can't speak for anyone else but I like female + use it more often as my identity now since I've realized woman means relatively little to me
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I don't. I think it's because it doesn't necessarily refer to a human. When someone says 'I saw a female', I think 'A female what?'
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sure, but I call my cats girls + boys + the context is easy enough to sort. Never had anyone ask me what species female I was lol
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This is what I mean about it not being a rational thing. Connotations. I have some with the word. Other people don't. Subjective.
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Also, here, the people who usually refer to men & women as 'males' & 'females' are police or biologists so it feels a bit cold & clinical.
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Yes, I am 'a female'. Also 'a white', 'a tall', 'a fat.' But I prefer these as adjectives to be used as necessary rather than nouns of being
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Problem comes when people who dislike 'a female' coz it doesn't necessarily refer to a human, insist speaker necessarily dehumanises women.
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That doesn't follow. These are connotations in your mind. You can't transpose them onto other people's. They know what they mean.
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Not every time, but very often, this Tweet is exactly correct.
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The Tweet you quoted is very accurate many times, not every time. Your tweet implied there is no truth to it. That is wrong.
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How do you know this? I think it depends on cultural norms as to whether female is commonly used as a noun or not.
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Maybe. Maybe it's an American thing, but I know wildly sexist men, and the use of 'females' to describe women is a real thing.
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I'd still address the sexism rather than the use of words.
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Sure. But the Tweet quoted is describing a real phenomenon as I see it.
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That doesn't mean anything. Your perception can be that 'females' is code for 'bitches' or that 'diversity' is code for 'white genocide.'
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