What is a Woman?
At first, if someone asked you this question, your initial response would probably have been, “You’re kidding, right? Is this a real question?”
Apparently, Tennessee’s U.S. Senator Marsha Blackburn thought it was a real question, when during the Senate hearings to consider the nomination of Ketanji Brown Jackson to the U.S. Supreme Court, the senator asked Ms Brown Jackson whether she could “provide a definition for the word, ‘woman’?”
Instead of asking if Senator Blackburn was kidding, or even giving some kind of legal-sounding explanation of what the law has determined is a woman, Ms Brown Jackson scoffed and said that she couldn’t.
“Can I provide a definition? No. I can’t,” she said.
“You can’t?” Senator Blackburn shot back, somewhat non-plussed.
“Not in this context. I’m not a biologist,” Brown Jackson said, smiling.
“Okay,” Ms Blackburn says, “so you mean the word ‘woman’ is so unclear and controversial that you can’t give me a definition?”
The judge then did slip into legalese, saying that her job as a judge was to mediate, to listen to both sides, and come up with a decision based upon the facts in that particular case.
“Well,” Senator Blackburn responds, “the fact that you can’t give me a straight answer about something as fundamental as what a woman is, underscores the dangers of the kind of progressive education that we are hearing about.”
Much of that line of questioning and the ensuing national conversation that followed had been amplified by events such as “Lia” Thomas, a male swimmer who “transitioned” to a female and went from a sub-par competitive male swimmer into a champion female swimmer.
Health & Human Services Assistant Secretary Rachel Levine, born male, was credited as having become not only the “first four-star female Admiral,” but also one of USA Today’s “Women of the Year.” It was an honor that elicited Washington Examiner editors to opine that “you not only do not have to be good at your job to become “Woman of the Year,” but you also don’t even have to be a woman.”
Following up on the Senate hearing and the questioning of Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson, President Trump, during an on-air interview with Piers Morgan, was asked what a woman is. His answer at first was, “I’m not going to respond to the question,” but Trump being Trump, did in fact answer:
“A woman is somebody that swims at a certain time and doesn’t get beaten by 38 seconds by somebody that wasn’t even a good swimmer as a male.”
So, what exactly is a woman?
Dictionary definitions are not helpful, certainly not definitive. For example, Merriam-Webster as of the most recent edition that I’ve come across (though it could have been changed since), defines the word woman as “an adult female person.” The Oxford English Dictionary defines a woman as “an adult female human being;” as does the Cambridge Dictionary.
So, well, heck, if that’s all there is, then anyone who swallows loads of female hormones, gets a boob job (or not), lasers his mustache and/or beard hair off, or dresses like a woman (though that standard is way too flexible), could readily be described as a “woman.”
Right?
Not really.
Let’s go deeper.
According to the National Institutes of Health website “The human genome is organized into 23 pairs of chromosomes (22 pairs of autosomes and one pair of sex chromosomes), with each parent contributing one chromosome per pair. The X and Y chromosomes, also known as the sex chromosomes, determine the biological sex of an individual: females inherit an X chromosome from the father for a XX genotype, while males inherit a Y chromosome from the father for a XY genotype (mothers only pass on X chromosomes). The presence or absence of the Y chromosome is critical because it contains the genes necessary to override the biological default – female development – and cause the development of the male reproductive system.”
There is some encouraging news for men who want to be women, though they may have to wait longer than they’d like to before anything significant occurs in this process: apparently – according to NIH – the Y chromosome seems to be breaking down and, “Many speculate that the Y chromosome has become superfluous and could completely decay within the next 10 million years.”
Other differences between the sexes are that women have wider pelvises and their bone structure is different. Women’s bones are not as dense as men’s (on average) and there is more fat and less muscle on women’s frames than there are on men’s frames.
Most importantly, women have different genitalia than men. Women are born with a complete reproductive system, a cache of gametes (eggs), the ability to ovulate (once every four weeks or so until menopause) and only women (those with two X chromosomes) can bear offspring.
In other words, only women can get pregnant. Men cannot.
Many years after death, in addition to bone structure and pelvis size, the sex of a cadaver can be determined by a simple DNA test.
Here is probably the easiest and most accurate definition of the two sexes:
The Independent Women’s Voice recently teamed up with the conservative Concerned Women of America, the radical-feminist Women’s Liberation Front, and the radical-feminist Women’s Declaration International, and released what they’ve dubbed the Women’s Bill of Rights, which defines “sex” as biological sex, i.e., the sex one is born as.
According to the Bill of Rights, a female is “an individual whose biological reproductive system is developed to produce ova.” It defines “woman” and “girl” as “human females,” and “mother” as a “parent of the female sex.”
A male is “an individual whose biological reproductive system is developed to fertilize the ova of a female.”
I believe that encapsulates what a woman is and should satisfy most people, except of course men who will continue to believe or at least expound their opinion that because of how they “feel” and what they’ve done to their bodies, they are indeed women.
And to anyone who’d suggest that kindergarteners and elementary school children – or even teenagers – should be allowed to decide what sex or gender they are, all I can say is that without any of the required internal reproductive organs, any man who thinks otherwise – and I know this may hurt some but truth is truth – is simply a female impersonator.
Not that there’s anything wrong with that.
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Having been raised by a religious Mother, one of the core values was to be accepting of all others. The theory was accepted, but the practice was not. Prejudice post WWII abounded, Jews, Blacks, Japs, Germans Gays, and anyone not conforming to the “norm” was rejected. Then came the Communists, another hated group! From the sound of my opening, one would expect tremendous turmoil, but no. Our world was safe! We walked to school, often several miles!
Everyone had guns, nobody got shot!
Positions of authority were respected from clergy to law enforcement to Government!
Schools taught all basics and gave no slant on politics.
America was Sovereign and respected.
The advent of Vietnam began to change our peaceful culture.
Our Government saw need to stop aggression where our then youth (me) revolted.
The Draft was eminent, I was “chosen”!
Father and his Brothers served, they had a “mission”, what was mine?
Because of the lack of purpose, I might die?
However much good came from serving! I learned respect to another level, got respect from unforeseen groups, saw benefits allowed Vets and learned a love for Country not taught in Civilian life.
Unlike my “laissez-faire” attitude pre military, I became driven. In part, being a Vet helped!
I got married! Everyone I knew was married, some with kids! The “new issue” was started!
Post Vietnam began a “pivotal point” in our culture.
Whereas before, Jews married Jews, Negros married Negros, Swedes married Swedes and so on, we began to assimilate. Was this good, not always!
Change was needed and legislators saw need to legislate, they did! From my prospective, starting with MLK, the advent of Big Government was thrust upon us. Our Democratic friends saw the crack in the armor, they took advantage!
Our Conservative Brothers & Sisters had several opportunities to reverse course, but lacked leadership. Reagan made several inroads, but it was Trump that changed the dynamic!
The Left knew Trump was the enemy in their planning and needed to stop him at all costs, they were successful.
Is our deterioration inevitable? It sure looks so!
May God Bless America?
DN
For a very long time, I’ve tried to accept , and have for the most part, that some individuals prefer to “be” the opposite sex. What I can’t accept is the direction that our Public Schools appear to be pushing “woke” theory, especially on the very young. It’s no wonder so many young are confused!