Outside of a clinical/scientific setting? It’s comes off a bit creepy. If a guy in a social setting refers to women as “females,” it seems derogatory- as if they were talking about lesser animals.
In online forums like Lemmy or Reddit, if someone calls women “females,” I always picture that person as a Ferengi from Star Trek.
I wouldn’t have a problem with someone using males/females in a vacuum, but all too often I read men/females from incels and misogynists on the Internet, so now “females” feels derogatory by default.
I think the reason male and female get equated with biology is because biologists need to describe individuals in terms of characteristics within the species.
Like, “I live with a small, white, female felis catus and a tall, Caucasian, male homo sapiens” is a weird way to tell people that I live with my cat and my husband outside of a scientific context.
Female humans
Kinda long way to say women
There is nothing wrong with “males/females” though. OOP is making a big deal of nothing.
Outside of a clinical/scientific setting? It’s comes off a bit creepy. If a guy in a social setting refers to women as “females,” it seems derogatory- as if they were talking about lesser animals.
In online forums like Lemmy or Reddit, if someone calls women “females,” I always picture that person as a Ferengi from Star Trek.
I wouldn’t have a problem with someone using males/females in a vacuum, but all too often I read men/females from incels and misogynists on the Internet, so now “females” feels derogatory by default.
Male/female toilets sound creepy to you?
“Male/female toilets” is not the same thing as “males/females”
The fact that it apparently doesn’t sound creepy to you is creepy. You priapic huuumahn.
You are an idiot.
https://www.thesignshed.co.uk/cdn/shop/products/male-toilets-sign-in-brushed-silver-462413_1080x.jpg?v=1680276125
Nah uh male huuumaaahn. You.
okay but how does object-oriented programming factor into it
Objectifying women is considered bad form. It’d be like saying they’re just a sub-class of Person.
Some are sub-class others are dom-class, and then there’s the gimps.
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Men/women - gender (social). Male, female - sex (biology). It’s very simple, just use the right one depending on the context.
Really doesn’t help when your language only has one word which carries both the meaning for sex and gender. Why’d y’all need to complicate things -_-
Men/women - nouns
Male/female - adjectives
I think the reason male and female get equated with biology is because biologists need to describe individuals in terms of characteristics within the species.
Like, “I live with a small, white, female felis catus and a tall, Caucasian, male homo sapiens” is a weird way to tell people that I live with my cat and my husband outside of a scientific context.
Male/Female are also nouns, which are biological terms.