hello i'm daisy cousens welcome to this week in social justice
this week's biggest and baddest social justice fails include why the assertion
that chest feeding is the new breastfeeding is as redundant as it is stupid white house press
secretary jenn saki's massively easy ride compared to her impeccable predecessor kaylee mcenany
and depending on how long i feel like talking about the first two topics we may even get time
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i'm sure you all heard what happened last week on the language and gender front uk
health officials ordered nurses in the prenatal units at brighton and sussex university hospitals
to substitute the term breast milk for human milk and instructed them to swap
the terms breastfeeding and breast milk for more gender-inclusive terms like breast chest milk
milk from the feeding mother or parent and human milk the aim of this is to be more inclusive of
trans and non-binary birthing people without excluding the language of women or motherhood
on february 8th brighton and sussex maternity tweeted the announcement we are celebrating gender
inclusion at bsuh maternity services today we are launching the uk's first clinical and language
guidelines supporting trans and non-binary birthing people to celebrate the launch of
our guidelines we will be posting throughout the week about the work we have been doing to support
trans and non-binary birthing people at bsuh we are proud to care for trans and non-binary people
including agenda by gender and genderqueer as birthing parents and co-parents and to celebrate
and affirm their journeys to parenthood we acknowledge the additional challenges that
gender identity can have on pregnancy birth and infant feeding we recognize the importance of
providing inclusive respectful perinatal care to all pregnant women and people they also tagged
the announcement with this launch is a culmination of many years work while we acknowledge the curve
at 19 and its impact is a key focus for all nhs services including maternity it is also important
that we continue our daily work of striving for safe and accessible care for everybody
most likely to pre-empt the question of why on earth these hospitals are focusing on
language semantics for a tiny minority of people in the middle of a global pandemic
sensible because that's exactly what i thought nurses were also urged to avoid the terms
mothers and women on their own unless called for in specific cases they were instead asked to use
gender-neutral terms such as parents and people well guess what this week the exact same thing
happened in australia it has come to light that the australian national university or anu has
encouraged staff to use parent-inclusive language such as chest feeding instead of breastfeeding and
human milk instead of mother's milk as outlined in the university's gender-inclusive handbook
which was released last year and describes itself as a guide intended for any anu student or staff
member involved in teaching the guide sites a 2019 study by researcher laura dinor who claimed that
heterosexual and woman-focused lactation language can misgender isolate and harm trans masculine
parents and non-heteronormative families it is therefore recommended to use the terms breast
chest feeding and human slash parent milk rather than breastfeeding and mother's milk
to describe lactation the handbook states when discussing childbirth use the terms gestational or
birthing parent rather than mother and the terms non-gestational or non-birthing parent rather than
father okay so i've seen all the commentary around this issue asserting that this is a denigration
of womanhood that should be seen as derogatory and misogynistic and an attempted erasure of
the concept of motherhood and womanhood this i i absolutely agree with i don't usually use the o
word i try to actively avoid it at all costs but in this case i'm going to use it these linguistic
gymnastics are authoritarian and indeed offensive with a capital o there i said it it's offensive
second this whole thing is so condescending to your everyday trans people you know the majority
of them who are not activists and just want to be left alone to get along with their lives
as if any trans person without an inferiority conflict would allow themselves to be damaged
by terms like breastfeeding and mother those doing the language flipping in these institutions
are implying that trans people have zero critical thinking skills and need to be coddled at every
turn and that my friends is transphobic but my third point is the most important point
those asserting that the word breast feeding should be replaced by chest feeding in common
pilots clearly have not thought this through see the word breast while of course meaning the body
part that women use to provide their infants with breast milk also means the male chest in
more traditional usage according to the cambridge dictionary another meaning of the word breast is
quite literally a person's chest and the usage example they give is the dagger entered his breast
it also means the part of a piece of clothing that covers a person's chest he put a silk hanky
in his breast pocket it also means the center of a person's feelings a feeling of love surged
in his breast in other words the breast is in breastfeeding also means chest feeding
since breast also means chest marvelous thing the english language one word can have many
meanings as such the made-up word chest feeding is completely redundant because breastfeeding
literally means the same thing chest feeding if viewed through a different lens
so before these university and hospital head honchos get on their high horses and try to
change language and erase something that is one of the elements that epitomizes womanhood
for the sake of a noisy antagonistic minority of activists they should probably gain a more
comprehensive knowledge of the english language massive social justice failed to anu on this one
i'm sure we all remember former white house press secretary kelly mcinanny that evervescent bubble
of fortitude who did not take no garbage from no activist reporter i have made so many videos
gushing over her incredible skill and poise in the face of unbelievable hostility from a media that
we now know for an absolute fact thanks to a uh a certain article in a certain magazine named time
were very deliberately and consciously coordinated against her sadly with the departure of the former
administration kaylee had to depart as well but given her notoriety in smacking down the
press when they got to naki which was all the time all eyes were on her replacement jan saki
of course the response to jen's initial press briefings from the media was predictably gushy
with headlines like world has a massive crush on joe biden's press secretary jen saki scandal fans
think biden's press secretary jensaki looks just like the show's fictional white house spokesperson
no meltdowns jen saki's first briefing as biden press secretary was a breath of fresh air
sake shows new tone in first bite and press briefing transparency back to the briefing
room saki commits to pre-trump press norms jamsaki's press reviews are must-see tv and
biden's press secretary gen saki snaps at another fox news reporter who asks about issues with trans
girls competing in sports and gets told trans rights are human rights on the subject of that
particular headline that response really depends on how you interpret the clip let's have a look
at what happened secondly on president biden's transgender rights executive action specifically
when it applies to high school sports what message would the white house have for trans girls and
cis girls who may end up competing against each other in sparking some lawsuits and some concern
among parents so this administration have guidance for schools on dealing with disputes rising over
trans girls competing against them with cis girls i'm not sure what your question is
seemed like a pretty clear question to me but okay to continue the president's executive order
i'm familiar with the order but what was your question about the question is does the president
have a message for local school officials on dealing with these kind of disputes that are
already starting to arise between uh you know trans girls who are competing and cis girls and
a level playing field particularly in high school sports when it leads to college scholarships is
there any kind of messaging or clarification the white house wants to give on the executive order
i would just say that the president's belief is that trans rights are human rights and that's why
he signed that executive order and in terms of the determinations by universities and colleges
i'd certainly defer to them classic democrat deflection by throwing to a moral argument that
was not actually questioned by the reporter in the first place and then lumping the question off
to another entity all this to avoid addressing the fact that biden's executive order removing
the precursor of biological sex from sport will allow biological males to compete against females
bringing with them all the inherent physical advantages that come with being a biological male
and people said trump was the misogynist sucky has also become infamous for her liberal use of
the phrase circle back i can i'll circle back if there's more i can share with you but i'll
circle back with you if there's more to convey um i'll have to just circle back with you and we can
circle back i'm happy to circle back with you i can circle back i will have to circle back on
that one that's an excellent question oh such an important question uh we will circle back
with you and we'll circle back with you it's an interesting question but uh we'll circle
back i'm happy to circle back but i'll have to circle back with you on it's a good question but
we'll circle back with you on this today we will certainly circle back with you more directly she
really of course actually circles back here's the thing though in the abstract i don't really have
a problem with her deflecting questions like this or saying she'll circle back and then really doing
so she's press secretary to the white house for goodness sake she is a politician's representative
to the media deflecting tough questions is what politicians do so just like politicians do it
so will their press secretaries i mean that's sadly how it works the problem i have is that
gemsakhi is allowed to get away with this in a way that kaylee mcenany simply would never have
been allowed to do she was asked some of the most unreasonable loaded slanted questions you could
possibly imagine right to the point of absurdity i mean reporters were not even subtle about the fact
that they were goading her constantly and she was simply not able to deflect them in the way that
saki is allowed to do because the press would have vivisected her which ultimately would have made it
even more difficult for the trump administration in the face of the media can you imagine what the
media would have said if kaley had constantly said that she would circle back to them and do
you remember what happened to her every time she threw questions back at reporters which she often
had to do considering the nature of their questioning was rarely in good faith you remember
the media's reaction to this okay in a previous life before you were press secretary you worked
for the campaign and you made a comment i believe on fox in which you said president trump will not
allow the coronavirus to come to this country given what has happened since then obviously
would you like to take that back well first let me note i was asked a question um on fox business
about president's travel restrictions i noted what was the intent behind those travel restrictions
which is we will not see the coronavirus come here we will not see terrorism come here referring to
an earlier set of travel restrictions i guess i would turn the question back on the media and ask
similar questions does vox want to take back that they proclaim that the coronavirus would not be a
deadly pandemic does the washington post want to take back that they told americans to get a grip
the flu is bigger than the coronavirus does the washington post likewise want to take back that
our brains are causing us to exaggerate the threat of the coronavirus does the new york times want to
take back that fear of the virus may be spreading faster than the virus itself does npr want to
take back that the flu was a much bigger threat than the coronavirus and finally once again the
washington post would they like to take back that the government should not respond aggressively
to the coronavirus i'll leave you with those questions and maybe you'll have some answers in a
few days it was not pretty and if you want details on how the media interacted with kaylee during her
time in that job i have made a number of videos on the subject please see the video description
if you would like to have a watch so because saki is allowed to get away with everything and kaylee
was allowed to get away with nothing and then some the level of preparedness of the two of them
was like chalk and cheese sake can get out there with a few loose sheets of paper and her trademark
circle back phrase if she cops any heat kaylee on the other hand had to do this we're also getting
a look at how kaylee mcinanni operates this reuters photo shows her now famous briefing
book she carries with her look at the organized topics she's prepared for just about any question
russia masks hate the economy once she's located the section she needs she's ready to answer
all in all it is going to be a long and tedious four years watching gen
saki getting away with the kind of behavior that kaylee would have been annihilated for
and unlike the gotcha questions kaylee copt we're going to have to watch saki getting such
onerous questions as a letter note uh will he keep donald trump's air force one color scheme change
this is such a good question huge social justice failed asaki and the white house press report
is right here unfortunately i have talked so long about the first two topics that we've run
out of time for a bonus topic but tune in next time you might get lucky if you like that video
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