My god, I’m so tired of this straw person so beloved of those who seek to dismantle the category of woman. Can we put it to bed for once and for all?
you're making reproductive organs the defining and most important characteristic of being a woman
No, TRHR. We’re not. You’re pretending that we are so that you can knock down our supposed argument, because you don’t have anything with which to knock down our actual arguments.
You are suggesting here that defining entails a sense of limitation of the people being referred to, as if by saying that only biologically female adults are women, we are saying that ergo women are nothing but their reproductive capacity.
I think we all know that’s bullshit, but I see this argument rolled out again and again, with “define” sometimes replaced by “reduce to” or similar.
The thing is that when we say the definition of “woman” is “adult human female”, we are not talking about limiting the actual people included here in any way, shape or form.
We are not reducing those women to any set of characteristics or personality attributes, we are not setting any expectations of behaviour or dress or feelings for these people, we are not proscribing what they cannot or must do to be seen as women. We are most certainly not saying that their reproductive potential is their most important characteristic, as you falsely claim we do.
We are recognising that in terms of personality, preferences and abilities there are infinite ways of being a woman, with the only guaranteed commonality being our shared biology (whatever state of functionality or health that biology may be in).
This is the bit you need to try and understand, TRHR; this is where your linguistic sleight of hand comes completely unstuck:
What we are limiting is not the people themselves, but the category. We are defining which group of people exactly fall under the heading “woman”, which people can and should reasonably and justifiably be included in that category, and which people can and should reasonably and justifiably be excluded.
That is the limit.
Not the people themselves.
The category.
Which people may reasonably be considered as belonging to that category.
Is that clear enough for you? Do you understand the difference between limiting people and limiting categories?
Will you now stop lying about what “GCs” think and say, tell all your friends that YOU GOT IT WRONG, stop spreading your misinformation all over the internet?
Or were you never interested in the truth anyway?
FML. To think this has to be said over and over again. I have had it up to HERE with the lies, the misrepresentations, the projections.
JUST STOP IT ALREADY
Final word to @NoDoublethinkXX, awesome black radfem lawyer, formerly of the parish of Twitter, because she phrased it so elegantly and succinctly:
Imagine lacking the intellectual capacity to understand having a class defining characteristic is not a reduction thereto.