Ohhh, head spinning...

Mothers and blorts! Fight the power!

"As an aside, I would like to point out that there is no word in the English language meaning “woman who doesn’t engage in human reproduction” which does not involve the prefix “non-” (”non-mother”) or connote some negative medical condition (”barren”) or express the condition in terms of negative space (”childless”). Even the attempt to turn it into a positive — “child-free” — is clumsy and kind of smug, and defines the person in question in terms of another entity. I mean, there’s no antonym for “mother.” You can’t, because bias is built into the language, write an essay using the phrase “mothers and blorts alike enjoyed a pitcher of delicious margs on the Lido deck.”"

Twisty is my spiritual guide on the road to deconstruction of the patriarchy. Gah.

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