You're the only person telling women being female reduces us to our ability to get pregnant.
No one is reducing men to their ejaculate by referring to them factually as male. Why would describing the facts about a female person be reductive? Is it reductive to call a child, a child? If I say humans have two legs, am I reducing all humans to a pair of legs?
WTF do you mean my sex "reduces" me? Explain yourself.
A woman is an adult human female. That does not mean she must be fertile, pregnant, heterosexual, feminine, able-bodied, young, or capable of childbirth.
Infertile women are women. Menopausal women are women. Women with hysterectomies are women. Women who never want children are women. Only female people can lack female fertility. Only female people can go through menopause. Only female people can have a hysterectomy.
Stating that women are female does not mean âwomen are wombs.â That is you expressing your misogyny. That is not what saying "women are female" means.
The point is that women are human bekngs and human beings are male and female. Female people have been oppressed as a sex class because of material realities around reproduction, embodiment, labour, and male violence.
Pretending sex does not matter is not feminism and pretending the presumably "feminine" gender identity of a man entitles him to the rights of human beings who happen to be female, is a male supremacist movement masquerading as feminism.
You telling me what I am or what I am not is not any kind of argument. It's just narcissism and patronizing sexism.
This is Aron Löwi, a 62-year-old Polish Jewish merchant from the small town of Zator. A husband, a neighbor, a man with a name, a family, and a life of his own.
On March 5, 1942, that life was brutally stripped away.
Upon arriving at Auschwitz, Aron was no longer seen as a human being. He became prisoner number 26406.
The haunting mugshots taken that day show a man already bruised, starved, and hollow-eyed, clear evidence of abuse even before he entered the camp. On his striped uniform were the badges of Nazi classification: a yellow star marking him as Jewish, and a red triangle labeling him a political prisoner.
Aron Löwi survived just five days in Auschwitz. He arrived on March 5 and was dead by March 10, 1942. His cause of death was never officially recorded, just one of millions dismissed as âunfit for labor.â
In five short days, the Nazis tried to erase a lifetime.
But they failed.
His face, his photograph, and his prisoner number remain. Every time we speak his name, we push back against the oblivion they sought to impose.
To remember even one is to resist forgetting them all.
Thereâs something satisfying about grafting - taking a strong rootstock and giving it a better variety on top. One clean cut, a little patience, and youâve created something new.