> you got a "gross" in one of the replies because some people are set off by the use of "female" when "women" would do I wouldn't reduce the cause to just that

> you got a "gross" in one of the replies because some people are set off by the use of "female" when "women" would do I wouldn't reduce the cause to just that one word. That word choice is merely the cherry on the whole cake of Gender essentialism. Deciding that _this_ unsupported irrelevance is where the conversation really needs to go is the foundation of it.