Tuesday, 09 March 2021 14:00

Silly tits!

Written by  The Hound

OPINION: The Hound sees that the Australian National University in Canberra has taken ‘going woke’ to the next level.

The university is encouraging its staff to use “parent-inclusive language”, such as “chest feeding” instead of “breastfeeding” and “human milk” rather than “mother’s milk”.

Similarly, the terms “mother” and “father” should be replaced with “gestational” and “non-gestational” parent, according to the ANU’s ‘Gender-Inclusive Handbook’.

It notes that while “many students will identify as ‘mothers’ and ‘fathers’, using these terms alone to describe parenthood…“excludes those who do not identify with gender-binaries”. 

Stone the crows! Or should that be: ‘Stone the ‘non-binary, feathered, gestational and non-gestational avians’?

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