I am not a native English speaker and I have sometimes referred to people as male and female (as that is what I have been taught) but I have received some backlash in some cases, especially for the word “female”, is there some negative thought in the word which I am unaware of?

I don’t know if this is the best place to ask, if it’s not appropriate I have no problem to delete it ^^

  • carl_dungeonEnglish
    380·
    7 months ago

    It’s kind of like the difference between talking about people who are black and referring to someone as “one of the blacks”. It’s subtle, but the latter is objectifying where as the former is descriptive.

    • intensely_human
      125·
      7 months ago

      It’s even more subtle than that. We’ve defeated most actual injustice in our society, and now people are scraping the bottom of the barrel to find injustice to fight against.

      • Anamnesis
        160·
        7 months ago

        I have some bad news to tell you about capitalism

      • Hadriscus
        130·
        7 months ago

        hmmm, that’s an assessment I can’t get behind, lol

      • SmokeInFogEnglish
        30·
        7 months ago

        This is the dumbest thing I’ve read this year.