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When referring to people, female is an adjective, woman is a noun. It only sounds like you're a ferengi when you use female as a noun.
by marginalia_nu 2y ago
When referring to people, female is an adjective, woman is a noun.
It only sounds like you're a ferengi when you use female as a noun.
- School-Cotton 2y agoThere is a very large and prominent movement that is trying to separate biological sex (male vs. female) from cultural gender ("man" vs. "woman"). Assuming someone sympathizes with that movement, what noun should they use to refer to someone of the female biological sex, and anyway what's wrong with "female"?
- marginalia_nu 2y agoIn that case you'd typically use "biological female" to emphasize the distinction and get around from sounding like a ferengi or andrew tate-like figure.