The idea that women means "adult human female" apparently "first gained currency on the transphobic internet forum Mumsnet Towers in 2015"
...before then no one had any concept of the female sex having a name 
It was popularised by Posie Parker using secret Heritage Fund 
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I laughed out loud when I read that.
It is utterly risable, but also a lie that will be repeated now waving this article as a receipt 
(Look! A magazine! Footnotes!) to smear @Docstockk and Posie. @erin_bartram @williamrblack @contingent_mag Do you have any standards of quality control?
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I’m hoping that no-one will actually believe something quite as stupid (and easily proved wrong) as this.
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What? Like Naomi Wolf writing an entire book about executions without realising “death recorded” meant pardoned rather than executed? I suspect plenty believe what they are told without researching further.
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