Well…father might be a bit dodgy if it’s artificial insemination or a test-tube (a womb with a view), but the baby batter has to come from a male, and the birthing parent has to be a female. That’s just basic biology.
Has there ever been a case where swapping genders enables a former woman to provide the wherewithal or a former man to gestate.
So much of this “not giving offence” to that minuscule percentage of the population affected is a load of crap.
less about “not offending” and more about “encapsulating all possible situations for added clarity”
but yeah, a lot of it is well-intentioned but absolutely not necessary
Chest feeding v breast feeding is one step too far. 
it’s not political correctness. You feed a baby from a bottle or a breast.
And there’s nothing wrong with doing either. Great if you can breastfeed.
Some should be so lucky they can actually have or raise children.
Talk about entitlement. Who at the ANU thinks that’s a great idea?
I donno, If go out in the real world or post online and say something like why is a gender inclusive group trying to change the definition and incorporation of “gender” when there are only 2 genders ?
how do you reckon that’d go down ?
so some things have changed.
You could moan about bike lanes several times a week and wouldn’t even come close to draining the bile fountain that subject always seems to deliver.
Just leave me alone !
I’d like skateboarding lanes too. But we don’t seem to be a strong a lobby group as MAMILs
And the Lord did hear the cry of Victor. And verily came He down and slew the maidens. And caused their cottonwool buds to blow away, and their Kleenex to be laid waste utterly.
And Victor, in his anguish, cried out that the Lord was a rotten bastard.
And the Lord sent an angel to comfort Victor for the weekend.
And entered they together the jaccuzzi.
Here endeth the lesson.
That probably wasn’t very politically correct, was it? 
If by not “politically correct” you mean it [the quote] was a lie, then sure.
I’m assuming the angel was male, by the way.
Did you just assume the angel’s gender? 
With regard to that ANU study, is there any possibility at all that even the wokest uber-tossers could take offence at the terms “mother” and “father”, even if it’s surrogate mother or biological father.
There are gazillions of people who regard this as absolute bulldust, and just throw their hands up and go “FFS, where does this end?”
People can have an addadictomy or go and see Dr Katya Kokoff all they like, but it shouldn’t change the language. It’s all for the benefit of less than 1% (probably a lot less) of the population.
Maybe the Tories aren’t as big a bunch of c**ts as we’d first thought. Count Dankula dropping truth bombs:
Toy giant Hasbro have revealed that one of Toy Story’s best-loved characters, Mr Potato Head, is no longer a male.
The company that makes the popular plastic toy announced overnight it was dropping the honorifics from the spud’s name – making him gender neutral – “to promote gender equality and inclusion”.
From later this year, the toy launched almost 70 years ago, will be known simply as “Potato Head.”
The toy was brought to life alongside Mrs Potato Head in the Toy Story film franchise, and would often angrily demand other characters not forget his title.
“That’s Mr Potato Head to you, you back-stabbing murderer,” the plastic spud memorably said to Woody, after the cowboy inadvertently knocked Buzz Lightyear out of a bedroom window.
However, Hasbro believes the toy needs to move with the times.
“Hasbro today announced the iconic brand will be reimagined for the modern consumer,” read a statement on the manufacturer’s website.
The rebranded toy, in which children add facial characteristics and clothes to the body of a plastic spud, will hit shelves later this year
It will allow kids “to imagine and create their own Potato Head family,” said Hasbro.
“The way the brand currently exists, with the “Mr” and “Mrs”, is limiting when it comes to both gender identity and family structure,” Hasbro general manager Kimberly Boyd told business magazine Fast Company .
“Culture has evolved,” she added.
However, the change has been ruthlessly ridiculed by many on social media.
Mr Potato Head first went on sale in 1952. On the back of its success, Mrs Potato Head was launched the following year, along with traditional feminised accessories.
The move follows other updates to classic brands, including Barbie, who was initially known for being tall, white and blonde but now comes in a range of ethnicities and body shapes.
In 2019, global toy giant Mattel released a line of gender-neutral dolls.
I feel like we always say “but where does it end?”
And no one seems to know.
Can they offer a reason for the name change? Did someone actually complain or just someone with a (LOL) marketing degree needing to actually do some work?
It must be a pretty sad existence to lead of your job is to manufacture ways of being offended. Being that triggered by something and thinking people would be offended by the Mr. Potato Head character. This world is ■■■■■■!
I 100% agree.
But people like you react every single time, so it’s clearly a lucrative industry to be in.
How is it lucrative by people passing comment that it’s utterly unnecessary? It isn’t going to make people more likely to buy Mr Potato Heads, sorry, Potato Heads. Probably less likely if anything as the vast majority of people think it’s stupid.
calm down you morons
