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

It's not my definition.

Whose definition is it then? Where does it come from?

I have provided links to the world's most respected and trustworthy dictionaries starting with Johnson's showing that all agree that a woman is an adult human female. I have looked through the 20-30 dictionaries and longstanding style guides that I have in my own house, and at every online dictionary I can find, and I have not come across a single one that says as you do that a woman is a person of either sex

who identifies with the social class that is culturally associated to the female sex.

Yet you insist that the definition of woman you put forward is the definition that is the most commonly used, most widely understood and universally agreed-on and accepted. When asked to provide evidence that this is really the case, you provide none. You just keep insisting that since you personally believe the word woman means what you have said means, it must be so - and that's that. Just like Humpty Dumpty did to Alice.