Its Early Days (1% In) But Eve By Cat Bohannon Might Be Shaping Up To Be A Wonderful Companion Piece

It’s early days (1% in) but Eve by Cat Bohannon might be shaping up to be a wonderful companion piece to Invisible Women.

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Extreme heat can double stillbirth among working women - study - BBC News

Women in India are found to be twice as likely to lose babies if they are working in hot conditions.

Women in the “Global South” are at the forefront of experiencing the worst of climate change and they are facing the gravest of consequences due to global inaction on this catastrophe.

I think one of the major issues in getting people to understand what radfems (or any group, really) believe in is the idea that outliers in a data set suddenly redefine any given concept. People will say that biological sex is a spectrum due to the fact that people with DSDs exist. But that's not how a spectrum works. A spectrum is when all possible options are distributed across an axis and with statistically significant occurrences for all options. If, for example, 10% of the population had Turner's Syndrome, then the spectrum for biological sex would probably be XX, XY, and X, because common occurrences have to be on our radar in order to understand the biological differences and their effects on medical treatment etc. All other chromosomal occurrences would be outliers. It doesn't mean that the outliers don't exist, it just means it is considered abnormal.

I think a better way of understanding it is to look at how we define the human body. If you asked anyone on the street to describe the human body, they would probably say a human has two arms, two legs, a head, two eyes, etc. Every day, lots of children are born missing a vital organ or with too many toes or some other anatomical anomaly. But baby Sally having 13 toes doesn't suddenly make it so that we have a "spectrum of toe counts from 1 to 13". That would require a large portion of the population to have too many or not enough toes. The reality is that she has 3 extra toes. It doesn't make her non-human, it makes her toes an EXCEPTION to the rule of 10 toes.

I just wish people would understand this mindset and how it has such a huge impact on the way data is recorded and thus on health outcomes.

I would rather some people feel uncomfortable and embarrassed with other people's judgements about them having an age gap relationship than I would have one more girl or young woman go through being sexually groomed in their late teens/early 20s by a man ~7+ years older than her.

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Don't believe in sexist stereotypes.