• @[email protected]
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    2410 months ago

    Female is not just anti trans. It has also been used as a way of dehumanizing women for some time. It was in the 4chan playbook until they switched to femoid for extra dehumanizing.

    • @Hereforpron2
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      810 months ago

      Good to know, thank you! Yet more reasons to avoid it

    • @[email protected]OP
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      510 months ago

      I also referred to men as males in the post, but that didn’t seem to bother anyone.

      Though I do admit female was a more used term. I was trying to explain some of the differences (to the best of my knowledge) of why males are more agressive and just generally not so in touch with their emotions, as opposed to females. I mean, come on, I wasn’t trying to offend anybody, but I do suppose that some people just saw “female, brain”, thought I was talking smack about women and just started downvoting me 🤷. I was trying to explain that that is not the context and that those 2 terms were just the first ones that popped up in my mind, but it was too late.

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        610 months ago

        I also referred to men as males in the post, but that didn’t seem to bother anyone.

        Because there’s no history of “males” being used in a derogatory way.