Why is there such a fevered effort to push women into an enterprise that most don't have an interest in?
“No woman should be authorized to stay at home to raise her children. Society should be totally different. Women should not have that choice, precisely because if there is such a choice, too many women will make that one… In my opinion, as long as the family and the myth of the family and the myth of maternity and the maternal instinct are not destroyed, women will still be oppressed.”
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simone_de_Beauvoir
[2] http://www.sandrineberges.com/the-home-a-philosophical-proje...
It's too bad that people listen to this tripe... women will never be "just like men".
They won't as long as you use a 1980's dictionary as a guideline. Use the 2023 Cambridge Dictionary and suddenly a woman is, among other things [1]:
- an adult who lives and identifies as female though they may have been said to have a different sex at birth
Suddenly 'women' can not only be 'just like men', they can be men.
As to the retort that "language evolves, get over it" I'll state that this is certainly true - language evolves - but not applicable here since this is not an example of language evolution but language revolution or revolutionary language. The movement to push these tropes started in the Humanities departments where language is the tool of choice. It is hard to win a battle if your opponent is in control of the armoury so make sure not to allow them this access - do not use revolutionary language. This is why pre-2000's paper copies of dictionaries and encyclopedias are worth keeping around.
[1] https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/woman
That's laughable... I guess this person doesn't believe humans have instincts, just like other animals.