Or to say it differently: we can unload some-to-most of the content of the word woman (however much of it doesn’t apply to transwomen) onto the word “cis-woman”, and call it a day. The “woman” category becomes proportionally less useful, but it’s mostly fine because we still have the expressiveness to say everything we might want to say.
I believe there is a blatant slippery slope there, and redefining “woman” is not so much a step onto it as jumping into a toboggan, so I see no point in considering a hypothetical world in which somehow, magically, there wasn’t.
I don’t think that solution accomplishes anything because the trans goal is to pretend to be women and the anti trans goal is to not allow trans women to be called women. The proposed solution doesn’t get anybody closer to their goals.
Or to say it differently: we can unload some-to-most of the content of the word woman (however much of it doesn’t apply to transwomen) onto the word “cis-woman”, and call it a day. The “woman” category becomes proportionally less useful, but it’s mostly fine because we still have the expressiveness to say everything we might want to say.
Then they will come for the words “cis-woman” and “trans-woman” and say that it’s oppressive to make a distinction.
You can’t win a conflict by surrendering.
Fair enough, but is that a crux for you, or for Zack?
If you knew there wasn’t a slippy slope here, would this matter?
I believe there is a blatant slippery slope there, and redefining “woman” is not so much a step onto it as jumping into a toboggan, so I see no point in considering a hypothetical world in which somehow, magically, there wasn’t.
I don’t think that solution accomplishes anything because the trans goal is to pretend to be women and the anti trans goal is to not allow trans women to be called women. The proposed solution doesn’t get anybody closer to their goals.