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• lmmarsano@lemmynsfw.com ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ 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 ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    they wrote young females.

    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.

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    • lmmarsano@lemmynsfw.com ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      “young females” then they are sending friend requests to “young women” or “young girls”.

      Nope, doesn’t follow logically. As I wrote at the link you willfully ignored, it could mean girls or young women, since they are female & they are young: I think you know that. Some word choices circumvent disagreements over words with vague distinctions: while no choice is wrong or offensive, young female is less opinionated & unlikely to clash with varied opinions on the distinction between girls & young women.

      Your diversion, however, leads nowhere & doesn’t answer the question raised before.

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      • CileTheSane@lemmy.ca ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        it could mean girls or young women

        young female is less opinionated & unlikely to clash with varied opinions on the distinction between girls & young women.

        So how young are the girls OP is upset about not accepting his friend request? If there’s concern that some people would refer to them as “girls” instead of “young women” the grossness of the statement stands.

        You go on this long when people make grammatical errors like using the wrong “their” in their posts? Or is it just excusing language the dehumanizes women that gets you fired up?

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