David Attenborough Voice

My favorite thing about that is that, in DS9, a female ferenghi goes on to be the most successful leader of their people ever.

Meh, it's a thing in the military because female military members are segregated and have different uniforms.

A woman in the military isn't described as that, they're a "femal soldier/sailor/marine" and all their uniforms, regs, standards, and housing comes with that prefix.

Even tho "female" descriptor comes first it's to ingrain that above all else they're a service member.

It's about what the noun is.

It took a couple years till I stopped slipping, and I understand why a service member would use it. That shit gets so beat intto you that you really don't even notice it. So when you get let out into the civilian world, it's hard to break the habit. Those people would appreciate being called out that what they're doing is weird for civvies tho.

But yeah...

99% of the people using it are just fucking weird.

idk, some incels will certainly act like not getting approval from women was the worst possible thing that could happen to them, and then go and do something much worse to others

Personally I think that using sexual desirability as a point of ridicule is pretty toxic regardless of who is doing it and it's not going to help to solve the problem, but "not receiving approval from women" kind of is the worst possible thing that can happen for a lot of them, at least in their minds. The whole "men and females" thing has its roots in incel culture and they're well known to obsess over the tiniest facets of their interactions with women to the point of nausea, looking for any excuse to condemn women for not being attracted to them. They see not receiving approval from women as the ultimate condemnation of not only women, but also themselves. It's why people use it as an insult - it's effective against them.

Agreed... but hear me out. Men usualy are more sex driven and usually (not every man of course but the majority let's say) will have sex with a random woman. Women on the other hand usually (AS IN NOT EVERY WOMAN) (I'm saying that so crazy people don't come after me with the "I'm not like that") need more conection. Women will go home and not have sex if no man was interesting enough to her and she won't feel bad, man will go home with the woman he thinks it's the ugliest (again USUALLY) if she is the only one that's up to it, because for men going home alone is defeat. If you rationalize that looks is not everything for women than a man that is rejected by every woman has a lame personality while woman that are rejected by men are usually based on looks.

So yes, in this (not general but commom) scenario a man that is unfuckable is an asshole and a woman may be an asshole or may just be fat

edit: is late and I don't have my glasses so sorry for some dumb english

If I feel the need to use the word "female" in that way, I am not looking for approval. I am only looking to evade "girl"/"woman"/"lady" traps ^["trap" as in snare trap/ bear trap etc. not the other trap. Now this was another trap. You see what I am talking about?] and trying to be as less social and as robotic as possible.

For female it makes it sound like a Ferengi lol:

"HOOMON FEEEMALE?"

I can multitask.

Remember folks, the gender wars distract from the class wars we should all be engaged in!

Excuse me but the class war IS a war against the patriarchy

Oh, fuck off.

I'm not using my glass rectangle just to be reminded of that.

It's worth noting that the words 'male' and 'female' are adjectives, not nouns, so if you want to be technical then it's erroneous to use them thusly. That is, it is correct to say "I am male", but to say "I am a male" is grammatically erroneous.

In common speech, people don't tend to describe other human beings with these two adjectives, i.e. most people would say "she is a woman" rather than "she is female" (note, not "she is a female" because 'female' is not a noun). However, we do commonly describe animals using these adjectives, and colloquially the noun is commonly dropped. E.g., "it's a female" is seen as a perfectly normal way to describe a horse when it's understood that the other party knows that you mean "it's a female horse". This is why it is considered offensive to refer to a woman as "a female": it implies that she is an object, less than human and more suitably treated as livestock.

Calling someone a "female" to their face certainly makes you unfuckable tho.

Women’s lib has a mere 50yrs on it and there’s still work to do. People lose sight of how new it is for women to own their own bank accounts and such.

Maybe because men weren't seen as second-class citizens and aren't used to being objectified, belittled or physically and legally forced into a submissive role.

I don't like leaving serious comments on a place like this, especially since you are right that's how most men would react, just felt I had to say something since calling women 'females' is actually quite seriously wrong (even though they are afterall) and the fact that men don't experience this behaviour as something scary it makes that clear. I like this meme because it empowers women to do as they please, and I think you do not mean to defend mysogonists who want to dehumanise women, but some people might read into your comment 'well the reason woman get upset by this is because women are [something negative], while men are [something positive]'.

No most people will give you a very weird look if you refer to a man as a male in the pronoun sense.

"How are you doing, males?" would make you sound like a fuckin alien pretending to be a human lol.

"I doubt any male would find this offensive."

nobody said they would.

"Call em males, they are afterall. "

go ahead, next time you see ir are talking about a man or men , say "hey, male" or "males like to..." see how they respond to what has become a derogatory, sexualized term for a person in casual conversation.

the demeaning objectification is why insecure men say "female" and men are not addressed as "males".

Amen to this man. People get too tied up in little words and stupid shit. So many bigger fish to fry but you'll get upset when someone uses the word female in any context.

I'm not a native speaker, but I think it's normal to request a "female nurse" but asking for a "woman nurse" sounds weird. But saying "I would like my nurse to be a woman" sounds normal again

Use woman when you need a noun, use female when you need an adjective. It's that easy

I wouldn't describe being called "unfuckable" neutral. But yeah they probably would like some level of attention, even the negative kind.

Spoken like a hu-man

It's not the use of the word "female" itself, but the use of the word as a noun to describe a woman, because it is taken to imply that the woman is a mere object. As the other person who replied to you said: context matters.

I use the word "female" (and "male") every single day when documenting on my patients, e.g. my notes commonly begin with "Patient is xx years old, female, [...]." This is normal and no one would take issue with it, because it is using "female" as an adjective and in a context where the information is important.

It's one of those things that didn't use to be negative but has been hijacked by shitty people and now has negative connotations depending on context.

This tweet is clearly not about 4,000,000,000 men, but the significantly smaller subset of those men calling women "females". It might help to read a post before getting angry about it?