Hey so a female horse is only a "mare" after it's given birth for the first time, before then it's a "filly" Same with a female pig (which goes from a "gilt" to a "sow"), or a "heifer" becoming a "cow" Do you make this distinction with humans? Why or why not https://twitter.com/BelleSanders_/status/1223043368986431488 …
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Replying to @arthur_affect
We don't tend to farm humans, so we don't need the fine distinctions as much, Arthur. But if it matters, you could go back to maiden/mother/ crone. I don't assess women by fertility, so girl (young female) and woman (adult female) suffice for me.
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Do you think it's a good thing to sort women into "maidens" and "mothers" Is it a feminist thing to do
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The point is we use these terms for animals because we really did just treat animals as biological machines whose relevant traits was what we could use them for Cows give milk, heifers don't Bulls are for breeding, steers for eating, oxen for working
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Replying to @arthur_affect @Gerontia
Using the way we name animals as an argument for how we should treat people is, you know, bad
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Which is why, as I said, I'm good with "girl" and "woman".
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So you're already altering the meaning of one word from the "biological" meaning to a social one (not first childbirth but legal age of majority)
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Replying to @arthur_affect
As I said, I don't assess people by fertility, but you do you, Arthur..
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I don't assess people by their reproductive organs at all
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Replying to @arthur_affect @Gerontia
Why have social categories of men and women? What is the purpose of those categories if they are not based on physiological and reproductive differences?
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