Using a sail to fly your colours is a red flag.

Sus. Having any issue with a red flag meme. /s

It's a multifunctional sail.

If you saw a pirate ship with a rainbow flag though , you're in for a mean margarita and a good time.

I think black was like, "We just want your shit and we'll let you live if you surrender" while red was like, "We're gonna kill and then take your shit or take your shit and then kill you, either way you will not survive," kinda thing.

Sometimes the black one meant they just wanted your hats.

Benjamin Hornigold. No I'm not making that up.

is... Is that a thing?

There are contexts where it makes sense, mostly medicine or science, but even in those contexts it's deliberately dehumanizing, which is the point. It is also the only English word for a female human that does not imply age, as woman and girl both do.

The quick sniff test: "Males and females"? Clinical, but probably fine. "Men and females"? Fucking Ferengi freak, avoid that guy

Unless you're speaking about (non human) animals. Saying a dog is a female is fine.

"Female" is fine to use as an adjective.

It's also fine to use as a noun when describing livestock, which is why it's a red flag to describe women that way.

Well since we're telling pirate jokes...

A guy is at a party and sees a pirate coming towards him. He notices as the pirate approaches that the pirate has a little wheel sticking out of his pants.

Naturally curious, the guy asks the pirate, "why do you have a little wheel sticking out of your pants?"

"Arr," says the pirate. "I don't know, but it be drivin' me nuts!"

A lot of people use certain words just out of habit, the last thing you need is some SJW jumping down your throat and calling you names cause they don't like your regional dialect. Lots of words I grew up with that were normal or not that bad, and now are considered super offensive. It's not a malicious thing, all you can do is calibrate and learn, but some people get so worked up if you don't use the words they're used to

Yeah, but those people don't get defensive when you comment on it, while those who are raising the red flag immediately do. It's pretty easy to tell them apart from that point forward.

What a sweetheart you are. Can't even let a webcomic get away with not being inclusive.

Pretty sure non natives will be the first ones to use "woman" and not "female". I know it's not something we say in French anyway, a woman is a woman.