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[–]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.