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

I've noticed that people tend to mix up concepts, values, and evidence.

Finding out that people have different mixes of sexed traits? That's evidence. Deciding how to define which traits make you a man or woman? That's conceptual.

Likewise, redefining 'woman' to mean people who are oppressed on the basis of sex is putting values ahead of concepts. I see what you were trying to do, feminist philosophers, I just think it was a bad move. Seriously, why couldn't you just say that women are female and they're oppressed as a matter of fact, instead of trying to smuggle oppression into the definition?

I've also noticed similar moves in other conversations about social justice. But I don't really want to say anything because I support the general goals, but mostly because people will get up me if I take issue with their redefinitions.