Saying A Bun In The Oven Is Now Offensive, Claims Historian

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Everything's offensive to someone.

"The idiom for pregnancy, a bun in the oven, which traces its origins back more than 2,000 years to Ancient Greece, is in fact misogynistic, according to Kathleen Crowther, an historian of reproductive medicine atthe University of Oklahoma. Crowther insists the idiom reduces the role of the mother to a mere incubator after the majority ...

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