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funkless_eck@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks agobecause people who use females will say men and females - presumably because referring to them as women humanizes them
Comment on Anon studies human behavior
funkless_eck@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks agobecause people who use females will say men and females - presumably because referring to them as women humanizes them
lmmarsano@lemmynsfw.com 3 weeks ago
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.
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.
CileTheSane@lemmy.ca 3 weeks ago
Did OP use “males” anywhere?
lmmarsano@lemmynsfw.com 3 weeks ago
Was the writer in OP ever referring to males (men & boys)? What’s the necessity?
boletus@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
Wouldn’t that imply then that he’s referring to women AND girls? Because he does explicitly say men in the post.
CileTheSane@lemmy.ca 3 weeks ago
The fact that the use one form for one gender and a different form for another gender is exactly the issue.
funkless_eck@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
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lmmarsano@lemmynsfw.com 3 weeks ago
Not answering the question: great evasion. 💯