• lmmarsano@lemmynsfw.com
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    because people who use females will say men and females

    Do you ignore all the instances they don’t?

    • OP’s writer wrote women & used females to refer to female people (girls or women).
    • The post I linked to shows another use of noun female.
    • Singles communities, personals, classifieds, marketplaces offer abundant instances.
    • The word appears often in book titles & passages, especially feminist literature.

    Seems your claim requires ignoring much regular English usage: it’s false.

    presumably

    That’s presuming an awful lot contrary to regular usage.

    Regardless of motive, the act is the same: indiscriminately picking problems over females. If everyone did that, females would be generally accepted as a dirty, toxic word. Again: what good does that advance?

    It’s thoughtless, self-destructive language policing.

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        2 months ago

        No, the writer in OP may not have needed to use males (men & boys). Explain the necessity for males.

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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.

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            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.