Words are tools.
They are utilitarian; for doing a job, each with a unique purpose.
Even the word “whimsical” is a utilitarian tool.
Even for speaking generalities, we need specificity in language, like the word “atomized” for a cloud of isolated individuals.
The things that make us human, the things that are inevitable and universal, these are the essential shared experiences we will all need to describe at some point as we move through life.
These are the things that connect us to one another and make us want to talk about it.
First we connected physically, as warm-blooded cuddle-bonders uttering endearing vocalizations. Then we used our voices, creating signals and sounds agreed upon and remembered together.
As language grew up within tribes and families, culture developed. Using ritual, we processed together joy, grief, awe and the challenges brought by these inevitable, universal and essential events.
We spoke about it and assisted one another. We are cooperative. We dwell in groups. We must belong.
The need for belonging is part of our essential human condition. We need each other’s help.
Our process of language creation is our birthright. It comes from us and is of us, an organic creation of our human brains, entwined with our thinking process. We evolved this way.
These words belong to us.
Other words are more superfluous. Or, I could say, excessive.
“Superfluous” and “excessive” are synonyms separated by style, giving us choice. They have different vibes.
The things that are inevitable, universal and essential are not vibes. They are not superfluous. They are the foundation for our orientation in Reality.
The things that make us human are not vibes. They are physically necessary for our thriving and even surviving.
Reproduction- inevitable, universal and essential- is the creation of new human life. Women grow this new life.
Beliefs vary on how the spark of life ignites, but we all grow inside the bodies of our Mothers.
This is what mammals do, and we are mammals, with mammaries and wombs. Humans are furry mammals.
Female humans, women, carry the eggs which will, if they meet with a male’s gamete, grow into a baby.
The eggs are formed inside the baby girl while she’s growing inside her mother. So the egg that started each of us was made by our grandmother, inside her body and her growing baby girl.
But now we hear rumbles of “post-human” philosophies.
This is misanthropic delusional nihilism and post-modern popycock.
And it’s misogynistic, aggressing upon Motherhood to colonize, atomize and commercialize every aspect of it, including pregnancy and breast feeding.
The cult of disembodiment aims to separate Women from Motherhood. In service to this cruel campaign, they separate women from the word “Mother”.
A cafeteria cart of unimportant words- disembodied parts, actions and services- has been rolled out by the technocratic class, to try to non-consentually replace “Mother,” the word we created organically for this signifier of the inevitable, universal and essential.
While women are censured for correctly naming mothers as women, there are, at the same time, powerful people demanding, decreeing, that we must now stretch “Mother” to cover men who claim belonging. They want to lift this mantle off women, shred it and share it amongst themselves.
It seems these men resent the limitations of biology, and any other boundaries or “No”s.
Middle aged women represent that “No.” Middle-aged women are telling them “No” despite the violent response.
So the TERFs are the villains of the piece.
The Mothers are the monsters.
Focus on basic principles to stay human in these dehumanizing times.
Focus on basic principles and describe what you see, in accurate, original language.