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this post was submitted on 31 May 2025
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The fact that the use one form for one gender and a different form for another gender is exactly the issue.
What's the logic there that makes it offensive?
The comment mixes women & females so it doesn't appear fixated on a word offensively.
When discussing complete sets, it symmetrically places words of a set together: "men, women" and "married, single".
When not discussing complete sets, only the words needed appear: they write "single young female" without "single young male", because there was no reason to write the latter—it's not part of the topic. The shift to females happens in a new sentence.
Again: explain the necessity for males. Are you expecting everyone to write males for no reason whenever they write females (or the reverse)? Do we need to do the same with married & single? Are you claiming incomplete sets of words or asymmetry is offensive?
That shit would be exhausting. Please explain the issue: otherwise, it looks like you're simply picking over the noun female.