The word "female" should not be a negative. What a weird anti-intellectual direction this world is taking.
Might as well ban the word "cloud" next.
this post was submitted on 16 Apr 2025
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It's one of those things that didn't use to be negative but has been hijacked by shitty people and now has negative connotations depending on context.
It's not the use of the word "female" itself, but the use of the word as a noun to describe a woman, because it is taken to imply that the woman is a mere object. As the other person who replied to you said: context matters.
I use the word "female" (and "male") every single day when documenting on my patients, e.g. my notes commonly begin with "Patient is xx years old, female, [...]." This is normal and no one would take issue with it, because it is using "female" as an adjective and in a context where the information is important.
The opinions of people who think that 4,000,000,000 “Men” constitute a valid stereotype don’t matter a lot to me
This tweet is clearly not about 4,000,000,000 men, but the significantly smaller subset of those men calling women "females". It might help to read a post before getting angry about it?
You wouldn’t want a narrator trying that on me. You’d be bored to tears.