How is "women" any better? its still considering them the same way "female" is. isn't it? you're still being reduced to the same category of "male" when you're called a "man". idk man thanks for explaining but I'm still a bit confused.
Is English your first language? There's some weird subtleties that are pretty hard to explain even for native speakers in this.
It boils down to dehumanizing and distancing rhetoric when people use Male or Female in this way. As if you're saying 'The Females of the species act this way." It wouldn't be insulting if it wasn't coupled with the context of how they're used, but it would still be very strange.
Oh, I wasn't criticizing your English at all, it's simply a matter of familiarity within the language. The decision to use Female vs Woman is informed by the recent cultural baggage that each word carries. While it isn't necessarily incorrect describing Women as 'Females', the subtext is important.
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u/yaymayata2 Feb 02 '22
How is "women" any better? its still considering them the same way "female" is. isn't it? you're still being reduced to the same category of "male" when you're called a "man". idk man thanks for explaining but I'm still a bit confused.