Backlash after Trans activist want to abolish the category "MOTHER" because it's transphobic
The 'mother' category is the worst possible choice if we want to approach pregnancy, childbirth, the puerperium and breastfeeding[/size] from a feminist perspective. Like really bad. Conservative. Excluding. It just gets in the way," sociologist Marília Moschkovich posted on Twitter on June 25, 2020 during LGBT Pride month (#OrgulhoLGBT).
"The most obvious thing is to
understand that this is a cisnormative and transphobic choice. That alone should be enough to be rejected, except for the radfachas [radical feminists]. There is no such thing as 'transinclusive' feminism that continues to use 'mother' as the central category for thinking about these things."
She pointed out that the Portuguese language has other words that can be used in place of "mother" and "maternity" – "words like 'pregnant', 'parturient' and 'lactating,'" which can be used for a female, male or neutral subject. The sociologist's initial tweet received over 720 'likes,' but most of the over 1,100 responses are from women expressing strong opposition.
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I am MOTHER yes. Mother of two children. MOTHER. Black mother. Feminist mother. MOTHER," Mariana Janeiro of the Worker's Party tweeted defiantly. "Go do bourgeois militancy, academicist and ABSOLUTELY detached from reality there. Away from mothers. MOTHERS." Ms Janeiro's tweet received over 5,600 'likes.'
Yes. A thousand times mother," another woman echoed. "Mother who suffers MORE domestic violence. Mother who suffers MORE femicide! MOM MOM MOM." Many women lamented that the proposed change in language would have the effect of further marginalizing mothers from the feminist movement. "Mothers are no longer deleted enough from the feminist mov, let's push them a little bit further into the corner!" a woman tweeted. Another agreed, "When I became a mother one of the things that hurt me was that this movement did not embrace us. Women are fired after they have children, have no daycare, have no full [integral] school, have obstetric violence, domestic violence, workplace bullying, sexual abuse." A tweeter urged the sociologist to stop using important discourse to "attack women, attack mothers," and tweeted incredulously, "I can't believe that being a mother, choosing, and living it turned transphobic."
One woman pointed out that the transgender movement has only sought to erase language pertaining to women and girls, but never men and boys: "Did she also advocate for the abolition of the word father?" "The name of is this juggling. And it is to include MEN," a different woman wrote. "Anti-feminist, elitist, male-centered, dishonest." Ms Moschkovich told Ms Janeiro and other critics that they needed to educate themselves in order to understand her point. As the backlash continued, Ms Moschkovich portrayed those who challenged her as fascists. "The reaction of the left itself, of supposed feminists (cis, of course), is brutal, dishonest, violent and proto-fascist."
In a June 28 article "Who benefits from the abolition of the 'mother' category when motherhood is compulsory?," which was published on Medium, journalist Andreia Nobre lays out and rips into Ms Moschkovich's campaign to abolish the word 'mother'. "She erases structural oppression to which all women are subject," the article pointed out. Apparently despondent that she had received so little support for her point of view, Ms Moschkovich notified her followers in a huff on June 29 that she would be taking time off Twitter and deleting the app .
However, the sociologist's Twitter stream has not slowed. Ms Moschkovich continues to dig her heels in and demonize detractors: "act like fascist think like fascist uses fascist tactic defends fascist positions are fascists." Continue reading Backlash After Sociologist and Trans Activist Advocates for Abolition of the Category 'Mother' | Women Are Human.
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