It’s interesting that this question seems to be some sort of gotcha that almost always a posted response is a snarky joke. Just makes me wonder how do those people define a woman.
The actual answer is that a woman is a person who identifies as a woman. What bugs me is that conservatives disagree vehemently, but they don’t seem to have a consistent answer themselves
Most of them appeal to “basic biology” but biology is anything but basic. Just because you learned about chromosomes in your high school biology course doesn’t mean you’re actually knowledgeable on the subject. It’s much more complex than that. The best argument against this idea, in my opinion, is to bring up intersex people, which there’s a huge variety of different conditions and always one that will contradict whatever they believe.
This is all ignoring the fact that none of this matters, so maybe it’s best to not be baited into it at all. Gender is not something that needs some precise thing to point at. It’s whatever we want it to be.
It’s interesting that this question seems to be some sort of gotcha that almost always a posted response is a snarky joke. Just makes me wonder how do those people define a woman.
The actual answer is that a woman is a person who identifies as a woman. What bugs me is that conservatives disagree vehemently, but they don’t seem to have a consistent answer themselves
Most of them appeal to “basic biology” but biology is anything but basic. Just because you learned about chromosomes in your high school biology course doesn’t mean you’re actually knowledgeable on the subject. It’s much more complex than that. The best argument against this idea, in my opinion, is to bring up intersex people, which there’s a huge variety of different conditions and always one that will contradict whatever they believe.
This is all ignoring the fact that none of this matters, so maybe it’s best to not be baited into it at all. Gender is not something that needs some precise thing to point at. It’s whatever we want it to be.
They define it in all sorts of ways where there are immediate exceptions they have to hand wave away. We have someone like that in this thread.