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Misogyny is a skill issue
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The word "female" always carries some dismissive message for me. I don't know about you - English isn't my native language - but it feels like whenever someones uses that word to describe women (i.e. half of the people on this planet) it's meant to de-humanize them. Like a female animal or something :(
I definitely subscribe to that connotation. It's not a good word to use outside of a very clinical context.
That's often how the word gets used. It can be benign in some contexts (usually academic), but a lot of the people who use female as a noun frequently are intentionally dehumanizing women.
It's because it comes from a misogynistic attempt to categorize women as only suitable for breeding with/taking care of children. IE. their sole 'usefulness' is making more men, essentially. It's why misogyny and fascism are often intertwined.