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lmmarsano@lemmynsfw.com 5 days agobecause 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.
funkless_eck@sh.itjust.works 5 days ago
lmmarsano@lemmynsfw.com 5 days ago
Not answering the question: great evasion. 💯
CileTheSane@lemmy.ca 5 days ago
Did OP use “males” anywhere?
lmmarsano@lemmynsfw.com 5 days ago
Was the writer in OP ever referring to males (men & boys)? What’s the necessity?
boletus@sh.itjust.works 5 days ago
Wouldn’t that imply then that he’s referring to women AND girls? Because he does explicitly say men in the post.
lmmarsano@lemmynsfw.com 5 days ago
Females does mean women or girls, and they wrote young. It is logical to write men when boys are absent or not discussed. Again: where’s the necessity for males?
The context doesn’t indicate the writer uses females abusively, so picking over that word looks indiscriminate like the critic is stigmatizing the word itself. Again: what good does that advance?
CileTheSane@lemmy.ca 4 days ago
The fact that the use one form for one gender and a different form for another gender is exactly the issue.
lmmarsano@lemmynsfw.com 4 days ago
What’s the logic there that makes it offensive?
The comment mixes women & females so it doesn’t appear fixated on a word offensively.
When discussing complete sets, it symmetrically places words of a set together: “men, women” and “married, single”.
When not discussing complete sets, only the words needed appear: they write “single young female” without “single young male”, because there was no reason to write the latter—it’s not part of the topic. The shift to females happens in a new sentence.
Again: explain the necessity for males. Are you expecting everyone to write males for no reason whenever they write females (or the reverse)? Do we need to do the same with married & single? Are you claiming incomplete sets of words or asymmetry is offensive?
That shit would be exhausting. Please explain the issue: otherwise, it looks like you’re simply picking over the noun female.