Define “woman” without using a circular definition.

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On phone right now so not gonna get into this but I recommend reading a variety of radical feminist literature (many don’t define it as being the same as female). I also recommend reading papers on the metaphysics of gender (philosophy). Some notable authors being Haslanger, Witt, Sveinsdottir, and Warnke. You’ll find multiple definitions of gender that aren’t circular or depend on the simplistic dictionary definition (dictionaries often don’t include all definitions btw which is one of the reasons why appealing to them is a logical fallacy, which I’m sure you care about considering you dislike circular reasoning).

Getting really tired of seeing these posts.

I’m not here for philosophy. I’m here to talk about the material reality that is women. We aren’t concepts, let’s knock that off. 

“What does ‘woman’ mean?” Is a philosophical question. You can’t ask a philosophical question and then not expect people to give philosphical answers.

nope, it’s asking the definition of the noun. not everything is deep hon.

“Person”, “Truth” and “Good” are all nouns and the definition of what they are have been super deep questions. Not everything is deep but this is a deep.

woman: people who categorise themselves as members of the group “women” and/or are categorised by others as members of the group “women”.

you realise you used a circular definition right?

“woman” defined in terms of the abstract concept “women”, which is defined socially atop the usual phenotypical distinctions based largely on whether you are testosterone dominant or estrogen dominant, or however you like to categorise the biology of it.

lexical definition please, not bs theory.

lexical definition? Google suggests “plural of woman, adult human female”

my dictionary also defines masturbation as “self-abuse”, which confused me mightily as a child I have to say, but it’s from 1913 so I guess it can be forgiven.

*Puts down a Wartenberg wheel and a burning candle*

You mean that masturbation doesn’t mean “self-abuse”, and I was doing it wrong? Eh, whatever, I already like it this way.