"Egg Producers" or Moms?
Breakpoint
Colson Center
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🗓️ 25 August 2023
⏱️ 1 minutes
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Summary
According to The Daily Mail, the Biden administration's health secretary recently endorsed a gender clinic in Alaska. The secretary is a man who identifies as a woman. The clinic advocates for replacing the term "mother" with "egg producer."
Somehow "Happy Egg Producer Day!" doesn't have the same ring to it as "Mother's Day." As a colleague of mine noted when she heard the story, "That really is The Handmaid's Tale."
Language matters. Especially from people who occupy positions of cultural power, from the media who call this man a "she," to politicians who claim he is a powerful woman, to a clinic obscuring reality. When they detach from reality, incoherent and dangerous ideas like this are the result.
Reality, however, has hard edges, and neither our bad ideas nor our bad language can change that. The farther afield from reason and science our cultural elites wander, the more revolutionary it will be to say what is true.
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| 0:00.0 | With a woman to look at culture from a Christian worldview, I'm John Stone Street with a point. |
| 0:04.7 | According to the Daily Mail, the Biden Administration's Health Secretary recently endorsed a gender |
| 0:09.2 | clinic in Alaska. |
| 0:10.7 | The Secretary is a man who identifies as a woman. |
| 0:13.3 | The clinic advocates for replacing the term mother with, and I quote, egg producer. |
| 0:18.7 | Somehow happy egg producer day doesn't have quite the same ring to it as Mother's Day. |
| 0:22.3 | It's a colleague of mine noted when she heard that story. |
| 0:24.8 | This really is the handmaid's tale. |
| 0:26.7 | The language matters, especially from the people who occupy positions of cultural power. |
| 0:30.7 | From the media who call this he a she, to the politicians who claim he is a powerful woman, |
| 0:35.5 | to a clinic that's just obscuring reality. |
| 0:37.8 | When leaders detach from reality, incoherent and dangerous ideas like this are the result. |
| 0:43.2 | Reality, however, has hard edges, and neither are bad ideas nor are bad language actually |
| 0:47.5 | change reality. |
| 0:48.5 | The further a feel from reason and science are culturally to wonder, the more revolutionary |
| 0:53.0 | it'll be to just say what's true. |
| 0:55.1 | To the Colson Center, I'm John Stone Street. |
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