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• 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.

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  • CileTheSane@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Did OP use “males” anywhere?

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    • lmmarsano@lemmynsfw.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

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

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      • boletus@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        Wouldn’t that imply then that he’s referring to women AND girls? Because he does explicitly say men in the post.

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      • CileTheSane@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        The fact that the use one form for one gender and a different form for another gender is exactly the issue.

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  • funkless_eck@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

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    • lmmarsano@lemmynsfw.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Not answering the question: great evasion. 💯

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