Incels didn’t invent the word female its been and still is used commonly by everyday people as a neutral term without any thought to Incel ideologies. Maybe saying women instead of female rolls off the tongue better for most people, myself included, but a bunch of neckbeards on the internet using an ordinary word as a dogwhistle isn’t an excuse to prohibit the word
noun
1
a
: a female person : a woman or a girl
b
: an individual of the sex that is typically capable of bearing young or producing eggs
2
: a pistillate plant"
“Female is an adjective” fucking lmao. As if a word can’t have both an adjective and noun form. Piss off.
Yeah and depending on how you use it, it can come off as offensive. For a good comparison look at the language surrounding race. “Black people” is a perfectly okay phrase to use. However, saying “the blacks” makes people feel offended and it feels degrading.
All you’re doing is switching it from an adjective to a noun, but it provides a significant change to how it sounds/feels.
Not the guy you’re replying to, but it seems you’ve missed the rather large part before the noun entry in that dictionary of your’s:
female, adjective
a (1) : of, relating to, or being the sex that typically has the capacity to bear young or produce eggs
(2) botany : having or producing only pistils or pistillate flowers a female holly female inflorescences
b: having a gender identity that is the opposite of male
c: made up of usually adult members of the female sex : consisting of females
the female workforce
d: characteristic of girls, women, or the female sex : exhibiting femaleness
composed for female voices
e: designed for or typically used by girls or women
f: engaged in or exercised by girls or women
g: having a quality (such as small size or delicacy of sound) sometimes associated with the female sex
It’s an adjective first and foremost.
While it can be used as a noun, this is in a mostly academic sense. Outside of that it’s normally associated with incels and sexism.
Get over yourself and stop trying to make it a thing when it’s not. If you want to be unique, there are plenty of other terms to call women that they be half as weirded out/offended by: lady, lass, bird, gal, and girl just to count a few.
Incels didn’t invent the word female its been and still is used commonly by everyday people as a neutral term without any thought to Incel ideologies. Maybe saying women instead of female rolls off the tongue better for most people, myself included, but a bunch of neckbeards on the internet using an ordinary word as a dogwhistle isn’t an excuse to prohibit the word
But we want incels to make change for the rest of us we want to give them the power to stop us using normal words… /S
@_Sprite
Female is an adjective. People who use it as a noun are suspect as fuck.
Lmao what a failure of our education system.
"female
noun 1 a : a female person : a woman or a girl b : an individual of the sex that is typically capable of bearing young or producing eggs 2 : a pistillate plant"
“Female is an adjective” fucking lmao. As if a word can’t have both an adjective and noun form. Piss off.
Yeah and depending on how you use it, it can come off as offensive. For a good comparison look at the language surrounding race. “Black people” is a perfectly okay phrase to use. However, saying “the blacks” makes people feel offended and it feels degrading.
All you’re doing is switching it from an adjective to a noun, but it provides a significant change to how it sounds/feels.
Not the guy you’re replying to, but it seems you’ve missed the rather large part before the noun entry in that dictionary of your’s:
It’s an adjective first and foremost.
While it can be used as a noun, this is in a mostly academic sense. Outside of that it’s normally associated with incels and sexism.
Get over yourself and stop trying to make it a thing when it’s not. If you want to be unique, there are plenty of other terms to call women that they be half as weirded out/offended by: lady, lass, bird, gal, and girl just to count a few.