• TranscendentalEmpire@lemmy.today
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    2 months ago

    To add to that, they are adjectives that can strip away someone’s humanity. Animals are described as male and female, for example “that’s a female rat”. While humans can be described with noun adjuncts like “they are a human woman”.

    Imo female and male should only really be utilized in a medical or scientific description.