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[–]rubberdubberd00 0 insightful - 1 fun0 insightful - 0 fun1 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

We all recognise it

So I guess you're all also sexist then, by your logic.

What you seem to be missing somehow is that society doing it doesn’t mean it’s good or that we should do it more.

What? When did I ever say that it was good? I think that the way that society defines gender is bad.

We have spent days saying it is sexism to redefine woman, a biologically distinct group, as an identity anyone can have.

And that is something that I've never done. I do not have the power to define, or redefine words.

I don't assume that when you say a woman is an "adult human female" that you are redefining the word according to what suits you. I understand that you are describing a way you believe the word is used. Why, when I describe a different definition, do you make this assumption?

We have spent days practically drawing diagrams of how it is sexist to say “a woman is anyone who identifies as a woman” and how this very statement infers that woman is not an adult human female but is instead a feeling, because words do not simply grow in meaning the way you have pointlessly insisted they do.

Wait... So am I understand that the problem is that you think that I think that adult human females do or should fit the definition that I've laid out for the word "woman"?

[–]HouseplantWomen who disagree with QT are a different sex 5 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 0 fun6 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

I don’t know what the fuck you think because you’ve given nothing but sexist examples of what a woman is, claimed you’re not sexist because society believes it, and apparently haven’t understood a single damn thing said to you.

Now because you can’t comprehend that any definition or understanding of woman that reduces a woman to a feeling, fashion statement, or stereotype is sexism I’m the sexist? because I already knew that society had shitty ideas about women already?

You use a sexist definition of what a woman is, by saying women are ideas. If a woman is a feeling or a fashion statement or stereotype a woman cannot be a human being. Just as a cow cannot also be a bicycle.

This strips the human away from the word used to describe them.

No, I don’t think you’re saying women should obey stereotypes of femininity. I’m saying you have repeatedly defined woman as a display of those exact stereotypes.

Nobody thinks you personally decided that woman means offensive stereotypes. We are saying that using those offensive stereotypes yourself is sexist.

If you still can’t get it idk, ask literally anyone else.

[–]MarkTwainiac 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

I do not have the power to define, or redefine words.

Yet you've spent the whole thread redefining the word woman in a very idiosyncratic way solely to suit yourself and to conform with the incredibly misogynistic views you espouse. You even acknowledge this outright in the last line of this particular post when you refer to:

the definition that I've laid out for the word "woman"

On this thread, I have linked to the most authoritative dictionaries of the English language which show that the time-honored, long-established meaning of the word woman is an adult human female. But throughout you have refused to accept that dictionaries written by learned lexicographers from Samuel Johnson to the current-day crew at the OED have any weight whatsoever. Instead you pretend that everyone just makes up their own definition of words, and therefore it's completely reasonable for you to

describe a different definition

for the word woman and to expect it to be taken just as seriously as the actual definition of woman documented in the world's most esteemed and trustworthy dictionaries. Which means you do in fact grant to yourself

the power to define, or redefine words.