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    1714 days ago

    It really really rubs most of us the wrong way. Yet, for whatever reason, stupid men are taught that it is ok to call us “females”. It is like we are corpses. Things. Not even people.

    • @Amanduh@lemm.ee
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      314 days ago

      I mean I used to do it tons in the army, that was the accepted way to refer to the women. Like “hey where is the females bunk I need to drop something off to sgt jones”

      I never meant it disrespectfully, can’t speak for anyone else though.

      • @gerbler@lemmy.world
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        313 days ago

        It’s not so much that the word itself is offensive it’s just that using it as a noun instead of an adjective to refer to a person carries with it connotations and implies you’re referring to a person as if they’re a subject or an animal or something below human.