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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      The VP of product messaged me a couple weeks ago after some back and forth about some work. She asked if I had some time to talk about the final solution. I went “uhhhh so long as we don’t call it that”

      I’m like 90% sure she had no idea why that phrase is reserved.

    • 𝘋𝘪𝘳𝘬@lemmy.ml
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      So you say … The word describing a biological fact, and a national socialist euphemism for mass murdering millions of people are the same?

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