Commentary In the “Dune” series of science fiction novels, biotechnologists manufacture clones in breeding contraptions called “axlotl tanks.” Readers eventually learn that these “tanks” are the uteruses of unconscious lobotomized women—motherhood reduced to the status of gestating vats with the female victims of this despotism dehumanized by a lexicon that eradicates their humanity. Thankfully, in the here and now, we understand that deploying such crass terms to describe women undermines their equal moral worth. Or, at least, I thought we did. But then, society’s intellectual and cultural leaders went “woke.” And suddenly, after decades of progress—indeed, when it is now deemed misogynistic to use once common descriptors such as “chicks” or “broads”—women are being reduced to crass identifiers generally related to their female body parts and/or biological functions. The most recent example appeared in the pages of the world’s oldest medical journal, The Lancet. In an article reviewing a museum …