geekandmisandry:

rad-killjoy:

kiwianaroha:

I did my master’s thesis on emergency contraception and I used gender-neutral language throughout. Most people didn’t notice. My supervisor occasionally asked me to use the word “women” instead of the word “people” but didn’t care enough to follow up when I ignored him. None of the people who reviewed and marked my thesis made any comment on the language I chose to use.

Using gender-neutral language was easy and I suffered no consequences for doing so as an academic, even when writing a detailed thesis on human reproductive biology.

A thesis on emergency contraception uses gender-neutral language and nobody notices.

See, it’s that easy to erase women.

Imagine being included but claiming that others also being included was erasure. Imagine being that desperate for a first place prize in the oppression Olympics.