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Topic	Have you learned to stopped calling women "female"?
The_Apologist 02/25/24 10:02:35 PM #345:	CSCA33 posted... Dang, champ. Another swing and a miss? I know you're dedicated to any misunderstanding that lets you sneer at me, but we're actually saying the same thing. 'Female' is (sometimes) dehumanizing because of the meaning, not because of the grammar. We can change the grammar and refer to women as 'female humans' instead of 'females', but this is still just as dehumanizing because the biological connotations of 'female' are still there, regardless of whether the word is being used as an adjective or a noun. <cite>The_Apologist posted [p:979043874] in Have you l... [t:80705308]...</cite> <quote>CSCA33 posted... </cite><quote>Dang, champ. Another swing and a miss?</quote>I know you're dedicated to any misunderstanding that lets you sneer at me, but we're actually saying the same thing. 'Female' is (sometimes) dehumanizing because of the meaning, not because of the grammar. We can change the grammar and refer to women as 'female humans' instead of 'females', but this is still just as dehumanizing because the biological connotations of 'female' are still there, regardless of whether the word is being used as an adjective or a noun.</quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
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