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"female" always sounds slimy to me. There's just something about the word
I think that might be the reason tbh
Female, pronounced "feeeeeeeeeeeemale" is a dead giveaway you're dealing with a reactionary G*mer chud
Which sucks because now I don't wanna use it when grammar demands. Oddly enough they seem to not want to use it when grammar demands either.
The trick is to use it as an adjective every time instead of as a noun. Nounification makes shit weird.
See also: "blacks" vs "black people"
It's "Female" like "Febreeze*
F'male
tips fedora
M'F'male
Don't you mean a Ferengi Reactionary chud?
i pronounce it like Tamales
Yeah, like why you callin' them "females" bud? Wanna be reminded of "males" when you talk about 'em?
The accepted ways for heterosexual men to refer to the opposite sex are: Chicks, babes, birds, broads, dames, girls/gals, lassies/lasses, señora, maidens, and Sheilas*
Edit:
*Only if you're Australian, otherwise it's appropriation
I suppose women is out of the picture too?
Same problem as "females." You drop two letters and all you got is "men."
Sounds pretty gay to me ngl
"It's only gay if the balls touch sweaty"
what if they touch dry
Use lube
Women is something they'd never say it's always females..
I like that we went for thr same bit instinctively
Ah dang it, I forgot 'birds'
Often, they're not attracted to women, they're attracted to girls
It’s used as an adjective here, not a noun. This is how people describe things even before the trend of documentarizing women in the past few years
And? It still sounds slimy to me
Legitimately, how else would you say this? "Woman characters" clearly sounds wrong, "characters who are women" sounds unnecessarily long and clunky.
I'd just say "women". characters is redundant when you specify it's in a game.
But that doesn’t make it wrong or misogynistic lol
I know? I was expressing a personal opinion about how hearing the word female made me feel
Broads, dames, birds, etc. Just anything a film noir detective would say
As a woman, my identity is tied up in how i am different from men, this is normal
lol
I don't understand what you're trying to tell me, I'm sorry