Please define “woman”.
This is not sarcasm. What you’ve generally been taught about the binariness of these terms is an oversimplification to say the least, and wrong. Read Galileo’s Middle Finger as an excellent primer.
This is not sarcasm. What you’ve generally been taught about the binariness of these terms is an oversimplification to say the least, and wrong. Read Galileo’s Middle Finger as an excellent primer.
But now, there is no accepted definition of woman - because of trans-people, or intersex, or people say that women who are sterile are still women. And they are all correct.
So there is no definition of "woman" so anyone can declare their womanhood - which means there will eventually be no womens clubs, womens shelters, womens sports or womens scholarships - because without a definition of what a woman is, anyone who claims womanhood can have those too.
Is that a problem? Who knows, and only time will tell.
Sterile women were still women. As typically were some other accidents of nature like testosterone-resistant males.
Language changes over time, and so we assigned the word woman recently more to a gender rather than social status or sex.
Polish is more permissive in this particular "pregnant woman" alleged issue, we have a gendered noun equivalent "pregnant" or long form "woman in pregnancy". Though nobody is yet using form "man in pregnancy" or "pregnant man" except as a joke.
This is the problem. For every definition of woman I can give you, you can easily dispute with counter argument. So we get "something". Undefined, because every definition is flawed. We end up with an overcomplicated system because we want to be accurate. If you think woman is a woman and pizza is a pizza - you are wrong. And we make so much fuss about it.
That the edge points of group inclusion become more subjective or inconclusive, does not abnegate the very obvious reality of overall group determination.
We fully accept that there is a material ratio of people who don't fit clear categorization ... but most people do ... and that' really important artifact of sex and gender.
It's not 'grey'.
It's mostly 'pretty black and pretty white' with some interesting bits in the middle.
We are 'mostly' binary, it's really obvious, and fighting against that fact is a woeful place for people and institutions to lose all of their credibility, which over time they will, and it will be bad.
'Wrong side of history' bad.
We're already trying to convince people that vaccines are generally safe, and to accept that 'the grey areas' of gender do truly exist and to stop hating on trans people, to stop being racist etc.. Those are the important things.
And from a populist perspective, I can't imagine a bigger losing strategy than shaming people for saying 'Pregnant Women'.
There are so many obvious 'good fights' to be worked on (not just social issue either), let's focus there.