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Meanwhile, in California
Daughter: Mom, I got stung by a bee.
Mom: No, you got stung by a fish, and I’m not your mom, I’m your birthing person, son.
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I’ve only ever heard “birthing people” being used as a category, not as a reference to individuals. Well, outside right-wing attempts to mock the concept. If a non-binary or agender person wants to refer to themselves that way, more power to them I guess, but I suspect that most of them who would prefer to use a non-gendered term for parent would just use “parent”.
Also, given that bees are a subcategory of fish, this would be like saying “no, you were stung by a non-aquatic invertebrate” if they were elsewhere. 😜
When the Church directed meatless days, anything that lived or spent a lot of time in the water was a fish, and could be eaten even during a meatless day.
So even in cases where the thing you're ridiculing actually sounds ridiculous on a surface level - bees classified as fish as a desperate attempt to actually protect them - you have to turn it into a gender thing. Because you're fucking obsessed with gender. You can't stop thinking about it. I bet you hurl snarled curses at trans people whenever you run out of fucking cereal. Meanwhile, the rest of us are kind of dumbstruck that you have to classify bees as fish to have a chance of protecting them, despite the fact that they're pretty damn important to our ecosystems and the well-being of nature. Everyone knows they are, and people still have to jump through these hoops to help them.
Confused?
So were we! You can find all of this, and more, on Fundies Say the Darndest Things!
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