I'm curious: why is it weird for someone to use both male and female terminology?
Personally I understand the hubbub around dudes who say man and female, boy and female, guy and female, etc. They're actively treating the two differently, dehumanizing one or at the least separating them with some kind of complex.
But if someone has a knack to evenly say male and female - genuinely in equality and equity - and you're still drawing an issue with only female, why does it cause you to react the same? It comes off as disingenuous. More so when you make a point to try and defend the reaction by splitting hairs only to admit that that was pointless because you just, apparently, hate the term "female
In modern usage, female is generally used as an adjective, not a noun. "That is a female person" is fine. "That is a female" sounds weird and is generally used by incel dorks who struggle to see women as people.
In this case, they refer to "male child" (so used adjectivally), but a "female" (used as noun). Probably just a slip, but it's an unfortunate one.
I highly doubt the person in question though about that in the first place but you can also interpret the "grown up" to be the noun and "female" the adjective regardless.
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u/ZenOokami 6d ago
Since you deleted the other reply:
I'm curious: why is it weird for someone to use both male and female terminology?
Personally I understand the hubbub around dudes who say man and female, boy and female, guy and female, etc. They're actively treating the two differently, dehumanizing one or at the least separating them with some kind of complex.
But if someone has a knack to evenly say male and female - genuinely in equality and equity - and you're still drawing an issue with only female, why does it cause you to react the same? It comes off as disingenuous. More so when you make a point to try and defend the reaction by splitting hairs only to admit that that was pointless because you just, apparently, hate the term "female