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Why is the definition of a woman so confusing these days?

306 replies

Fairenuff · 28/01/2018 12:08

I know it's probably been done to death but it used to be so simple.

There were men and women. All kinds of different people but two sexes.

But now no-one can define what a woman is.

We know it's not clothes, hair or make-up
We're being told it's not having a vagina, periods or child bearing
It's nothing to do with the male/female brain

So what is it? Is it purely down to chromosones?

And if it is, how can people without female chromosones still say that they are a woman?

Confused
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BertrandRussell · 28/01/2018 12:22

A woman is a member of the class of human that produces eggs. A man is a member of the class of human that produces sperm.

UpstartCrow · 28/01/2018 12:21

'Women' is the same definition as it was last year, as defined in The Equality Act. We are defined by our sex.
Thats our biological sex = adult human female.

The number of people willing to throw away human rights legislation is really shocking.

ChardonnaysPrettySister · 28/01/2018 12:20

Well no, there is a perfectly good definition of woman, adult human female, but some people just don't want to accept it because it's not helpful for them.

TellsEveryoneRealFacts · 28/01/2018 12:16

It is as simple as it always has been. Adult human female.

Trans women or Trans Identifying Males are a subset of men, not women.

LangCleg · 28/01/2018 12:14

A woman is an adult human female.

Simples.

All the rest is pandering to men.

Also simples.

DamnDeDoubtanceIsSpartacus · 28/01/2018 12:10

It's because men want to be women, so we have to change the whole world to make them feel good about themselves.

We all know what a woman is, every single one of us, but it's fashionable to pretend that we don't so men feel better.