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Is "female" offensive? (lemmy.world)

submitted 10 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I am not a native English speaker and I have sometimes referred to people as male and female (as that is what I have been taught) but I have received some backlash in some cases, especially for the word "female", is there some negative thought in the word which I am unaware of?

I don't know if this is the best place to ask, if it's not appropriate I have no problem to delete it ^^

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (2 children)

You can soften "a black" or "a Chinese" entirely by adding "person" to the end of it. English is weird.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 10 months ago

Right, because that makes it an adjective.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

That's werid because in french that's not what we use in everyday life. We say "Un japonais" for example, not "Une personne japonaise" which kinda sounds unnecessary