Ok, so women are linked to animals (mediated by the term "female") and men are not. So ... female and man would be terrible, but "male"? Still confused
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I agree. I was realizing that while I was typing. I would use 'female' as 'sex of a woman'. Hence both cis woman and trans woman are female. I know that some (including transphobic) ppl use terms differently, but that was certainly not what I meant & hopefully also didn't imply.
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So if we are referring to sex are female/male are ok (ish)?
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I think so yes, if that fits with a person's sex (so, intersex etc aside). Just find it odd to refer to one another's sex in contexts where that seems irrelevant.
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I agree, I also find it very odd to attempt to identify a person's sex in an irrelevant context. My problem is that I also believe that referring to gender might be irrelevant in many context (think of a job application) Why is it needed to know the gender of the applicant?
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Sometimes it is needed, generally not. For example to address lack of diversity or to carry out jobs where it would otherwise be impossible (women's officer, working in a rape survivor's unit, etc).
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Agreed, with both of you. I realized later that even the use of 'woman professor' does not pass the Finkbeiner test: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Finkbeiner_test …
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