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Topic	Have you learned to stopped calling women "female"?
The_Apologist 02/26/24 1:07:43 AM #370:	TheOtherMike posted... In specific contexts, usually scientific or academic. Nope. All four of the links I gave say that 'female' can be used synonymously with 'female person'. Also, even if you were right about scientific or academic contexts, that still wouldn't mean that it's grammatically incorrect to use the term that way outside of those contexts. It might be awkward to refer to a crow as a 'corvid' in a nonscientific, nonacademic context, but it wouldn't be grammatically incorrect. <cite>The_Apologist posted [p:979046224] in Have you l... [t:80705308]...</cite> <quote>TheOtherMike posted... </cite><quote>In specific contexts, usually scientific or academic.</quote>Nope. All four of the links I gave say that 'female' can be used synonymously with 'female person'.Also, even if you were right about scientific or academic contexts, that still wouldn't mean that it's grammatically incorrect to use the term that way outside of those contexts. It might be awkward to refer to a crow as a 'corvid' in a nonscientific, nonacademic context, but it wouldn't be grammatically incorrect.</quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
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