this post was submitted on 28 Oct 2024
1004 points (97.8% liked)

Not The Onion

12355 readers
425 users here now

Welcome

We're not The Onion! Not affiliated with them in any way! Not operated by them in any way! All the news here is real!

The Rules

Posts must be:

  1. Links to news stories from...
  2. ...credible sources, with...
  3. ...their original headlines, that...
  4. ...would make people who see the headline think, “That has got to be a story from The Onion, America’s Finest News Source.”

Comments must abide by the server rules for Lemmy.world and generally abstain from trollish, bigoted, or otherwise disruptive behavior that makes this community less fun for everyone.

And that’s basically it!

founded 1 year ago
MODERATORS
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] dan@upvote.au 52 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

It seems like there's a correlation between people that refer to women as "females" and people that don't treat women well.

[–] NikkiDimes@lemmy.world 16 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

It's almost like using a term typically reserved for livestock betrays that you see women as below you.

[–] Machinist@lemmy.world 7 points 3 weeks ago

Nah, don't lump farmers and such into this, please. Cows and bulls, hens and roosters, nannys and billys, sows and boars. There are also words for modified gender/castration similar to agender: steer, stoat, gelding, bellwether.

[–] confusedbytheBasics@lemmy.world 9 points 3 weeks ago

Depending on the situation it can be fun to ask, "A female what?" Try to get them to say human.