Medical Journal Lancet Calls Women 'Bodies With Vaginas,' Slammed for Sexism
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Medical Journal Lancet Calls Women 'Bodies With Vaginas,' Slammed for Sexism

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Acclaimed British medical journal The Lancet has been drawing criticism for describing women as “bodies with vaginas” on its front page. According to a report by Daily Mail Online, the writer of the Lancet article uses the term “women” but also the term “bodies with vaginas”. A quote on the cover from the prestigious medical journal, The Lancet, has triggered widespread outrage on social media for “dehumanizing” and “erasing” women,” another academic tweeted. https://twitter.com/Theuns_Pelser/status/1441730297557516289 https://twitter.com/humanjuggler/status/1441528661564444677 “The Lancet is the Last Straw.The magazine’s supercilious,demeaning,deliberately inaccurate naming of women in examining in print one of our most delicate and defining natural processes has destroyed my innate respect for today’s medical leaders.I cannot believe them now,” wrote another.

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The Lancet dehumanizes women, calls them 'bodies with vaginas'
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