TIL all doctors, military, police etc. are incels.
Are you ok with calling men “males”?
People forget that there are also girls, teenagers and possibly other variants you may want to specify (plus all the male ones etc.).
By using female/male you cover those bases.
Besides, have you never seen internet posts like in AITA or such using F/M?
Never mind all the professional language (e.g. “military age male”).
Just, come on. Getting insulted over bullshit.
Deceptichum@kbin.social 9 months ago
Are you serious?
You’ve never heard say “female athlete”? Because saying “woman athlete” is absolutely fucking Neanderthal.
You can’t just swap every instance of female for woman. Same applies for male/man. It’s basic grammar at this point.
Burnyoureyes@lemmy.world 9 months ago
You’re misunderstanding a little here. The issue is not with using ‘female’, the issue is with using it as a noun. ‘Female athlete’ is fine. ‘The female’ is not.
PetDinosaurs@lemmy.world 9 months ago
Can someone please look up these words in a dictionary?
Part of speech is not the issue. The issue is referring to a human as their sex in a sexual context.
If you think a doctor saying, “the patient is a female” is in any sense incorrect or rude, you’re wrong, and I don’t believe that you don’t already know that.
skullgiver@popplesburger.hilciferous.nl 9 months ago
Female as an adjective, is fine, sure. Female as a noun, no.
Deceptichum@kbin.social 9 months ago
I’m fine with that!
I’ve certainly had idjits before argue all instances of female are wrong for humans.
hedgehog@ttrpg.network 9 months ago
Pretty sure they meant “as a noun” since almost nobody complains about the use of female/male as adjectives. The OP had it used as a noun, after all.
Diprount_Tomato@lemmy.world 9 months ago
Female in female athlete is an adjective, not a noun