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[–]marmalade 39 insightful - 2 fun39 insightful - 1 fun40 insightful - 2 fun -  (5 children)

How stupid, as if Google already isn't wildlly anti-woman.

[–][deleted] 14 insightful - 1 fun14 insightful - 0 fun15 insightful - 1 fun -  (4 children)

Oh! You reminded me of the charges against them for sexism! For the record, if anyone wants a reminder, this higher up male person at Google said to a female: “Being owned is kinda like you are my property, and I can loan you to other people.”"

[–]yishengqingwa666[S] 27 insightful - 2 fun27 insightful - 1 fun28 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

I reported it as "infringing on my rights" with this comment:

"This person is trying to redefine the very word that women use to describe what they are and organize politically. This is female erasure, and misogynist to the core."

[–]jkfinn 17 insightful - 2 fun17 insightful - 1 fun18 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

Currently, the definition of "woman" ("adult human female") in particular is frequently upheld by hateful individuals and institutions to exclude trans women from womanhood.... We feel this small change goes a long way to show compassion...

Yeah, like radical feminists have real pull over Google’s dictionary. And only in the 17th century were any women referred to as “womanhood,” let alone the rebel ones. Trans delusion is far past mental derangement, and if it ever needed any “compassion” it could only come from the orderlies in an institution for crackpots. Anyway, when the revolution comes it will just blowup all these fussy details that the trans suits lobby for in strained voices.

[–]Cat13 14 insightful - 4 fun14 insightful - 3 fun15 insightful - 4 fun -  (1 child)

I reported it as well and used a bunch of legal sounding words that fit the situation.

[–]YoutiaoLover 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Can you share your report with me, please?

[–][deleted] 14 insightful - 1 fun14 insightful - 0 fun15 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

I reported it, along with every comment in the section.

I was as eloquent as possible in my delivery of an explanation. I talked about scientific method, the laws of science and the foundations of medicine and Psychology, the first rule of the APA code and medical to do no harm, and this request will do harm. I went on to give examples (I should have pasted back here!) and quoted how it infringed on the rights of the majority, and in this case, this is a democracy, in which the majority, is not to be damaged for the requests of the very few, less than a couple of a percent of the population. I went on to quote A Tocqueville, and explained this is not despotism, and it is not tyranny of the majority. It is to a protect people and science--to be held in place for all, until which time full peer review and scientific LAWS are rewritten.

I also spoke of the current administration removing words from their website, including the EPA, and the removal of literature to try and debunk climate change, and how that as an example is similar to what is being done here.

I brought up capitalism and political forces in the request, and that no one is asking for anyone's rights to be taken, we all have compassion here, but that science must prevail.

Maybe we should just ignore gravity too.

[–]yishengqingwa666[S] 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Nice one. I am so grateful for you all. THANK YOU.

[–]abyss_sith 13 insightful - 1 fun13 insightful - 0 fun14 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

"'A human being that exists within, and according to, the social construct of the gender with which they most sympathise."

Would be perfect new definitions of both Man and Woman. All relevant medical terminology need not be gendered to be accurate.

how disgusting, that was one of the comments on the petition. these people are absolutely delusional, medical terminology is one of the most fucking dangerous areas to go prancing about with your genderspecial nonsense. it can literally get people killed in some cases if they are treated as the sex that they are biologically not

[–]anonymale 11 insightful - 1 fun11 insightful - 0 fun12 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Whichever wokebro posted that fails to understand the increased risk posed to him by covid, which couldn’t care less about its victims’ gender identity but which kills men roughly twice as effectively.

I don’t sympathise with the social constructs of either gender, because they are vehicles for the oppression of women. I don’t have a ‘gender identity’. Rather I have a sense based on observing its anatomy that my body is male, and that this has shaped most of my social existence since before I could talk. This gives me unearned privileges most of the time, and a fundamentally different experience of the world to that of females. It has also resulted in other males subjecting me to ostracism and physical violence when I fail to perform gender correctly. Basically, gender and its acolytes can fuck off.

[–]PressSnoozeWoke 11 insightful - 1 fun11 insightful - 0 fun12 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

"We feel this small change goes a long way to show compassion and a sense of belonging to trans people who's very identities are so often facing harsh response just for being different."

I see how he threw in "this small change"... he's not slick and anyone with some sense knows that it's not a "small" change.

***Side note, please be careful with clicking unknown links on Twitter. Someone on twitter warned about a user named "Brenda Demi-Girl" who tweets a link in that doxxes people. If you are on twitter, BLOCK that person so they don't tweet you (I'm assuming they target gender critical people who disagree with them).

[–]Madly 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Regarding blocking the Twitter user — done!

Thank you.

[–]anonymale 9 insightful - 1 fun9 insightful - 0 fun10 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

My report below: they ask us to report policy violations but do not include that as a category when asking for a reason for the report. Their policy prohibits sex discrimination.

Redefining ‘woman’ to include trans-identified males would allow them, plus any man with abusive motives who says the magic words ‘I am a woman’, into women’s single-sex spaces: changing rooms, toilets, rape shelters, prisons. In the UK, this would infringe the Equality Act 2010, which though it includes legal gender reassignment (not gender identity) as a protected characteristic, nevertheless guarantees women’s rights to single-sex services and spaces.

More generally, redefining ‘woman’ in this way prioritises a tiny minority over more than half of humanity. it takes away women’s rights to self-define and organise to change the problems they face because of their sex.

Therefore this petition breaks your rule against sex discrimination. Finally I note the petitioner did not ask for the definition of ‘man’ to be changed. this would not make the original petition somehow ok. It is a further indication of its sexism.

[–][deleted] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Well done!

[–]ArthnoldManacatsaman 7 insightful - 1 fun7 insightful - 0 fun8 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

This annoys me for two reasons:

  1. Misogyny, obviously.

  2. Woke Ideologues don't understand how dictionaries work. You can't write to a dictionary and ask them to change definitions you find politically inconvenient. Dictionaries are not prescriptive, dictating how you should use words, they are descriptive, describing how words are used in a given speech community. This is why 'literally' being defined as 'figuratively' is fine, because people actually use 'literally' that way. Very much preaching to the choir here but we cannot allow 'woman' to be diluted in this way, because then the dictionary will have to include it. Thankfully, after a cursory look at the websites of several dictionary providers (Collins, Chambers, M-W, OED, etc.) none of them have anything other than 'adult human female' (or slight variances in wording) as the primary definition of woman. Just so.

[–]meranii 5 insightful - 2 fun5 insightful - 1 fun6 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

They really want women to only be identified by gender stereotypes. No thank you, I don't want women's rights to go backwards a hundred years, for decades we've fought too hard against a horde of sexist men to let this current iteration of them to set us back.

[–]vijfkeervier 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Not Petrelli, the person who started it is on twitter as TheWolfSpirit1

[–]Astrid2448 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

I’d like to see how they attempt to change it anyway. There is no definition they have that is even remotely coherent, everything is circular.

[–]spinell 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

I dont think they will change it, it"s gonna mess up peoples pornsearches and they won't have any of those big bucks messed with no sire.. money talks bullshit walks.

[–]divingrightintowork 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Signed against! re: reported

[–][deleted] 1 insightful - 2 fun1 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

I mean. If they’re not demanding that “men” be changed as well, they’re obviously being misogynistic in their goals.

[–][deleted] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Signed. I knew this was going to happen eventually.

[–]11mile_house 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Can we make our own petition to keep it as is?

[–]joeytundra 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)