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I think that we've enshrined a lot of cultural assumptions about women and their reproductive capacity in the terms for their organs and terms for things happening in pregnancy and their reproductive decisions, I guess. It's like a really messed up form of metonymy where the organ, like the incompetent cervix, the hostile or geriatric uterus, is standing in for how our culture is stereotyping women.

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2w ago

Isn't there a problem when we have to redefine semantics that have been defined forever? Isn't this like somebody saying, you know, I'm using, you know, GPT instead of using AI or something like that? Like, there's a specific meaning, like peptide has this very specific meaning, and they're not new. They're 80 years old, people have been using peptides forever.

2mo ago

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