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boletus@sh.itjust.works 4 days agoWouldn’t that imply then that he’s referring to women AND girls? Because he does explicitly say men in the post.
Comment on Anon studies human behavior
boletus@sh.itjust.works 4 days agoWouldn’t that imply then that he’s referring to women AND girls? Because he does explicitly say men in the post.
lmmarsano@lemmynsfw.com 4 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?
boletus@sh.itjust.works 4 days 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.
lmmarsano@lemmynsfw.com 4 days 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.
boletus@sh.itjust.works 4 days ago
Well if you want an answer to the question it’s purely the way it comes off. A lot of women I know get the ick when people use the word female in that context.
CileTheSane@lemmy.ca 3 days ago
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?
lmmarsano@lemmynsfw.com 3 days ago
Already answered: they wrote young females.
They wrote mutuals.
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.
CileTheSane@lemmy.ca 3 days ago
And you just said “females” refers to women or girls.
So if they are sending friend requests to “young females” then they are sending friend requests to “young women” or “young girls”.
If they don’t want to sound like they are sending friend requests to the young girls of their coworkers (all of their mutuals after all) then “young women” would have been the better word to use.