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Woman Undefined: The Counterfeit Mysticism of Gender Ideology

If you can’t define women, you dehumanize them

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Eva Kurilova
Mar 12, 2023
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The 1888 Flammarion engraving, captioned: “A missionary of the Middle Ages tells that he had found the point where the sky and the Earth touch”

One of the most baffling aspects of the gender identity movement is the inability of its adherents to define the word “woman.” The reason for this is that the actual definition, “adult human female,” excludes the men who wish they were women, and it has therefore become verboten.

Instead, trans activists often provide circular definitions, like “a woman is anyone who identifies as a woman.” Then, because this doesn’t make a shred of sense, they eventually have no choice but to appeal to some sort of deeply felt innate knowing, and this is where they take a mystical—or rather, faux mystical—turn.

A woman is a feeling. A vibe. An energy. A woman is something so ineffable, so beyond our regular, everyday, five-sense, and three-dimensional reality that a definition which actually makes sense cannot truly do the word justice.

Every time I entertain thi…

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