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[–]ArthnoldManacatsaman 7 insightful - 1 fun7 insightful - 0 fun8 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

This annoys me for two reasons:

  1. Misogyny, obviously.

  2. Woke Ideologues don't understand how dictionaries work. You can't write to a dictionary and ask them to change definitions you find politically inconvenient. Dictionaries are not prescriptive, dictating how you should use words, they are descriptive, describing how words are used in a given speech community. This is why 'literally' being defined as 'figuratively' is fine, because people actually use 'literally' that way. Very much preaching to the choir here but we cannot allow 'woman' to be diluted in this way, because then the dictionary will have to include it. Thankfully, after a cursory look at the websites of several dictionary providers (Collins, Chambers, M-W, OED, etc.) none of them have anything other than 'adult human female' (or slight variances in wording) as the primary definition of woman. Just so.