Some guidelines to help this space be a positive experience for everyone:

☮ As always with the AVCAD, don’t feel compelled to share beyond your comfort level.

☮ Anyone who identifies as female, or who was socialized female/AFAB/otherwise has firsthand experience with the issues being discussed, is welcome to post. If you identify as cis-male, we ask that you please set your participation to “lurk” mode, unless otherwise explicitly invited to participate further (i.e. if we did an AMA kind of thread). I’m sure there’s plenty to be gleaned just by reading!

☮ Please do your best to be mindful of others’ experiences when commenting or posing questions for the group. The female identity is Legion and contains multitudes, and not everyone who has experience with being treated as female by society identifies as female. Furthermore, racial and ethnic identities, sexual orientation, and many other factors can color how one experiences their gender identity on a day-to-day basis. 

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This week’s suggested topic: Gendered Words

I want to get down in the weeds talking words this week. Ranging from the loss of words like “actress” and “stewardess” to the words that are gendered and so offensive we don’t say them here (be sure to asterisk if you want to say c*nt in the comments to save us some trouble clearing the queue). There are a lot of gendered words that have a wide variety of meanings to women+ and today I want to talk about here.