Merriam Webster dictionary adds definition of “female”

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The new definition says:

“Having a gender identity that is the opposite of male.”

So what's the definition of male?

Sorry, I have questions.

Did they also change it for the boys or is it a circular definition?

Did anyone tell them that defining a protected characteristic as not-dominant characteristic is horribly discriminatory.

Is this a bloody joke???? male is default?

hey Websters - define ‘f***s’

Having a gender identity that is the opposite of female 😂 so nobody is really anything and everyone is the opposite of something.

That's awful. They think that:
A female is a non-male.
Female is a gender (sorry gender-identity), not a sex.

However, have they committed the heresy of implying that there are only two genders? They'll be in trouble.

What’s a gender identity and how does it relate to the ability of a class to produce large or small gametes?

Och, Websters have been idiots for quite some time.

Fuck sake.

I don’t know my cat’s gender identity. Shall I have it speyed or castrated?

It's a bit exclusionary, really, when you think about it. They're saying there are only two sexes.

www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/opposite

Can we do anything about this nonsense?

So all female animals have a 'gender identity' then?

So they don't actually define female at all.

They do define female

theyve just added a new stupid definition

@IsItShining

Find a cat you know is male and hold them up to each other. If it’s the opposite of male (which means female) they’ll be pulled together but if it’s the same gender identity they’ll be pulled apart - oh no that’s magnets.

i wonder what the word is for the people with the kind of body that can gestate a baby?

I thought we were supposed to believe there is a clear distinction between gender and sex. If we accept female can be a gender as well as a sex, how do we have a clearly identify a member of the sex that is in female without confusion?

^this. This is everything. Right now. Except I thought I was on Twitter and couldn't just retweet.

So a cow is... a bovine mammal with a gender identity that is the opposite of male?

Glad we cleared that up. Muppets.

Womb-carrier? Latest I heard 'people with capacity to become pregnant'.

It's like they employed Baldrick from Blackadder.
"Dog - not a cat" or something like it. It's been a while since I've seen that episode.

They need to check their definition of what a definition is...

I genuinely despair at the lack of logical thought displayed by so many people these days.

They've employed a Gender Studies ideologue. I think I prefer Baldrick!

To be fair @SarahShorty we don’t know what 2022 Baldrick is up to. His somehow being entangled in Gender Woo would make sense - someone is churning out all those flags, after all… 🤔

Webster bases its definitions on actual use, so if they are seeing that use in the public sphere enough, it will start to appear in the dictionary. Standard dictionaries are descriptive rather than prescriptive.

Doesn't make it true just because some idiot pushing a political agenda got a job on a dictionary website.

Maybe these dictionary people should spend a bit less time on twitter & a bit more time in the real world.