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Man who calls women "females" hopes to one day be allowed within 500 meters of one (chaser.com.au)

submitted 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) by Nero@sopuli.xyz to c/theonion@midwest.social

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[–] Gustephan@lemmy.world 11 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I can certainly see it being a struggle for non native English speakers or English speakers from other cultures. Referring to women as females is one of those things thats accurate according to the language, but a lot of bigots have figured out that they can use common words as slurs and people are slower to catch on. Female is unfortunately one of those words; it evokes big "I see you as livestock" energy

[–] UndercoverUlrikHD@programming.dev 7 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

Yeah. I think a fair few people misunderstand the intent of my comment. I agree that the connotation of "female" makes it a word one should be conscious about its usage.

I was strictly speaking of how non native speakers of English may struggle with keeping up with what's socially correct English according to the wider Internet culture.