So here’s the question: How long can a region project normalcy while its leadership writes policy in a fantasy dialect?
The answer lies not in another speech or task force -- but in the kitchen tables, church pews, and factory floors of Wisconsin, Minnesota, Michigan, and Illinois. If there’s hope for the Midwest, it’s not coming from the top. It’s coming from the men and women -- yes, women -- who still know the difference between reality and roleplay. And they’re tired of pretending.
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And then there’s Wisconsin’s governor Tony Evers, who referred to a pregnant woman as an “inseminated person.” That isn’t a typo. That’s a full-frontal assault on language and humanity in one breathless phrase. It’s as if someone replaced the Midwestern political lexicon with the instruction manual for artificial cattle breeding. Evers’s comment would be laughable if it weren’t such a naked attempt to erase the distinction -- and the dignity -- of womanhood. The same logic that births “birthing persons” and “chest feeders” now gives us “insemination people,” and the silence from the sane is growing louder.
But wait -- we’re not done yet. Let’s roll east.
In Michigan, Governor Gretchen Whitmer has thrown her support behind what can only be called a crusade to scrub gendered language from the entire bureaucratic structure. Her administration pushed for new guidance in state-run documents and agencies that favor "gender-neutral terminology" over "mother" and "father." A Michigan birth certificate might soon read like a sterile census report: "Parent A" and "Parent B." One wonders: is this what the auto industry died for? Did Motown's legacy of grit and soul give way to linguistic sanitation that could make a robot blush?
