A movement to expand what those words mean

A comedian named Sarah Keyworth writes a letter to JK Rowling and asks everyone to share it.

From that letter:

There is no attack on what it means to be a woman, or a lesbian. There is simply a movement to expand what those words mean.

But that is an “attack” on what those words mean, isn’t it. It is a campaign to change the meaning of a word that picks out…well, what does it pick out. Let’s see.

  1. Half or rather more than half of all humans
  2. The sex that gives birth to all humans
  3. The sex that has historically been dominated by the other half
  4. The “weaker” sex – the sex that in a dimorphic species is overall the smaller, less muscular, less aggressive one
  5. The sex that thanks to 2-4 has always been conceptualized as inferior to the other one
  6. The sex that feminism exists to establish as not inferior to the other one

Those are the people the word “women” picks out.

If you “expand” that word to include people who are not described by 2-6 then you are making 6 impossible.

https://twitter.com/sarahkcomedy/status/1269626751468126208

At the end our wise comedian writes

I hope you read this. If you do I hope you take some time, maybe a day before respond [sic] with some scathing quip about sex, butch lesbians or periods. Maybe read it out loud, maybe send it to your editor and ask your husband what he thinks.

Now let’s talk about the word “patronizing.”

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