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“Females” 🫩
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Anonymous 8w

Okay. Please don’t hate me. I don’t live chronically online. But when did it become weird to refer to women as “females” like I get it’s not the most normal, but I never thought it was that ick. Did something happen?

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Anonymous 8w

Oh brother

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Anonymous 8w

Who don’t love chubby females tho

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Anonymous replying to -> ihavebeendrinkingofficer 8w

Calling women females is just about the most chronically online thing you can do lol, just say women.

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Anonymous replying to -> OP 8w

I wasn’t op of that post btw. Just seen people get a lot of hate for it and I didn’t really get why people were vitriolic against it.

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Anonymous replying to -> ihavebeendrinkingofficer 8w

I’ll give u a real answer lol. Some girls believe that being called “females” is degrading because people normally don’t ever refer to males as “males” and instead men. Some women feel the men call them females in a way of being lesser 🤷🏾‍♂️ pretty sure from what I’ve heard

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Anonymous replying to -> #2 8w

People do normally refer to males as such

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Anonymous replying to -> ihavebeendrinkingofficer 8w

the hate is twofold. primarily it's because these days there's a very certain kind of man who makes a point of saying 'females' to intentionally be degrading. secondarily, it IS degrading. it makes it sound like you're referring to an animal or a specimen of some kind. it's just odd when 'women' is right there.

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Anonymous replying to -> #4 8w

This is a better explanation than anything else I’ve gotten. Thank you

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Anonymous replying to -> ihavebeendrinkingofficer 8w

I’m a woman and I use female interchangeably. Idk. It’s synonymous

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Anonymous replying to -> ihavebeendrinkingofficer 8w

Just to add context, I think women also get annoyed because of the double standard. There are many men that will call men “men” and women “females” and the difference between the two does denote something about how they see women.

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Anonymous replying to -> #3 8w

I agree but from their perspective we don’t i guess lol

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