Paid Family Leave Discussion (derail from fertility decrease)

[Metaphor]

To me using the term "fertility event" to describe shifts the focus away from the child and addition to the family and towards some depersonalized biological function. Which to me suggests a more removed view from the humanity involved to a more sterilized analysis.

And you find a 'sterilized' analysis neutral or even positive?

In this instance, I would not find it positive at all. At best, neutral.

So, I was correct to say you meant my words revealed something negative when you said they were "revealing", despite your protestations about me "assuming the worst".

 

[laughing dog]

In this instance, I would not find it positive at all. At best, neutral.

So, I was correct to say you meant my words revealed something negative when you said they were "revealing", despite your protestations about me "assuming the worst".

There you go again with your MO of assuming the worst. You are incorrect. Originally, I made no kneejerk moral judgment - "fertility event" is an odd and vague way of describing child birth or adoption since the term allows for many more possible scenarios. I thought maybe you were trying to be flippant (and failing) or using some sort of sterile/obscure terminology to reduce the potential for emotional rhetoric (ironic, given your MO) - both of which are neutral in my view, or it was another example of your animus towards almost anything to do with women's health. This may surprise you, but I don't dwell on your positions or you.

But, your persistent passive aggressive hints now are tilting my views away from the neutral (the first two rationales) and towards the third.

 

[Metaphor]

In this instance, I would not find it positive at all. At best, neutral.

So, I was correct to say you meant my words revealed something negative when you said they were "revealing", despite your protestations about me "assuming the worst".

There you go again with your MO of assuming the worst. You are incorrect. Originally, I made no kneejerk moral judgment - "fertility event" is an odd and vague way of describing child birth or adoption since the term allows for many more possible scenarios. I thought maybe you were trying to be flippant (and failing) or using some sort of sterile/obscure terminology to reduce the potential for emotional rhetoric (ironic, given your MO) - both of which are neutral in my view, or it was another example of your animus towards almost anything to do with women's health. This may surprise you, but I don't dwell on your positions or you.

I did not suggest you dwell on my positions or me. In fact, I rather think hasty generalisations about my putative positions are made by others.

Though I'm deeply curious about why you think I have an 'animus' towards women's health? Where did you get this notion?