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I don't care about using a sex/gender modifier on the names of the positions, but using the adjectives women/men woman/man instead of female/male. Comes off rea
by ashark 9y ago
I don't care about using a sex/gender modifier on the names of the positions, but using the adjectives women/men woman/man instead of female/male. Comes off really weird to me. We don't do it for men, we use "male X", which sounds/reads way better, and until very recently we just used "female X" too—I think the allergy to over/misuse of the noun "female" has bled over into these phrases, too, and the result is jarring and strange.
[EDIT] word "noun" where I intended "adjective" fixed.
- thatwebdude 9y ago+1, I read Woman Firefighter and auto-corrected it to Female Firefighter without second thought.
- QuantumGravy 9y ago- man nurse - man housekeeper - man secretary - man escort Wow, these all sound absolutely awful. How did the female, err, woman version become such an accepted construct?
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