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Originally Posted by Medusa
I had a lightbulb moment the other night. It isnt about who did what or said what, it's that the WORLD constructs this thing where there can be no "Female" without "Male". No (supposed) way to define "woman" without defining "man" first and always first. The causation of "Male can exist without Female but not the other way around."
I GET that!
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I think this is absolutely the heart of the matter. Woman and female do not stand alone. It is always in comparison to man and male.
People even "compliment" women for "thinking like a man," etc. Um no she's a woman thinking like a human being because she has a human brain.
If you don't fall along socially accepted lines of what a woman is, then you are either man or man-like (i.e man with boobs), not a different sort of woman/female.