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I cringe every time I hear another guy refer to women like this

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[–] odium@programming.dev 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

It's fine if it's consistent imo.

Men and women - 👍

Males and females - 👍

Boys and girls - 👍

Guys and gals - 👍

Men and females - 👎

Men and girls - 👎

Men and chicks - 👎

[–] SaltyIceteaMaker@lemmy.ml 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Well depends on context i guess. Like saying "my women teacher" just doesn't sound as good as "my female teacher"

[–] captainlezbian@lemmy.world 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Female as the adjectival form of woman is normal and ok. As a noun for a human it tells me you’re on one of a few varieties of bullshit

[–] michaelmrose@lemmy.world 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Can you give an example of each?

[–] NikkiDimes@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

My teacher is female.

My teacher is a female.

The former is adjectival, the latter is an icky noun. That "a" is doing a lot of work lol.

[–] Psythik@lemmy.world 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

My girlfriend calls women "females".

Where is your god now, Raychelle?

[–] fallingcats@discuss.tchncs.de 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Does she pass the Bechdel test?

[–] Psythik@lemmy.world 1 points 8 months ago

I have no idea what that means, but I just realized over a year later that I left you on read so I feel compelled to reply.