From the article just posted
"Okay. Well, changing gears a bit, what’s the big deal with female? Why are people so annoyed when that word is used instead of women? Women arefemales, right?
Well, first it’s grammatically awkward. “Female” is fine when you use it as an adjective. For instance, earlier I referred to Jordan’s “
sizable Black female fanbase.” Fanbase is the noun here. “Female,” like “Black” and “sizable,” is describing a type of fanbase.
You can also use it as a noun without it being awkward. For instance, let’s say you had a job taking attendance at an amusement park. You can say “
836 females came to the park today, and 801 males.” This is an instance where the use of “female” and “male” would be appropriate. (
You should also go back to school, because a job taking attendance at an amusement park sounds like the worst job ever.)
It’s inappropriate when it’s used as a substitute for “women.” For instance, “
Don’t you hate it when females text all the time?” is grammatically awkward because you’re clearly referring to grown female human beings. And there’s already a word for grown female humans beings!
Women!If you’re referring to a female human being who is not grown yet, the word is
“girl.” And, if you want to be more colloquial in your reference to female human beings,
“chick” even works better than “female.” (
Or “Earth” if you’re in the Wu-Tang Clan.)
Ok, so it’s grammatically awkward. I still don’t see the issue here.
This is why context matters. Because experience has taught many of us that the type of person (men
and women) to regularly refer to men as “men” and women as “females” is often the type of person who also has some pretty backward (and, often, dangerous) beliefs about women. The word “female” strips a woman of her humanity, reducing her to her sexual parts, and people who use female tend to view women through that lens.
It’s basically a polite way of saying “bytches.” And not in an ironic sense, but a “bytches aint shyt but hoes and tricks” sense.
So, what’s next for Michael B. Jordan?
He’s still very young, so he still has time to become wiser, more worldly, and more media savvy. Or, he could just start dating Janelle Monae, and get all of his Black points back in one fell swoop"
Grammatically awkward? A reach
Stripping an element of humanity? No it does not
You don't like the type of person who uses it? Who fukking cares? what does that have to do with the term itself? If yo don't like the person using female and they started using woman you would be in the same predicament
A replacement for bytch? How?
Tell me I am being trolled
