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• 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.

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  • lmmarsano@lemmynsfw.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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?

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    • boletus@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      He’s looking for young girls then. I’m not sure that’s such a good thing, nor does it make his use of females any better.

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      • lmmarsano@lemmynsfw.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Not sure friend requests count as “looking” in that sense. Young girls is a bit of a reach: young females could mean girls or young women where the age of the girl is unspecified.

        Great job not answering the questions: a sign of real integrity.

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    • CileTheSane@lemmy.ca ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Females does mean women or girls, and they wrote young

      So OP is asking what’s wrong with young girls that they don’t accept friend requests from strange men, and your asking why people are pointing that out as a problem?

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      • lmmarsano@lemmynsfw.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        asking what’s wrong with young girls

        Already answered: they wrote young females.

        strange men

        They wrote mutuals.

        your asking why people are pointing that out as a problem

        Nope: question clearly stated above about picking over a word.

        You get points, though, for picking over the message instead of a word: notice females not mentioned.

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• 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.

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  • lmmarsano@lemmynsfw.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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.

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