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[–] Beardbuster@lemmy.world 4 points 13 hours ago (2 children)

A woman is one of those things where know you one when you see one. Doesn't have to be any more complex than that.

Like Jiminy Cricket said, "Let your conscience be your guide"

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[–] carpelbridgesyndrome@sh.itjust.works 35 points 23 hours ago (2 children)

I'm having trouble finding anyone born with intention. Neither biology nor evolution have plans or intentions. We are fundamentally lipid based sacks of water.

[–] 5too@lemmy.world 6 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

They're arguing from a religious perspective that understands God as providing intentionality

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[–] qaz@lemmy.world 4 points 16 hours ago (3 children)

They said "without excluding" not "without including"

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[–] svcg@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 13 hours ago (4 children)

My understanding was that current consensus was that humans with ovaries are born with all of the eggs already created - waiting to be released - and no more are created after that. So you're either born holding eggs or you ain't, and intention and capability don't come into it.

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[–] cyphear@lemm.ee 23 points 1 day ago

Ah, I can see Diogenes has made an impact on people.

[–] Realitaetsverlust@lemmy.zip -2 points 10 hours ago (34 children)

From a biological perspective, this question has been answered already as it's really not that hard.

Many people apparently just don't like the answer.

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[–] altphoto@lemmy.today 11 points 1 day ago

A woman is when a guy crosses the line. You say "Wo! Man!"

[–] bleistift2@sopuli.xyz 101 points 1 day ago (4 children)

I find the phrase “Born with the intention” in itself worthy of head-scratching.

[–] Venus_Ziegenfalle@feddit.org 36 points 1 day ago (13 children)

I think its meant sort of as physical intention aka the body doesn't have the ability to "hold eggs" (jfc) yet but will try to develop the capability in the future. A sneaky way to try and include infertile cis women but it still excludes many of them as there are various reasons for infertility. Interestingly the phrasing also excludes all women post menopause but that's to be expected given the amount of representation those usually get (the amount being zero).

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[–] chirospasm@lemmy.ml 130 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Diogenes would be proud here

[–] drcobaltjedi@programming.dev 84 points 1 day ago (8 children)

My first thought too.

To anyone unaware, plato defined man as "a featherless biped" so Diogenes brought a plucked chicken

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[–] LustyArgonianMana@lemmy.world 31 points 1 day ago

There's hormonal, chromosomal, and gamete definitions of biological woman/man and you'll want to be specific about which youre referencing and why it is even relevent for the text.

Hormonal woman with XY ("male") chromosomes and no eggs: Complete Androgen Insensitivity

Chromosomal woman with no eggs and low hormones: Swyer Syndrome (born without ovaries)

Men who have eggs: Chimeras, probably, and this guy: https://www.yahoo.com/news/chinese-man-shocked-learn-ovaries-202311718.html

[–] psycho_driver@lemmy.world 17 points 1 day ago (2 children)

That man is moments away from financial disaster

[–] NickwithaC@lemmy.world 14 points 1 day ago

That man is 100% in Germany. He's fine.

[–] TriflingToad@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 day ago

I once dropped 6 eggs while working and cried

[–] TheBat@lemmy.world 68 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

One internet search later:

https://patient.info/forums/discuss/born-without-ovaries-634173

There are cis women born without ovaries.

Thus Lea the bigot is disproven.

[–] huppakee@lemm.ee 15 points 1 day ago

I think she already knew, why else would she mention the people born with the intent of holding eggs (whatever that means).

[–] spicehoarder@lemm.ee 1 points 16 hours ago

Do republicans think we're gineapigs? Born completely formed with no developmental years?

[–] Tartas1995@discuss.tchncs.de 32 points 1 day ago (3 children)

It is deeply confusing to me why people think they can define a word in a way that covers all it's meaning and no additional ones and make fun of those who admit they can't.

Challenge for anyone, define "to eat". Remember, you have to cover eating soup but not drinking tea, or smoothie. But obviously, that isn't everything.

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[–] aeronmelon@lemmy.world 44 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Is this the kind of picture millionaires take these days?

[–] iAmTheTot@sh.itjust.works 29 points 1 day ago

Or anyone from, you know, the rest of the world.

[–] andros_rex@lemmy.world 15 points 1 day ago (1 children)

There’s a deep insecurity in recognizing that there aren’t “objective right answers” to a lot of things. Language is not a law, it’s a negotiated thing. Being a trans man doesn’t sunder me completely from the existence of living as a girl, and there are contexts in which my “assigned” sec does matter. The fact that abortion is utterly illegal in my state is just as harmful and terrifying to me as it is to the cis women I know.

These are people who desperately want to feel in control of the world, and the idea that they would not be able to put a person into a category based on their immediate evaluation of their sex makes them feel a loss of control. It’s attacking something of their ways of knowing, it’s an epistemological challenge that sends them reeling.

With lesbians - it’s the gold star lesbian types. They find joy in their identities as lesbians, which is great, but they treat penis in vagina sex as a contagion. It almost “horseshoe theory”‘s back into sounding like conservative Christians. They squint at some actually good critiques of porn and the way that human sexuality is marketed, and turn into a Holy War against the Y chromosome. This is not common - but it’s a very marked type of pathology. The TERFs are the type to actually be manhaters - to post things like “it’s a girl or it’s an abortion.”

[–] undefinedValue@programming.dev 1 points 11 hours ago (2 children)

Is that really common among terfs?

I’ve seen some truly toxic female tictokers where every second video is about how men are the worst and we don’t need them for anything and I was wondering how someone gets to that point.

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