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[–] masterspace@lemmy.ca 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

She may not mean to be, but from a linguistic standpoint, by using woman instead of person she inherently is implying that the specificity of gender matters.

It's the same as when a guy needlessly genders a woman in a story to make it mysoginistic.