Anti-vaxers don't want to be called "anti-vaxers" anymore December 04, 2019 | Registered: 18 years ago Posts: 9,976 |
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I guarantee any parent who has seen their children suffer the effects of a preventable virus like measles or pertussis (who actually care about their kids) would get them vaccinated in hindsight. Because in exchange for a few seconds of pain from a shot and maybe some mild side effects, they make their kids suffer for weeks or possibly months catching the disease in order to have natural immunity. Unless of course they get measles, which is basically the disease equivalent of an OS reinstallation - it erases your body's memory of all immunity.
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call the term "derogatory, inflammatory, and marginalizes both women and their experiences."
Hey, why just women? Men can be idiots, too.
(I realize it's mostly women. I just find it infuriating that they're trying to hide behind feminism to deflect criticism.)
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khan
I was born in 1950, I never wanted kids. I excelled at math and that was my BS. My career was computer programming.
I fucking hate "other ways of knowing".
Re: Anti-vaxers don't want to be called "anti-vaxers" anymore December 06, 2019 | Registered: 13 years ago Posts: 2,701 |
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Re: Anti-vaxers don't want to be called "anti-vaxers" anymore December 07, 2019 | Registered: 13 years ago Posts: 1,367 |
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yurble
As a feminist, there are few things that piss me off more than people who talk about "women's ways of knowing" as if (1) women are inherently different intellectually, and (2) ignorance, superstition and folklore is as valuable as science (or more valuable!). With (1) they're basically agreeing with the misogynists who think that women are less academically capable than men, and with (2) they're trying to elevate the previous point into something good. I don't buy that "separate but equal" crap when it comes to the intellect; it's sexist regardless of whether you use it to elevate or diminish women.
Certainly there are things that women experience that men generally don't: the problems associated with female biology, and sexism. Those experiences are often marginalized, for instance by medical professionals who think women should just ignore horrible cramps, or men who think that women are over-reacting when they complain about cat-calling. But it diminishes these genuine issues to suggest that mundane experiences that are widely faced are gendered/sex-specific.
Just as actions are not inherently feminist because they are being performed by a woman, dismissive treatment of a person is not necessarily sexist just because the person being dismissed is female. Vaccination is one of the areas of medicine that seems blissfully free of sexism because vaccines work the same way on females and males, and if doctors are talking down to anti-vaxxers, it is because they are fucking idiots, not because they're women.
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Re: Anti-vaxers don't want to be called "anti-vaxers" anymore December 17, 2019 | Registered: 18 years ago Posts: 9,976 |
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“Vaccine risk aware” implies that only they, in their infinite wisdom, understand that there are risks associated with vaccines.