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  • Norgur@kbin.socialtoAsklemmy@lemmy.mlIs "female" offensive?
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    4 months ago

    Let me break down the explanations given, because most of them boil down to this:

    As a noun, yes, because it’s mainly used in biology like that (“A hawk female”) and thus can come off as dehumanizing. As an adjective: No (“A female cashier”, “A male cashier”)