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klu9 piefed.social klu9@piefed.social
Joined: 2025-06-04
#52 · Quote Reply

Whenever someone says females but doesn't specify the species, I assume they mean goats.

Aren't you going to tell us about the experience that led you to that?

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dontbelievethis sh.itjust.works dontbelievethis@sh.itjust.works
Joined: 2025-06-07
#53 · Quote Reply

Yes, call em bitches like a normal person.

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surewhynotlem lemmy.world surewhynotlem@lemmy.world
Joined: 2023-06-13
#54 · Quote Reply

Aren't you going to tell us about the experience that led you to that?

I downloaded the wrong version of Goat Simulator and it awoke... Something..

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TachyonTele piefed.social TachyonTele@piefed.social
Joined: 2025-06-03
Banned
#55 · Quote Reply

I downloaded the wrong version of Goat Simulator and it awoke... Something..

Something... Baa'aad

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howrar lemmy.ca howrar@lemmy.ca
Joined: 2023-06-04
#56 · Quote Reply

I'm stumped. What do you call a group of female humans without implying anything about their ages? i.e. they can be old ladies or newborns, or anywhere in between.

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coolfission lemmy.world coolfission@lemmy.world
Joined: 2023-06-14
#57 · Quote Reply

Honestly I feel like I'm gonna get myself in trouble every time I use "female" at all. There isn't really another adjective to use though. Saying "woman boxer" has a totally different meaning than "female boxer" for example. Oh well, I don't really value the opinion of people who would fault me for stepping on linguistic bear trap anyway.

There’s “gal” or “lady”

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Track_Shovel slrpnk.net Track_Shovel@slrpnk.net
Joined: 2023-06-13
#58 · Quote Reply

I'm stumped. What do you call a group of female humans without implying anything about their ages? i.e. they can be old ladies or newborns, or anywhere in between.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fN82MrcL14I

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backalleycoyote lemmy.today backalleycoyote@lemmy.today
Joined: 2026-03-01
#59 · Quote Reply

Speaking generously, I can see what you mean. But I think people only have this problem when they are used to calling people “girls” far too long. If you shake that bad habit, you won’t find yourself coming into conflict with these terms so often. May I suggest the term “young women” as a highly respectful way to refer to younger folks. And if you are truly in doubt or referring to a mixed grou...

“Dudette”

Nobody really knows what to make of it because they seem to think they’re encountered a time-traveling surfer.

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Machinist lemmy.world Machinist@lemmy.world
Joined: 2023-07-02
#60 · Quote Reply

Girl is a child. Woman is an adult. Young woman if it's vaguely in between. Female if you're doing medicine or science. The girl lost her doll. The woman paid her taxes. The young women got dropped off at the movies. The female puffin lays one egg per season and shares the burden of caring for the puffling equally with their mate.

Are they acually called pufflings? (pretty great if they are)

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kepix lemmy.world kepix@lemmy.world
Joined: 2024-01-06
#61 · Quote Reply

incels ruining basic biology words

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jve lemmy.world jve@lemmy.world
Joined: 2023-10-24
#62 · Quote Reply

Is it worse than “girls” when talking about women?

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humorlessrepost lemmy.world humorlessrepost@lemmy.world
Joined: 2023-06-30
#63 · (edited) Quote Reply

So like the Sunnyvale mayor in a weird costume?

Edit: sunnydale

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Jarix lemmy.world Jarix@lemmy.world
Joined: 2023-07-01
#64 · Quote Reply

My grandmother used that word a lot but she was born in 1934 so I knew she wasn't using it incelulously but I also couldn't help but visualize Quark everytime she said it

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JackbyDev programming.dev JackbyDev@programming.dev
Joined: 2023-06-13
#65 · Quote Reply

Is it worse than “girls” when talking about women?

I don't really see an inherent problem with girls. Girls is the female version of guys as well, not just boys. Nobody really says things like gals anymore. It's just sort of casual.

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Shayeta feddit.org Shayeta@feddit.org
Joined: 2025-02-24
#66 · Quote Reply

I had a really fantastic laugh about this.

Female boxer when woman boxer walks in:

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Tollana1234567 lemmy.today Tollana1234567@lemmy.today
Joined: 2025-06-04
#67 · Quote Reply

quark did say females that are pregnant are considered rentals.

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Widdershins lemmy.world Widdershins@lemmy.world
Joined: 2025-04-04
#68 · (edited) Quote Reply

So like the Sunnyvale mayor in a weird costume? Edit: sunnydale

Are you talking that drunk bastard Jim Lahey or that no-shirt, lawn-mowing, 15-cheeseburger-eating prick?

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scarabic lemmy.world scarabic@lemmy.world
Joined: 2023-06-12
#69 · Quote Reply

No no, definitely not what I meant! In some circumstances, it can be sleazy (like "hey ladies").

I mean sure - when the Beastie Boys say it, they are not exactly addressing the collective women of the gentry in their area.

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JimBeann lemmy.world JimBeann@lemmy.world
Joined: 2023-08-02
#70 · Quote Reply

So like the Sunnyvale mayor in a weird costume? Edit: sunnydale

You mean principal Snyder of Sunnydale High. Never realized it's the same guy

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JojoWakaki lemmy.world jojowakaki@lemmy.world
Joined: 2023-10-19
#71 · Quote Reply

Ayy fuck you. I look like that but I don't go around calling people "females".

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BlueFootedPetey sh.itjust.works peteypete420@sh.itjust.works
Joined: 2024-03-12
#72 · Quote Reply

Thats weird, when people signal to me that they are an incel, I think they look less attractive. Not more attractive. Quark is fucking awesome, stop the ferengi hate.

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ThirdConsul lemmy.zip ThirdConsul@lemmy.zip
Joined: 2026-01-03
#73 · Quote Reply

There’s “gal” or “lady”

Gal boxer and lady boxer both sound like it's someone who hits them gals and ladies though?

On the other hand, since women usually fight other women, it strangely might fit? :)

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ThirdConsul lemmy.zip ThirdConsul@lemmy.zip
Joined: 2026-01-03
#74 · Quote Reply

I think we often forget about “young man” and “young woman.” When someone is too young to safely call a woman, “young woman” is quite a compliment and gives her the respect of an adult anyway. If someone is just barely too old to be called a girl, they will probably find it neutral enough. And if someone is much too old to be called a girl they will appreciate it as flattery.

Hm. Calling someone young woman or young man - to my middle aged ass - means they are in trouble.

Young man/young woman, haven't your parents taught you proper manners? We eat salad with salad fork, not dessert one!

(You get the gist)

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ThirdConsul lemmy.zip ThirdConsul@lemmy.zip
Joined: 2026-01-03
#75 · Quote Reply

Found the guy who uses bool for gender options

It is the best option.

Gender? True | false.

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Lucky_777 lemmy.world Lucky_777@lemmy.world
Joined: 2025-02-28
#76 · Quote Reply

People get too damn offended man. I even get PTSD when I'm talking about "females" in a scientific sense. I'm not female but I don't find "female" offensive. Crazy times for real.

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Tja programming.dev Tja@programming.dev
Joined: 2023-12-18
#77 · Quote Reply

Yes, call em bitches like a normal person.

Give that bitch some respect. Bitches love respect.

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Tja programming.dev Tja@programming.dev
Joined: 2023-12-18
#78 · Quote Reply

Honestly I feel like I'm gonna get myself in trouble every time I use "female" at all. There isn't really another adjective to use though. Saying "woman boxer" has a totally different meaning than "female boxer" for example. Oh well, I don't really value the opinion of people who would fault me for stepping on linguistic bear trap anyway.

Female is fine. Females is very often used in a problematic way.

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Thebeardedsinglemalt lemmy.world Thebeardedsinglemalt@lemmy.world
Joined: 2024-07-17
#79 · Quote Reply

Are you talking that drunk bastard Jim Lahey or that no-shirt, lawn-mowing, 15-cheeseburger-eating prick?

Frick off Randy, I didn't eat 15-cheeseburgers

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ricecake sh.itjust.works ricecake@sh.itjust.works
Joined: 2023-06-11
#80 · Quote Reply

Are they acually called pufflings? (pretty great if they are)

They are! And it's one of the nice things to know in times like this.

There's a town in eastern Canada where sometimes pufflings get lost on their inaugural flight. The entire town goes out during the season to round them up, take them to a rehab facility to make sure they aren't hurt.

In the morning, the families take the healthy pufflings to a cliff and hurl them into the sea.

This sounds awful until you recall that puffins are aquatic birds who live on cliffs, so it's really just the first step towards breakfast for them.

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TachyonTele piefed.social TachyonTele@piefed.social
Joined: 2025-06-03
Banned
#81 · Quote Reply

I mean sure - when the Beastie Boys say it, they are not exactly addressing the collective women of the gentry in their area.

Especially when one of thier singles is also the song "Girls" about doing the dishes.

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TachyonTele piefed.social TachyonTele@piefed.social
Joined: 2025-06-03
Banned
#82 · Quote Reply

I don't really see an inherent problem with girls. Girls is the female version of guys as well, not just boys. Nobody really says things like gals anymore. It's just sort of casual.

If women can call each other dudes, im reserving Girl for anyone my age and younger.

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Cruel programming.dev Cruel@programming.dev
Joined: 2025-09-04
#83 · (edited) Quote Reply

Idgi. What word are you supposed to use when referencing females now? It's not "woman," unless you're wanting to talk about gender. Or are people back to equating the two?

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scarabic lemmy.world scarabic@lemmy.world
Joined: 2023-06-12
#84 · Quote Reply

Hm. Calling someone young woman or young man - to my middle aged ass - means they are in trouble. Young man/young woman, haven't your parents taught you proper manners? We eat salad with salad fork, not dessert one! (You get the gist)

Yeah some people will have that association. But only rarely will the grammar of the situation even match that at all.

For example, let’s say you are the store manager and a customer has requested a refund. You call down to billing to see if they can hook it up, and you say “Hi, yeah this is Dave. I have a young woman here who received the wrong size shoe in her pickup order…”

There’s no way for her to interpret that as “she’s in trouble.”

In fact, to match the association you’re talking about, it pretty much has to be used in directly addressing the person. And how often do you begin a normal sentence by saying “Woman, sit tight - I’m going to get you a refund for this.”

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The Stoned Hacker lemmy.world erev@lemmy.world
Joined: 2023-06-24
#85 · Quote Reply

Idgi. What word are you supposed to use when referencing females now? It's not "woman," unless you're wanting to talk about gender. Or are people back to equating the two?

OP is referring to people who only refer to women as "females". its a weird trait from the manosphere. you'll hear shit like "these females nowadays..." or "you know what the problem with females is...". they can't call them women for some reason. like they can see a group of women and instead of calling them a group of women, they'll be like "those females".

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ThirdConsul lemmy.zip ThirdConsul@lemmy.zip
Joined: 2026-01-03
#86 · (edited) Quote Reply

Yeah some people will have that association. But only rarely will the grammar of the situation even match that at all. For example, let’s say you are the store manager and a customer has requested a refund. You call down to billing to see if they can hook it up, and you say “Hi, yeah this is Dave. I have a young woman here who received the wrong size shoe in her pickup order…” There’s no way fo...

I mean call me weird, but in both of those situations one would use "a customer" instead.

Dear customer, sit tight.

Dave, I have a customer here...

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scarabic lemmy.world scarabic@lemmy.world
Joined: 2023-06-12
#87 · (edited) Quote Reply

I mean call me weird, but in both of those situations one would use "a customer" instead. Dear customer, sit tight. Dave, I have a customer here...

It’s an example for illustrative purposes. It illustrates the point about grammar I was making. Now you’re on another point about whether it’s even necessary to use a gendered term at all. I don’t really feel like running around in circles on this further.

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RVGamer06 sh.itjust.works RVGamer06@sh.itjust.works
Joined: 2023-07-25
#88 · Quote Reply

/r/incels had a CSS feature that would insert little ferengi heads every time someone used the word “female.”

You could put CSS in a subreddit?

Fuck modern tech, taking customization away

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ch00f lemmy.world ch00f@lemmy.world
Joined: 2023-06-10
#89 · Quote Reply

You could put CSS in a subreddit? Fuck modern tech, taking customization away

go to old.reddit.com. Many subs are still custom.

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endless_nameless lemmy.world endless_nameless@lemmy.world
Joined: 2026-01-15
#90 · Quote Reply

Female is fine. Females is very often used in a problematic way.

I have had negative experiences with people much more opinionated and much less discerning than you.

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endless_nameless lemmy.world endless_nameless@lemmy.world
Joined: 2026-01-15
#91 · Quote Reply

There’s “gal” or “lady”

Lady boxer is still someone who punches women...

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