A side effect of MRAs and toxic masculinity is that the word “female” is less frequently used as a modifier—like “female scientist”—as opposed to saying “woman scientist.” “Female” in informal speech has seemingly become a marker that someone is about to say something offensive.
Replying to @GlennF
Yeah, I deliberately switched to the latter for the same reason.
6:31 PM - 5 Dec 2019
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