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mikey feddit.uk mikey@feddit.uk
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ajoebyanyothername lemmy.world ajoebyanyothername@lemmy.world
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Punctuation goes a long way bud.

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mikey feddit.uk mikey@feddit.uk
Joined: 2025-03-14
#3 · Quote Reply

Punctuation goes a long way bud.

thanks. can you explain please? should i have made the female more obvious like fe-male or should i have just wrote ironman's a female! or just explained myself better?

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Akasazh lemmy.world Akasazh@lemmy.world
Joined: 2023-07-24
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thanks. can you explain please? should i have made the female more obvious like fe-male or should i have just wrote ironman's a female! or just explained myself better?

The former, imho. Plus capitalize the first letter and don't forget the apostrophe in Ironman's (however 'Ironman is' is better).

Basically you took an older joke and bungled the delivery with a sentence with as many errors as there are words.

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mikey feddit.uk mikey@feddit.uk
Joined: 2025-03-14
#5 · Quote Reply

The former, imho. Plus capitalize the first letter and don't forget the apostrophe in Ironman's (however 'Ironman is' is better). Basically you took an older joke and bungled the delivery with a sentence with as many errors as there are words.

thanks

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Starya67 lemmy.world starlinguk@lemmy.world
Joined: 2023-06-17
#6 · Quote Reply

thanks. can you explain please? should i have made the female more obvious like fe-male or should i have just wrote ironman's a female! or just explained myself better?

Use capitals and punctuation and don't call women "females" unless you're a ferengi.

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mikey feddit.uk mikey@feddit.uk
Joined: 2025-03-14
#7 · Quote Reply

Use capitals and punctuation and don't call women "females" unless you're a ferengi.

I understand that misogynistic groups have been using the word out of context. But surly that doesn't preclude its use in mainstream English!

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dev_null lemmy.ml dev_null@lemmy.ml
Joined: 2024-01-07
#8 · Quote Reply

Use capitals and punctuation and don't call women "females" unless you're a ferengi.

The joke cannot work without "female" though. (Fe being the chemical symbol for iron)

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brucethemoose lemmy.world brucethemoose@lemmy.world
Joined: 2024-03-22
#9 · Quote Reply

???

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Cam scribe.disroot.org dawcas@scribe.disroot.org
Joined: 2025-07-02
#10 · Quote Reply

My bet: this joke is older than you.

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