Microblog Memes

anything you call people will offend some people….
i’m sure some chucklefyck doesn’t want to be called a “people”… actually “you people” is often offensive.
it’s all about context, and being as respectful as is reasonable… for example, “retard” literally means “slow”… you could retard the growth of a plant. mentally retarded was just a term for having severe cognitive disabilities that made you unable to interact normally and made you need care to live… but through a history of people abusing those people, and of course using that as an insult made it offensive and dehumanizing.
with calling people “females”, i think it’s because it’s extremely uncommon except for when people are dehumanizing women… so when someone innocently use the term they can be seen as likely oppressive… due to context.
also, given the transphobia thing, and scientific/anthropology defining female as the biological sex and woman as the associated gender, one might think you’re slipping transphobia into regular conversation…
and of course people like simple heuristics so “guys who call women ‘females’ are likely bad people”, works well enough….

It's worth noting that the words 'male' and 'female' are adjectives, not nouns, so if you want to be technical then it's erroneous to use them thusly. That is, it is correct to say "I am male", but to say "I am a male" is grammatically erroneous.

In common speech, people don't tend to describe other human beings with these two adjectives, i.e. most people would say "she is a woman" rather than "she is female" (note, not "she is a female" because 'female' is not a noun). However, we do commonly describe animals using these adjectives, and colloquially the noun is commonly dropped. E.g., "it's a female" is seen as a perfectly normal way to describe a horse when it's understood that the other party knows that you mean "it's a female horse". This is why it is considered offensive to refer to a woman as "a female": it implies that she is an object, less than human and more suitably treated as livestock.

I wouldn't describe being called "unfuckable" neutral. But yeah they probably would like some level of attention, even the negative kind.

It's one of those things that didn't use to be negative but has been hijacked by shitty people and now has negative connotations depending on context.

It's not the use of the word "female" itself, but the use of the word as a noun to describe a woman, because it is taken to imply that the woman is a mere object. As the other person who replied to you said: context matters.

I use the word "female" (and "male") every single day when documenting on my patients, e.g. my notes commonly begin with "Patient is xx years old, female, [...]." This is normal and no one would take issue with it, because it is using "female" as an adjective and in a context where the information is important.

My favorite thing about that is that, in DS9, a female ferenghi goes on to be the most successful leader of their people ever.

Personally I think that using sexual desirability as a point of ridicule is pretty toxic regardless of who is doing it and it's not going to help to solve the problem, but "not receiving approval from women" kind of is the worst possible thing that can happen for a lot of them, at least in their minds. The whole "men and females" thing has its roots in incel culture and they're well known to obsess over the tiniest facets of their interactions with women to the point of nausea, looking for any excuse to condemn women for not being attracted to them. They see not receiving approval from women as the ultimate condemnation of not only women, but also themselves. It's why people use it as an insult - it's effective against them.

If I feel the need to use the word "female" in that way, I am not looking for approval. I am only looking to evade "girl"/"woman"/"lady" traps ^["trap" as in snare trap/ bear trap etc. not the other trap. Now this was another trap. You see what I am talking about?] and trying to be as less social and as robotic as possible.

Remember folks, the gender wars distract from the class wars we should all be engaged in!

Excuse me but the class war IS a war against the patriarchy

Oh, fuck off.

I'm not using my glass rectangle just to be reminded of that.