Cambridge Dictionary changes definition of ‘man’ and ‘woman’
Cambridge Dictionary is being blasted by critics online for revising the definition of “man” and “woman” to include people who do not ‘identify’ with the sex they were at birth.
“Man” is now includes the definition “an adult who lives and identifies as a male though they may have been said to have a different sex at birth.”
In the same vein, the updated definition of “woman” reads “an adult who lives and identifies as female though they may have been said to have a different sex at birth.”
The changes were quickly derided on the Internet, with political commentator Steven Crowder tweeting “Remember, if you can control the language, you can control the population.”
Daily Caller writer Mary Rooke called the dictionary writers “F-ing traitors to the truth.”
“Cambridge Dictionary is only the latest. If we don’t stop them from erasing women our civilization is [not going to make it],” she claimed.
Dan McLaughin, a senior writer at National Review, viewed the revision as dystopian as opposed to progressive.
“1984 wasn’t supposed to be a how-to manual,” he tweeted.
Still, some social media users pushed back on the backlash, labeling critics transphobic and celebrating the changes as more inclusive.
“Guess what transphobes are upset about now? You guessed the dictionary, didn’t you,” Evan Urquhart of Assigned Media tweeted.
“[Trans-exclusionary radical feminists] ganna [sp] blow a gasket,” sculptor Daniel Lismore shared. “Trans people deserve to be recognized for who they are.”
Similarly, the UK-based group Bristol Leading Against Transphobia hailed the decision as “Fantastic news.”
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Tom
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This is why I mainly refer to a 20 or 30 year old dictionary in the flesh.
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Len Winokur
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“Men are from Mars; women from Venus.
Women wear bras; men have a penis.”
Attributable to, and to be attributed to, myself.
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Climate Heretic
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About 1 in 400 male and 1 in 650 female live births demonstrate some form of sex chromosome abnormality. This is where nature stuffs up.
Population of Earth 8,000,000,000. Male defects 10,000,000. Female defects approximately 6,153,000
Total percentage of sex defects is 16153000/8000000000 = 0.2%
In other words stuff the dictionary definition, science prevails, males have xy and Females xx any other combination is statistically insignificant.
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Climate Heretic
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VOWG
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Someone should inform cambridge that biology is not an abstract concept.
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schutzhund
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But the Emperor has no clothes!
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