The Left’s woke ideology has become so absurd and illogical that its proponents can’t even keep up with it.
During an interview with CNN this week, Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez struggled to identify who exactly is affected by Texas’s new pro-life law restricting abortions after a fetal heartbeat is detected. First, the New York Democrat labeled them as “people who give birth.” Then, she admitted the law really just affects “women’s bodies.” Realizing her mistake, she pivoted back to describing the targeted group as “people who are not cisgender men” and “any menstruating person.”
Ocasio-Cortez got it right the second time: Biological women are the only human beings who can get pregnant; therefore, they are the only ones prevented from obtaining an abortion under Texas’s law. Ocasio-Cortez knows this, as does every single other leftist obsessed with woke-speak.
So, why do they continue to push a narrative they know isn’t true? Because they’ve been caught in their own web. If Ocasio-Cortez had only referred to women as, um, women (instead of “birthing persons” or “menstruating persons” or whatever other offensive terms transgender radicals have coined), she would have been blasted by her own supporters for failing to be inclusive.
The problem with this woke-speak is that it actually undermines Ocasio-Cortez’s pro-choice agenda, as a few leftist feminist groups have pointed out. The argument that pro-life laws are really just male-driven efforts to control and suppress women doesn’t stick when women can’t be called women and when you’re forced to open up the female umbrella to people who are not actually female. Ocasio-Cortez is simultaneously claiming to fight for women’s rights while denying their very existence.
It would be better for everyone if Ocasio-Cortez just admitted what is undeniably true: Women are women, and nobody else gets to claim that title for themselves, no matter how much they might want to. Our experiences are too unique, our burdens too specific to be shared or replicated. And that’s something in which we, as women, should take pride.
