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[–]rubberdubberd00 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (4 children)

If you can’t see how it’s sexist to believe that woman is a feeling a man can have or a display a man can make, you aren’t going to see the sexism however it’s illustrated.

I can't. I see sexism every day, but I can't see that a definition can be sexist. Definitions describe, they don't dictate.

If this is just a system some incorrect people use, why do you keep speaking as though it’s correct and sensible?

I am not speaking as though it's sensible, I think that gender is regressive and should be abolished. Do not take my description of how words are used as a moral position.

Clearly you do feel you have some power to define the word over us

Again, I can't choose how words are defined. All I have done in this thread is to describe how words are used.

And anyone who considers themself a woman is a woman in my book, as I have also repeatedly said.

[–]MarkTwainiac 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

OMG, this is unbelievable. After spending days insisting that the definition of the word woman is not a human being who is adult and female, but rather that the word woman is defined in the peculiar way you personally have decided and decreed it to be defined, you say

I can't choose how words are defined.

Then in true Humpty Dumpty style, in practically the next breath you turn around and say

anyone who considers themself a woman is a woman in my book, as I have also repeatedly said.

Obviously, when you use the phrase "in my book," you must be referring to a niche title of recent vintage such as The Big Book of Gender Woo; Golden Book's Guide to Gender Gibberish; or The Front Hole Monologues (aka Andrea Long Chu's vile Females), not to any estimable, time-honored tome like Dr Johnson's landmark lexicon of the English language, or any other reputable dictionary of English such as the OED or other dictionaries published under the Oxford imprint.

https://public.oed.com/history/

[–]HouseplantWomen who disagree with QT are a different sex 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

And the description of woman as a feeling and a display of personal style is sexism. I give up. This is hopeless. I doubt you’d ever see sexism in your life even if it screamed “females are subhuman” right in your face then slapped a little girl, if you so adamantly refuse to acknowledge the sexism you’ve repeatedly typed out here.

[–]rubberdubberd00 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

Right. I'm sure it makes your world view easier to imagine that any "adult human females" who don't share it are just incapable of recognising sexism. It's certainly a convenient out for having to explain why you think my views are sexist.

[–]HouseplantWomen who disagree with QT are a different sex 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

I have explained. Your failure to understand is not any sort of an out.