Renae Tobias
1 min readDec 2, 2016

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I think you are deliberately missing the point Sumant Manne . The fact that your rebuttal was about physical appearance as opposed to character and gender roles indicates a lack of comprehension.

Did you know that the surgical removal of a woman’s ovaries(correction: uterus) is still called a hysterectomy (so named because it was believed removing the organ would also cure a woman of her hysteria). It is not called an ovarianectomy (correction: uterunectomy) which, like with tonsils, would be a purely medical description of the surgical procedure. Language, words have power. Their use is to communicate. So while you mock focusing on the implied and inferred offenses taken by mere “words” you miss the point that all words communicate. And words about emotion, softness, femininity are used as slurs and insults to communicate a lack of respect. Perhaps you would understand better if language, medicine, politics, & power had not been honed by and in favor of rich white men.

If it had been said that that female fighter had more balls than half the men in the ring that day, plenty of men would have been offended because the balance of power had been tipped out of their favor and their prowess and sense of self had been challenged…and rightly so. Try substituting “words” with “communication” and the ramifications of implied meaning become clearer.

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Renae Tobias

A poet’s ramblings & a writer’s pipe-dreams; this is what my world is made of.