Good Luck Defining Adult, Human And Female

For a while now, I’ve been thinking about writing full articles here. Especially articles based on conversations I’ve seen online that don’t dig into an issue as fully as I wanted. So this is the first of those.

I’m not sure yet if these will remain Substack exclusives or if they’ll be made available on Medium too, but for now, they’ll only be available here. And at the very least, early access is a thank you to all you wonderful people who have reached into your pockets to support my work.

So, without further ado…

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The word ”woman” has been under fire for a while now. Mainly because men want to use it.

Women’s hygiene products are now for “menstruators” and “people who bleed,” (doesn't everybody bleed?!). Medical advisories describe “people with cervixes” and “birthing persons.” Even a poster defining the word “woman” as an adult human female, was removed from a billboard in Liverpool in case it made trans people feel "unsafe."

Female foxes are called "vixens," female chickens are called "hens," and female deer are called "does". But in humans, only feminine males can be called women without controversy. 

But, of course, the activists aren’t content to stop there. As Orwell put it:

...the whole aim of Newspeak is to narrow the range of thought [...] The whole climate of thought will be different. In fact, there will be no thought, as we understand it now. Orthodoxy means not thinking—not needing to think. Orthodoxy is unconsciousness.

Today, the orthodoxy is that womanhood is just a feeling. That men make better women than women ever were. And if complete and unquestioning affirmation is to be achieved, the definition of words like “adult,” “human,” and “female,” has to be called into question too.

Let’s talk about all the ways in which this is a dangerous, ignorant, and stupid thing to do.