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What is a female??

ChristineM

"Be strong", I whispered to my coffee.
Premium Member
The fact we are 8 billion on this Earth suggests me that vaginal intercourse greatly prevails.

Yes of course your straw man in accurate but we are not talking numbers but sex and if you think sex is just for creating numbers i feel sorry for you
 
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Quintessence

Consults with Trees
Staff member
Premium Member
With all the transgender threads on the forum, can we clear up what a female is? What makes someone a female?
Like any definition of any thing observed in the world, whatever some human decides goes in that box. All definitions of things are constructs, crafted through a combination of observation (which is not necessarily scientific observation) and cultural/personal norms or preferences/habits.

As someone who has studied a fair bit of biology, it always makes me laugh whenever some human states there are only two sexes. If sex not being a simplistic binary in humans hurts the brains of these bigoted transphobes, learning about biodiversity is going to utterly shatter it. :tearsofjoy:


 

We Never Know

No Slack
One of only two possible choices for those who can only imagine black and white, yes and no, short and tall, stupid or smart. For such people, none of these things can possibly exist on a spectrum -- there's no gray, no maybe, no "average height," no "moderate intelligence." You get two choice and two choices only -- pick one.

In that case, a female would be the ovum producer. (By the way, your other definitions leaves out female animals. Birds and reptiles don't have periods, menopause, vaginas and such.)

This assumes that what makes a person uniquely themselves (the mind/brain) plays no part in their sexuality -- that it doesn't count in the least.

And yet, as Descartes said, I know I exist because I can think about me existing. So what do we call a person who thinks she is a female but does not produce ova? Does such a person have no right even to their own identity? Are you the identity that other people assign to you, or are you your own person?
"By the way, your other definitions leaves out female animals. Birds and reptiles don't have periods, menopause, vaginas and such"


Did you see this in the OP?

"With all the transgender threads on the forum, can we clear up what a female is? What makes someone a female?"

What about that makes you think I was talking about animals? Birds and reptiles?
 

Estro Felino

Believer in free will
Premium Member
S -- HE
WO -- MAN
FE -- MALE
HU -- MAN
PER -- SON

I don't know that that displays any linguist pattern or not, but it certainly is interesting.
It's a coincidence because in my language there's no such a pattern. :)
But it's a beautiful, interesting coincidence.
 

Jimmy

King Phenomenon
A female is this wooden thing with an eraser at the top that can be used to write on paper? I’m not sure though. Could I get verification? Hahahaha
 

Estro Felino

Believer in free will
Premium Member
Femininity is much more nuanced than people think.
Males are all the same. I know because I have had so many men in my life.

There are passive women who are the Eves... those who prefer to be submissive during the intercourse.
And there are the Liliths...those who prefer to ride the man during the intercourse and would never do otherwise.

Usually the Eves are sweet, resilient in a couple.
The Liliths are more fiery, and aggressive towards men, with a veiled misandry.

These are just archetypes, there are hundreds of shades between these extremes. It was to sum up the concept. I guess I am more Eve than Lilith.
 

Soandso

ᛋᛏᚨᚾᛞ ᛋᚢᚱᛖ
A female is this wooden thing with an eraser at the top that can be used to write on paper? I’m not sure though. Could I get verification? Hahahaha

Oh yes, the "I identify as an attack helicoptor" argument. The problem is that transgender folks have been recorded in history going all the way back to ancient times


If it's just some wacky one off thing, why does it keep happening in the same way over and over again all throughout history? Seems to me like maybe there's something valid there
 

Kfox

Well-Known Member
Not all females as adults produce eggs. Learn to check for the facts, since you are so hot for evidence and facts.
It is natural for a female adult to produce eggs. True; there are some who don't, just like there are adult males who don't produce sperm; but this is due to some sort of medical issue. In these cases a doctor can examine the person's body and explain why the female is not producing eggs, or the male is not producing sperm. But the fact that medical exemptions exist does not take away from the fact that it is natural for a female to produce eggs
 

mikkel_the_dane

My own religion
It is natural for a female adult to produce eggs. True; there are some who don't, just like there are adult males who don't produce sperm; but this is due to some sort of medical issue. In these cases a doctor can examine the person's body and explain why the female is not producing eggs, or the male is not producing sperm. But the fact that medical exemptions exist does not take away from the fact that it is natural for a female to produce eggs

And natural not to produce eggs.
 

Kfox

Well-Known Member
What about someone who is intersex who may not meet all of those qualifications? What if someone has both a vagina and a penis? Testes and a womb?

I have a friend who is intersex. What gender should I refer to them as?
Even with intersex they are not 50/50 male female, there has never been a case of someone who can get someone pregnant and get pregnant themselves; it is always a case of a (example) biological male who also has some female biological traits; or visa versa. But I think the intersex issue is a non issue concerning transgenderism because it's not like the rare situation when someone is born with this type of abnormality that they are the ones claiming to be transgender, it is always people who perfectly normal biological males believing they are females; or visa versa.
 
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