How hard is it to define the term “woman?”
Apparently, if you are a Pennsylvania Democrat, it’s a challenge. The PA Democratic Party had introduced a resolution honoring National Women’s Month, and withdrew it after Republicans proposed adding a definition of “woman.”
Pennsylvania House Democrats withdrew consideration of a resolution honoring March as “National Women’s Month” after a Republican lawmaker filed an amendment to include the physiological definition of “woman” in the text.
What was expected to be a quick, symbolic vote instead turned into a brief but telling floor moment, with Republicans forcing the question into the open and Democrats opting to shelve the resolution rather than define “woman” in legislation — leading to an eruption of laughter on the House floor.
That’s beyond parody. Men and women, boys and girls, male and female, these are things that have been known since, well, always. Humans are mammals. Mammals are sexually bipolar. Male and female. All mammals. These are facts.
Facts don’t matter to Pennsylvania Democrats, who obviously find these facts to be troubling, disconcerting, inconvenient, even embarrassing. But facts they remain, and when Pennsylvania Republicans tried to drop a definition of “woman” into the resolution, they bailed.
House Speaker Joanna McClinton, D-Southwest Philadelphia, was bringing a rapid-fire succession of bills up for consideration late in Tuesday’s session when she asked the clerk to introduce House Resolution 390.
The bill, from state Rep. Carol Hill-Evans, D-York, recognized March as Women’s History Month in Pennsylvania. Hill-Evans wrote in her presentation of the bill that it “celebrat[es] the extraordinary accomplishments of women,” which “too often go unacknowledged.”
So far, that sounds all right, doesn’t it? Many women have extraordinary accomplishments. Many strong, capable women have led extraordinary lives. I should now; I was raised by a woman like that, and I’m married to another.
But here’s where the PA debate gets funny, when the resolution was being discussed:
The clerk indicated that state Rep. Aaron Bernstine, R-Ellwood City, had an amendment to offer, and McClinton recognized him to introduce it.
“Thank you, Madam Speaker. Madam Speaker, this amendment is very straightforward and clear,” Bernstine announced.
“It defines what a woman actually is — because we do know what that is. Thank you,” he said.
Audio in the House chamber briefly paused as movement could be seen on the leadership’s dais.
“The resolution is temporarily over,” McClinton announced after several seconds, sparking loud laughter from the chamber.
They ran and ran and ran and ran away.
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Did you get that? When asked to define “woman” in biological terms, in accurate terms, in fact, they decided that the remarkable accomplishments of Pennsylvania women, of American women, weren’t that important after all. When asked to define “woman,” they clutched. When asked to recognize biological reality, they couldn’t. They’re too afraid of angering their nutcase woke base.
As for defining “woman”, that’s easy: An adult female member of the species Homo sapiens.
And to that I can only add, “Vive la difference!“
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