Ever heard of english being a second language?

"Men and fffffffffffffeeeeeeeeeemmmmaaaaaaallllles."

Only when it's men and females. Like, dude, if someone speaks like that you know they're a huge incel

Yeah. It feels weird to say even ironically. Woman, lady, lass, bird, even girl wouldn't have made this sound half as weird...

Though we are talking about a post of a guy trying way too hard to stare at a woman's backside, so it was gonna be weird from the offset.

Was a permanent ban too much? Maybe, but I wouldn't call anybody a snowflake for getting a weird vibe from the OP here

I think entirely phonetically so struggle with spelling. I wouldn't be surprised if there is a word for this but I don't know it. Some words like woman vs women really mess with me, because at least in my accent, the ending of the word doesn't change, its the beginning of the word (which doesn't change spelling). As a consequence I get them mixed up all the time in text. I switched to using female/male so I could consistently get the spelling right. Its extremely annoying that some redpill bullshit or w/e then co-opted the use of the word in some dehumanizing way.

I was in the Navy, we got it drilled in our heads in Boot camp that we had to say Male and Female. Literally we would have to scream "MALE ON DECK" when entering a female's berthing or the opposite when a Female entered a Male berthing.

Oh, some people talk like that, but don't ask what kind of people or OP will be upset.

Maybe not everyone is a native English speaker who can sense the difference in nuance in contemporary usage between words which are essentially synonyms.

"a bit"? This is totally out of control, and the mod should lose all privleges, to being a mod.

the other part is a person whom speaks english as a second language. Its not always a clear translation, particularly with English since the language is bastardised from many languages, and many "grammar rules" can be broken, by our own design.

As a mod you should be amenable to that.

Are you serious?

You’ve never heard say, say “female athlete”? Because saying “woman athlete” is absolutely fucking Neanderthal.

You can’t just swap every instance of female for woman. Same applies for male/man. It’s basic grammar at this point.

There's a reason why the Ferengi use "female" as a noun. But some people don't seem to understand that. When I heard someone use the word "female" as a noun they either are:

× reffering to animals

× sexist

× talking about some incel shit

× a capitalist race in Star Trek

× trolling

or speaking english not that well.

My understanding is that female refers to the gender while woman refers specifically to an adult of the aforementioned gender. As in you wouldn't call a 3 year girl a woman and you wouldn't call a 90 year old woman a girl, as girl carries a diminutive connotation compared to the more apt term woman.

I've never seen someone on the street calling women "females", I wonder why...

TIL all doctors, military, police etc. are incels.

Are you ok with calling men "males"?

People forget that there are also girls, teenagers and possibly other variants you may want to specify (plus all the male ones etc.).

By using female/male you cover those bases.

Besides, have you never seen internet posts like in AITA or such using F/M?

Never mind all the professional language (e.g. "military age male").

Just, come on. Getting insulted over bullshit.

Men and women, males and females.

"Female" hasn't been a problematic word up until now lol.

Don't worry, I'll explain it to you:

-Girl, woman: nouns

-Female: adjective

How to use:

-She's a girl/woman

-She's female

There you go. The problem is using female as a noun ("a female").

PS: English isn't my first language either.

As a person who has learned 2 languages besides English, let me say the idea that you would go into a place where native speakers are discussing their own language and then tell them why they are wrong because non-native speakers wouldn't see a problem with the usage of the word in their own language...?

Certainly gutsy, I'll give you that. I can't imagine the balls to tell people speaking their native language that I, a student of their language, am learned enough to educate them on the subtle nuance of the use of a word in various contexts, but you do you I guess.

Banning is a bit much though. Remove the post and let OP resubmit. Unless OP was beimg an ass about it.

but aren't females also human?

Adding a heading to a picture or article is a form of classification. It actually should qualify as an acceptable use-case in the same way that I would identify the contents of microscope slides. “A female is seen doing blank” is purely scientific classification. I think that the mod is being anti-science. The ultra-left is a bit regressive.

Thinking it's fair to ban someone for the use of the word "female" seems even more snowflakey tho

Are you ok with calling men "males"?

People forget that there are also girls, teenagers and possibly other variants you may want to specify (plus all the male ones etc.).

By using female/male you cover those bases.

Besides, have you never seen internet posts like in AITA or such using F/M?

Never mind all the professional language (e.g. "military age male").

Just, come on. Getting insulted over bullshit.

My girlfriend still uses reddit and showed me a post the other day and I went through the comments and they alwere all toxic and deluded. At least here all the toxicity seems to be limited to the hexbear-tards brigading posts.

I'm pretty sure blocking for out-of-sub discretions goes against TOS, or at least the community guidelines, but never once did I see any admin address it.

Me, I think I commented a lol or whatever on political compass même, and got banned from others subs because of this, wtf?

To be clear, there's nothing wrong with using female as an adjective.

Calling someone a female customer / politician / patient / etc is perfectly fine and normal.

The problem comes when you use it as a noun.

Think of calling someone "a gay", "a black" or "a Chinese".

You just don't use adjectives-as-nouns to refer to people, apart from a very limited set of exceptions.

Instead you talk about a gay, black or Chinese person.

The same goes for 'female'.

And since there's already a word for 'female person' - ie. 'woman' - then going out of your way to avoid it makes you sound like a raging incel.

It's kinda like treating a woman as something subhuman. Normal people call human women, women. But you might refer to a dog as a female dog, for example. Calling a dog a woman dog is weird because their not human, just as calling a human a female is weird, it is dehumanizing.

Does seem oddly decontextualized, doesn't it?

This is how incels commonly refer to women. It could be a case for English as a second language, but it's most likely an incel creep.

Still seems a bit excessive to jump to a ban just for that word in a title tho..

Are they saying it’s anti-trans or something? yes, comment section is also defending OP

You think people should be banned from a subreddit for using the wrong synonym?

It sort of has a fluid meaning, but essentially a extremely sensitive person. Sometimes one who lashes out.

The internet has some extreme cultures. One group has taken to asserting any use of female, from a non medical professional, as a dog whistle for incels, terfs, and extremists .

As far as I'm concerned any weaponization of common English is just evil

my bad bro english is not my first language.

"You're a snowflake for trying to block and ban yourself into an echo chamber, therefore I also want to block and ban you just like a snowflake would."

Onion had the best description of a woman.