Republicans defining “woman”

The American version of upper class twits.

You would think they would be prepared with a good answer after making such a big deal about Jackson's deferral. They aren't.

“I’m going to tell you right now what is a woman,” Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) informed the audience at a GOP event after namechecking Jackson. “This is an easy answer. We’re a creation of God. We came from Adam’s rib. God created us with his hands. We may be the weaker sex — we are the weaker sex — but we are our partner — we are our husband’s wife.”

That isn't a workable definition. It is amazing that anyone in the 21st century would still believe in that old fable.

Sen. Josh Hawley (R-Mo.) was asked by a HuffPost reporter to define woman, and replied, “Someone who can give birth to a child, a mother, is a woman. Someone who has a uterus is a woman. It doesn’t seem that complicated to me.” When the reporter asked him whether a woman whose uterus was removed via hysterectomy was still a woman, he appeared uncertain: “Yeah. Well, I don’t know, would they?”

Poor Josh. He said it didn't seem complicated and was confronted with a problem. I didn't know how to answer it. I wonder if any women in his district will notice that he turned them all into men.

Republicans punted.

“I don’t have anything for you on that,” said Sen. John Kennedy (R-La.).

“I’m not going to indulge you,” said Sen. John Cornyn (R-Texas).

Sen. Marsha Blackburn (R-Tenn.) dodged the question three times in a row, citing her policy of not talking to reporters in Senate hallways ― even though it was Blackburn who made this an issue with Jackson in the first place.

I think there must have been some panicked emails swapped around so they would get their story straight, because they hurried back with an answer.

In a follow-up email to HuffPost, a spokesperson for Blackburn said her definition of a woman is “Two X chromosomes.”

Not all women have two X chromosomes, and relatively few people have had their chromosomes looked at. You know, it's not a good criterion. It is possible to claim that it has always been obvious what men and women are, and then base that distinction on a cellular property that was completely unknown until about 120 years ago. What were the Victorians doing when they were confused about who men and women were and accidentally impregnated?

The parrots don't deserve that comparison.

In a written statement, Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) offered the same definition as Blackburn: “A woman is born with two X-chromosomes.”

Ted Cruz had to make a mistake.

Cruz, when asked, immediately answered that a woman is “an adult female human.”

He denied that he had recently looked it up in a dictionary.

“I just happen to speak English,” Cruz said, adding: “A Homo sapien with two X chromosomes.”

You doltish imitation of a human made from a sack full of roaches. You would get that wrong.

There will be more circular definitions.

Sen. Mike Lee (R-Utah) shouted his definition of a woman before slipping into a Senate elevator: “An adult female of the human species.”

Define female.

Some people did not get the memo.

“I have more of a traditional view of what a woman is,” said Sen. Thom Tillis (R-N.C.).

What is that?

“My wife.”

It is nice to give the Wiggums a chance to speak up.

Lindsey Graham is the winner of the most confused Republican answer.

Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) said a woman is simply someone who is “biologically a woman,” adding that he thinks most Americans can figure out who’s a woman and who’s a man.

“The birds and the bees stuff ― it’s been a while, but I think I remember the general gist of the differences,” Graham said. “To have a hard time answering that question is kind of odd to me.”

A woman is a woman. Got it. That is helpful. He just threw in the word "biologically", which inadvertently revealed that he has no scientific understanding at all.

He has forgotten the details of birds and the bees, and just remembers the general idea of the differences. He doesn't have any children.

Yeah. When a reporter asked if a woman who had her uterus removed was still a woman, Sen. Josh Hawley said he didn't know.