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My understanding is that female refers to the gender while woman refers specifically to an adult of the aforementioned gender. As in you wouldn’t call a 3 year girl a woman and you wouldn’t call a 90 year old woman a girl, as girl carries a diminutive connotation compared to the more apt term woman.

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skullgiver@popplesburger.hilciferous.nl ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
If you ask someone to babysit your little female, you’re probably gonna get weird looks, I don’t think female works as a way to reference children.

Female may work as an encompassing term for girl and woman, but it’s rarely practical to refer to a particular member of that combined group except for technical works like research or maybe police reports.

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PetDinosaurs@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
Sex.

Female and male refer to sex.

Sex is what is between your legs.

Woman and man refer to gender.

Gender is what’s between your ears.

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- Diprount_Tomato@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  OR male and female are adjectives and man and woman are nouns
  
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  - PetDinosaurs@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    The dictionary disagrees with you.
    
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    Diprount_Tomato@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    And I’m talking about linguistics, not biology
    
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