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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Replying to @HPluckrose
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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Replying to @kellyrued
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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Replying to @HPluckrose
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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Replying to @kellyrued
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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Replying to @HPluckrose @kellyrued
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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Replying to @HPluckrose @kellyrued
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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Replying to @HPluckrose
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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Replying to @HPluckrose
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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Replying to @HPluckrose
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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