Are you a female who thought about doing engineering but decided against it? Why? What can the science community do better? #ScienceMarchpic.twitter.com/2Hzv2VqvRM
just a note: I don't love "female" as a noun to refer to women. Makes you sound like a Ferengi.
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women are females, it's not a slang or insult it's what women are.
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Many women (including me) prefer not to be called "females". Why it bothers me:https://makingnoiseandhearingthings.com/2015/04/08/men-vs-females-and-sexist-writing/ …
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I've seen the term male used a lot in both a formal and informal context, I disagree strongly
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I would be interested to see some examples of parallel usage of "male" and "female" as nouns to refer to humans.
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medical field, legal system, science and biology, academics and casually as well.
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Those are genres/topics, not specific examples of parallelism.
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I wrote in more depth about why this bothers me on my blog a while ago:https://makingnoiseandhearingthings.com/2015/04/08/men-vs-females-and-sexist-writing/ …
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So they ask for how they can help us & all you do is attack them for using "female" as if it's somehow an insult?
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I'm a scientist who studies language. Words matter. Referring to women as females is literally dehumanizing.
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No, it's not and you are literally insane if you think so. 'Female' isn't derogatory. Do you have a problem with 'male' too?
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'Man' & 'woman' have the semantic property [+human], 'male' & 'female' do not. I don't like using 'male' to replace 'man' either.
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Boy and girl don't have [+human], do they offend you too?
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personally, I became a scientist rather than an engineer because I find "why" more interesting than "how"
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Me too. Engineering seemed to have no rewards for curiosity.
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I enjoy the reward of making things that end up working.
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So what must we change feminist to?
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Aaaand this is why you are not a scientist.
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This is why children like yourself ruin the image of real female scientists that don't get offended by words on Twitter
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