Simmone Taitt wants to eliminate maternal health inequities(apple.com)
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Simmone Taitt wants to eliminate maternal health inequities
https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2022/02/simmone-taitt-wants-to-eliminate-maternal-health-inequities/
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What a great idea, I think we do something similar here in The Netherlands trough taxation!
Dropping the sarcasm: our system is not at all perfect and without drastic changes quite unsustainable in the long term, but at least it's a controlled/controllable and distributive.
Slightly off-topic: It's starting to become quite expensive though. For context, I'll be paying about €2k this year for the cheapest (mandatory) health insurance I could find and my ADHD meds which I cannot do without.
Dropping the sarcasm: our system is not at all perfect and without drastic changes quite unsustainable in the long term, but at least it's a controlled/controllable and distributive.
Slightly off-topic: It's starting to become quite expensive though. For context, I'll be paying about €2k this year for the cheapest (mandatory) health insurance I could find and my ADHD meds which I cannot do without.
the general term is "recuperation" - same as greenwashing, selling che guevara t-shirts, Kendal Jenner giving police a pepsi and so on.
Huh. I had heard about this concept but didn't realize it had a name. Thank you for the tidbit!
It has always saddened me that the term "mom's group" on the internet has become a shorthand for "anti-vax propaganda with a mix of flame wars over breast feeding, working moms, and attachment parenting"
I've been part of a mom's group for well over a decade that's evolved from internet forum to Facebook group and the support women get for infertility, pregnancy loss, and horribly painful experiences as a parent is beyond anything we could hope for from our offline groups of family and friends. It is so much easier to talk about these things where someone is always willing to listen and sympathize and can be trusted to keep everything said private.
It saddens me that the disappearance of message boards means that it is much harder to find this sort of support these days. I'd hope that Poppy Seed Health can provide some support, but it looks like a poor substitute.
I've been part of a mom's group for well over a decade that's evolved from internet forum to Facebook group and the support women get for infertility, pregnancy loss, and horribly painful experiences as a parent is beyond anything we could hope for from our offline groups of family and friends. It is so much easier to talk about these things where someone is always willing to listen and sympathize and can be trusted to keep everything said private.
It saddens me that the disappearance of message boards means that it is much harder to find this sort of support these days. I'd hope that Poppy Seed Health can provide some support, but it looks like a poor substitute.
Social media has simply poisoned a lot of discourse. The loudest and most controversial voices rise to the top, even for something relatively anodyne such as a “mom’s group.”
Our ~200 member group is fine. There are controversies of course, but they rarely derail anything. It is private, of course, and there's no up/down arrows which helps enormously. It is also no longer anonymous of course since it was moved to FB. It makes an amazing difference when you can see someone's face.
>It has always saddened me that the term "mom's group" on the internet has become a shorthand for "anti-vax propaganda with a mix of flame wars over breast feeding, working moms, and attachment parenting"
This is news to me, I wasn't aware of that connotation. I'm curious where you've seen this.
This is news to me, I wasn't aware of that connotation. I'm curious where you've seen this.
r/shitmomsgroupsay. 284k members. A charming mix of entitledparents, antivax, and facepalm.
You know that subreddits like this comb through the entire internet looking for something to be outraged about, right? And if they don't find anything, they're not opposed to a bit of creative writing.
Another attempt at wealth while wrapping yourself in the “fixing inequity” flag.
An app isn’t what’s needed. Time, labor, educated support, etc. WIC provides this. Mothers groups do too.
Yet another subscription is the last thing poor mothers need.
An app isn’t what’s needed. Time, labor, educated support, etc. WIC provides this. Mothers groups do too.
Yet another subscription is the last thing poor mothers need.
Your overall point is true but I've actually used WIC and it does not provide these. It is vouchers for some necessaries for young kids and that is all.
I got a couple judgmental but out of date flyers about healthy eating for children, and an incredibly complex constraint added to my grocery shopping.
I got a couple judgmental but out of date flyers about healthy eating for children, and an incredibly complex constraint added to my grocery shopping.
> Birthing people
Every mother I know finds this phrasing deeply offensive. I wish people would stop using it.
It’s like latinx, which as far as I can tell is used virtually exclusively by non-latin persons. And look at that there already is a gender neutral English word: latin!
It’s to the point that I suspect there is some kind of psychological reason for choosing these clumsy and inaccurate phrases. Another good example is “social distancing” which literally denotes the same thing as shunning, but is used to mean maintaining physical distance.
Every mother I know finds this phrasing deeply offensive. I wish people would stop using it.
It’s like latinx, which as far as I can tell is used virtually exclusively by non-latin persons. And look at that there already is a gender neutral English word: latin!
It’s to the point that I suspect there is some kind of psychological reason for choosing these clumsy and inaccurate phrases. Another good example is “social distancing” which literally denotes the same thing as shunning, but is used to mean maintaining physical distance.
My wife and her friends are progressive in many ways and vote as such, but they too do not like this term. I think it has to do with feeling pushed aside from an innately important, defining thing she could call her own as a woman, when she has felt left out of so many other things throughout her life as a woman. TBH I'm not 100% sure if that's the reasoning though.
Crotchety Alert
I am progressive and I'm getting weary of the degree to which we've pushed inclusive language. Can we just acknowledge, at some point, that there are some, minimal, practical distinctions between XX and XY chromosome'd people? I thought we'd be fairly safe in considering birth and breastfeeding something specific to one sex, but no - even there we have to watch our language.
I am progressive and I'm getting weary of the degree to which we've pushed inclusive language. Can we just acknowledge, at some point, that there are some, minimal, practical distinctions between XX and XY chromosome'd people? I thought we'd be fairly safe in considering birth and breastfeeding something specific to one sex, but no - even there we have to watch our language.
It's meant to be inclusive to trans men, given they're still capable of becoming pregnant and giving birth.
Offense over these new terms is often just a proxy for offense at the political changes they signify. Nobody's denying that women who give birth are still mothers.
Edit: also, in my experience going through antenatal classes at the moment, they often use "women and birthing people" which seems like a good middle ground.
Offense over these new terms is often just a proxy for offense at the political changes they signify. Nobody's denying that women who give birth are still mothers.
Edit: also, in my experience going through antenatal classes at the moment, they often use "women and birthing people" which seems like a good middle ground.
This is something that mildly confuses me, in that if someone is of female sex but male gender, what that means is that they typically identify/display themselves with male stereotypes. But, the male stereotype doesn’t include pregnancy, so is that uncomfortable for someone of male gender to be going through something that is considered feminine?
That's a good question; I have no idea. Presumably it would cause some dissonance for the reasons you stated.
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Latin would include a lot more people not traditionally considered Latino. French and Italian people for instance. Not that it matters.
Why's everybody got to be such critics? Like yeah, of course they are pricing it so some users subsidize the cost for other users. That's not some new or crazy concept.
What's the DEI equivalent of greenwashing? "Equitywashing"?