I was unaware that the term female is offensive to some… like i literally say girl, female, woman, etc. but like why does it matter what other people say? Genuinely asking, why are we getting offended by this?
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Anonymous1d
What does this mean?
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Anonymous#11d
That it’s trashy👍
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Anonymous#11d
that when women refer to other women as “females” rather than “women” or something similar, they think it’s trashy
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Anonymous#31d
Why is it trashy?
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Anonymous#11d
Do you consider it a classy thing to say? Like just think about it
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Anonymous#11d
It’s the biological equivalent of women in our society. It dehumanizes women to just being who they are biologically. We don’t call men “males”
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Anonymous#422h
i mean i do but yes exactly
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Anonymous#522h
any specifies can be female while woman is exclusively the term for female human beings. also you can’t tell me that you don’t hear men especially say “females” to dehumanize us like they deadass use it as a slur
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Anonymous#522h
species*
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AnonymousOP22h
I mean no, I don’t usually hear or take it as a slur and I’m sorry that you take it that way. I mean this respectfully but there are worse things to worry about, like when I actually get called slurs 😭
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Anonymous#522h
🤦♀️ girl no ur missing the point im not saying it IS a slur but men all the time will say females in dehumanizing contexts
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Anonymous#522h
why would you want to be only be reduced to ur sex
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Anonymous#522h
and pick me women usually do too i literally had one of my mutuals constantly say “oh you females want to be me so bad” like it just makes it sound 10% worse than if she were to say women
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AnonymousOP22h
Oh hell nah 💀
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AnonymousOP22h
I understand your point, but again, why do we care what they say or think? I get it’s dehumanizing, degrading, and literally exhausting but their words are only as powerful as we make them 🤷♀️ I’m just saying in this case I don’t think it’s that big of a deal
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AnonymousOP22h
Regardless, is that not what being called a woman is? Women are females, just human.
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AnonymousOP22h
Now I’m not saying I want that, I’m just saying the context is what makes or breaks it yk? Like if someone was looking for me and said “oh she’s the female standing in the back over there” I personally don’t see anything wrong with that
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Anonymous#522h
Just a weird way of wording it 😂
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Anonymous#522h
nobody says it in that context tho😭😭 it’s always to generalize us or to make fun of us and that’s the issue
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AnonymousOP22h
Fr, not as bad as “foid” but still used rudely
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Anonymous#222h
What is foid??
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AnonymousOP22h
Well i don’t think narrowing it down to the word “female” is doing it justice. I think it’s more the fact men make fun of or degrade us…
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Anonymous#521h
it’s less giving them power & more avoiding them because it’s reflective of their attitude towards women (i.e. boiling us down to our body/parts)
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Anonymous#520h
Short for female humanoid. Frequently used by incels