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Comment on Anon studies human behavior
HonoraryMancunian@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
Females
spacecadet@lemm.ee 4 weeks ago
arin@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
Not age specific could be girls or women
umbrella@lemmy.ml 4 weeks ago
[deleted]arin@lemmy.world 4 weeks 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 4 weeks ago
So anon is asking why young girls didn’t accept his friend request?
CileTheSane@lemmy.ca 4 weeks ago
Unless they are talking about 10 year olds, “women” is acceptable.
lmmarsano@lemmynsfw.com 4 weeks ago
So is “females” in regular English usage.
lmmarsano@lemmynsfw.com 4 weeks ago
Is treating females like a dirty, toxic word advancing a good cause?
At least they don’t judge.
funkless_eck@sh.itjust.works 4 weeks ago
because people who use females will say men and females - presumably because referring to them as women humanizes them
lmmarsano@lemmynsfw.com 4 weeks 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 4 weeks ago
Female is not a noun.
samus12345@lemm.ee 4 weeks 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 4 weeks 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 4 weeks 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 4 weeks ago
a pistillate plant
I’m a hwat?
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fushuan@lemm.ee 4 weeks 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 4 weeks ago
Pronounced the same as tamales.
Randelung@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
Testicles is looking for females!
refurbishedrefurbisher@lemmy.sdf.org 4 weeks ago
Is Testicles an ancient Greek god?