My answer is "Women are individuals in that gendered category associated with reproductive labor." This one focuses more on the social relations in like a Marxist sense
"Woman" is a word. We use words to describe our world in conceptual terms, the word "woman" is used to describe people, but the person is paramount, people are more important than words.
Words are descriptive, not definitive.
Words are concepts, people are real.
anyone trying to exclude people from a definition have no idea how language works. words are created when we want to describe a concept. words have no inherent meaning. trans women are women because the word women is used to describe them. that’s it. transphobes have no valid linguistic argument
Exactly! Conservatives believe genders are like Platonic ideals or something, as though somewhere out in the metaphysics of the universe there's a thing called a man to which all other man-called-things must be compared.
Nope, no such Platonic ideals exist, it's all wibbly wobbly words.
Maybe not a perfectly definitive answer, but I think it's an answer that the "What is a woman?" crowd could get their head around (even if they'd never admit it), or at least the people listening in on the conversation.
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okay good, cause trans women are a tiny minority, aka an edge case
Idk where I got that from it's just something I remember.
That's nice to know.
this is like… the problem of how people see women
Whole thing. Start at 1:00 if you literally must, but whole thing is better.
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"Woman" is a word. We use words to describe our world in conceptual terms, the word "woman" is used to describe people, but the person is paramount, people are more important than words.
Words are descriptive, not definitive.
Words are concepts, people are real.
Nope, no such Platonic ideals exist, it's all wibbly wobbly words.
And pointing out that definition he then confidently gave also applied to horses.