Oh, you have to be an expert to know whether people are women or men.
Huh. So how have so many people managed to reproduce over the past thousands of years? Just wild guesses, roughly half of which were wrong?
Also there’s that whole definition thing – male adults are men by definition: that’s what the word means.
You really don’t need to be a “biological expert” or even an expert biologist to know that male adults are men, unless you’ve been raised by computers while living in a self-contained box.
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Even if we are charitable and assume that the more esoteric definition of “men” was the one understood by the inquirer, the question remains preposterous. Surely, the people who claim to have the gender identity of “man” are not expected to be biological experts, nor are the people who support these claims.
There’s a more esoteric definition? What is it?
From the Cambridge Dictionary:
“An adult who lives and identifies as male though they may have been said to have a different sex at birth.”
From Annie Get Your Gun:
My tiny baby brother
Has never read a book
But he knows one sex from the other
All he has to do is look
A baffling argument in more ways than one. Why would a vernacular word require a professional scientist to describe, when there are so many dictionaries available?
Mosnae @ 3 – That’s not an esoteric definition, it’s just bullshit.
If the Cambridge Dictionary is reporting usage that’s one thing, but if it gives that as an actual definition it’s nuts.