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news.sky.com/story/hospital-trust-becomes-first-in-uk-to-adopt-gender-inclusive-language-for-perinatal-services-12214018

'Chestfeeding': Hospital trust becomes first in UK to adopt gender inclusive language for perinatal services
Changes at Brighton and Sussex University Hospitals include referring to "breast/chestfeeding" and "human milk" where applicable.

What a complete and utter pile of shite

lily Full Member Posts: 16,725	More PC Flim flam Feb 10, 2021 16:59:40 GMT Frazz likes this Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Back to Top Post by lily on Feb 10, 2021 16:59:40 GMT All this PC claptrap gets on my
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Berry McPaper-cuts Full Member Posts: 26,598 Mood: FP Swim	More PC Flim flam Feb 10, 2021 17:22:47 GMT Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Back to Top Post by Berry McPaper-cuts on Feb 10, 2021 17:22:47 GMT It’s ridiculous.
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Berry McPaper-cuts Full Member Posts: 26,598 Mood: FP Swim	More PC Flim flam Feb 10, 2021 21:30:08 GMT Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Back to Top Post by Berry McPaper-cuts on Feb 10, 2021 21:30:08 GMT It would be interesting to see these chest feeding folk strapped up to their breast pumps.
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Liv Full Member TRAVIS FIMMEL- Australian Actor and Former Model Posts: 14,348	More PC Flim flam Feb 11, 2021 0:07:17 GMT Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Back to Top Post by Liv on Feb 11, 2021 0:07:17 GMT It's just laughable now.

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More PC Flim flam Feb 18, 2021 12:49:52 GMT Nellie and Diamond Diva like this

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'The Black Boy' in Newtown, Powys, dates back to the 17th century and was named after chimney sweeps who would emerge from local properties covered in soot. Wetherspoon bosses confirm it will KEEP its 17th-century name - despite anti-racism campaigners demand for changes across Britain.

They do a cracking Welsh rarebit in there.

Nellie Full Member Posts: 30,472	More PC Flim flam Feb 18, 2021 13:06:49 GMT Berry McPaper-cuts likes this Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Back to Top Post by Nellie on Feb 18, 2021 13:06:49 GMT It was! Attachment Deleted
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Liv Full Member TRAVIS FIMMEL- Australian Actor and Former Model Posts: 14,348	More PC Flim flam Feb 18, 2021 13:07:15 GMT Berry McPaper-cuts and Nellie like this Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Back to Top Post by Liv on Feb 18, 2021 13:07:15 GMT It sure was!

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Post by Liv on Feb 18, 2021 13:09:54 GMT

Next -
Facebook labels man’s post praising faggots at his local butchers 'hate speech’
The post was removed, despite being an innocent tribute to Thomas' of Morriston's meatballs with herbs
www.walesonline.co.uk/news/local-news/facebook-labels-mans-post-praising-17585587

Nellie Full Member Posts: 30,472	More PC Flim flam Feb 18, 2021 13:13:50 GMT Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Back to Top Post by Nellie on Feb 18, 2021 13:13:50 GMT
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lily Full Member Posts: 16,725	More PC Flim flam Feb 18, 2021 13:28:28 GMT Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Back to Top Post by lily on Feb 18, 2021 13:28:28 GMT Permission to breathe ...

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More PC Flim flam Feb 18, 2021 16:07:44 GMT Yorko, Liv, and 2 more like this

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Post by Berry McPaper-cuts on Feb 18, 2021 16:07:44 GMT

‘ Academics at an Australian university, it was reported this week, not only endorse the term “chestfeeding” – they recommend alternatives to “mother” and “father”, too. The proposals appear in Australia National University’s Gender Institute Handbook. Instead of “mother”, the authors suggest “gestational parent” – and instead of “father”, they suggest “non-birthing parent”.

A spokesman for the university says the document is not official policy. Which is a relief. Quite apart from anything else, the idea sounds deeply impractical. After all, if we had to replace every instance of “mother” and “father”, it would be a terrible bother. Just think how many phrases in our language contain those words.

Welsh choirs would be forced to sing Land of My Non-Birthing Parents. On Christmas morning, families would open presents left under the tree by Non-Birthing Parent Christmas. At bedtime, children would hear about how Old Gestational Parent Hubbard went to the cupboard.

On TV, viewers would relive the hilarious mishaps of Frank Spencer in the classic BBC sitcom, Some Gestational Parents Do ’Ave ’Em. Alternatively, they could turn over to Channel 4, and enjoy the side-splitting misadventures of three Irish priests in Non-Birthing Parent Ted. Then again, since priests tend not to be parents, perhaps the title would have to be Non-Birthing Non-Parent Ted instead.

At any rate, I do sympathise with those midwives having to learn this unwieldy new lingo. Sooner or later, of course, someone is bound to decide that the word “midwives” is non-inclusive, too. So either midwives will become known as midspouses – or the job will have to be opened up to midhusbands. I’m sure they’ll come up with something. As the old saying goes, necessity is the gestational parent of invention.

The most peculiar thing about the whole business, though, is this. The new words are designed to avoid causing offence – but in reality, they may well cause more offence.

Take the term “gestational parent”. As well as ugly, it’s terribly reductive. It reduces motherhood to pregnancy. As if that’s all a mother is: a womb.

Which is, of course, nonsense. On Mothering Sunday – or, as future generations may know it, Gestational Parenting Sunday – we don’t send cards thanking our mothers for how well they gestated us. Nor do we present them with novelty coffee mugs decorated with a love heart and the phrase “World’s Best Gestater”.

Personally, I don’t believe for a moment that anyone actually is offended by the words “mother” and “father” – or indeed the words “breastfeeding” and “breast milk”. I doubt anyone on Earth – no matter what their gender identity – has ever claimed to feel hurt or excluded by those words.

All that’s happened, I suspect, is that some high-minded busybodies have decided to take offence on other people’s behalf. And by doing so, they’ve managed to create a fuss out of nothing.

Still, you never know. The busybodies may yet get their way. Their contrived jargon may end up supplanting plain English everywhere. In which case, just imagine how sex education will be taught.

“When a person and another person wish to produce a tertiary person,” the teacher will begin, “they effect the temporary conjoinment of the reproductive organs conventionally located in the prospective gestational parent and the prospective non-birthing parent…”

Pupils won’t have a clue what the teacher’s on about. Then again, maybe that’s not such a bad thing. After all, if the pupils don’t know what it is, they might be less tempted to try it. ‘

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mamafrankie Full Member Look out, world, the Villa are back! Posts: 1,446	More PC Flim flam Feb 19, 2021 19:51:16 GMT Yorko and Berry McPaper-cuts like this Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Back to Top Post by mamafrankie on Feb 19, 2021 19:51:16 GMT There's no one more committed to equality than I am because I believe in inclusion and not elitism. But this is just extracting the urine.
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Yorko Administrator Posts: 33,534 Mood: Y	More PC Flim flam Feb 25, 2021 19:02:36 GMT Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Back to Top Post by Yorko on Feb 25, 2021 19:02:36 GMT www.narcity.com/en-us/news/hasbro-announces-mr-potato-head-is-going-genderneutral

Liv Full Member TRAVIS FIMMEL- Australian Actor and Former Model Posts: 14,348	More PC Flim flam Feb 25, 2021 19:05:58 GMT Yorko and Berry McPaper-cuts like this Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Back to Top Post by Liv on Feb 25, 2021 19:05:58 GMT Does he know?
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