Simmone Taitt wants to eliminate maternal health inequities
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What's the DEI equivalent of greenwashing? "Equitywashing"?
Dropping the sarcasm: our system is not at all perfect and without drastic changes quite unsustainable in the long term, but at least it's a controlled/controllable and distributive.
Slightly off-topic: It's starting to become quite expensive though. For context, I'll be paying about €2k this year for the cheapest (mandatory) health insurance I could find and my ADHD meds which I cannot do without.
I've been part of a mom's group for well over a decade that's evolved from internet forum to Facebook group and the support women get for infertility, pregnancy loss, and horribly painful experiences as a parent is beyond anything we could hope for from our offline groups of family and friends. It is so much easier to talk about these things where someone is always willing to listen and sympathize and can be trusted to keep everything said private.
It saddens me that the disappearance of message boards means that it is much harder to find this sort of support these days. I'd hope that Poppy Seed Health can provide some support, but it looks like a poor substitute.
This is news to me, I wasn't aware of that connotation. I'm curious where you've seen this.
An app isn’t what’s needed. Time, labor, educated support, etc. WIC provides this. Mothers groups do too.
Yet another subscription is the last thing poor mothers need.
I got a couple judgmental but out of date flyers about healthy eating for children, and an incredibly complex constraint added to my grocery shopping.
Every mother I know finds this phrasing deeply offensive. I wish people would stop using it.
It’s like latinx, which as far as I can tell is used virtually exclusively by non-latin persons. And look at that there already is a gender neutral English word: latin!
It’s to the point that I suspect there is some kind of psychological reason for choosing these clumsy and inaccurate phrases. Another good example is “social distancing” which literally denotes the same thing as shunning, but is used to mean maintaining physical distance.
I am progressive and I'm getting weary of the degree to which we've pushed inclusive language. Can we just acknowledge, at some point, that there are some, minimal, practical distinctions between XX and XY chromosome'd people? I thought we'd be fairly safe in considering birth and breastfeeding something specific to one sex, but no - even there we have to watch our language.
Offense over these new terms is often just a proxy for offense at the political changes they signify. Nobody's denying that women who give birth are still mothers.
Edit: also, in my experience going through antenatal classes at the moment, they often use "women and birthing people" which seems like a good middle ground.