A 2nd issue (actually implied by what @o_guest wrote) is that we use the terms 'women' and 'men' for people/persons/humans.
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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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There are some special circumstances where we need to be able talk about gender though, especially to address diversity issues. If we cannot name than we cannot address. Cf. ppl who claim that we should not talk about 'race' at all because that ...
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... would be 'racism', while in fact it just silences those who want to address racial injustice and institutionalized racism. Same for sexism IMO.
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