No. I dislike 'female' as a noun but recognise that people using it this way don't mean anything awful by it. https://twitter.com/_joemo/status/916266206809739265 …
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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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However, if I worked with a man who kept referring to me as 'a female', I might have to start calling him 'a sperm-producer'. Pleasantly.
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I might be turning into my mother. "Who's 'she'? The cat's mother?' Oh god, no.
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