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  • referring to women as 'females' - screams incel/ mysogonist to me but it seems some people do it who are not?

  • It's specifically associated with a particular kind of misogynist (and the language they use) but 'female' as a word still also just means female.

  • In at least some of those cases, it's people trying to talk carefully about issues regarding biological sex in a time when trans rights and awareness of the difference between gender and sex are things. Sometimes the intent is just that, sometimes it's petty TERFiness.

  • I agree, the constant use that is.

    I think its more that when people use it they wanna sound informed and polite but come across the total opposite.
    It always seems like a, sorry to be crass, dumb person word to me than a misogynistic word. Especially when you see the poorer (I guess uneducated) black american women using the term it cant just be painted as sexist.

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