This Week's Inquirer: Cambridge Dictionary updated its definition of ‘woman.’ Conservative media didn’t like it.
Cambridge Dictionary’s editors have edited the entry for 'woman' to include trans women, and the same for 'man.' But this wasn't some leftist appeal to woke ideology — whatever that is.
Cambridge Dictionary: What have you done?
Have you decided to troll all Americans? Or just one politician?
One thing is certain: Looking up man or woman in the Cambridge Dictionary yields a different result today than it did before.
Just months after Supreme Court nomination hearings for Ketanji Brown Jackson, when Sen. Marsha Blackburn threw blood-red meat to conservatives by asking Jackson to define the word woman, Cambridge Dictionary’s editors recently edited the entry for woman to include the following: “an adult who lives and identifies as female though they may have been said to have a different sex at birth.” The entry for man includes a corresponding definition.
Like Pavlov’s dog, conservatives again started salivating.
Read the full column at Inquirer.com.