#what is a woman

[radsplain]

the gag is that everyone knows what a woman is and there is absolutely no confusion about it whatsoever. not even amongst the most zealous of tras

[quasi-dilla]

In the unfortunately common discourse of "What is a woman?", I feel that TRAs/gender ideologues/etc. completely forget the difference between a necessary and a sufficient condition. The production of ova is a sufficient condition to being a woman: that is, if you produce ova, you are a woman. It is not a necessary condition, meaning that you can be a woman who doesn't produce ova. Similarly, production of sperm is a sufficient condition to being a man.

I'm sick of dealing with people who don't even understand the words they're using.

[lorynna]

[queercodedangel]

Relevant video for International Women's Day ❤️

"Not only does one need the social world to be a certain way in order to lay claim to what is one’s own, but it turns out that what is one’s own is always from the start dependent upon what is not one’s own, the social conditions by which autonomy is, strangely, dispossessed and undone.

In this sense, we must be undone in order to do ourselves: we must be part of a larger social fabric of existence in order to create who we are. This is surely the paradox of autonomy, a paradox that is heightened when gender regulations work to paralyze gendered agency at various levels.

Until those social conditions are radically changed, freedom will require unfreedom, and autonomy is implicated in subjection."

- Judith Butler, Undoing Gender

[chrrywnee]

Gender is a concept. Think of it like beauty, everyone sees it differently, there’s is no definite way to describe what a woman is because it’s not real. There are female, male, and intersex bodies. Saying that male bodies cannot identify with being a woman is like saying that someone cannot be beautiful because you think you are beautiful and you don’t think they are.

Hope this makes sense. I was thinking to myself “as a feminist, what is a woman” and my answer is simple. woman is a feeling belonging to whoever’s feeling it. Why is it our place to decide how people feel. Everybody feels different. It’s nothing you can define or dictate.

[saint-augustines-pears]

Actually, no, we should know what a woman is. If you’re going to challenge a term, you have to come up with a new definition. If we are going to have a rational conversation, all terms must be defined.

If woman doesn’t mean adult female human, what does it mean? If you’re getting defensive reading this, that’s a problem. You should be able to know what you’re arguing for. You should be able to tell people what you’re arguing for. Otherwise, what the fuck are you even doing? Why are you arguing about something that, if undefined, logically does not exist?

I would love for everyone to be happy. Delusion is not happiness. I need to know whether this is delusion or not.

[regularwomen]

You say you feel like a woman. Why does that make you a woman?

There are people who feel they are animals. Why aren’t they animals?

There are people who feel like they are fictional characters. Why aren’t they fictional characters?

There are people who feel like they are people of colour. Why aren’t they people of colour?

Why is womanhood uniquely available for parody and mockery? Why is woman a term that can’t be strictly defined? What is it you feel that is inherent to womanhood? I don’t think most women feel anything like that, does that make them not women? Are you somehow an expert on womanhood to the point that you can say that what you feel is related to being a women, despite not being one?

What is a woman?

Why does that make you a woman?

[beirarowling]

Never forget!

[feminismisstillahatemovement]

Reminder that "What Is A Woman", the best and most important documentary of the past year, is still available to watch for free on Twitter here, with over 180 million views in the past 10 days.

[banjo15]

Maybe the women were the friends we made along the way😔

[lorynna]

So close radfem isn't a thing because you don't support all women. So you are not a feminist and will never be one. Stop looking for validation and maybe do smth with that air head >-<

i support ALL women (definition: adult human female with at least one X-Chromosome and with no functioning SRY-gene) ❤️

[elierlick]

I spoke with NBC about how What Is a Woman? inspired a new form of far-right pseudo-documentary. Deceptive editing that aims to delegitimize the existence of trans people isn't innovative, but it is more widespread now than ever (link)

[theexodvs]

A woman is someone who covers their drink when an outspoken autogynephile is in the same room.

[momgothic]

you ask me to define being a woman, and i know, truly what you want me to answer. you want me to stumble over the definition so you can act like its such a simple, biological fact.

if i asked you to define a man, you would probably tout your dick around like its what defines your personhood. and that may be true for you. maybe your entire being is dependent on your penis. how sad.

but theres men out there without penises, obviously. if i chopped off your dick right now, would you stop being a man?

“a woman is someone able to bear children” so the woman struggling with infertility isn’t a woman?

“a woman is someone who makes eggs in their body”

“a woman is someone with a vagina”

“a woman someone with two XX chromosomes”

all of this has been proven false. and you cant say “well theres exceptions to the rule” because then it is not a definition.

you want me to DEFINE womanhood. you want me to mathematically prove what it is to BE a woman. one exception makes it untrue.

so the question you’re asking isn’t biological. theres too many variants in biology and honestly the question itself isn’t even routed in it.

because i know what you want me to answer.

you want that simple, mythical biology to impact that way a person acts, what a person wears, etc etc. so truly you’re asking a philosophical question.

what is a woman?

but even the oldest philosophers have trouble describing womanhood. even the men that your profile picture depicts some vague statue of, they too had no true definition of even what it means to be HUMAN let alone what these measly genders had to do with it.

and here i could mention some ambient forms of femininity. i could envoke the word of the divine feminine authors. but that too would be so narrow.

because women are thunderstorms wrath and sunny grass pastures, all those waxing poetics softness with edge, it all sounds great. powerful.

but i and many other women spent this evening playing video games in sweatpants without a bra on. that too is femininity.

many women are great cooks. many women burn things in the microwave.

the reason your question is met with bumbling or stuttering is because women are quite too large to be truly defined. “woman” is not a monolith or a hive mind.

“why are women so”

“why do all women do”

you dont know what a woman is. you havent delved into the complexity of humanity enough if you believe half of the worlds population can be defined by a single sentence.

i know what you want the answer to be. you want me to throw my sisters who have worked so hard to be themselves under the bus. i wont do that.

you ask a stupid question. a question without an answer. you may read this and think “how dumb do you have to be to not know what a woman is”

its not that i dont know. well, maybe i dont. but at least i understand the complexities of human nature more than a man who doesnt even want to consider the world may be bigger than the confines of a twitter post.

at least i know compassion towards the struggles of other people who are different than me. that people are diverse and most of all have free fucking will.

you want ask “what is a woman” so you can put down others with oversimplification, so that when i ask you “what is a man” you dont even have to think about it.

you dont even have to CONSIDER that a man is anything different than what you are, the energy you exude. but you wont stop to consider that wanting to be a man is exactly what makes you one. and WHY exactly that makes you one.

oscar wilde said to define is to limit.

and thats exactly what you want to do. you want there to be limitations on femininity. you want women to be small, controlled. you want a woman to fit in a definable sentence because you have never had enough empathy or compassion to explore the depth of what it means to be a woman.

you are afraid. afraid of discovering the world is so much bigger than you ever knew. that something so simple as a woman could be more complex than the word vagina. to you, thats all a woman is. the reason you see a woman as so easily definable, so easily described is because your tiny mind cannot comprehend anything beyond an object.

you see a woman and you see a walking vagina. your complexity of a woman is a scale of “fuckable to not fuckable”.

and that is to keep them manageable. keep them defined in that tiny box so you can live your life not having to learn anything else.

what is a man?

tell me. no, tell me. what is a man?

take away your dick and what are you?

[feminismisstillahatemovement]

The documentary What Is A Woman is still presently viewable for free on Twitter, with 150 million views in the last 24 hours.

[victusinveritas]