Comment on Dude read the rules of woman only community and decided to post anyway

• Perspectivist@feddit.uk ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Probably trying to say that just because incels (allegedly) use the term “female,” it doesn’t mean that a person using that word must then be an incel.

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  • AmidFuror@fedia.io ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Thanks. I'm not saying the poster is an incel. I'm just saying the objection to misuse of "female" has been primed by incels (and Ferengi). Without incels, there wouldn't be such a knee jerk revulsion to it.

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    • TubularTittyFrog@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      i really don’t even understand the concept of policing other people’s language use.

      it’s like saying people won’t don’t have perfect grammar are stupid.

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      • AmidFuror@fedia.io ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        It's not about the grammar. It's the underlying mindset that might lead to specific word choices. If someone exclusively refers to women as bitches, that may be because they don't hold much respect for women.

        More subtly, if someone always refers to women as girls but rarely to men as boys, it could be telling us that they think of women as immature and less like fully formed adults.

        For the word females, it's more subtle again. It would be normal to refer to animals as male and female. For people we have the gender-specific terms man and woman. If you refer to women as females but not men as males, you may be revealing an underlying dehumanizing attitude. This is corroborated by what seems to be a common trope of incels calling women females.

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