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[–]SnowAssMan 5 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 0 fun6 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

A1) Man & woman are the combination of sex & gender. If you want gender separated from sex, that's called masculinity & femininity.

A2) because otherwise feminism wouldn't work, since communication is integral to the movement, & language is integral to communication, & terms like 'woman' are integral to discussions on topics surrounding women's issues?

A3) Male refers to the person's sex. Denying that trans people have a sex that is mismatched from their gender is denying trans people exist. The uterus remains female whether the person it belongs to identifies with female sexual organs, or with male ones. Even a foetus' uterus is female, even a corpse's is.

[–]JollyPurple 6 insightful - 1 fun6 insightful - 0 fun7 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

Man & woman are the combination of sex & gender.

Is there another word for JUST adult female human? Why must woman mean sex and gender? Isn't that sexist? That's saying that any women are women because we identify with our oppression.

[–]SnowAssMan 4 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 0 fun5 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Yes, woman does just mean adult human female, gender is only added as an acknowledgement of culture. I don't think it's sexist to say women are "defined" by their oppression via being socialised into femininity, since that's precisely how feminist theory describes 'woman'.