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• funkless_eck@sh.itjust.works ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  because people who use females will say men and females - presumably because referring to them as women humanizes them

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  • lmmarsano@lemmynsfw.com ⁨4⁩ ⁨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.

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    • CileTheSane@lemmy.ca ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Did OP use “males” anywhere?

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      • lmmarsano@lemmynsfw.com ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        Was the writer in OP ever referring to males (men & boys)? What’s the necessity?

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    • funkless_eck@sh.itjust.works ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

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      • lmmarsano@lemmynsfw.com ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        Not answering the question: great evasion. 💯

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• renamon_silver@lemmy.wtf ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Female is not a noun.

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  • samus12345@lemm.ee ⁨4⁩ ⁨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.

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    • lmmarsano@lemmynsfw.com ⁨4⁩ ⁨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?

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  • lmmarsano@lemmynsfw.com ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    dictionary entry:

    female

    noun

    1. 1. a female person : a woman or a girl
       2. an individual of the sex that is typically capable of bearing young or producing eggs
    2. a pistillate plant

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    • tetris11@feddit.uk ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      a pistillate plant

      I’m a hwat?

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