People skeeting stuff.
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In our recently submitted grants we had to change “traumatic brain injury” to “concussive brain injury” and “male and female mice” to “male and non-male mice” because traumatic and female are now verboten words that can get our grants killed. It’s insanity.
Ironically enough, if they used German words for such, it might just pass the Turd Reich censors. 🤷🏼♂️
Male and non-male
Lmao
Actually more inclusive terminology lol
I think the male is a bit hostile and problematic too. It should be non-male and non-female
Can't use the word female in any context so it would have to be non-male and non-non-male.
I prefer "those who is" and "those who ain't." Binary and inclusive.
Is you is, or is you ain't my baby.
Honestly just write "mice", there's no need to specify male and female if you're working on both, unless there's a third secret type of mice you unlock by beating the game with Blanka or something.
Anti-Woke stuff is ridiculous.
These idiots will learn one day that you can't kill an idea.
Orwell would disagree, unfortunately.
Fortunately, he's not a historian.
But he’s got lived experience of totalitarianism. Of rhetorical practices states use to crush ideas.
Epistemically he’s very qualified to comment on this.
And academics who you might call historians, like Foucault, would back him up here.
But you can kill mice! Presumably with a little box and a miniature, spring-loaded boxing glove stored inside