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The definition of "woman" is only a minefield on Twitter. In the real world everyone knows what it means.


And twitter is like 50% of Internet and marketing. I do not want to be harashed by some weirdos. Just give me authoritative source for the most recent translation from 1980ties English.

US went through Cultural Revolution, deal with it!


>US went through Cultural Revolution, deal with it!

Perhaps some did, certainly some more than others, but the pendulum always swings.


Would you enlighten me as to what it means, exactly? I'm not being facetious.


> Would you enlighten me as to what it means, exactly? I'm not being facetious.

Depends on whether you think that word define objective individual traits and sexual characteristics or it is purely subjective. That's the true debate. It cannot be both.

All I know is that 5/10 years ago everybody knew what that word meant...


mySelf.protect("Adult Human Females")

People who assert that the definition of "woman" isn't really in dispute usually say that women are "Adult Human Females." Others say this definition is exclusionary to some women, and therefore bigoted, and therefore an act of violence.




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