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[–]HouseplantWomen who disagree with QT are a different sex 4 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 0 fun5 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.

You have in essence said woman does not refer to a person, but a presentation a person may have, a feeling a person may have, or a set of social expectations. You have divorced woman from any meaning it had in order to fit the square peg into the round hole of catering to male feelings.

If this is just a system some incorrect people use, why do you keep speaking as though it’s correct and sensible? What other nouns do you think are totally context dependent and may mean opposing things, like a man with skirts and alleged feelings or an adult human female supposedly both share the name woman.

You have no power to change he la gauge but have spent days arguing that woman means what you say it does and not the majority of English speakers understand it to mean. Clearly you do feel you have some power to define the word over us, or you wouldn’t make claims that infer we aren’t women (eg womanhood is an identity and not a sex based experience means gc who do not entertain notions about gender are not women because they don’t have woman gender identity.)

[–]rubberdubberd00 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 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.

[–]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.