theres our hint.
Comment on Anon studies human behavior
HonoraryMancunian@lemmy.world 5 days ago
Females
umbrella@lemmy.ml 3 days ago
spacecadet@lemm.ee 4 days ago
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lmmarsano@lemmynsfw.com 3 days ago
Is treating females like a dirty, toxic word advancing a good cause?
At least they don’t judge.
funkless_eck@sh.itjust.works 3 days ago
because people who use females will say men and females - presumably because referring to them as women humanizes them
lmmarsano@lemmynsfw.com 3 days ago
because people who use females will say men and females
Do you ignore all the instances they don’t? OP’s writer wrote women & used females to refer to female people (girls or women).
The post I linked to shows another use of noun female.
Singles communities, personals, classifieds, marketplaces offer abundant instances.
The word appears often in book titles & passages, especially feminist literature.
Seems your claim requires ignoring much regular English usage: it’s false.
presumably
That’s presuming an awful lot contrary to regular usage.
Regardless of motive, the act is the same: indiscriminately picking problems over females. If everyone did that, females would be generally accepted as a dirty, toxic word. Again: what good does that advance?
It’s thoughtless, self-destructive language policing.
renamon_silver@lemmy.wtf 3 days ago
Female is not a noun.
samus12345@lemm.ee 3 days ago
Yes, it is. It’s just offensive to refer to a person as such when it’s not in a scientific or formal context.
lmmarsano@lemmynsfw.com 3 days ago
A non-scientific, informal context was given. Show us the offense there.
This is straight-up misguided language policing. Again, what good is served by treating female like a toxic, dirty word?
lmmarsano@lemmynsfw.com 3 days ago
female
noun
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- a female person : a woman or a girl
- an individual of the sex that is typically capable of bearing young or producing eggs
- a pistillate plant
tetris11@feddit.uk 3 days ago
a pistillate plant
I’m a hwat?
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arin@lemmy.world 4 days ago
Not age specific could be girls or women
umbrella@lemmy.ml 3 days ago
hes literally saying “young females”
arin@lemmy.world 3 days ago
And yes this could include any young women and girls but instead of saying both nouns he says one noun that includes both discriptors which is female instead of girl or young women
CileTheSane@lemmy.ca 2 days ago
So anon is asking why young girls didn’t accept his friend request?
CileTheSane@lemmy.ca 3 days ago
Unless they are talking about 10 year olds, “women” is acceptable.
lmmarsano@lemmynsfw.com 3 days ago
So is “females” in regular English usage.
fushuan@lemm.ee 3 days ago
In his defence, the first use of females was correct, “those who are young single and female” as an adjective. I’d say that the second one is wrong, but they did use women above too so I’d attribute it to having written female just above and typical 4chan brainrot. I’d keep an eye on this one but not crucify yet
refurbishedrefurbisher@lemmy.sdf.org 3 days ago
Pronounced the same as tamales.
Randelung@lemmy.world 3 days ago
Testicles is looking for females!
refurbishedrefurbisher@lemmy.sdf.org 3 days ago
Is Testicles an ancient Greek god?