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The bizarre controversy over "birth giver"

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The bizarre controversy over "birth giver"

This is just the latest episode in the right's continuing attempt to win arguments by changing the rules of English grammar.

Jul 13, 2022
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The bizarre controversy over "birth giver"

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I usually don’t weigh in on gender issues since this just isn’t my field, but the right has become so singularly fixated on them over the past couple of years that if you spend any amount of time in the discourse, you’re going to encounter them. And one thing I keep noticing, in controversy after controversy, is that a lot of the right’s grievances abou…

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