There is a petition doing the rounds to change the definition of "woman" in the dictionary, and it all sounds very good.
Have you ever searched online for the definition of a woman? 'Bitch, besom, piece, bit, mare, baggage, wench, petticoat, frail, bird, bint, biddy, filly' - these are the words which the Oxford's English Dictionary online tells us mean the same as ‘woman’. This sexist dictionary must change.
This petition is to ask Oxford University Press to:
^Eliminate all phrases and definitions that discriminate against and patronise women and/or connote men’s ownership of women;
Enlarge the dictionary's entry for ‘woman’;^
Sounds good, but then tucked in at the end
Include examples representative of minorities, for example, a transgender woman, a lesbian woman, etc.
Disappointingly this is from the Fawcett society.