Comment by joshuamorton
5 years ago
Not at all. It's a gender.
Can you elaborate on what makes that statement so ridiculous on it's face?
5 years ago
Not at all. It's a gender.
Can you elaborate on what makes that statement so ridiculous on it's face?
If you check a dictionary, the top definition for "woman" is typically something like "an adult female person" or "an adult female human." So the claim that woman/man is a totally different thing from male/female is pretty novel.
Indeed, I bring this up elsewhere, but there's been a lot of overlap of the medical and the social throughout history. That's changed recently. I don't see how that makes things "ridiculous" to quote GP.
How widespread are those changes though?
The Wikipedia article on Sex Differences in Humans uses the terms man/woman and male/female interchangeably[1]. What little I've seen of the scientific literature follows this convention as well.
It's my experience that, across a broad swath of American society, that many people follow the old convention as well.
[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sex_differences_in_humans
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