I don't argue against primitives. But the primitives have to be things like "pink tutu" and "programming" and whatever else ppl put inside
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You would be able to locate trends above such rare cases, but would somebody be able to avoid prescriptivism, at least I hope.
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*somebody=somehow
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By the way, the main reason other than cyclic logic that you can't have "woman" as a primitive is because of the perhaps obvious fact that
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women themselves are all different to one another and how they embody the "woman" concept. Same for all other genders too.
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Thx for this point! Sadly not as obvious as it shld. E.g. 1 woman on a committee of, say, 5 men, men tend to think 'women' are represented.
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Yeah, this point is why many girls and women say things like "I don't like women".
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Cos they reject the role society gives them, don't see themselves represented by it, and think all women are the same. Self-hatred is real.
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Also another reason why female and male cannot be primitives is that being e.g., a builder, or liking typically male stuff should not
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