I am S p a r t a c u s

[PermissionToSpeakSir]

I am a woman.

I was a girl.

I am an adult human female.

Something a man can never be.

I am a woman.

People refer to me has her and she.

Sometimes said with deep contempt and misogyny.

I am a woman.

Something a male will never be.

I have a vagina and uterus.

I menstruate and have given birth.

I am a mother.

Something a male will never be.

I have been insulted, assaulted, belittled, dismissed, held back, intimidated, stereotyped, terrorised, mocked, shamed, humiliated because I am a woman.

Something a male can never be.

I feel insulted, appropriated, offended, anxious, tense, depressed, hurt and under siege, when a male claims to be a woman or anyone says a male can be female.

It is not civil or respectful to treat me this way.

I am a woman.

I am Spartacus.

GhostTess

Woman means of or denoting the sex that bears eggs. Not the sex that keeps bearing eggs.

If a woman went to the doctor because she couldn't gestate, she would be diagnosed and treated. Because it is an explicitly female problem.

If a man went to the doctor and said he couldn't gestate, he would be escorted from the building.

You seem to have enrolled in the Riley J Dennis School of because we can't see your chromosomes, we can't tell your reproductive sex.

Adult human female includes infertile women.

Adult human male does not.

Adult human female does not include adult human males.

Yes the dog was intersex. But note the owner's internalised sexism by insisting the dog had "feminine-looking" features. When will we stop forcing dogs to conform to society's expectations of what constitutes "masculine" and "feminine" canine appearance and behaviour?

Words, what do they mean?

Reasonable Human - Some people are blind

Very Silly Person - OMG are you saying they don't have eyes? That they're eyeless and therefore not human?

Reasonable Human - So, about that rhubarb crumble recipe...

MrsMc - Make a horse very happy?

Unless you're an exceedingly eminent biologist, whether you think the term 'female' should be redefined is completely and utterly irrelevant.

It's a biological term. It's based on material reality, objective not subjective.

AngryAttackKittens

If you die your hair blonde from brunette, are you still brunette?

Errol - I didn't know that about flippers. Thank you!

And, madja, I think you need to send me some rhubarb crumble so that I can test it. For quality assurance purposes.

I feel sorry that you can't open your hearts to your infertile sisters.

I don't know what forums you are used to posting on, but do you have any idea how that sounds to most people?

Coconut sugar is the sugar from the nectar of the flowers of the palm. According to the packet, it is low GI, and has iron and potassium as well as other trace minerals. It's healthier sugar I suppose
It's from Costco.
(I'm really trying to ignore the rest of the thread)

If you die your hair blonde from brunette, are you still brunette?

Yes. Your natural brunette colour will soon grow through and prove as such.

I have got a huge sack of oats - by accident. I was wondering if anyone could suggest what I can do with them.

Muesli? Granola? I have a recipe for oatmeal bread, which is very nice. Crumble.

Oh do stop being such a chump, GhostTess. So far in two days you have demonstrated an inability to use logic, linguistics, relativistic physics, biology, the term Spartacus and crumble recipes.

Can I suggest you find something you ARE good at and write interesting posts about that?

You are still a brunette and you have damaged you hair by trying to be something you are not.

GhostTess better come up with a good crumble recipe soon....

I am finding it incredibly distressing that GhostTess has repeatedly compared me as an infertile woman to transmen/trans men/whatever. You literally don't care about infertile women, you just want to use us in your shit for brains arguments. Stop it.

If you die your hair blonde from brunette, are you still brunette?

Your hair might superficially look blonde but it would be physically and chemically different to blonde hair. You'd still be a brunette.

I'll have to try coconut sugar as it sounds interesting. I love to bake and am always looking for new ingredients.

Yep! If I wear blue color contacts my eyes still aren't actually blue either.

Report it Professional.

have got a huge sack of oats - by accident. I was wondering if anyone could suggest what I can do with them
Erm, crumble, obvs

Datun

It's quite a long poem. Not an epic like The Wasteland but longer than MN might want on a thread!

It is haunting. I think it's about his fear that he has wasted his life and become ridiculous.

Maybe he spent too long arguing gender politics on t'interweb.

This bit at the end is lovely -

" I grow old ... I grow old ...

I shall wear the bottoms of my trousers rolled.

Shall I part my hair behind?Do I dare to eat a peach?

I shall wear white flannel trousers, and walk upon the beach.

I have heard the mermaids singing, each to each.

I do not think that they will sing to me.

I have seen them riding seaward on the waves

Combing the white hair of the waves blown back

When the wind blows the water white and black.

We have lingered in the chambers of the sea

By sea-girls wreathed with seaweed red and brown

Till human voices wake us, and we drown."

"Bottle blonde" was an old fashioned term for brunettes who dyed their hair blonde. Or peroxide blonde. I.e. not born blonde. Or, more simply, not blonde.

KittiesInsane

Huh, claims defaming my character. Your logical fallacy is Ad-Homiem. Rather than deal with the arguement here, which nobody has so you try to undermine it using character slurs. Please see the link below

yourlogicalfallacyis.com/ad-hominem

If Ghost's repeated attempts to drag infertile women into a very silly argument are making any women here feel insulted and targeted then they should most definitely report.