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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.

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Burnyoureyes@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ 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.

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- PetDinosaurs@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ 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.
  
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skullgiver@popplesburger.hilciferous.nl ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
Female as an adjective, is fine, sure. Female as a noun, no.

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- Deceptichum@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  I’m fine with that!
  
  I’ve certainly had idjits before argue all instances of female are wrong for humans.
  
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hedgehog@ttrpg.network ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ 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.

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Diprount_Tomato@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
Female in female athlete is an adjective, not a noun

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