Conservative commentator Sydney Watson has caused a stir after arguing using inclusive language for typically gendered labels was “dehumanizing.”
A gaggle of researchers from the US and Canada suggested alternatives to terms like “male” and “female” and “mother” and “father” ought to be utilized in science because they assumed sex was binary and heterosexuality the norm.
The Ecology and Evolutionary Biology (EEB) Language Project said “male” and “female” ought to be replaced by “sperm-producing” and “egg-producing” respectively.
Sydney Watson, an Australian-American political commentator, responded to the news in a tweet on Thursday, arguing against gender being a spectrum.
“Recent dehumanizing term for girls just dropped,” she wrote alongside a picture of an article with the headline: “Use ‘egg-producing’ not ‘female’, say scientists in call to phase out binary language.”
In one other tweet, she suggested men can be known as “non-egg producing.”
“The hilarious thing about that is that with a purpose to discuss men, they’d must say ‘non-egg-producing’. It’s almost like sex is … binary,” she wrote.
