06/07/2026
Lately I’ve been thinking a lot about language, biology, and women’s rights.
Women fought for decades to have our bodies, motherhood, breastfeeding, endometriosis, infertility, menstruation, and breast cancer taken seriously. Those words mattered because female experiences were ignored for so long.
Breastfeeding mothers fought to nurse in public without shame. Women fought for the right to pump at work instead of hiding in bathrooms or cars. Women with endometriosis fought just to be believed about their pain.
So it honestly makes me sad seeing female-specific language slowly being replaced.
A chest is lungs, ribs, heart, muscles.
Breasts are mammary glands.
Those are not the same thing biologically or medically.
That doesn’t mean people can’t choose language that feels right for them personally. If someone prefers “chestfeeding,” that is their choice and I respect that.
But why is it considered “radical” to protect women’s language… while erasing it isn’t?
At what point does inclusion start becoming erasure?
I don’t think biology disappeared.
I think we’re struggling to balance biological clarity, identity, inclusion, and respect for everyone.
Maybe the answer isn’t forcing one group’s language onto another.
Maybe the answer is allowing people to speak about themselves in the words that feel truthful to them — without shaming others for doing the same.
Breastfeeding or Chestfeeding