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What is the biological definition of a woman (and man)?

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Wombat2WombatCombat · 09/02/2022 21:50

I understand the argument for single sex spaces, but just for the avoidance of any doubt, does anyone have an exact, biological definition of a woman (or man) that we can hold people to? If we want to enforce the idea of single-sex spaces, we will need an exact criteria to determine who is or isn’t a ‘real’ woman, so I was wondering if anyone could tell me exactly what that is?

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ExtraPlinky · 11/02/2022 22:05

" in the same way that identifying as ‘black’ causes the word ‘black’ in that context to take on an entirely different meaning to the ‘black’ race"

What the actual FUCK are you saying now? And how racist is this?

Doubletoilandtrouble · 11/02/2022 22:05

Love this. Is the OP really assuming that a bunch of well educated women (of which many are mums helping with schools homework) don’t know what homonyms are?

viques · 11/02/2022 22:06

@Ncwinc

We’ve managed to figure it out pretty well for years!
a glass can be made of plastic because it doesn’t need to have the property of being made of glass

Oh, I see the OP is invoking the penis beaker argument. I think we are done for my fellow adult females, there is no response that we can make that can usurp the superiority of the penis beaker.

Helleofabore · 11/02/2022 22:06

I will repeat my questions from a few pages ago.

Please define 'nobody', 'issue', 'specifically' and in fact, 'define' in depth and to our satisfaction. And be assured that if you simply refer to the dictionary, or to google we shall swivel to ask for further clarification of the terms you have used in your definition.

Also, 'wombat'. And when does a wombat cease to be a wombat and not a possum or a kangaroo.

Also, 'combat'. When does combat become combat and what is all its iterations so we can be sure you have covered all combat and not left anything out to be undefined.

And please make sure no definitions are circular.

I would answers to these please.

viques · 11/02/2022 22:07

Sorry Ncwinc, not sure how that happened, did not mean to quote you.

Helleofabore · 11/02/2022 22:07

Quite. Apart from anything else, the disgraceful erasure of trans men who have given birth that is Implied by wombats post is to be deplored and requires further explanation.

yes

RVN123 · 11/02/2022 22:10

Just bowing out now.

Men are not women. Nor are they a subset of women.

They can and will never be women.
Because women means and will always mean ADULT HUMAN FEMALE.

THEY HATE US .........CAUSE THEY AINT US!

GO the ladies and men of the sex and gender board! Woo woo!

Plasmodesmata · 11/02/2022 22:11

I'm a little teapot, short and stout....

Sophoclesthefox · 11/02/2022 22:11

Also bowing out.

Thank you, wombat, for such an enlightening read.

It’s been a revelation.

Hope you got your screenshots, hun x

GromblesofGrimbledon · 11/02/2022 22:12

Eh? What? What's all this shite?

TWANW.

RoseslnTheHospital · 11/02/2022 22:12

@Doubletoilandtrouble

Love this. Is the OP really assuming that a bunch of well educated women (of which many are mums helping with schools homework) don’t know what homonyms are?
Quick to seize an opportunity to patronise the good women of FWR.
NecessaryScene · 11/02/2022 22:13

Well, this was certainly a thread.

(In case anyone was unsure what "thread" means).

allmywhat · 11/02/2022 22:14

Chocolate teapots are teapots. FIGHT ME YOU COWARDS.

littlbrowndog · 11/02/2022 22:16

It was abou5 teapots I think wasn’t it

Or something like a person didn’t know what a man or a woman is and needed help

Ask your mum wombat

Doubletoilandtrouble · 11/02/2022 22:17

It really is so disappointing. I have really want to have something in common with transwomen. What immediately springs to mind is common concerns about children, homeschooling (post pandemic) and balancing all of that with work.

Then I get someone who assumes a mum doesn’t know about homonyms. I thought this was primary school stuff. I do try to help my children with it. But…you are not my child. Women on MN are not your mother.

DomesticatedZombie · 11/02/2022 22:19

Only boy teapots have spouts.

sanluca · 11/02/2022 22:19

Ok, when we get to penis beakers I am out.... women don't have penises, so why would I need a beaker?

DomesticatedZombie · 11/02/2022 22:19

Hips don't lie.

littlbrowndog · 11/02/2022 22:20

So the cat can drink out of it sanluca

sanluca · 11/02/2022 22:21

Is that for people who have a catgender?

RVN123 · 11/02/2022 22:21

@DomesticatedZombie

Only boy teapots have spouts.
Wait, if the spout breaks off in a tragic teapot accident, does that mean the tea pot is no longer a boy teapot?
DomesticatedZombie · 11/02/2022 22:21

Good news: it's nearly the end of the thread.

What is the biological definition of a woman (and man)?
sanluca · 11/02/2022 22:22

Stop it, what about girl teapots? How do they work?

RitaJosephina · 11/02/2022 22:22

I'm glad my 3 year old knows the difference between man and woman, maybe I can send you his nursery books @Wombat2WombatCombat

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