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I am not a native English speaker and I have sometimes referred to people as male and female (as that is what I have been taught) but I have received some backlash in some cases, especially for the word "female", is there some negative thought in the word which I am unaware of?

I don't know if this is the best place to ask, if it's not appropriate I have no problem to delete it ^^

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[-] CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org 70 points 1 year ago

And to go out of your way to avoid saying “woman” makes you sound like some kind of incel weirdo, and you don’t want that.

I'd just like to emphasise this. It's not that using a different term is intrinsically bad, it's just that the people who tend to do it are not cool and you don't want to look like you're associated with them.

[-] Quastamaza@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago

Meanwhile, you are perfectly ok with judging someone based uniquely on which term they tend to use? Oh my, mankind is really going down the drain…

[-] CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org 35 points 1 year ago

Yes. Life is a game of trying to guess which people are full of shit. If they say "feeeemales" and then turn out to be fine, great, I'll probably give them a heads up not to do that.

Was there a non-judgmental era I'm unaware of?

[-] Quastamaza@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 year ago

Ok, fine, I'll "try to guess" too then, if that's your game. Goodbye!

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