I am not a native English speaker and I have sometimes referred to people as male and female (as that is what I have been taught) but I have received some backlash in some cases, especially for the word “female”, is there some negative thought in the word which I am unaware of?

I don’t know if this is the best place to ask, if it’s not appropriate I have no problem to delete it ^^

  • myfavouritename@lemmy.world
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    8 months ago

    I get that you’re being practical here. You’re not technically wrong, and the people who are disagreeing with you really are arguing points of nuance.

    But they aren’t wrong either. That nuance matters in certain contexts.

    You can pick this hill to defend. Or you can learn something that you didn’t know about the people in your online community, and probably your IRL community too.

    Embrace learning something new. It will almost never be a waste of your time.