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“We risk imposing a singular idea of what a woman is”

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Areyouactuallyseriousrightnow · 01/07/2020 12:30

If we judge people not according to their behaviour, but according to what some third party perceives as their sex and gender, we risk imposing a singular idea of what a “woman” is..

In the Guardian today. Yes how unthinkable that we might risk there being only one clear definition of what a woman is... one as simplistic as for example ‘adult female’?

“We risk imposing a singular idea of what a woman is”
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Al1Langdownthecleghole · 01/07/2020 12:45

Some people really don’t like being told no by women.

TheSingingKettle49 · 01/07/2020 12:42

I’m getting sick of all this ‘masculine woman will be excluded’ bollocks - masculine women don’t look like men, I’ve never in my life mistaken a woman for a man. I don’t doubt that there is the odd occasion that a woman has been mistaken for a man but these must be so infrequent and easily cleared up with the words ‘I’m a woman, actually’ that it is just not relevant.

They’re being deliberately obtuse, they know that at the minute if a man goes into a women’s single sex space women can kick up a fuss and expect to be listened to but if any man can identify as a woman then any man can access a single sex space and women will to too afraid to ask them to leave for fear of being labelled transphobic and staff will be too afraid to ask them to leave for fear of being sacked.

The question that has to be answered by the people peddling this crap is how many women and girls are you prepared to sacrifice for your agenda? How many lives are you prepared to ruin?

Doyoumind · 01/07/2020 12:42

It's funny how we had a singular idea of what a woman was for millennia and it worked fine but now it is something that is being imposed.

Ereshkigalangcleg · 01/07/2020 12:37

Indeed, kittens

TheProdigalKittensReturn · 01/07/2020 12:33

You know what's an unacceptably "singular idea of what a woman is"? That a woman is a person who performs femininity.