Relatively recently the far leftist zealots, once again, came up with yet again one of their zany antics and crazy ideas, and started promoting calling women "birthing people". According to them, the term "mother" is not neutral enough, and "birthing person" should be used instead.
What makes this crazy idea different from most others is that this has gained some popularity even among high-ranking politicians (Democrats, of course) in the United States, who have seriously started using that term, "birthing person", instead of "mother" in official documents and legislation.
There's a quite hilarious video where a Republican senator asks one of these Democrats, who was behind such a change in some official documents, to define "birthing person", and the Democrat just stumbles mid-sentence trying to define it, because he doesn't really know how to define it (probably so as to not offend anybody, I assume).
The thing is, "birthing person" is an incredibly demeaning and offensive term.
Social justice warriors have been rallying for decades against "objectification of women". Well, there's the perfect example of precisely this: "Birthing person" is pure objectification of women. It's reducing a mother, a human being, a person, into just a function. Essentially a machine, an object with a functionality.
The term "mother" (in pretty much every language) has historically, for hundreds and thousands of years, carried great significance pretty much among all human cultures. Most cultures are highly appreciative of mothers, and people's love for their mothers, and mothers' love for their children, has always been seen as one of the warmest and most virtuous aspects of humanity.
The term "mother" tells something very important about a woman, and has very positive connotations, pretty much in any culture and any language.
"Birthing person" is an absolute disgrace of a term. It strips down the humanity of a mother and reduces her to just a physical function, as if she were nothing but a biological machine that has one sole purpose.
If there ever was a perfect example of "objectification of women", this is it.
Everybody (women and men) should find this term highly, highly offensive to the core, and strongly object to its usage in all contexts. It's an absolutely horrible insult to a person, a woman, a mother. It's worse than calling someone an animal.
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