compare, contrast

[novapsyche]

To those who ask "What is poetry?": you might as well be asking, "What is a woman?"

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[dionysus1999.livejournal.com]

A member of the Homo sapiens sapiens species with XX chromosomal structure. Typically the female of the species is designated a woman when she reaches reproductive age.

[novapsyche.livejournal.com]

A member of the Homo sapiens sapiens species with XX chromosomal structure.

That's a female, not a woman. Surely you're already aware of this and do not need someone who's sociologically minded to remind you of this. (Or are you simply being facetious?)

Typically the female of the species is designated a woman when she reaches reproductive age.

You need to look up an article written in the early '80s called "Doing Gender." And freshen up on your de Bouvoir.

[dionysus1999.livejournal.com]

I get the feeling you're going beyound the standard model of science. Always making things more complicated than you need to. ;)

[novapsyche.livejournal.com]

Science really has nothing to say about what a woman is, only what a female is. To get into what constitutes womanhood, one naturally must go outside "standard science" into sociology, philosophy, and (yes, even your field of study) psychology.

To go back to the original analogy, there is no such thing as "poetic science".