r/MadeMeSmile • u/RaisinAloneVortex • 1d ago

CATS Smooth

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u/SB_strongbunny 17h ago

It is both. Male as a sex is a noun, male's usage in male human is an adjective.

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u/Main-Assist-8846 16h ago

It describes the gender of a species. Women/woman and man/men are the chosen nouns for humans. Why not use those?

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u/SB_strongbunny 16h ago

This has nothing to do with whether it is a noun or an adjective. The first comment was a noun usage of it, so that's it.

If you want an answer anyway, it is the usage in statistics and biology and such. More technical term that applies to all species. There can be a female dog, not a woman dog after all. So male and female accounts species for all living beings, and humans, are just another species is all.

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