I wouldn't worry about that, because anthropomorphism is usually regarded as elevating your consideration of animals to human levels, while the other way feels dehumanizing from its shared terminology.
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Please stop referring to women as "females" (READ OP)
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some settings deliberately use clinical language. see: police reports, medical documentation, or your own military experience.
this thread is specifically about randomly using "female" in social settings because it usually winds up making it sound like the speaker thinks women are incomprehensible aliens, and people don't like being treated as incomprehensible aliens. "how many females are coming to the party?" would sound kind of creepy, for example.
no anthropomorphizing pets isn't offensive.
Agreed. It's lazy speech. Husband has more syllables, but it should be the word used.
I doubt laziness and how many syllables there in the word husband really has anything to do with it.
It's just plain old sexism.
The last two weddings I've been to they said "husband and wife" so either the culture is changing or it's a regional thing.
Most I have been to over the years have been husband and wife.
Part of this (for me at least), has to do with how we were taught english in school. If they had clearly stated the direct translation from female to my native language, then nobody would have used it as a replacement for woman. I don't know of anyone who refers to women in my country by "kvinnkjonn". If you do, then you are clearly just looking to be offensive.
My point is, please educate us foreigners also, as the way we were thought english never had any emphasis on this. Don't assume that the foreign speaking person is being malicious.
My point is, please educate us foreigners also, as the way we were thought english never had any emphasis on this. Don't assume that the foreign speaking person is being malicious.
This might help ya out, made it fully "click" for me:
See how it sounds creepy in casual conversation when used as a noun? Outside of some professional settings and documentation of course.
I originally avoided this thread because I had a feeling this topic wasn't going to end well. But my curiosity about this issue caused me to look now. Just reading the topic title I wasn't sure what this was about exactly, but this post does a good job explaining your point. The issue isn't the term female referring to a gender, but when the word is used to objectify women.
User banned (permanent): Inflammatory false equivalence, previous ban for bigotry
Rule of Acquisition #208 (and .... possibly #94)
Also, OP, please stop using 'jimmies' and 'dudes' in this context. It's dehumanising as fuck.
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Hard to do when I get better things to do, sucks for those that don't.
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Agree. It's just another way to segregate off women into this other, weaker, non-important category so the men can call the shots.
In college a person I was doing a project with did the "a female" thing, and at the time I was like, "huh?" I hadn't ever really heard women refereed to as that, and honestly haven't really seen much of it since. Granted, I'm not around shady people.
It's a good necrobump. Not on par with the 12 year "told you so" post back on gaf, but pretty good.
Sorry, and what was going on in said 12-year-old thread?
It was some sort of video game prediction, I'm sorry I don't recall precisely.
The thread itself hadn't been used in like a decade, but the user quoted himself, and it was great.
I think it was a prediction about a DC Heroes fighting game. DC vs Mortal Kombat maybe? The guy had received some kind of survey about it and posted it on GAF and tons of people we're all "That's bullshit! Never going to happen." Then years later he necro'd it again when the game was announced.
There's that song "the female of the species is more deadlier than the male"
Does that mean that song is not okay now?
Does that mean that song is not okay now?
Were you really constantly using 19th century poetry to talk about women? Really really?
People waste so much time on his website post so much and then say stupid shit like the guy who bumbed this thread. Loser
It was someone calling that G4 would be out of business before Nintendo after G4 made a "Nintendo is doomed" claim around the time of the DS/Wii.
I think "husband and wife" is now customary; I don't think I've ever heard it phrased as "man and wife".
Use of "female" as a noun is actually quite prevalent in literature, even among authors like Jane Austen. I believe "ladies" and "females" are supposed to be polite ways to refer to groups of women of mixed ages (trying to remember my English lit classes so that might not be completely accurate).
As with anything, I think context matters.
Says the person shitposting in the thread they're moaning about...
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