When you say "woman" are you referring to sex or gender? If you don't know that they're different, then allow me to explain the difference. Sex is a physical characteristic defined by chromosomes and reproductive organs. Gender defines the attitudes and behaviors that a given culture associates with a given sex.
The right wing pundits that use this question almost always commit the fallacy of equivocation. Sometimes when they say "woman' they're referring to sex and other times they're referring to gender. If you're referring to "sex" then the question is a tautology because you are simply using woman as a synonym "for adult human female." If you are referring to gender then the answer is more complicated. For most people sex and gender align so the answer again would be "adult human female." However, for a very small percentage of the population sex and gender do not match. So that definition would not apply.
“There are more things in Heaven and Earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of in your philosophy.” - Hamlet, Act 1, Scene 5.
This is the problem with many (most?) conservatives. They have a toddler's view of the complexity of the world. Then when they don't get the simple answers that their ignorance leads them to expect, they get their panties all in a twist and go looking for "leaders" that will tell them they're really right and not to worry about what those educated people say.
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