Why did this become common online? I’ve seen more and more posts that call women “females” but don’t call men “males”.
They will say “Females do X, whereas men do X” … It would be different if they also called men “males” but most of the time they don’t.
In my experience, referring to people as males or females is only appropriate in biology, healthcare, the military, or specific work environments such as the police and paramedics.
Comments
📣 Reminder for our users
>1. Check the rules: Please take a moment to review our rules, Reddiquette, and Reddit’s Content Policy.
>2. Clear question in the title: Make sure your question is clear and placed in the title. You can add details in the body of your post, but please keep it under 600 characters.
>3. Closed-Ended Questions Only: Questions should be closed-ended, meaning they can be answered with a clear, factual response. Avoid questions that ask for opinions instead of facts.
>4. Be Polite and Civil: Personal attacks, harassment, or inflammatory behavior will be removed. Repeated offenses may result in a ban. Any homophobic, transphobic, racist, sexist, or bigoted remarks will result in an immediate ban.
🚫 Commonly Asked Prohibited Question Subjects:
>1. Medical or pharmaceutical questions
>2. Legal or legality-related questions
>3. Technical/meta questions (help with Reddit)
This list is not exhaustive, so we recommend reviewing the full rules for more details on content limits.
✓ Mark your answers!
>If your question has been answered, please reply with
Answered!!to the response that best fit your question. This helps the community stay organized and focused on providing useful answers.I am a bot, and this action was performed automatically. Please contact the moderators of this subreddit if you have any questions or concerns.
Considering today’s age where everyone can be everything, female and male sounds like a pretty appropriate description.
I’ve never heard such bull shit in my life..
The west is rampantly sexist against men right now, this kind of language is naturally going to bleed out as part of the beginning of a pushback.
this post if giving off female energy vibe
We’re trying to be descriptive, as the terms men and women have changed. And most people don’t seem to like saying woman at birth, birthing person, or cisgendered.
I’m sure it’s some dehumanizing, manosphere bullshit. Misogyny, plain and simple.
Legit question, why do women have a problem with this? I’ve never met a guy who gave a single thought to being called a male.
Hey, you are aware of its commonality in the military. Not often I see that recognized.
That is where I picked it up, but as you specify in application it was true for both males and for females, not just the one.
Agreed. When I hear a young person use it like that, I judge them.
Uhh I have more important things to worry about like finding a new job and where the hell I’m going to live in four months. I’ll use male/female whenever it’s appropriate thanks for your concern though
It’s not that serious. I’m a woman, I don’t care. This is a goofy thing to care about. Enough alreadddddddy. We are women! We are female! Go away with your semantics.
Your experience is not everyone’s experience.
People tried to outlaw “females” since 2010. All it does is make people say it more.
You will never be able to control speech. Just your reaction to it.
r/menandfemales
Im a lady and use the term females. I dont find it insulting. Also we are all basically animals
But females are animals.
Nah I’m fine with being called a female it’s really not that deep. I’ve gone between calling myself a female or a woman or being referred to as either a woman or female. It’s what I am so I’m not going to stop others calling me it.
The word “female” has NEVER been a problem in the past years or decade, now all of a sudden, it is?
My gosh, what has this world come to? Honestly.
There’s BEYOND WORSE SHIT to be worried about, be fucking for real.
I don’t understand the big deal, I don’t mind being called a male
Is this one of those first world problems people have when they’re bored and have nothing meaningful or dire to worry about so they just make shit up to be annoyed about?
God, people get bent out of shape over the littlest things. The world is falling apart and this is what you’re spending your energy on?
This is what happens when you have it so good that you have to come up with shit to get offended by.
I thought Reddit moved on from this already?
Now female is offensive? Too far
Yo, homie. I’m Tony from LC Signs.
There is a subreddit called Men and Females you should check out.
For some reason dehumanizing us is natural for some
People will complain about anything nowadays. Same energy as I’m not driving, im traveling.
This has to be a shitpost 😂
No
Humans are animals so women are females. Women are animals we are all great apes.
Not a single man would be offended by being called a “male”
You’re being way too overly sensitive and this is the type of thing the far right lunatics latch onto
I (a man) find it extremely cringey.
I use females for in game characters only. Said it exactly 1 time IRL and regretted it haha
No. It is a scientifically accurate term.
The LITTLE things that people bitch about absolutely shocks me.
Yes you can
It’s definitely weird if they refer men to men but women to females. I’d like to hear the reasoning as to why they don’t refer to other men as males.
what about broads? is that making a comeback? it seemed okay back in the 40s maybe? come on, let’s bring back broads. Make America Broad Again MABA!
Can we please stop moving goalposts like this. Female is a perfectly fine word until few years ago and now people get offended for some reason. There are real problems that are extremely critical.
Where in the hell did you get the idea that “they” dont call males “males”.
Not even worth a reply
Oh wait I just replied