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My favorite thing about that is that, in DS9, a female ferenghi goes on to be the most successful leader of their people ever.

idk, some incels will certainly act like not getting approval from women was the worst possible thing that could happen to them, and then go and do something much worse to others

Personally I think that using sexual desirability as a point of ridicule is pretty toxic regardless of who is doing it and it's not going to help to solve the problem, but "not receiving approval from women" kind of is the worst possible thing that can happen for a lot of them, at least in their minds. The whole "men and females" thing has its roots in incel culture and they're well known to obsess over the tiniest facets of their interactions with women to the point of nausea, looking for any excuse to condemn women for not being attracted to them. They see not receiving approval from women as the ultimate condemnation of not only women, but also themselves. It's why people use it as an insult - it's effective against them.

anything you call people will offend some people….
i’m sure some chucklefyck doesn’t want to be called a “people”… actually “you people” is often offensive.
it’s all about context, and being as respectful as is reasonable… for example, “retard” literally means “slow”… you could retard the growth of a plant. mentally retarded was just a term for having severe cognitive disabilities that made you unable to interact normally and made you need care to live… but through a history of people abusing those people, and of course using that as an insult made it offensive and dehumanizing.
with calling people “females”, i think it’s because it’s extremely uncommon except for when people are dehumanizing women… so when someone innocently use the term they can be seen as likely oppressive… due to context.
also, given the transphobia thing, and scientific/anthropology defining female as the biological sex and woman as the associated gender, one might think you’re slipping transphobia into regular conversation…
and of course people like simple heuristics so “guys who call women ‘females’ are likely bad people”, works well enough….

For female it makes it sound like a Ferengi lol:

"HOOMON FEEEMALE?"

Oh, fuck off.

I'm not using my glass rectangle just to be reminded of that.

Calling someone a "female" to their face certainly makes you unfuckable tho.

I wouldn't describe being called "unfuckable" neutral. But yeah they probably would like some level of attention, even the negative kind.

Amen to this man. People get too tied up in little words and stupid shit. So many bigger fish to fry but you'll get upset when someone uses the word female in any context.

Women’s lib has a mere 50yrs on it and there’s still work to do. People lose sight of how new it is for women to own their own bank accounts and such.

Maybe because men weren't seen as second-class citizens and aren't used to being objectified, belittled or physically and legally forced into a submissive role.

I don't like leaving serious comments on a place like this, especially since you are right that's how most men would react, just felt I had to say something since calling women 'females' is actually quite seriously wrong (even though they are afterall) and the fact that men don't experience this behaviour as something scary it makes that clear. I like this meme because it empowers women to do as they please, and I think you do not mean to defend mysogonists who want to dehumanise women, but some people might read into your comment 'well the reason woman get upset by this is because women are [something negative], while men are [something positive]'.

I'm not a native speaker, but I think it's normal to request a "female nurse" but asking for a "woman nurse" sounds weird. But saying "I would like my nurse to be a woman" sounds normal again

Use woman when you need a noun, use female when you need an adjective. It's that easy