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What's a better way to say "female professor"? Or is using "female" in that context fine?

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Anonymous 4w

Why not just professor?

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Anonymous 4w

Female is fine when it’s used as an adjective and needs to be referred to as a woman for some reason for that context. Like female athlete, female artist, female professor. Referring to women in general socially as females is what’s weird

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Anonymous

#1 4w

I'm specifically discussing how the women in the field get treated; "you should hear the things my peers have said about the [female professors]"

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Anonymous

#2 4w

I’m general socially like as a noun

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Anonymous

#2 4w

Second this!

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Anonymous

#2 4w

In hindsight that's so obvious esp as a grammar snob lmao. Thank you

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