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 ^^

  • Dasus@lemmy.world
    5·
    8 months ago

    Definitely.

    [NOT OKAY] “Hey guys, check out those females!”

    [Okay.] “There were seventy-five males and sixty females in the study.”

    [NOT OKAY] “Gonna go out with my favourite females tonight” (unless you’re a girl in a girls night out and doing a comedic take on the bro culture)

    [Okay] “The shoplifter was ~170cm tall, female, wore large sunglasses and ran surprisingly fast for someone in such high heels smelling so strongly of chardonnay”

      • Dasus@lemmy.world
        1·
        8 months ago

        Idk I’m not sure about the rules myself but I imagined it as a man saying that to a bro who would reference the first dude as “a guy” while still referencing women as females.

        So essentially it’s just about consistency. For me at least. Either “man / woman” or “male / female”.

        Idk I’m not the language police