Dictionary wars: a thread. For everyone who’s been in my mentions all day complaining about a petition that suggested the Oxford Dictionary entry for ‘woman’ might include an example containing ‘trans woman’. /1 This was actually a pretty throwaway suggestion at the end of a long list of other demands. But even if it hadn’t been, the anger about it is misplaced. Lobbying dictionaries to make their definitions fit your political preferences is misguided—(which is why I didn’t sign)/2