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Is "female" offensive?
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this post was submitted on 11 Mar 2024
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I don't think the question was about misgendering people but about using "female" instead of "woman".
If that’s the case then I have less of a clue as to where the problem is
Read the other comments in this thread. "female" as an adjective is fine, "female" as a noun is often abused by misogynists to imply women are less human than men.
Living under a rock the last 15 years?
Making fun of someone for not knowing something, are we?
More like implying they do know, actually. It's hard to imagine speaking english as well as they do and somehow not knowing this.
Welcome to the real world?