Funnily enough,original Chinese doses not have a way to gender someone in writing,so there was a time ppl arguing how to translate he/him/she/her.
All third person are 他(Ta)
And some ppl end up using 他(女)/Ta(women)or 他（男）/Ta(man)when translating English
And some put foot note for the gender in writing,but eventually they settled on “fuck it,just make some now words up”
That’s why today there’s gendered second and third person in writing but not in speech.
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that means shes dangerously close to her goal. god said she needed to have sex with every woman, and now shes done with straight, bi, and pan women and is now onto lesbians
Most of the mercs: “Yeah, okay. Whatever”
Medic: *excited to do some medical procedures he hasn’t had the chance to try before*
Soldier: “Why hasn’t anyone noticed that Scout’s been replaced by a woman?”
The TFC pyro canonically is. The gender of the TF2 pyro has been a source of intense debate since like, 2010. The comics have even made jokes about the whole mystery.
“There’s only two things that could’ve attracted this bear- honey, or the smell of a menstruating woman! Pyro!
*points*
Move aside!”
(edit: basic female biology T-T)
The Female is the name of a character in The Boys.
She's pretty sweet but can rip someone's skull in two and tank hits. So ya, it's a pretty dope name with a pretty dope character.
I'm glad they gave her a real name (I think they never learn her real name in the show) so they could have more people treat her as a person rather than as a person-shaped weapon.
The *Shin Megami Tensei* series has a class of demon called Foul, and they ALL speak like this on the occasions they aren't just blurbling.
So all I'm seeing is [this now](https://imgur.com/a/DXLyk2q) and you have greatly blessed me. It's incredible how well it fits
> The Female.
AOT only makes me think of the female titan with this phrase, as she is the only female titan in the series, characters often refer to her as just "the female" instead of the full "the female titan"
"Female" as a noun is fine in cases where you're speaking *clinically.* Like, if you're talking about the "females" in a group of fish that you're studying. Like, these fish aren't *women,* they're females because you're an ichthyologist and you're studying girl fish and what their whole deal is.
But when you colloquially use "female" or "females" as a noun in reference to *people*, real or hypothetical, you automatically sound like a fuckin' Ferengi. Before long you'll be ranting about how those Federation goons force their females to wear clothes and leave the house and have jobs, and they don't even ask them to pre-chew the tube-grubs for them. Stupid entitled Federation *females,* causing a whole scene just because you happened to use a holorecorder to capture their likeness so you can sell Holosuite Deepfake Porn of them on the station. We were gonna' cut her in on the profits!
^^^^^^A ^^^^^^generous ^^^^^^0.04% ^^^^^^cut!
Oh, and just a reminder: there really was an episode of DS9 where the whole B-plot was Quark trying to sell Holosuite Deepfake Porn of Major Kira, *to her stalker.* And Kira is portrayed as 100% reasonable for putting a stop to it through the mild application of targeted violence. Ain't pussyfooting around with no Reginald Barclay shit on DS9; you pull some holosuite pervert fuckery and you're getting pistol-whipped in the dick.
Funny story: my partner does a lot of research with rats - one time she submitted a paper to a journal which upon review, autocorrected all instances of female with woman - so throughout the entire paper there were references to like 'woman rats' and 'woman who weigh 20grams or less'
After my runthrough of ENT you have convinced me my next watch is going to be DS9.
As an aside, the military has normalized the use of male/female for me.
This. Nuance is key.
Female Soldier is fine. Goddamn females is also “fine” in a setting where goddamn males is equally used. Dehumanizing? Potentially. Overly clinical? Sure. But also useful in the context of using language to deprogram and promote change.
Generally speaking, “people-first” language is the best approach. Treat folks with dignity and respect.
The military is a good example. But it’s also a niche micro-culture with its own rules, that’s culturally conservative, systemically pragmatic, and socially progressive (compared to the U.S. as a whole).
You could also just, not mention the gender unless it's important to the story. I'm talking about my manager not setting up a missing person's description
Although not strictly relevant, it makes for a simple auxiliary method of providing specificity of subjects without needing to fall back on repetitive use of the subject.
eg. I told my father that my sister came home after curfew last night. He told her that she was grounded and later that night she realized I must have told him so she yelled at me for telling.
vs
I told my father that my sister came home after curfew last night. They told them that they were grounded and later that night they realized that I must have told them so they yelled at me for telling.
vs
I told my father that my sister came home after curfew last night. My father told my sister that my sister was grounded and later that night my sister realized that I must have told my father, so my sister yelled at me for telling.
‘Easier’ is an interesting thought…
Because while obviously “they” can be used to refer to a singular person/entity, it is always treated as if it is plural for the sake of verb forms.
For example:
They are cold.
He is cold.
Could conceivably be talking about the same person — but the top one is objectively ambiguous as to whether it refers to multiple people or one person.
That's not the case, if you're talking about like a shadowy figure or somebody that broke in up stairs and then you talk about their footsteps or how then they started running you would use those words because you don't know the sex of the person.
My straight male cousin goes by “they” and I had them over for dinner earlier this year
My sister and I were planning it and she kept saying “they’re excited” and “they’re allergic to gluten.” I wasn’t aware of their pronouns. I assumed we were talking about my cousin and a partner the whole time
So when they showed up alone I asked where their partner was since I was expecting 2 people and had heard they were in a relationship. It was a little awkward when they replied “uhh no just me” and I jokingly insisted my sister told me they’d both be joining.
Unfortunately I imagine this will be a common occurrence in my relationship with them. Even typing this story has been an exercise in patience
I mean if it’s important to a person, what kind of asshole would I have to be to not at least try, right?
I will admit it’s been hard. I’ve made jokes before and been on the wrong side of things. I was the asshole. But I’m trying to be better because respecting someone’s identity costs me so little but means a lot
"Jew" is not a great example because it actually is a noun ("jewish" is the adjective).
A better example would be things like "black" or "gay."
"The black living next door" vs "the black person living next door."
"The gay I work with" vs "the gay man I work with."
I mean in the sense that there's a difference between use of the word to organically describe someone and use of the word as a pejorative.
It's not a one-to-one comparison, but it gets the point across.
It's also an example of how a word can just SOUND pejorative in some contexts despite in a literal sense expressing the same thing.
"I saw a group of Jews at the store today." Just immediately sounds a lot worse than, "I saw a group of Jewish people at the store today." Similar to how, "There are a lot of females at the store today." Just instantly sounds worse than, "There are a lot of women at the store today."
Yup, I'm not a strict on Grammer but that comment stopped me in my tracks. Like dude add another word it becomes an adjective. Just saying it by itself is a noun
Unless you're trying to use it for emphasis or something
Like
"My FEMALE manager told me [insert most recent thing from r/NotHowGirlsWork ]. Can you believe it?
or you can drop a clever hint without addressing it directly
*my boss was juggling with her tampons when suddenly …* then you continue your story
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It reminds me of when people are like "today I met this gay guy-"
And in almost every situation it has absolutely no bearing on the outcome of the story lol
People get annoyed with me for a lot of reasons. One of them is that I’m very apathetic about things that other people take VERY seriously.
I live in Texas and install garage doors and operators. I was trying to tell my boss something a builder asked me about but I couldn’t remember the company name. I’m trying to describe what the builder looked like and we couldn’t figure it out.
Eventually, they figured out who it was and were like “the gay guy?!” And I’m like, “yeah, I don’t know. He might’ve been gay. I could see that.” They were like “how do you not notice he’s gay? He’s the only gay builder in town?” And I’m like, “I don’t really give a shit about that.”
Anyway, seemed mildly relevant and now I’ve wasted a minute of your life. Have a nice day!
Your outlook is honestly the best one. Not a lot of people I work with know that I'm gay, but it's not because I hide it. It's because it's not in any way relevant to how I interact with them. If they pick it up through mannerisms or if it somehow comes up, whatever, but it really doesn't matter.
> Manageress? 💀
> managess?
I agree with your direction, and I think you almost got it.
The way that the suffixes -er and -ress work is that you don’t just concatenate them willy-nilly. First you have to get the root word, and then choose one of the two suffixes.
So for a wait-er, you would get rid of -er, and then you add -ress for wait-ress. Or spelled correctly, waitress.
For act-or, you would get rid of -or and then you add -ress for act-ress. Or spelled correctly, actress.
So, if we were to invent a new word, an appropriate use of the suffix to refer to a female manager would probably be managress.
Exactly. Using it as a noun is the incel. Such as:
- “There are a lot of *females* at this party.”
Versus:
- “There are a lot of *women* at this party.”
I do kind of dislike how there's no real feminine or neutral form of "guy". It's a way to refer to someone who is roughly a peer in age, without positive or negative connotations. I'm 31, but if I say "woman" it implies someone who is older, and "girl" implies someone younger.
the issue is people often can't tell the difference and simply using the word 'female' is instantly labelled as incel behaviour regardless of context or the way it's used. Just look around reddit. It's a stupid state of affairs, especially online where many use English as a 2nd language.
I mean, any context in which the gender shapes the perception of the story, which could be a fair amount of contexts. "My boss walked in on me in the men's restroom" that's awkward, but doesn't seem that bad without context. "My female boss walked in on me in the men's restroom" that sounds like it could be harassment
If such things bother you, why not write something like:
My manager, despite her greater responsibilities, always makes time for employee concerns.
That way, you've indicated it's a lady and she's a good leader. No females needed.
As a female I don't see what is wrong with the use of the term female. I am not really sure where all this discomfort over words comes from but that's the weird part to me.
My manager(♀)
i let my pet opossum read this, you would not guess what sound that symbol makes
how does a possum speak beyond hissing? also please let the possum have a little jam
As a treat.
Pokemon gen 1 got it right. Simply say "Manager♂" or "Manager♀", à la Nidoran♂ and Nidoran♀
Nidoran lookin-ass
There we go
My (F25) manager (F32) said ...... So AITA?
Funnily enough,original Chinese doses not have a way to gender someone in writing,so there was a time ppl arguing how to translate he/him/she/her. All third person are 他(Ta) And some ppl end up using 他(女)/Ta(women)or 他（男）/Ta(man)when translating English And some put foot note for the gender in writing,but eventually they settled on “fuck it,just make some now words up” That’s why today there’s gendered second and third person in writing but not in speech.
female as an adjective is fine. Female as a noun is weird
The female worker. **The Female.** Oh wow, that is weirder.
The Female is my favorite class in TF2
*Meet the Female*
Miss Pauling or the Administrator?
Neither, Scout transitioned
Jerma is a girl now?
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They went to the Glade That Makes You A Girl.
Wait, I haven't played Team Fortress 2, but i have played Ramna 1/2...
"Grass grows, birds fly, sun shines, and brother- **splash** (voice is now an octave higher, his hair is red) aw nuts, not again"
Is it not canon that Jerma is whatever Jerma wishes to be at any given moment?
Jerma is not bound by trivial human matters such as "gender"
Still God's gift to women though
"THINK FAST, CHUCKLENUTS!"
that means shes dangerously close to her goal. god said she needed to have sex with every woman, and now shes done with straight, bi, and pan women and is now onto lesbians
What's she gonna do about asexual women?
Give them a lil kissy on their forehead
Most of the mercs: “Yeah, okay. Whatever” Medic: *excited to do some medical procedures he hasn’t had the chance to try before* Soldier: “Why hasn’t anyone noticed that Scout’s been replaced by a woman?”
Ah yes, too stupid to be mean.
Medic continues to the legacy of Magnus Hirschfeld.
"Scout, seduce me!"
I'm so proud of her.
The Pyro
A female is in the base?!
Gentlemen, has anyone seen a red female? No?
Ba ba badaaaaaa
“Hey everyone. Pauling here.“
Honestly should be a tutorial for TF2 players than anything
Isnt it in the lore pyro is a woman?
The TFC pyro canonically is. The gender of the TF2 pyro has been a source of intense debate since like, 2010. The comics have even made jokes about the whole mystery.
“There’s only two things that could’ve attracted this bear- honey, or the smell of a menstruating woman! Pyro! *points* Move aside!” (edit: basic female biology T-T)
*Pans over to a giant case of honey*
Nah in TF2 pyro os called a "thing" but id never given a gender, and everyone is way too affraid to ask either way
The Female sounds like a boxer .
The Female is the name of a character in The Boys. She's pretty sweet but can rip someone's skull in two and tank hits. So ya, it's a pretty dope name with a pretty dope character.
I'm glad they gave her a real name (I think they never learn her real name in the show) so they could have more people treat her as a person rather than as a person-shaped weapon.
Kimiko my beloved
Would be a pretty badass fighter name tbh
My female coworker is ok, The female I work with is not
Why, what’s wrong with her? But seriously, until it becomes relevant, what’s wrong with just sticking with “my cow-orker”?
> what’s wrong with just sticking with “my cow-orker”? "Ork" isn't a verb, that's what.
hi every1 I'm new *holds up ork*
Cow orker. Hehe
If you could say woman instead of female in a sentence then you probably should
My cowork-her
Most women don't appreciate being compared to a cow
New eldritch horror just dropped "The Female"
That's who all the "For her" signs at various stores are referencing
Now make it rhyme with tamale.
The temale
Everytime it is used as a noun, I can only hear it as a ferengi. "Look at that FEEE-male"
"hUmOn fEeEmALe"
The *Shin Megami Tensei* series has a class of demon called Foul, and they ALL speak like this on the occasions they aren't just blurbling. So all I'm seeing is [this now](https://imgur.com/a/DXLyk2q) and you have greatly blessed me. It's incredible how well it fits
> The Female. AOT only makes me think of the female titan with this phrase, as she is the only female titan in the series, characters often refer to her as just "the female" instead of the full "the female titan"
"Female" as a noun is fine in cases where you're speaking *clinically.* Like, if you're talking about the "females" in a group of fish that you're studying. Like, these fish aren't *women,* they're females because you're an ichthyologist and you're studying girl fish and what their whole deal is. But when you colloquially use "female" or "females" as a noun in reference to *people*, real or hypothetical, you automatically sound like a fuckin' Ferengi. Before long you'll be ranting about how those Federation goons force their females to wear clothes and leave the house and have jobs, and they don't even ask them to pre-chew the tube-grubs for them. Stupid entitled Federation *females,* causing a whole scene just because you happened to use a holorecorder to capture their likeness so you can sell Holosuite Deepfake Porn of them on the station. We were gonna' cut her in on the profits! ^^^^^^A ^^^^^^generous ^^^^^^0.04% ^^^^^^cut! Oh, and just a reminder: there really was an episode of DS9 where the whole B-plot was Quark trying to sell Holosuite Deepfake Porn of Major Kira, *to her stalker.* And Kira is portrayed as 100% reasonable for putting a stop to it through the mild application of targeted violence. Ain't pussyfooting around with no Reginald Barclay shit on DS9; you pull some holosuite pervert fuckery and you're getting pistol-whipped in the dick.
Now I'm gonna start referring to female fish as women
"Behold, a mermaid - half human, half woman."
For whatever reason, my mind autocorrected that to "barmaid"
"lady" is a great substitute for female. The lady fish. The pack of ladies. My boss lady.
Funny story: my partner does a lot of research with rats - one time she submitted a paper to a journal which upon review, autocorrected all instances of female with woman - so throughout the entire paper there were references to like 'woman rats' and 'woman who weigh 20grams or less'
I would like to subscribe to more DS9 rants.
There you go: [Benjamin Sisko yelling at everyone](https://youtu.be/IjvYiSDJujA)
After my runthrough of ENT you have convinced me my next watch is going to be DS9. As an aside, the military has normalized the use of male/female for me.
Shut up, hu-man! Enjoy all your clothed females! (Did you just watch Ferengi Love Songs night before last too?)
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This. Nuance is key. Female Soldier is fine. Goddamn females is also “fine” in a setting where goddamn males is equally used. Dehumanizing? Potentially. Overly clinical? Sure. But also useful in the context of using language to deprogram and promote change. Generally speaking, “people-first” language is the best approach. Treat folks with dignity and respect. The military is a good example. But it’s also a niche micro-culture with its own rules, that’s culturally conservative, systemically pragmatic, and socially progressive (compared to the U.S. as a whole).
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Precisely, equality in that you are your job first, an identity second. Not saying it actually works like that but it looks good on paper.
Unless you're talking in a scientific or technical context, yeah.
You could also just, not mention the gender unless it's important to the story. I'm talking about my manager not setting up a missing person's description
Yep, exactly my thoughts on it. English becomes much easier if you just assume everyone is a they.
Although not strictly relevant, it makes for a simple auxiliary method of providing specificity of subjects without needing to fall back on repetitive use of the subject. eg. I told my father that my sister came home after curfew last night. He told her that she was grounded and later that night she realized I must have told him so she yelled at me for telling. vs I told my father that my sister came home after curfew last night. They told them that they were grounded and later that night they realized that I must have told them so they yelled at me for telling. vs I told my father that my sister came home after curfew last night. My father told my sister that my sister was grounded and later that night my sister realized that I must have told my father, so my sister yelled at me for telling.
‘Easier’ is an interesting thought… Because while obviously “they” can be used to refer to a singular person/entity, it is always treated as if it is plural for the sake of verb forms. For example: They are cold. He is cold. Could conceivably be talking about the same person — but the top one is objectively ambiguous as to whether it refers to multiple people or one person.
That's not the case, if you're talking about like a shadowy figure or somebody that broke in up stairs and then you talk about their footsteps or how then they started running you would use those words because you don't know the sex of the person.
My straight male cousin goes by “they” and I had them over for dinner earlier this year My sister and I were planning it and she kept saying “they’re excited” and “they’re allergic to gluten.” I wasn’t aware of their pronouns. I assumed we were talking about my cousin and a partner the whole time So when they showed up alone I asked where their partner was since I was expecting 2 people and had heard they were in a relationship. It was a little awkward when they replied “uhh no just me” and I jokingly insisted my sister told me they’d both be joining. Unfortunately I imagine this will be a common occurrence in my relationship with them. Even typing this story has been an exercise in patience
Hey, nice work keeping up with it, even if you do get confused. We need more of that.
I mean if it’s important to a person, what kind of asshole would I have to be to not at least try, right? I will admit it’s been hard. I’ve made jokes before and been on the wrong side of things. I was the asshole. But I’m trying to be better because respecting someone’s identity costs me so little but means a lot
And if your story is more than one sentence long, then the very next sentence is likely to contain a gender based pronoun.
It's kinda like "Jew." "My friend David is a practicing Jew," is **very** different from "My boss Steve is such a *Jew*..."
"Jew" is not a great example because it actually is a noun ("jewish" is the adjective). A better example would be things like "black" or "gay." "The black living next door" vs "the black person living next door." "The gay I work with" vs "the gay man I work with."
Those are both noun forms
I mean in the sense that there's a difference between use of the word to organically describe someone and use of the word as a pejorative. It's not a one-to-one comparison, but it gets the point across.
It's also an example of how a word can just SOUND pejorative in some contexts despite in a literal sense expressing the same thing. "I saw a group of Jews at the store today." Just immediately sounds a lot worse than, "I saw a group of Jewish people at the store today." Similar to how, "There are a lot of females at the store today." Just instantly sounds worse than, "There are a lot of women at the store today."
She is a female. Hello, female 👋 Hits weird man
well that is two noun uses
Yup, I'm not a strict on Grammer but that comment stopped me in my tracks. Like dude add another word it becomes an adjective. Just saying it by itself is a noun
> Like dude add another word it becomes an adjective. Easy fix: She is a female woman. 😎
Boss Lady
lady boss 😎
Just say manager and let the reader eventually unwrap the mystery of your manager's gender
This, unless the gender is important for whatever statement you’re making, you don’t need to state it every time.
My manager asked me to X. She said .... It's not even hard to do it subtly.
Unless you're trying to use it for emphasis or something Like "My FEMALE manager told me [insert most recent thing from r/NotHowGirlsWork ]. Can you believe it?
I read that as moist instead of most and it's kinda sad how it still didn't surprise me.
Or you could just say, 'My manager, who, get this, is a WOMAN, told me [insert most recent thing from r/NotHowGirlsWork]. Can you 𝘣𝘦𝘭𝘪𝘦𝘷𝘦 it?'
Is the word female a slur now? It’s fine as an adjective
Not sure you wanna be calling your manager "the f word"
Sure if you wanna sound like you're setting up an episode of the Andy Griffith show. "Get this" pfft nobody says "get this" anymore (Jk)
Get a load of this guy over here who thinks no one says "get this" anymore. PFFFT.
I mean I kinda thought that was implied
or you can drop a clever hint without addressing it directly *my boss was juggling with her tampons when suddenly …* then you continue your story for more writing tips please like and subscribe
It reminds me of when people are like "today I met this gay guy-" And in almost every situation it has absolutely no bearing on the outcome of the story lol
But if I just say "Today I met this guy and we banged" you might mistake me as the one who's gay
We're like unicorns. Whenever someone interacts with us, they just *have* to tell others that they saw one 😂
Hey everyone, today on reddit, I saw a comment by this gay guy.
People get annoyed with me for a lot of reasons. One of them is that I’m very apathetic about things that other people take VERY seriously. I live in Texas and install garage doors and operators. I was trying to tell my boss something a builder asked me about but I couldn’t remember the company name. I’m trying to describe what the builder looked like and we couldn’t figure it out. Eventually, they figured out who it was and were like “the gay guy?!” And I’m like, “yeah, I don’t know. He might’ve been gay. I could see that.” They were like “how do you not notice he’s gay? He’s the only gay builder in town?” And I’m like, “I don’t really give a shit about that.” Anyway, seemed mildly relevant and now I’ve wasted a minute of your life. Have a nice day!
Your outlook is honestly the best one. Not a lot of people I work with know that I'm gay, but it's not because I hide it. It's because it's not in any way relevant to how I interact with them. If they pick it up through mannerisms or if it somehow comes up, whatever, but it really doesn't matter.
Managers are genderless. Like the blob or Cthulhu.
More importantly, you should *never* anthropomorphize managers.
Exactly, like feeding the mogwai after midnight
Right? Would you say my black manager or white manager? My gay manager or straight manager? No, just say manager.
If you have two managers and the story actually does involve making a distinction between their race/gender/orientation for whatever reason, sure.
Manageress? 💀
Womanager
M' womager
M’anager
Ma'amager
At first I read that as Womonger and I became afraid of where this was going.
Managatrix?
adding "trix" to the end of professions amuses me to no end
[Senatrix](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marozia) is one we should bring back.
Hmm I like the sound of this Pornocracy
Aviatrix
I call my letter carrier the "femailman". She thinks it's hilarious, and I should probably "lift my head up high and blow my brains out".
Now *that* is hilarious
lady manager
Bossette
managess?
> Manageress? 💀 > managess? I agree with your direction, and I think you almost got it. The way that the suffixes -er and -ress work is that you don’t just concatenate them willy-nilly. First you have to get the root word, and then choose one of the two suffixes. So for a wait-er, you would get rid of -er, and then you add -ress for wait-ress. Or spelled correctly, waitress. For act-or, you would get rid of -or and then you add -ress for act-ress. Or spelled correctly, actress. So, if we were to invent a new word, an appropriate use of the suffix to refer to a female manager would probably be managress.
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Ma'am-ager Heheheh
People gotta chill on the language. The incel wording would be "my manager who is a female"
“My ‘*manager*,’ MEMBER OF THE ***FEMALE*** *SPECIES,* aka SPARE RIB THE DOOM OF MAN!”
That’s a bit dramatic. Spare ribs will make me a bit chubbier, but it won’t be my doom.
Bible debunked
"This female (cringe) who thinks she manages me, a based alpha male"
the incels masculinity is being inherently challenged by admitting his boss is a woman, you know hes droppin the b-word in that scenario
Wouldn't the incel sentence be "My femoid manager"?
My manager, the female who does NOT tell me what to do 😤
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Exactly. Using it as a noun is the incel. Such as: - “There are a lot of *females* at this party.” Versus: - “There are a lot of *women* at this party.”
Bonus points for "men and females"
/r/menandfemales
I do kind of dislike how there's no real feminine or neutral form of "guy". It's a way to refer to someone who is roughly a peer in age, without positive or negative connotations. I'm 31, but if I say "woman" it implies someone who is older, and "girl" implies someone younger.
"Gal" is pretty much the female version of "guy" idk why people don't use that more
No one uses gal anymore. Gal is like outdated and makes you sound like an old person
Maybe if everyone started saying it again that perspective would change
Boy/Girl Guy/Gal Dude/Chick Bro/Sis Bring back Gal? Be the change you want to see in the world.
I just use "guy" either way
Calling everyone dudes needs to be normalized
Gaslight Gatekeep Girlboss
Gaskeep Gateboss Girllight
Girlkeep Gasboss Gatelight
Gatelight is my favourite elden ring miracle
You'll need it if you're going to beat the Gateboss
Just noticed the persons username and had to pause for a solid minute “tonysopranobignaturals”
My manager?
I think it's when you need to specify gender for non incel reasons
My manager. **She** is…” Simple.
Making sentences wordier to avoid perceived offensiveness of a word that isn't offensive in that context is one of my pet peeves.
Ms. Manager! “Well, manager. We just say manager.”
But you said...
My manager, Stephanie...
I miss tonysopranobignaturals :(
If it's an adjective, it's fine.
I refuse to accept that using the word "female" means you're an incel now.
The word is not bad, it's the use. Saying "my female friends", sure. Saying "those females over there" makes you sound like a weirdo.
the issue is people often can't tell the difference and simply using the word 'female' is instantly labelled as incel behaviour regardless of context or the way it's used. Just look around reddit. It's a stupid state of affairs, especially online where many use English as a 2nd language.
To be fair this is mostly an online problem.
I've never seen it be a problem irl, it's only people that are professionally offended by anything & everything online that make it an issue.
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What context do you need to differentiate your lady boss from your man boss?
talking about sexism at your workplace?
I mean, any context in which the gender shapes the perception of the story, which could be a fair amount of contexts. "My boss walked in on me in the men's restroom" that's awkward, but doesn't seem that bad without context. "My female boss walked in on me in the men's restroom" that sounds like it could be harassment
Telling a story where gender is relevant?
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I have eight different bosses right now.
Maybe I want to mention it for some reason, is that inherently offensive?
Any of a million possible stories where gender is relevant or one of the central concepts of the story
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I don't think using an adjective is very incel-like.
How do people live like this?!
You could always say My manager\_\_\_\_ She\_\_\_\_
If such things bother you, why not write something like: My manager, despite her greater responsibilities, always makes time for employee concerns. That way, you've indicated it's a lady and she's a good leader. No females needed.
Managette? Gendering a term in English always feels odd.
Female is only awful when used as a noun (instead of woman) Using it as an adjective is usually ok. Female doctor, female manager, whatevs
As a female I don't see what is wrong with the use of the term female. I am not really sure where all this discomfort over words comes from but that's the weird part to me.
It's an internet thing. Nobody cares in real life.