'I am not just a woman'

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JellySlice · 27/05/2020 11:02

'Just'? Why 'not just'? Surely the phrase should have been "I am a woman"?

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OneEpisode · 27/05/2020 11:21

I think if the “just a woman” was in quotes they could have got away with it, but as it is it’s awful. I am a woman. I am just a woman. There is nothing wrong with being a woman, I’m proud of being “just a woman”.
I also lead lots of people at work & etc & etc.

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JellySlice · 27/05/2020 11:19

I interpret it as woman is not good enough, 'woman' is less than 'engineer'. That the expectation is that a woman is not the other attributes listed.

No 'and' would be necessary.

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fiftyandfat · 27/05/2020 11:11

I don't like that poster at all.
There is nothing wrong with being "just a woman".

AskingQuestionsAllTheTime · 27/05/2020 11:09

"I am not just/only/merely a woman, I am lots of other things as well" is the message, isn't it? How else would you phrase that to mean the same thing, in the format available? "I am a woman" and then other thing all starting with "and" would be clumsy, I think.

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