• randomdeadguy@lemmy.world
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    10 months ago

    It’s her life, it’s her gender. She’s not implying that her experiences are exclusive to her gender.

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      10 months ago

      She may not mean to be, but from a linguistic standpoint, by using woman instead of person she inherently is implying that the specificity of gender matters.

      It’s the same as when a guy needlessly genders a woman in a story to make it mysoginistic.