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.
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.