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Solumbran@lemmy.world 8 months ago
The good old red flag of talking about “males and females” instead of men and women like a normal person with a brain.
It’s pretty normal to use male and female when specifying gender as an adjective. Man and woman are nouns. Calling a professional a female manager, or male teacher is normal english grammar. Using male or female as a noun is the red flag, which upon re-reading they also do… hmmmm
But OP constantly genders the channel instead of the creator which feels more non-native english speaker to me. They post about european stuff and in norwegean. Don’t read too much into it.
No it’s not. At most, you can use it combined (“male worker”) but no one normal says “a male” except when talking about animals. People who use it like that for humans are generally a big red flag.
And you don’t learn to use “mal” and “female” when you learn english, you only find that in toxic masculinity environments.
When learning a language, you don’t do literally everything by the book. In the real world you have to figure it out and extrapolate from incomplete information, and sometimes you get it a bit wrong.
From a few minutes playing on an autotranslator, it appears that Norwegan uses the same word for male/man and female/woman. Like the noun and adjective versions are the same word with different conjugations. A Norwegan learning english as a second language can quite reasonably be unaware that there is a distinction there.
Doesn’t mean OP has any bad intentions. I see this happening often in my country where English is not the first language of most people.
lmmarsano@lemmynsfw.com 8 months ago
Language policing of this sort is a red flag indicative of an ignorant, contentious trendhopper picking a fight over conventional English usage.
It’s conventional usage:
we can check the dictionary
> # female > noun > > 1. > 1. a female person : a woman or a girl > 2. an individual of the sex that is typically capable of bearing young or producing eggs > 2. a pistillate plant > # male > noun > > 1. > 1. a male person : a man or a boy > 2. an individual of the sex that is typically capable of producing small, usually motile gametes (such as sperm or spermatozoa) which fertilize the eggs of a female > 2. a plant having stamens but no pistils
or plainly observe unsolicited speech productions
What good cause is advanced by treating nouns female & male as toxic, dirty words?
This kind of language policing is misguided & exhausting, and we need to police that.