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I am not a native English speaker and I have sometimes referred to people as male and female (as that is what I have been taught) but I have received some backlash in some cases, especially for the word "female", is there some negative thought in the word which I am unaware of?

I don't know if this is the best place to ask, if it's not appropriate I have no problem to delete it ^^

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[โ€“] [email protected] -1 points 7 months ago

This just seems women are more touchy about this stuff then men.

Someone called me out on reddit for using the word girls for women and it was sexist because it is infantising, and it was stupid because they were making out I don't call men boys. When I absoultely do, in fact I do it more than the alternative. Really the only way I was sexist on that is that I don't do it as much as I do with men so if anything I should do it more.

But you can't win, someone's always going to be offended