this is what happens when you can’t define what a woman is. The word “woman” just ceases to exist when there’s no clear definition of it.
Women either have to share a bathroom with males. Or share a different bathroom with males. Or have no bathroom at all in this location.
The cervix holds a kilogram of baby against gravity for nine months, then opens to ten centimetres, then closes again.
It is a ring of tough collagen, and its job for most of a pregnancy is to stay shut while something inside it gets heavier every week.
What it does chemically is the better part. It produces a plug of thick mucus that seals the entrance, and the plug is not just a cork. It carries antimicrobial peptides and antibodies, so anything that gets past the physical barrier meets a chemical one behind it.
That plug sits there for months, guarding the entrance to a sterile space, in a part of the body that is nothing like sterile. Then the whole structure has to reverse itself. Over the last weeks the collagen holding it rigid is deliberately loosened and rearranged, water content rises, and a ring built to resist pressure becomes something that can stretch to the width of a human head.
Ten centimetres, starting from an opening you would struggle to fit a pencil through. The membranes help. The bag of fluid presses down as a wedge, and while it stays intact it does the dilating without cutting off blood flow to the placenta during contractions.
Afterwards it closes. Within days it is down to a fingertip, and within weeks it has rebuilt.
Engineers spend careers on valves that seal under load and then open on command, and none of them also make their own disinfectant, know when to start, and rebuild themselves afterwards without being serviced.
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@salltweets Vanessa Feltz is utterly clueless. Suggesting that things are the same as they were in the 90s is so unbelievably short sighted it’s embarrassing! I loved how dumb struck she was once she heard your story!! 😆
@AndrewGold_ok Wow! Has Vanessa been hiding under a rock for 20 years? It’s no way near the same as the nineties. Hopefully she will go away and look at what happened to Sall and open her eyes!!
I have a female reproductive system which prematurely stopped producing eggs due to ‘premature ovarian insufficiency’. This clearly was a defect. I am not remotely offended by describing it as such. It’s a simple fact. Acknowledging it was a malfunction doesn’t make it worse.
@JimDMiller@One_Supernova@jk_rowling Yes we are! 8 billion humans all had a mother and a father. An egg and a sperm. No third gamete exists. Even those with DSDs are either male or female.
@Jonnywsbell I am 100% female. You are zero % female. Those poor kids being told they are making “mistakes” for referring to their dad as “he” gaslighting your own children is a new low!!
@ed_Didiong@jk_rowling You can tell your feminist friends that she stands up for women by defending the need for single sex spaces. Men claiming a special identity really don’t need any more support!! They are not an oppressed minority!!
@dingebre@jk_rowling Yes same in the UK. But that is her point. There are a lot more left wing gender criticals in the UK and we are all (including @jk_rowling ) labelled as RW bigots. She is exposing that the views are in fact felt in the left. And the far left at that!!
"Women are just as bad as men."
Show me 3 examples of a man being gang r@ped by women.
Show me one instance of women trafficking men at scale. Name one law women drafted specifically to oppress men. Name one country that systemically discriminates against men more than women.
Show me men with melted faces from gender based acid attacks.
Show me men being killed for rejecting a woman's proposal.
When you find those examples We can talk about "just as bad."
Until then. Stop pretending.
"Cis" positions a woman as accepting her subjugated status, of being congruent with the construction of female as feminine that men have used to enslave, stifle, exploit and silence women for millennia.
It's as offensive a label as they come. No woman is cis.