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Me when my mom starts calling women “females” instead of women and still calls men “men”

189 upvotes, 11 comments. Yik Yak image post by Anonymous in girlboard. "Me when my mom starts calling women “females” instead of women and still calls men “men”"

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Anonymous 10h

Comments on this are crazy

Anonymous 1d

When you’re mom refers to females as people with two X chromosome and males as people with XY chromosome

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Anonymous 1d

There’s plenty of times to use female and male as well as men and women. We really going though this again? I use male plenty, and they don’t get pissy about it.

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Anonymous 15h

Females when they get called females

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Anonymous

#1 1d

Yes but female has been used in a derogatory way for women due to the historical context behind it. I think you too can use context clues and assume that OP meant that their mother used female in times where it was unneeded instead of women.

Anonymous

#2 1d

What’s foid yappin bout

Anonymous

#3 15h

Maybe it has to do with the root forward for female being “one who sucks”

Anonymous

#5 15h

Are you slow 😭 it’s “suckling”, like the female is the one to nurse her young…?

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Anonymous

#3 14h

Which is derived from the Proto-Indo-European root *dhe(i)-, meaning “to suck”, as the screenshot clearly states, ya dingus.

Anonymous

#6 10h

Fr tho and I don’t even know how to respond to half of ts

Anonymous

#5 39m

Correct, the word root means “to suck” referring to the infant of the species and the female of the species is the one that suckles the infant. This definition is in no way associating “female” with sucking, but rather as “those that are sucked upon”.