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lena@gregtech.eu 2 days agoEh, I don’t think “female” is exclusively used to refer to sex. Language is subjective, so there is no objective definition of words that are used to describe something as complex as gender or sex.
Per Cambridge dictionary:
female adjective (GENDER)
belonging or relating to women or girls:
- she was voted the best female vocalist
- she was the school’s first trans female athlete.
Solumbran@lemmy.world 2 days ago
Female has meanings that mean “female sex”, woman doesn’t.
Language influences and even if theoretically, female can mean woman, it still adds an implicit link to sex.
As you said, language is subjective, so even if a dictionary says that female can refer to women, in practice as someone else pointed out, you can talk about a female dog, you can’t talk about a woman dog.