• emergencyfood@sh.itjust.works
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    3 months ago

    He has a female in his team?

    I know this is increasingly accepted, but ‘female’ is actually an adjective. You could say ‘has a female athlete’ or even just ‘has a lady’, but the current wording is a bit off.

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        3 months ago

        Normally “female” is more used in clinical settings or about not-human animals. One reason it gives off incel energy is it reduces a person to what genitals they have.

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          3 months ago

          reduces a person to what genitals they have

          Fine by me, specially in this case.

          So do all other categorisation terms, which on top of that, group them with others in the same category and help the people who’d blame everything on a category of people. Specially the “-ism” -> “-ist” categorisations.

          I’d rather have scientific categorisation than a social one, that would enable dialogues such as:
          A: Define a “woman”, you senator/judge/other public personality.
          B: … I think I am not qualified to … *more gibberish* … ( because I need to be politically correct).

          And that’s probably why people prefer this choice of words. To prevent the “Cis vs Trans - you dare assume their gender” bullies from finding them as easy prey. And over time, it becomes second nature.

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        3 months ago

        I know this is increasingly accepted, but …

        To be fair, in English most adjectives can also be used as nouns. I suppose I should have said that in this context, using it as an adjective is inappropriate.