Been getting a fair amount of trolling recently for pointing our to the #ScienceMarch they shouldn't refer to women as females
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Replying to @DaniRabaiotti
It's always grated on me but realised I'd never stopped to think about *why*
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Replying to @DaniRabaiotti
It's really rude and using a biological term to refer to a group of people is really dehumanising. Plus, noone ever called men "males".
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Replying to @DaniRabaiotti
Especially within science, referring to women as females reads like they are an organism in the field (or lab!) ready to be studied.
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Replying to @DaniRabaiotti
It is generally used by people who see us that way rather than people you can actually talk to and build non romantic relationships with
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Replying to @tinysapien
I can't read the word ladies in anything other than a patronising public school headmistress or exasperated man voice
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