NZ Midwifery Council to remove women and mother from definition of Midwife

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Martyn Bradbury
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Fresh from attempting to cancel Shakespeare, the woke are at it again.

This time they are removing the words mother and woman from the Scope of Midwifery.

The ‘Scope’ defines what it means to be a midwife in New Zealand and you would think the vast, vast, vast majority of those using their service are women becoming mothers.

Apparently however, assuming the vast vast vast majority of those using Midwifes are women becoming mothers is a hate crime these days and you will be cancelled for thinking otherwise.

Here’s the original Scope where Woman is referenced widely and the term Mother used, here’s the proposed Scope where Women and Mother have been removed altogether.

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If they are this triggered by the words ‘Woman’ and ‘Mother’ shouldn’t they be Midpersons instead of Midwifes?

Isn’t wife heteronormative?

It’s this sort of woke nonsense sold as ‘inclusivity’ that is killing the Left and we are seeing it in the current polling meltdown.

The problems is this activism is associated with the Left and even though Labour and the Greens have nothing to do with this, social media proxifcation has alienated voters thinking this is what the Left stand for now and it’s going down like a cup of cold sick.

My fear is that as the Polls drop for the Left, our activists will get crazier and crazier with the woke stuff and keep cancelling until there are no more voters left to try and win over.

All the woke are doing is handing ammunition to the right.

Please, wokesters, pull these ideological stunts AFTER the election, NOT BEFORE! Voters are sick of this dogma and it isn’t helping!

Look, you could define yourselves as rock lobsters for all I care, but do it a week AFTER the election so the backlash can’t be weaponised into another example of woke gone mad.

The identity politics activists keep wanting to buy a culture war that we on the Left will lose.

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74 COMMENTS

  1. Isnt being a wife part of white supremacy these days?!

    Ban all wives!! there you go guys, I’ve fixed it for you.

    • @Fantail
      ‘Wife’ is cisgendered heteronormative patriarchal oppression so 3 domains of sin. There is likely a satisfying (and conveniently unfalsifiable) narrative linking it to white supremacy, if not we should make one up.

      In the meantime ban husbands too for they are wife-adjacent!

      • Tui Good thinking. I lent a book to somebody who miraculously returned it – I think it’s called ‘ The Return of the Goddess’ , and it could take a day or so to find it, and the last time I looked I’m pretty sure that it is not indexed – just you don’t hate that?

        It documents that back in the matriarchy, it was when males finally made the connection between what they did, and the end product, a baby, that women lost their power. The mystery, and the sheer miraculousness of what we are, came crashing down. Use that as a starting point. The church fathers made up all sorts of weird things about women, and it’s high time that we retaliated…even if the woke scourge and deride us… we can do this !

    • Fantail. This too, is worse than it looks. I suggest that it is clinically unsound and irresponsible to divert focus away from the mother and baby, in order to incorporate the Treaty of Waitangi into the birthing process and instead make the whole whanau the object of their practice. This is what they say they’re doing.

      Omitting ‘mother’ words and thus diminishing the importance of the mother, is simply a continuation of Catholic teaching which has always stated that the baby’s well-being is more important than that of the mother, and that if a choice has to be made, or a life has to be sacrificed, then mum’s the one who has to go.

      This is even worse as far as mothers are concerned. Apart from the fact that there are midwife shortages, and stretched workloads, trainees are now being told that their primary focus has to be on the whole whanau. It is very wrong and very unfair on mothers whose well-being at this time should be paramount, that they’re now being pushed aside for political purposes.

      This politicising of pregnancy and birthing in order to accommodate the Treaty could be extended to other medical or surgical practices and actually end up putting patients at risk, and the Treaty being a millstone around the neck.

  2. Thanks for posting this. What a f…g outrage.

    Only women can get pregnant and have babies. End of.

    I do disagree that Labour and the Greens aren’t where this is coming from. Having watched the idiotic Green and Labour women during the select committee on self ID, I can assure you they are up to their eyeballs in this insane crap

    • “Only women can get pregnant and have babies. End of.”

      But Anker, you too can be a woman. Easy peasy.

        • Anker I’m sure you could acquire a couple of gonads for a high price in Thailand, and get other spare parts from those dispensing of them to become femmes, but hey, who’d want to become a man when you can just join the Green Party and bleat away about gender bending, ride unicorns, chew W’s chocolate with greenery in your hair, and accuse people who think differently from you of racism, sexism, age-ism, or all three? Loudly ?

          Insult enough people to secure a place on the party list and you too could become an honourable or dishonourable member and not have to worry about an electricity bill for the rest of your life. So what’s not to like ?

  3. “If they are this triggered by the words ‘Woman’ and ‘Mother’ shouldn’t they be Midpersons instead of Midwifes?

    Martyn ‘Mid’ is relative-location-normative. Individuals working in the birthing person assistance profession should be able to identify with their own positionality. Such as as Mid, Top, Bottom, Left, Right, Diagonal etc.

    Birthing persons will be put at ease with the warm personal touch of
    “Hello I am Trixielotta Huntingdon-McGrath I am a Bottomperson and today I’ll be your birthing person assistance professional or BPAP (‘Bee-pap’).”

    • Google tells me “mid” =old English for “with” and “wife” (wiv) =old English for “woman”. Midwife thus meaning the person “with” the “woman” during birth.
      But I do like your suggestion better!
      Will this madness end with a change of government?
      Let’s find out.

      • @KCC You are quite right. However equivocation is part of the woke rhetorical tool box.
        Redefining terms for political expediency.

        For example:
        Woman = Gender identity (not sex)
        Racist = Someone who exists is a system that, according to theory, privileges their own race and does not fight for equity (not prejudice based on race)
        Homosexual = Same gender attracted (not same sex attracted)
        Mid = middle

        Ok I made the last one up 🙂

        “Will this madness end with a change of government?”
        Perhaps that and when everyone can laugh at the absurdity of ideological puritans.

    • Tui – as a semi-retired teacher of languages (English, French, and German) may I congratulate you on writing the best comment exposing the utter stupidity of current woke mismanagement of our English language?

      • @In Vino Thank you, sometimes irony fits woke’s very specific kind of nonsense. If you haven’t heard, I believe Cambridge University is encouraging students of German to use gender neutral language. The stupidity and mismanagement is shared more widely.

  5. Due to Dr Doo Little’s nursing immegration plan there will not be any midwifes to be found soon and mothers and their babies will suffer

    • Trevor. “ There will not be any midwives to be found soon” . And maybe that’s not such a bad idea. The politics of these bloody women drove many family doctors away from practising obstetrics and gynaecology, and my most recent excellent Sri Lankan gynaecologist/obstetrician told me that he was quitting because of the politics of the midwives.

      Suddenly male doctors delivering babies became the enemy, but I only ever struck one total wanker, and were I to breed again, I ‘d want an obstetrician/ gynaecologist. I owe the safe delivery of a son by emergency Caesarean section to the late Harry Bashford, who saw me at 4pm, said we needed to deliver pronto and did so at 8pm, for the ailing baby would not have survived overnight. I know enough to know that had I been under the care of a midwife the scenario could have been very different indeed.

      I have been shocked to hear generation X ( or whatever they are) pregnant persons (sigh) boast, yes,
      boast, that they’ve delivered their baby without a medical man in sight, as if male doctors are standing pointing guns at them. Phyllida Bunkle wrote what I thought emotive crap about some hospital doctor’s gleaming eyes when she actually needed his expertise, and was in pain, but it’s in a book I tossed out, so I cannot check the scenario, except I doubt that he was the sadistic bastard she seemed to think he was. Phyllida was HOD or Acting HOD of Women’s Studies at VUW. ( Deeper sigh). I transferred out of a paper in that dept because I thought that they were more anti men than pro women. Another student reported them to the NZQA.

      The midwives’ “ Scope” is exceedingly loquacious and pretentious and it doesn’t need to be that way, but having largely succeeded in driving males out of their business, they may have inflated themselves into thinking they’re equal to the dastardly old school types, and they are not. If these women cannot refer to the mothers in their care in a simple straightforward way, they probably need to see shrinks. They’re meant to be on our side damn it, not depersonalising us.

      What’s more, they need to check their own titles; not all expectant mothers are wives, and nomenclature implying that they are is culturally insensitive and probably a whole host of other discriminatory things as well.

  8. Jesus. As usual, everybody reads the headline and gets offended. Nobody actually bothers reading all the way through. If you’d bothered to read the whole thing you’d read that they discovered that it wasn’t really inclusive of the entire family referring only to the person giving birth, and what they really wanted to do was reflect that there is often more than just the pregnant person involved – and they decided the best way to acknowledge that was to refer to the entire whanau.

    But hey, let’s all get offended and scream woke. Fuck’s sake.

    • Whatever bullshit reason they are removing ‘woman’ and ‘mother’ from their Scope, DO IT AFTER THE FUCKING ELECTION so we don’t hand the Right the culture war ammunition FFS!

      You can call yourselves rock lobsters for all I care, just. Do. It. After. The. Election!

      • Yes but they can’t stop themselves – so we will be inflicted with more of this if they get into power. They may call themselves the left, but they are not – Natz Lite selling everything off into COO’s, SOE’s, Kiwibuild etc, championing exploiter work permits off the backs of taxpayer funded welfare to top it all up, woke red guards now getting powers to criminalise freedom of speech, while the manager woketards who can’t do their jobs spend their time in talkfests obsessing about changing language into their altered reality.

        Sorry some of us want to get off this woke train to Kafka’s 1984.

    • Riffer I read it, and I am still offended, ok ? You and they are making assumptions about families which may not always be true, or accurate. One person, and one person alone actually births the baby, and that person is the mother, and there is no need, or any good reason to diminish her role, or her as a person, f.

  9. Labour is now National lite policy but with insane woke putting their insanity into legislation.

    Polls are gonna punish the woke Labeen big time as it has become clear Labeen can not stop themselves.

    Woke are busy derailing anything in language they can from culturally appropriated Te Reo to anything to attack biological woman. The same woman who used to vote Labour!

    Auckland elections are a bell weather to what is to come. Including now the privatisation brigade (shock/crisis) with Wayne Brown.

    The only silver lining is at least woman might still be safe from the insanity of woke gender politics in Auckland for the next 3 years.

    However my guess is at least 1 billion of council assets will be moved to private practise (which quite frankly is similar to the COO structure that Labour loves, that means Aucklander’s get the F-You from their assets and no accountability and creative accounting so it’s really just the Natz nite policy in real terms to soften up for the next step, full privatisation under the Natz tickets).

  10. I’m a single male who live alone because other people piss me off. I don’t like children or babies.

    I’m feeling left out because this whole birthing thing doesn’t involve me.

    I’m so offended right now

  11. An aside from taking the piss out of ideas that derive from Queer Theory ideology.

    Trans rights activists and the woke sophistry around identity (which is actually political identity) has little to do with actual trans people (concrete identity) most of whom did not sign up to be a political football, know what biological sex they are and have no disagreement with the terms woman/mother/wife as commonly used nor do they want to see biological men in women’s sports and spaces etc.

    ‘Queer Theory asserts that oppression comes from the gender binary so liberation comes from erasing the stable category of ‘sex’ and transgressing the stable category of ‘gender’ (this is the opposite direction to CRT where liberation comes from reinforcing the category of race which is why you cannot be ‘trans racial’). It is act of rebellion to ‘transgress’ gender by identifying as non-binary or trans.

    Imagine how belittling it is to the tiny number of genuine trans people for whom the process of transition is long, difficult and not well understood. Rather than working towards building acceptance and respect so they can live their lives, trans identity is hijacked by activist puritans to advance political goals. Compound that by the trend towards self-id where anyone can fashionably identify as non-binary or trans for status and social clout with little effort or cost. It is analogous to stolen valour for the aesthetic of queerness.

    Apologies for the interruption let the piss taking continue.

    • In other words genuine trans people, and others, like the Maori & Pacific island peoples (ie the natives ) are not sophisticated enough. So therefore they need the woke middle class white liberals, with ersatz university degrees, to step in and make sure they are not taken advantage of.

      I’ve got people like this in my family, they would invite their Maori wore mate out to dinner, but would be concerned about them using a knife and fork…

  13. All these paid political commentators and none have hit the nail on the head
    Sigh

    FTM’s give birth all the time
    I would hazard all this is for them

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