Coming From Gender Critical

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[–]kissfan7 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (35 children)

Possibly dumb question, since I don’t fully understand gender critical feminism:

How do you all go about defining “woman”?

[–]Sun_bear 8 insightful - 3 fun8 insightful - 2 fun9 insightful - 3 fun -  (34 children)

Woman = adult human female

[–]kissfan7 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (33 children)

But how are you defining female?

[–]Sun_bear 8 insightful - 2 fun8 insightful - 1 fun9 insightful - 2 fun -  (32 children)

Female: of or denoting the sex that can bear offspring or produce eggs, distinguished biologically by the production of gametes (ova) which can be fertilized by male gametes.

[–]kissfan7 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (31 children)

But I mean not all women or girls can or want to bear offspring.

[–]Sun_bear 5 insightful - 2 fun5 insightful - 1 fun6 insightful - 2 fun -  (30 children)

So?

Women: the humans who have ovum

Men: the humans who have sperm

There's nothing about being able to have children or wanting to have children in that definition.

[–]kissfan7 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (29 children)

But not all women produce eggs, right?

[–][deleted] 5 insightful - 2 fun5 insightful - 1 fun6 insightful - 2 fun -  (27 children)

99.9999% do

[–]kissfan7 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (26 children)

At least 1.6% of the population is intersex, according to Google at least. So I'd guess that about 1%-2% of non-transgendered people who identify as women have some condition where they can't produce eggs.

[–][deleted] 4 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 0 fun5 insightful - 1 fun -  (8 children)

The 1% of intersex people are male or female, they aren't in the spectrum.

How does 1% of intersex people invalidate the two genders male and female?

[–]goodbyeplanet 4 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 0 fun5 insightful - 1 fun -  (16 children)

  1. look into statistical significance for defining groups.

  2. if someone has the external genitalia of a female upon birth, they will be subject to the patriarchy from day one, because it is assumed they will reproduce.

  3. intersex people have their own problems, and are not a shield for queer theory.

[–]Sun_bear 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Women don't "produce" eggs, they're born with all the ovum they'll ever have.