Comment on How to sexualize males for a female audience?

Gladaed@feddit.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

• velma@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Male and female are proper words. OP used them for both. It’s fine.

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• Blaiz0r@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  That’s a you problem, it’s fine to use male and female when used together it’s when they’re mixed it’s reductive “men and females”.

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• BenLeMan@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Just to spell it out: There’s nothing wrong with using “male” and “female” as adjectives (e.g. “male audience” or “female drivers”). The problem arises from using them as a noun (e.g., “females want a man” or “males are more likely”) which is a very reductive way of describing a person. It also evokes the way we refer to animals, which is, again, reductive.

  We are more than our respective genders, just as we are more than merely animals.

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  • Gladaed@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    They said males in the title.

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• CapOnBackwards@fedinsfw.app ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  What would the proper language be?

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  • BenLeMan@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    What would the proper language be?

    Men and women?

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    • CapOnBackwards@fedinsfw.app ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      How is that any different to male and female?

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