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mle86@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

That may be but if they would shorten “female soldier”, wouldn’t they refer to her as “a soldier” and not “a female”?

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Wilco@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
Yes, we heard “that is just a soldier” as well. They just didn’t like the terms lady or woman, you had to use “female”.

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- MeThisGuy@feddit.nl ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  it’s an adjective, not a noun. but I hear it everywhere, mostly on newscasts and other broadcasts. so I just call em ‘broads’ (/s)
  
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  - Wilco@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    You can’t call chicks ‘broads’ anymore, its not civilized. (/s)
    
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  - zedgeist@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    I prefer to call’em dames.
    
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