• boletus@sh.itjust.works
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    12 days ago

    He’s looking for young girls then. I’m not sure that’s such a good thing, nor does it make his use of females any better.

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      12 days ago

      Not sure friend requests count as “looking” in that sense. Young girls is a bit of a reach: young females could mean girls or young women where the age of the girl is unspecified.

      Great job not answering the questions: a sign of real integrity.

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        12 days ago

        Well if you want an answer to the question it’s purely the way it comes off. A lot of women I know get the ick when people use the word female in that context.

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          12 days ago

          A lot of women I know get the ick

          And a lot don’t. Icks aren’t valid reasons & can be unjustified.

          We all can read context as written without free associating extra assumptions. The context doesn’t indicate offensive use of females.

          If you read what someone wrote, twist it into something else, & judge them for it, that is unjustified. What good does it promote?

          More broadly

          if you want an answer

          wasn’t given. As stated before

          Regardless of motive, the act is the same: indiscriminately picking problems over females. If everyone did that, females would be generally accepted as a dirty, toxic word.

          The question remains: what good is advanced by treating females like a dirty, toxic word?

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            11 days ago

            None at all, and the real argument wasn’t that females is a dirty toxic word. It’s the context in which it is used.

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              11 days ago

              The context in OP where females was used inoffensively?

              You haven’t pinned down the problem with the context of the word: I don’t think you can. All I think you have are opinions & assumptions unsupported by context.

              Either the context or the word has a problem. If it’s not the context, then it’s the word, which means we’re really arguing about treating females as a dirty, toxic word.

              If it is the context, then you can identify that problem (in a way that clearly sets it apart from inoffensive uses of the noun female): it’s puzzling no one has so far.

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                11 days ago

                The context is a 4chan post about not understanding the behaviour of women. I’m not a woman, I don’t find it offensive, but you can definitely make some educated guesses or conclusions about why it would give some women the ick.

                Ps. Don’t take it too seriously most people are taking the piss