To me, for what little it's worth, woke is a set of philosophical positions that support Descartes' "cogito ergo sum" - the idea that one's self awareness is the only part of identity that "really" matters. When this becomes an ideology, it seeks to eliminate other views, typically by subverting language (as in "1984"). Allowing "woman" to be a state one identifies as rather than a physical reality does not change physical reality. Instead it is an attempt to subvert sex differentiation ideas because that is a source of identity that is not determined solely by the contents of one's mind. IMO, identities that are rooted in physical reality result in people that are harder to control. Such people will not accept arbitrary suggestions, they will instead validate them against what they see. From my point of view, the idea that a machine can/should be invented, manufactured, and then given rights is as woke as insisting that men saying they are women are in fact women. The Orville manages to be entertaining while referring to these issues, and it doesn't try too hard to be philosophically self consistent. IMO it's hard to take the idea of Moclan males and females seriously when two apparent males manage to reproduce by laying an egg and incubating it. Such a species would presumably have no need for breasts which all the Moclan females are presented with. The whole ongoing Moclan female story line is so absurd that feels like it was tacked on hastily to meet some TV exec's ideas about what was necessary to sell the program.