QT: If women can be male, wtf is a woman then? What term, if any, should we use to describe the female sex?

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[–]SilverSlippers 7 insightful - 1 fun7 insightful - 0 fun8 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

I wasn't talking about 'meaning in the universe' or any of that philosophical nonsense. I was talking about the point of life from a biological perspective; which is evolution. Our bodies, our brains, everything about us and every other organism on this planet evolved to be good a making copies of themselves. The universe is meaningless, just following the laws of physics. Living things are the only matter in the universe that have any sense of purpose - which is to copy themselves.

[–]MarkTwainiac 5 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 0 fun6 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

Yes, all living things have as their paramount purpose the perpetuation and preservation of their own species. Evolutionary theorists clarified the mechanisms and reasons for this, but the fact that it's a basic drive/instinct has been articulated since humans started composing oral and written narratives. From tribal genealogies going back centuries to the Biblical dictate to "go forth and multiply."

And the aim of sexual reproduction isn't just for organisms to "make copies of themselves," it's to exchange genetic material with another being of the same species but somewhat different DNA so that the offspring and ensuing generation(s) might have slight genetic alterations that improve the chance of individuals and the entire species surviving.

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

Yes. This is a better way of putting what I was trying to get at.