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Feminism: Sex and gender discussions

I don't have a gender because I refuse to believe in gender woo. But I'm not gender non conforming. What am I?

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Metabigot · 31/12/2022 00:13

Genderfree? I'm not agender or non binary as that implies believing in gender.

In times of old I would have described myself as a Woman, but as non biological women/ transwomen are now women I no longer want to use that word

Trans have spoilt the sex based meaning ot once had.

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Hollyhocky · 31/12/2022 00:24

You are still a woman, regardless of others appropriating the term.
You are an adult human female.

EarringsandLipstick · 31/12/2022 00:29

Don't be silly. You are still a woman, and nobody has spoiled it. The meaning is the same as it always was.

Metabigot · 31/12/2022 00:30

Yes, but if I identify as "gender free' it messes up the genderbollox as I'm technically both trans and GC which I find amusing. Plus I can be in the special club , for example refusing to state pronouns, whereas plain old woman gets you called bigot.

Also I AM gender free. I'm no longer willing to use the word woman until it means sex based again. Even the dictionaries have changed it.

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EarringsandLipstick · 31/12/2022 00:34

but if I identify as "gender free'

Why do you need to identify as anything?

If you are an adult human female, you are a woman. That has not, and will never, change.

It's a fact not an identity.

As to the use of words like 'transwoman' as long as it's used correctly, that's fine - once it's not TWAW.

I can't understand people tying themselves in linguistic & conceptual knots like this.

Metabigot · 31/12/2022 00:34

Woman is now a gendered term to most people. I'm not happy with that as I don't have a gender.

I think I just want to be a person

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EarringsandLipstick · 31/12/2022 00:35

Metabigot · 31/12/2022 00:34

Woman is now a gendered term to most people. I'm not happy with that as I don't have a gender.

I think I just want to be a person

🙄

Ofc it's not.

But whatever you like yourself.

Hollyhocky · 31/12/2022 00:36

Woman is a gendered term to AGPs. To everyone else it's just as it is...sex-based.

Metabigot · 31/12/2022 00:36

Have you seen the latest dictionary updates @EarringsandLipstick

It's even in the dictionary now

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Metabigot · 31/12/2022 00:38

dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/woman

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londonmummy1966 · 31/12/2022 00:40

You could call yourself a penis free zone

Hollyhocky · 31/12/2022 00:41

Just because a few people who work for the Cambridge dictionary have decided to put that in for whatever reason, it doesn't mean it reflects what most of us actual women think.

ILikeDungs · 31/12/2022 00:42

No dictionary definition is so powerful that it alters reality though.

ErrolTheDragon · 31/12/2022 00:42

Metabigot · 31/12/2022 00:36

Have you seen the latest dictionary updates @EarringsandLipstick

It's even in the dictionary now

The first definition of woman in those dictionaries is still 'an adult female human being'. The fact they've added the misuse of woman does not negate this - it's still what most people mean.

Metabigot · 31/12/2022 00:43

londonmummy1966 · 31/12/2022 00:40

You could call yourself a penis free zone

Mr metabigot would not like that 😒

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Redebs · 31/12/2022 00:45

😁

LangClegsInSpace · 31/12/2022 00:46

You are a woman. That's it. You don't need to 'identify as' anything. It's all bollocks.

If you encounter problems at work or while accessing services then you can say that you have gender critical beliefs, i.e. that there are two sexes, sex cannot be changed, sex is important in some circumstances.

Sex is a protected characteristic in the EA but it has been so weakened that we apparently have to rely on the protected characteristic of religion or belief instead. I hate this but it is how it is in many circumstances.

CallieQ · 31/12/2022 00:46

Gender bender

Metabigot · 31/12/2022 00:47

Gender transcender

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londonmummy1966 · 31/12/2022 00:48

Metabigot · 31/12/2022 00:43

Mr metabigot would not like that 😒

You could give him a pass for good behaviour....

Metabigot · 31/12/2022 00:48

I guess I'm peed off that any old man can call himself woman.

But yes, i shouldn't give in so easily

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Ivyonafence · 31/12/2022 00:49

How ridiculous.

These threads are so tedious.

Metabigot · 31/12/2022 00:49

Ivyonafence · 31/12/2022 00:49

How ridiculous.

These threads are so tedious.

No ones forcing you to post

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Tintackedsea · 31/12/2022 00:50

I yam what I yam...

Woman is your word. It belongs to you.

Metabigot · 31/12/2022 00:50

Unless you enjoy killing the mood that is?

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CallieQ · 31/12/2022 00:51

Tbh I don't understand the question