What is a woman, by modern standards and definitions?

A woman is just a set of gender stereotypes in today's lingusitic currency. if you don't align with all of the streoptypes, only with some, then you are 'non-binary'. Whatever - you are still female whatever you call yourself.

That the word woman has become a contested word is part of the problem.
If you don't subscribe to gender ideology it is not a contested concept and therefore doesn't require re-thinking. It is not an imperative.

Those that do subscribe to gender ideology can never give a meaningful definition - other than it means what someone feels. It is imperative upon them to come up with some coherent meaning.

Notatmine · Today 07:33

Or ‘ it’s complicated’. After which follows no definition, because it’s so complicated.

It's so complicated and difficult that only they can understand, but even they can't explain it to twitching morons like us.

Adult human female for me. That's it.

2 sexes.

At present most institutions seem to accept a woman is anyone who says they feel they are one in that particular moment

It's neither complicated or needs any re defining.

You are born either male of female and develop into a man or a woman.

You can't change sex of biological facts you are 💯 female or 💯 male.

anyone can live their lives how they choose and dress/act how they choose but don't expect everyone else to accept your preferences

Equally there are only 2 genders.

I'm not sure that the WHO would have intended that meaning but anyway.

For example, I don't think breast feeding is merely a "social construct", but tied up with biology.

I don't think higher male aggression is purely a "social construct", but tied up with biology.

Painting a boy's room blue rather than pink may be a social convention, but there may be real differences in what activities that likely enjoy compared to girls, that aren't forced on them by social convention.

These aren't my words, I just lifted them from the WHO website. Hence the quote marks. It doesn't explicitly explain what a woman is but the extrapolation is simple. A woman is someone who is biologically female.

I can't help you with your personal likes and dislikes. If gender roles aren't a social construct what are they?

What's the difference between a lion and a lioness? We should get Dave Attenborough to answer this question once and for all.

The expectations on women may vary somewhat from culture to culture ( gender roles) but a woman is the female of the species.

Because it comes from a luxury position that most women in the world do not enjoy. People, the world over, and in every human society, understand what a woman is. It isn't a theoretical talking point. You are either male or female, and when you have matured as a female you are a woman. A woman is obviously an adult human female - whatever your native language.

Err I was being tongue in cheek, but whatever.

This has to be one of the most desperate arguments I have ever heard.

you do realise that we understand the biological processes behind the ‘feeling’ of hunger? The hunger is just the end expression of the biological process created by needing more energy intake ( food). Some people have conditions which cause them to feel hungry when they do not need more energy intake.

Just like we understand the biological processes that cause hunger, we understand the biological differences that make someone either male or female.

Plus, we also know there are lots of feelings not located in reality. Anorexics are not really fat. People with body dysmorphia are not really ugly, people with delusions of grandeur are not really grand.

When examined, your example actually undermines, not supports, your argument.

I’ve studied a lot of religions and they all understand who is in the sex class woman and who in the sex class man. There are whole laws and shit affecting each sex class. So no, Shon Faye, it doesn’t shift over time and place. The laws and restrictions and freedoms attached to each sex class changes over time and place, but the understanding of what places you in either sex class remains constant.

So Shon, stop making stuff up and culturally mis understanding and colonizing other cultures to fictionalise your non-case. Cos nothing says ‘ I don’t have an argument’ like making stuff up.

As PP said. ‘it’s feelings’

Or ‘ it’s complicated’. After which follows no definition, because it’s so complicated. Which is surprising. After all, theoretical physics is terribly complicated, but academics in that can still define their terms and concepts. Queer and gender theory is the one area in academia unable to define any of its key concepts.

The only possible explanation of this failure to define key terms is that, deep down, they know none of it holds together and will collapse as soon as one attempts to make it make sense.

But this doesn't tell us what a "woman" is, it just says that there is a distinction between gender and sex.

OK, and being a woman depends on sex then?

I also personally dislike using a definition of gender that it's all "social construct", because at the psychological or gender role level, I doubt that's correct.

It's "hate speech" to ask the trans-activists to explain what they mean?

You realise that this is laughable and will just be seen as an attempt to evade the question?

Under our new gender identity overlords “woman” = “blank canvas upon which men project their desires, needs, rage, envy, perception of stereotypes and fetishes”.

We do not exist in our own right, we are merely validation props, support humans, templates for facsimile, a resource for consumption and occasionally (when that icky biology stuff can’t be completely suppressed) uterus havers, menstruators, vagina owners or birthing parents.

Meet the new misogynistic boss, same as the old misogynistic boss.

Ask James Bond.

I'm a woman but ONLY because of my biological sexed body.

If that isn't what makes me a woman, fine. I'll be a person. With a fanny.

Sounds as if I’m a woman, which comes as quite a surprise, despite being the only one who even attempts toilet cleaning in my house.

Pretty soon we would have all the male gibbertyflipitfudgeballs wanting in on the action
I do feel this is often what it boils down to, the need to dominate & always come out on top.

these days it feels like woman = territory for men to invade if they feel like it!
shape of the pelvis is maybe a big factor?
also the 'Q angle'?