Merriam Webster dictionary has gone woke folks. It now has expanded its definition of female to mean to anyone who identifies as female, thoughts?

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Stoner710 · Accepted Answer

That’s not a definition, a definition has to explain what the world is describing. So now the woke has made the world women a joke there basically subjecting women don’t exist. Of course there saying men don’t exist as well. Are humans sexless widgets who’s genitalia happened to lock together? I guess that’s what it is according to them.

so now they can’t say abortions is women reproductive health care. Because there is no such thing as a women.

there is no such thing as women’s right because women don’t exist. Might as well get rid of women’s sports but wait what’s a women? Since they can’t provide a actual definition for the word women because again you can’t use the word you are describing in the definition the world women accounting to them is just as coherent as itjyfhfhhghmggujfghdhgfyjtjytyur <————— that is how coherent the world women now means. The world women is now gibberish. That woke. I say no more women’s right for those who can’t define what a women is without using the world women. If you can give me a basic definition of female without screwing up the definition by saying someone who defines them selves as a women is a women then no women’s rights for you because you can’t define what a women is so there is no logic behind women having special rights if they don’t exist.

definition of a women an adult human female. What is a female of or denoting the sex that can bear offspring or produce eggs, distinguished biologically by the production of gametes (ova) which can be fertilized by male gametes.

yes the definition of men and women are completely reliant on your physical characteristic nothing more, you can’t identify as a women if you bear offspring or produce eggs.

DaveJord · Accepted Answer

11th Edition of Webster's definition of female

noun
Definition of female (Entry 2 of 2)
1a: a female person : a woman or a girl
b: an individual of the sex that is typically capable of bearing young or producing eggs
2: a pistillate plant

Female Definition & Meaning - Merriam-Webster

www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/female

So what they are referring to that use of the word "typically" capable of bearing young or producing egg. Because not all females in the animal kingdom, genetic from birth, are capable of bearing young or producing eggs. But the use of the word "typically" is an addition to the 11th edition that was not included in the 10th.

But of course some of these agenda pushing types on the LBGTQ train would try to grab on to it and make it mean something its doesn't.

Snsl153 · Accepted Answer

Gender: n

Each of the three (or in some languages, two) grammatical kinds, corresponding more or less to distinctions of sex or absence of sex (masculine, feminine, neuter), into which nouns are divided according to the modification they may require in words syntactically connected with them; property (in a noun) of belonging to or (in other parts of speech) of having the appropriate form to concord with a specified one of these kinds; division of words into genders as principle of grammatical classification; (joc.) sex.

The Standard English Desk Dictionary, 1975. Notice how this definition says absolutely nothing about how or what people see themselves as, femininity and masculinity, whether or not those concepts are "social constructs", or any of the other patently silly notions that have grown around the concept of gender over the last 30 or so years. This is how I've always understood gender, and nothing more needs to be added to the definition. Merriam Webster never was a good dictionary.

Robbey · Accepted Answer

The Oxford English Dictionary is the only English language dictionary that matters.

ObscuredBeyond · Answer

I have a copy of a really old dictionary from forever ago. Figures that Derrida's disciples would hijack Merriam-Webster. Their rebellion against reality is matched only by their lust for godlike power.

The way they skyscream now, you can only imagine what Hell must sound like.

IceCreamSandwich · Answer

They didn't change it though, they just added to it right? To reflect all the ways the word is actually used now. That's what dictionaries are supposed to do. They would be pretty useless if they weren't based on how people talk in real life and updated when people decide that what they say means different things... think "gay" or "hoe" for example. The dictionary would be wrong if it didn't include both common uses, not the people.

NewsReader · Answer

Okay. Whatever. I know what an actual female is and don't need a dictionary for it.

Jamie05rhs · Answer

I think it's a moral crime to be the custodian of knowledge and then distort that information intentionally. History will not look kindly on them.

Sixgunsound · Answer

They’ve been woke at least as long as the time when Obama order for them to change the definition of racism.

StrongMale · Answer

Why is ‘woke’ considered a negative? 🤔 Is being awakened frightening? Is it safer to stay asleep? Is having your eyes open just too scarey?

Exterminatore · Answer

Wait til you see what they did to the definition of gender.  Of course I think it’s disgusting what they did.

RealMarek · Answer

Some publishers have already started editing books in some cases to make them woke. Best to keep hard copies these days.

AviatorTom · Answer

It added gender identity to "male" also, so it's at least being consistent. Is this surprising? Most books have a liberal slant to them, and a dictionary (even an online one) is a book.

Wade12345 · Answer

Guess you can't trust everything you read in a dictionary... nor a concordance.

Chazmatazz269 · Answer

That’s not about being “woke”. Dictionaries have always updated entries to reflect modern interpretations and widely used slang.

ArtemisSilver · Answer

Another victim of the long march through the institutions.

Texaskid1 · Answer

I now identify as a giraffe. Bring it on Webster.

Snakeyes7 · Answer

It has been woke for years. This change does not surprise me.

LimitedBenefits101 · Answer

Alright then I identify as female from now on

007kingifrit · Answer

dictionaries are not for adult conversation anyways. they lack completeness, complexity, and nuance no matter what this dictionary is a lie

LazerBean · Answer

Glad I still have an old hardback copy.

Anonymous · Answer

If anyone can identify as a woman; then the definition has no meaning.

OddBeMe · Answer

Dictionaries have always included “common usages”. Its not new.

SmokinAces2000 · Answer

I dgaf it can do whatever it wants and it literally has no affect on my life whatsoever

joeldalton · Answer

George Orwell would be shocked.

TexasRed95 · Answer

My thought is that we are doomed as a species.

BondVillain · Answer

Just dumb now

Waldoe · Answer

I am a "Bat"... aka "bat-shit-crazy"

Anonymous · Answer

Incredibly stupid.

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