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  • gapbetweenus@feddit.detoAsklemmy@lemmy.mlIs "female" offensive?
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    9 months ago

    In English “a male” and “a female” is almost exclusively reserved for animals.

    But also important to remember that quite a bunch of people are note native speakers without the feeling for finer distinctions in meaning. Like for me, since I learned english mostly in a scientific setting, those words habe little negative connotation on their own. They became negative co-notated through the use of misogynistic communities.