Happy International Women's Day!

A person's sex is determined at the time of conception i.e. when the ova and sperm fuse into a zygote.

Modern medical technology enables happy parents to know the sex of a foetus before childbirth, but unfortunately it is also used
by some cultures to facilitate disgusting practices like sex-selective abortions.

23 million girls should be alive, but they aren't, because cultures that place more value on MEN over WOMEN will use all sorts of methods to ensure males have preferential treatment over females.

www.newscientist.com/article/2199874-sex-selective-abortions-may-have-stopped-the-birth-of-23-million-girls/

The 23 million figure doesn't include girls who are strangled or buried alive at birth, or slowly waste away from malnutrition due to parents deliberately feeding sons better food than daughters.

No man, no matter how much of a 'lady brain' he claims to have will EVER be more oppressed than women, because by virtue of being male he has already had the best start to life in every single country and culture around the world.

I know sunlight is the best bleach and all that, but on this particular thread I'm reporting the goading and merailing.

Your average employer can test who is female by using their eyesight. Blind employers can use their hearing. It’s worked since the dawn of time.

Why don't you start your own thread robin with all the questions that you are demanding women answer?

This is a thread to celebrate adult human females and I am fucking celebrating that.

This is a celebration thread, not a discussion thread. Ignore ignore ignore.

So, that's a good dose of 'Woman: adult human female' as a slogan.

Adult and human are relatively easy. But as an employer, or a service provider, how is 'female' to be tested, practically?

Happy IWD vipers!!

Happy Women's Day, all you wonderful WomenBornWomen. I am proud to be working towards our collective liberation, and hope for better things for future generations of women and girls.

I'm late to feminism but I genuinely owe it to Mumsnet for helping me to discover it.

Better late than never I suppose 🤷🏼‍♀️

Happy IWD 🍷🏆

Happy international women’s day

We all know exactly what a woman is because every single human across all time came out of one.

Woman; born not worn

Happy IWD to all the regulars and lurkers and those who have been banished!

There are more of us than we think. Next IWD things are going to look very different I think. Puuuuull.....

(If you haven't already please, please fill in the Scottish GRA consultation.)

Happy International Women's Day!!

We have a definition already

Woman
noun
Adult human female

The only one which makes any sense.

Happy IWD and here's to absent friends 🥂 - Lang, Magdalen and all the other fabulous women who have been cancelled, no platformed, fired, bullied, threatened, silenced, censored, frightened and kicked off all and every social media platform by predictable and tedious misogynists, whose chapter is closing fast.

There are more of us than you think.

@RobinMoiraWhite check the dictionary for a definition of woman. Adult human female. Nothing in there about gender feelz
.

Oh, and happy HUMAN FEMALE day,
fellow female humans!

What practical positive step are you taking to advance the position on women on IWD?

Reminding them that as the sex who can get pregnant and still get sacked for it, retaining the word for our sex is the foundation stone of all of our sex based rights? Oh, and that anyone from the opposite sex who appropriates the word woman for themselves probably doesn't have women's best interests at heart. I'm also fighting for the right to be able to call a man a man. It's pretty important for women's advancement that we be able to say "you're not a woman, this is not what woman means" to any man. We appear to have lost the right to do that recently. I'm supporting women's fight to reject men's claims on womanhood.

Female
Girl
Woman

A sex. Not a gender.

Happy IWD!

As I near the end of my year of maternity leave, I am so proud of what my body has accomplished in growing, birthing and continuing to nurture (via bf) my own little woman.

I am so grateful for the hard work and sacrifices of women before me, who have fought for the rights I have. At the same time, the past year has strengthened my resolve as a feminist that we still have such a long way to go to achieve equality, not just for ourselves, but for all the women and girls around the world.

I think that we should claim IWD back from being this corporatised, fully branded and themed version.

Woman
noun
Adult human female

Yep, that definition works just fine for me.

Happy International Womens Day all you adult human females.

And to those who say they want a definition of ‘woman’ to celebrate IWD - great idea, but let’s have one that works. What do you think that is ........

We have a definition already

Woman
noun
Adult human female

What practical positive step are you taking to advance the position on women on IWD?

And to those who say they want a definition of ‘woman’ to celebrate IWD - great idea, but let’s have one that works. What do you think that is ........

Woman
noun
Adult human female

And yes ignore the merail