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A carved wood bat-shaped tray, Vietnam, Nguyên dynasty, 20th century.
Courtesy Alain Truong
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Rain, Some Smaller Splashes - David Hockney , 2020.
British, b. 1937 -
Acrylic on canvas , 122 × 91 cm.
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the man must put on makeup to become the joker. the woman must simply take hers off
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*something funny happens irl* *a line of text saying “wwwwww” in arial font scrolls from right to left in my field of vision*
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sorting some stamps I got from the secondhand book store!
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"DeFine A WomAN wIThOut BeInG CircuLAr!!"
This argument gets used by terfs a lot, and I've been thinking about how wrong it is. Obviously terf ideology is broken fundamentally, but I'd like to make this post to poke holes in this argument specifically.
The following thought experiment can be used to argue against any semantic definition-based argument. Ready? Okay.
Define a cow. I'm serious, try to give a definition of a cow that isn't circular, and that includes all cows, without including non-cows.
The first thing you might say, is that cows are black and white animals. Okay, so highlander cows aren't cows? No, of course they are. Okay, cows are animals with udders and four legs, and- well, hang on. So if I chop off the udders of a cow, or she's born without them, is that not a cow? Is the milka logo a cow? C'est ne pas un vache, so is saying "there's a cow depicted on the bar of chocolate" an incorrect statement? What would a true statement look like, then?
Is beef a cow?? If not, at what part of the slaughter process does the cow-ness leave the animal?
You might give a biological definition. A cow is an animal that can produce fertile offspring with another cow. Well, first of all, that's circular: how do you know the other creature is a cow? But even without that, it still doesn't hold up. If you see a "cow" in a field, do you go: "hm. Now, that appears to be a cow. But I can't be certain about it, until i see it produce fertile offspring with another creature that appears cow-like."
Even kindergartners know what a cow is. Identifying barnyard animals is one of the first things we learn. Humans like identifying things, and giving them names. But ones you try to define them, you find everything is more complicated than it seems.
And this thought experiment is with something as simple as an animal. Remember the "Behold, Plato's man!" anecdote that became a meme? That's about this problem. People have been struggling to define the world around us for millennia.
The word "woman" has so so so many biological, cultural and social nuances, it's impossible to give a definition that satisfies everyone. And that's okay, that comes with the limits of rigid definitions.
I'm not arguing that cows don't exist, or that language is meaningless. There's tons of philosophers that deal with metaphysical philosophy, and I'm but a humble blogger. I just hope I've demonstrated that language is tricky, it's messy, and "define a woman!" is a null argument.
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“cis people get gender affirming surgery all the time like plastic surgery!” ok and i’m against that too so where do we go from here
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two things that can be true at the same time:
1) the labour involved in homemaking and childcare is important and undervalued. no one should be looked down upon for making housework and/or parenthood their primary job. domestic labour is generally not seen as “real” work, and it should be.
2) when a women is a homemaker and does not have a career outside the home, she is financially dependent on her husband, which restricts her freedom. this is a problem for any movement seeking to liberate women as a class.
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Transactivists really think that “cis” people feel a connection with their gender. They really think that we feel our gender (and that it matches with what we’ve been “assigned”). I don’t know how to tell you this but gender can’t be felt as it was a natural part of your psyche, because gender is actually a false man-made creation. Gender is not internal, it’s external: it doesn’t originate in your mind, it is systematically enforced. Gender is not a neutral and natural human trait like eye colour, height, etc: gender is the tool patriarchy created to produce and maintain women’s oppression.
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Rabbits. Written by Herbert S. Zim. Illustrated by Joy Buba. 1948.
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