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Outside of a clinical/scientific setting? It’s comes off a bit creepy. If a guy in a social setting refers to women as “females,” it seems derogatory- as if they were talking about lesser animals.

In online forums like Lemmy or Reddit, if someone calls women “females,” I always picture that person as a Ferengi from Star Trek.

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I wouldn’t have a problem with someone using males/females in a vacuum, but all too often I read men/females from incels and misogynists on the Internet, so now “females” feels derogatory by default.

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Outside of a clinical/scientific setting? It’s comes off a bit creepy

Male/female toilets sound creepy to you?

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It only really comes off as weird when they’re used as nouns. As adjectives they’re generally pretty unobjectionable.

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“Male/female toilets” is not the same thing as “males/females”

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The fact that it apparently doesn’t sound creepy to you is creepy. You priapic huuumahn.

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