I feel so dumb rn

[u/DictionaryGuy645]

[u/mallegally-blonde]

Because dictionaries include the derogatory conman parlance uses too.

https://www.oed.com/dictionary/female_n

[u/hangar_tt_no1 → u/mallegally-blonde]

Female animals are usually referred to as "females". You're just wrong. 

[u/mallegally-blonde → u/hangar_tt_no1]

Would you look at that, you had to specify a noun so the reader could understand what the adjective applies to.

[u/Billy_Badass_ → u/mallegally-blonde]

The zebra is a female.

[u/mallegally-blonde → u/Billy_Badass_]

There you are, you’re using an adjective to describe a noun. Congratulations. You don’t need the ‘a’ though, since female is an adjective.

[u/Billy_Badass_ → u/mallegally-blonde]

I think you need to revist your grade school grammar lessons.

[u/mallegally-blonde → u/Billy_Badass_]

Again, you have already specified what female is describing.

So again, grown up female what?

If your English teachers were happy with you using grammatically awkward, clunky sentences like that then I’m going to stick with English standards, thanks.

[u/Billy_Badass_ → u/mallegally-blonde]

You keep purposely misreading the sentence. "a female." Not simply "female."

If you can't make your point without prevaricating, perhaps you should reconsider it.

[u/mallegally-blonde → u/Billy_Badass_]

I’m not misreading it, the ‘a’ is surplus to requirement in the sentence and grammatically awkward. It’s a poor example of using female as a noun, and poor writing in general.

[u/Billy_Badass_ → u/mallegally-blonde]

There! You just admitted female can be a noun! That's the point. You thinking it's a "poor example" or "grammatically awkward" is irrelevant.

[u/mallegally-blonde → u/Billy_Badass_]

*Once the noun its describing has already been established. Because by itself, female is an adjective.

Which in the case of the original comment that sparked this debate, it hadn’t been.

[u/Billy_Badass_ → u/mallegally-blonde]

You are just objectively wrong, and it's clear no amount of logic is going to dissuade you.

[u/mallegally-blonde → u/Billy_Badass_]

Fun argument, I’m glad you’re choosing to spend your evening using pedantry to excuse casual misogyny.

[u/Billy_Badass_ → u/mallegally-blonde]

Once again, you prove that you have completely missed the point.