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02/24/24 11:01:49 PM
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Geiki_Ganger
02/24/24 11:26:42 PM
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Just wondering.

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Dakimakura
02/24/24 11:27:15 PM
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Never did to begin with. It is just poor grammar.

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ThePieReborn
02/24/24 11:27:20 PM
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Is "wammens" acceptable?

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SauI_Goodman
02/24/24 11:27:43 PM
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I use both. Don't really have a particular set of rules.

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LeoRavus
02/24/24 11:29:03 PM
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That can get you banned on resetera

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hockeybabe89
02/24/24 11:31:07 PM
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Why would I call women "females"? That's weirdly clinical, like I'm observing the mating habits of birds.

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Freddie_Mercury
02/24/24 11:31:24 PM
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reemales

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neccis
02/24/24 11:32:27 PM
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Ever fill out a government form? Lmao


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Dungeater
02/24/24 11:37:53 PM
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i never really did it. always struck me as weird (but not problematic like it may have become)

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SecretBase
02/24/24 11:40:27 PM
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I'm tempted to start exclusively using male and female * out of pure spite. Too many whiny, easily offended fucks these days.

* Obviously I would not use those terms in reference to non-binary people.

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Dungeater
02/24/24 11:48:17 PM
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SecretBase posted...
I'm tempted to start exclusively using male and female * out of pure spite. Too many whiny, easily offended fucks these days.

damn badass

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Garioshi
02/24/24 11:49:25 PM
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I will usually say "female" if I'm referring to anatomy or women as an institution.

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Kradek
02/24/24 11:51:48 PM
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It depends on the context, there's misogynists whose use of it is clearly meant to describe them in a derogatory generalized way. There's also innocuous uses of it.

So, no, I haven't scrubbed the word from my vocabulary like I have with some others, however I am mindful of how I use it.

SecretBase posted...
I'm tempted to start exclusively using male and female * out of pure spite. Too many whiny, easily offended fucks these days.

You realize you're describing yourself, right? You sound whiny and easily offended over the idea that there are others who condemn the usage of it, which is sometimes valid condemnation, and your solution is to start using certain terms purely out of spite.

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Giblet_Enjoyer
02/24/24 11:54:24 PM
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I use it as an umbrella when I'm talking about girls and women both. Less cumbersome that way

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Ararararagi
02/24/24 11:55:39 PM
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I use whatever word feels most correct in the moment.

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02/25/24 12:01:08 AM
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02/25/24 12:01:08 AM
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BloodMoon7
02/25/24 12:01:18 AM
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I'll still use female in contexts where it applies and women where it applies.

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Zikten
02/25/24 12:02:32 AM
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It's not a bad word and it depends on the situation. Like in the next Final Fantasy 14 expansion they are adding female Hrothgars. A player race that until now has only been playable as male. And you can't forget Fem Shep, which is short for Female Shepard from Mass Effect
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hockeybabe89
02/25/24 12:19:22 AM
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SecretBase posted...
I'm tempted to start exclusively using male and female * out of pure spite. Too many whiny, easily offended fucks these days.

* Obviously I would not use those terms in reference to non-binary people.
Sure, ma'am or sir.

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ssb_yunglink2
02/25/24 12:21:23 AM
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theres a place for the word female, usually in a scientific or anatomy sense.

People who use female when just referring to women tho, are usually weird as hell

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KingInBlack
02/25/24 12:23:17 AM
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I never did because that's fucking weird.
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ellis123
02/25/24 12:23:36 AM
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I never used it wrongly.

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metralo
02/25/24 12:23:56 AM
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ssb_yunglink2 posted...
theres a place for the word female, usually in a scientific or anatomy sense.

People who use female when just referring to women tho, are usually weird as hell


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BoyOfBattle
02/25/24 12:35:11 AM
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i moved on to foids

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AbsolutelyNoOne
02/25/24 12:50:54 AM
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it's fucking weird

now when people use female as an adjective ("a female teacher", "they're female"), yeah generally that makes sense and im probably not going to care. unless they're like being double weird and saying "female girl". what the fuck are you doing.

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ablegator
02/25/24 12:52:15 AM
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https://youtu.be/SiC42BZcFKk?si=828GZO4xBq5K4pdC

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Link_of_time
02/25/24 1:00:48 AM
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I never use to say it, but people kept bringing it up so often, it crept in to my lexicon. In truth i don't really see a problem with the word. People had been using the term in casual conversation long before it became a buzzword for the youth. It's just the people who focus too hard it from either side of the argument I find weird.
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02/25/24 1:01:43 AM
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haloiscoolisbak
02/25/24 1:04:52 AM
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Giblet_Enjoyer posted...
I use it as an umbrella when I'm talking about girls and women both. Less cumbersome that way

Yeah. This has been the one example where I've been annoyed by it's sudden tabooness, when referring to the whole gender. In that case "girls" feels patronising and "women" just incorrect

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Philip027
02/25/24 1:05:26 AM
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Nope. I use male/female indiscriminately when I want to refer to people without regard to relative age groups (not everyone who is male/female is necessarily a man/woman, for instance). The most frequent way this occurs to me is when I'm talking about my experiences in high school (a rather pivotal/depressing era of my life, so it comes up in conversation quite a lot) in which case I will often refer to my "male/female peers".

Rest assured that I'm not using it in that creepy Ferengi sort of way.
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StealThisSheen
02/25/24 1:06:32 AM
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Link_of_time posted...
People had been using the term in casual conversation long before it became a buzzword for the youth

When has "that female" ever, ever been a term in casual conversation? "Female" in casual conversation has only been an adjective, typically to describe something... Not human, where the gender may be unknown, such as, say, a pet. Using "female" as a noun to describe a woman has never been a thing in casual conversation.

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Glob
02/25/24 1:11:08 AM
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Referring to women as female is fine, but using it in all contexts can be very telling that you dont see them as people.

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Iyami
02/25/24 1:12:05 AM
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It was always weird.
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Iyami
02/25/24 1:13:33 AM
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AbsolutelyNoOne posted...
it's fucking weird

now when people use female as an adjective ("a female teacher", "they're female"), yeah generally that makes sense and im probably not going to care. unless they're like being double weird and saying "female girl". what the fuck are you doing.

[okay, people have brought up the idea of using it to refer to females that they can not immediately tell (or don't know) are adults or not. okay that's actually fair. i'm tired and angry and only thinking of the incel definition i will admit to that.]
Just say woman then like people do for men. They don't go "gee maybe it's a kid I'll say male" they just say man or guy.
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Dark_Arbron
02/25/24 1:16:26 AM
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Glob posted...
Referring to women as female is fine, but using it in all contexts can be very telling that you dont see them as people.

Especially since they dont use male as often, if at all. Thats what makes it telling.

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Glob
02/25/24 1:17:44 AM
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Dark_Arbron posted...
Especially since they dont use male as often, if at all. Thats what makes it telling.

Yeah, its just a way of othering people to dehumanise them.
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OriginalPlain2
02/25/24 1:21:40 AM
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never used that and dont plan on it

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haloiscoolisbak
02/25/24 1:26:57 AM
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Dark_Arbron posted...
Especially since they dont use male as often, if at all. Thats what makes it telling.


Tbf, there's a lot more words to use for us. Guys, dudes, blokes, boys, men

Other than girls and women, what is there? Ladies?

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haloiscoolisbak
02/25/24 1:29:49 AM
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ablegator posted...
Gals, dames, birds, skirts

Some of those arguably offensive... Or at least imply too much extra meaning

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ellis123
02/25/24 1:30:10 AM
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haloiscoolisbak posted...
Tbf, there's a lot more words to use for us. Guys, dudes, blokes, boys, men

Other than girls and women, what is there? Ladies?
Gals, dudettes, birds, girls, women.

There are more, of course, but those are the parallels to the ones you gave. And gentlemen is the parallel to ladies.

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haloiscoolisbak
02/25/24 1:30:56 AM
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ellis123 posted...
Gals, Duddettes, birds, girls, women.

There are more, of course, but those are the parallels to the ones you gave. And gentlemen is the parallel to ladies.

I feel more incel using the term bird or gal tbh lol

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Toonstrack
02/25/24 1:31:49 AM
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Depends on the context.

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ellis123
02/25/24 1:33:21 AM
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haloiscoolisbak posted...
I feel more incel using the term bird or gal tbh lol
An incel would use "female" before "gal". "Guys and gals" is absolutely a normal thing in informal situations when talking to a crowd. "Bird" is just antiquated and doesn't really see any use outside of the UK. Doesn't change that it is the direct parallel to bloke.

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mercurydude
02/25/24 1:33:33 AM
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I never got into that habit in the first place because I don't go around calling guys "males" in that way.

It's also the way cops talk, which just makes it seem even more trashy and unappealing.

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wanderingshade
02/25/24 1:33:47 AM
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Dames Dames Dames!

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Link_of_time
02/25/24 1:39:03 AM
#48:


StealThisSheen posted...
When has "that female" ever, ever been a term in casual conversation? "Female" in casual conversation
Since at least the 90s. Though i thought we were discussing using the word "female".

I don't know of anyone who would say "that female", mostly cuz it just sounds incorrect.
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StealThisSheen
02/25/24 1:42:22 AM
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Link_of_time posted...
Since at least the 90s. Though i thought we were discussing using the word "female".

I don't know of anyone who would say "that female", mostly cuz it just sounds incorrect.

This is specifically referring to using "female" as a noun, or atleast in similar, dehumanizing context, because the incel way is to say "That female/the females" etc. and so on.

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