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Female speakers for @ReactNativeEU wanted!
Do you know any woman passionate about #react or #reactnative?
Take on the challenge and tag #ReactNativeGirl
@quinlanjung @NikkitaFTW @erinfoox @peggyrayzis @ladyleet @kejt_bw @miuki_miu @shrutikapoor08 @sarah_edo @ParissAthena
Hey! Assuming good intent here. Calling women, “females”, can come across as belittling. How often do you refer to men as males? This is a good article that goes into it more: https://jezebel.com/the-problem-with-calling-women-females-1683808274 …
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I'd also add that calling women "girls" is patronizing. It undermines our technical credibility because the word refers to a group of children. You wouldn't refer to a group of men as "boys".
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Oh no! This was definitely not the intention, exactly the opposite! Thank you so much for noticing that, we’ll make sure it doesn’t happen again. Sorry if anyone felt bad about this :(
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Thanks, this is very informative! I passed this to our conference marketing so they're aware. Nuances like this are hard to spot when English is not a first language you speak
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Thank you! I know that your hearts are in the right place. Yeah it's a mistake I often see non-native speakers make, language can be super nuanced
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Nitpicking here by I think it’s ok to say female speaker or male speaker. It’s when you call women just females that it sounds wrong.
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Ok how? Grammatically, culturally, both?
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In french we only use female when referring to animals, when referring to humans we use the word feminine
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