On Fri, 18 Mar 2016 04:51:21 +0000, Mike Parker wrote: > On Thursday, 17 March 2016 at 17:42:43 UTC, John Colvin wrote: > >> P.S. what's with calling women "females", is it an americanism? >> It sounds super weird to a British ear, we'd normally only say "female" >> in a technical setting or about an animal, so it can sound a bit >> disrespectful. > > As an American, it seems more natural to me to use 'female' and 'male' > as adjectives
As an adjective, agreed. "Lady" compounds better than "woman", so you can use that too. Using 'female' as a noun in place of 'woman' is in my experience a hallmark of pick-up artists, men's rights activists, and allied trades. Just don't do it.
