Current Events > Redditor perma banned for saying female instead of woman

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Its incelspeak.

You should use female whenever youd use male and woman whenever youd use man. If you use female where youd use man that will look weird, but it will also look weird if you use woman where youd use male.

No it isn't, incels don't even call women females, they call them femoids/foids.

Term is being overused to hell.

Every day reddit mods prove that Spez did nothing wrong.

There was no implication. The dude was a full on incel and went on an incel rant when they said something about the title.

Did we have the post, or just the mod saying this is what happened?

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/user_image/9/4/1/AAa0vfAAEzW9.jpg

The user in question has a shit ton of deleted posts so he clearly went on some kind of rant/meltdown. And it doesn't appear to be the first time, or the first sub where he's done it.

So that's a no.

Yeah, you're probably right. I'm sure all of his posts were discussing philosophy at a highly introspective level.

Yeah. I do wonder if femcels use male like that. It just isn't as common though.

however it feels similar to how everybody kept saying "nuh uh it has nothing to do with Nazis, it's just the ok symbol!"

The user in question has a shit ton of deleted posts so he clearly went on some kind of rant/meltdown. And it doesn't appear to be the first time, or the first sub where he's done it.

It isn't really "everybody" who was doing it though. It was people who were specifically aligned with Nazi ideology (Or at least people who vaguely wanted to upset liberals). In the same sense, this is the kind of "plausible deniability" campaign going on with female being used like this.

it feels similar to how everybody kept saying "nuh uh it has nothing to do with Nazis, it's just the ok symbol!" even though we know 4chan was intentionally adopting that symbol for plausible deniability and we saw a ton of well-known alt-righters and white supremacists just happen to be using that symbol and smiling like the jackasses they are in group photos.

Antiracism/ "the left" needs to figure out how to not have kneejerk on that shit. Like, the logical conclusion of the "nazi ok symbol" is that anything nazis say they adopted is functionally adopted. There's the difficult but critical component of calling it when you see it, but then knowing when it's not the thing. The optics on calling out the average joe when he was innocuous and ignorant, instead of knowing and malicious, is a losing game.

Antiracism/ "the left" needs to figure out how to not have kneejerk on that shit. Like, the logical conclusion of the "nazi ok symbol" is that anything nazis say they adopted is functionally adopted. There's the difficult but critical component of calling it when you see it, but then knowing when it's not the thing. The optics on calling out the average joe when he was innocuous and ignorant, instead of knowing and malicious, is a losing game.

Imagine agreeing with a Reddit mod lmao

There was no implication. The dude was a full on incel and went on an incel rant when they said something about the title.

it has happened here on CE too several times over the years, that people use the term "females" as if they're talking about a zoo exhibit, and it always wierded me out

Imagine white knighting for an incel, lmao.

This. Every time I see someone online using "female" in a sentence, it's a sentence that's talking down to women, as if they're a lesser creature. The intent will be extremely clear and yet people will still come in like "I don't see the problem"

Maybe they do on their little incel forums, but I've never heard that term once anywhere. It isn't a term like "leftoid" where you actually see people out in the wild use it in spite of everyone knowing how cringe it is.

The question isn't if "female" is an offensive term, its regarding to this specific usage of it. You can't say "The females blah blah blah" in a colloquial sense online without people instantly assigning a nasally conservative voice to whatever you are saying. Like, nice try gaslighting though, easy tag. If you are on a National Geographic reddit and are talking about the mating habits of female cheetahs or whatever, no one is going to fucking care.

Yes, no duh. The people who know Nazis were adopting the symbol weren't typically decrying every single random person who does it. The contention comes with the people who refused to acknowledge that the alt-right and Nazi community were intentionally adopting a neutral symbol so they could play dumb over it later and claim "it's just the ok symbol!" when we see the likes of the Proud Boys and Oathkeepers flashing the symbol in group photos in unison while smiling like jackasses.

I didn't see any random person with no known association to alt-right ideology being called out on it, I did see a lot of fascists and Nazis try to play it off as innocent.

Referring to women as "females" is cold and clinical. It sounds like you're talking about animals. In a casual setting I think it's reasonable to say it's off-putting and weird.

Yet if you call someone a "male", it's perfectly okay and acceptable. You're supporting the double standard that using the term "female" is offensive, but "male" isn't cold and clinical..because...male.

I didn't mention use of the word "male" at all? How could that be a double standard? I only talked about a single standard.

You didn't mention it because you feel that female is offensive. But "male" isn't.

Did I say that?