On 03/17/2016 01:42 PM, 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.
I don't know about over there, but in the US political correctness issues get everyone whipped into a hysterical frenzy, so words like "male"/"female" are an (obviously failed, by the sound of it) attempt to sidestep all that "hurt feelings" bullshit by using terms that (we would think) couldn't possibly be construed as slurs.
If someone can't even freaking figure out WHY they find a word offensive, they have no damn business squaking about it allegedly being offensive. For fuck's sake, people.
