022

Snicker

Snicker, but groan.  Michigan Governor (and sigh, fellow Spartan) Gretchen Whitmer has, in response to the possible repeal of Roe v. Wade, promised to file a lawsuit on behalf of "menstruating people".  Now to be fair, she is correct that abortion rights are probably most relevant to women who are actually still having that time of the month, and she's probably got a decent estimate of the proportion of Michigan's ten million residents who are still having that time, but....what ever happened to simply saying "women"?

Ah, yes.  Got it.

2 comments:

Hearth said...

You mean my mom isn't a woman according to her?

You know, Mom's got more than enough backbone to go tell her a few things...

Elspeth said...

That these people can't see the irony in terms such "menstruating people" or "people who give birth" is actually disturbing.