I don't think I've ever phrased it like that before, but it got me thinking, about 'exactly our point.'

1. Women are female
2. Those of us who are female do not understand what 'feeling female' would be. In fact, we'd pretty strongly suggest there is no such thing as 'feeling https://twitter.com/janeclarejones/status/1344022719675969538

female.' I feel like a human being in here.
3. What we do share, to greater or lesser degrees, are things we experience *because we are female.* By virtue or biology, or power, or their combination.
4. The things we experience because we are female can in no way be equated to

'things we experience because we are performing the prescribed social role of 'woman.' We experience a ton of shit that is not because we are performing femininity. Sometimes it is in the service of teaching us to perform it. Often in the service of punishing us for not

performing it. It damages us in ways only we really understand. And people thinking it's all sleepovers and glittery hairgrips are being offensive in incomprehensible ways.
5. That is, the only condition of being female is being female. You cannot become female by feeling female

because 'feeling female' is meaningless.
6. And the only possible meaning that can be given to 'feeling like a woman' is 'identifying with the behaviours typically prescribed to women.' You can tell us this isn't about sexist stereotypes till you are blue in the face. But it is.

Every comment about 'airhead pills' and 'girl mode' and thinking your can turn up to work at an investment bank in a bright pink lacy dress that no female person would ever wear to work if they wanted to have a shred of credibility (and they'll still get treated like an airhead

anyway) tells us that this is all about stereotypes.

But more than that, it has to be. Because it cannot have any meaning without it.

You want to redefine 'woman' as 'people who like performing woman behaviours.'

It's a sexist sack of shit.

And we're not having it.