Auntie Sylvie
1 min readNov 9, 2021

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Thank you for your (actually very sexy) reply. I love a good capische ending!

I mean, I get that not feeling included is the issue people who don't identify as women but are pregnant are having, but it isn't me triggered by words. Those feeling excluded are being triggered by my use of the term pregnant women, correct? I guess I can make an effort. Being preggers is hard enough.

This is kind of like when I started using the word partner for my hetero male companion (I'm a hetero cis woman) to provide some kind of, I don't know ,option for closeted people to blend better because partner is a nongendered word we can all use that gives away nae personal info. That was decades ago. I don't know if it helped or not but I can't change my language back now, been too long.

So, thanks to your patient engagement with me, I can concede that I do, indeed, capische.

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