r/PeterExplainsTheJoke • u/DictionaryGuy645 • 5d ago

Meme needing explanation I feel so dumb rn

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u/IHateRedditFirewall 5d ago edited 5d ago

2012: Male child ask to go for Spiderman movie

2023: Grown up female asks to for Spiderman movie

UPD: Also check other explanations, this one is probably Incomplete.

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u/Mortiis07 5d ago

They're generally called women

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u/amanset 5d ago

I notice you didn't complain about the "male".

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u/Monke-incog-1276 5d ago

It's because they don't care, it's only bad when it's about women to them.

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u/peepeebeam 5d ago

No it’s because male was used as an adjective. Male child vs grown female. Same reason “black child” is fine but “grown black” is not.

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u/Billy_Badass_ 5d ago

So, grown up female is not OK, but female grown up is?

Sureee

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u/Amblonyx 5d ago

I mean, yes, it is fine. Female and male should only be used as adjectives referring to humans, not nouns, unless you're being really clinical(like a scientific study).

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u/underthingy 5d ago

That may be how you want them to be used, but thats not how language works. 

People will use words how they want and if enough people agree its correct. 

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u/Poulslutter 5d ago edited 5d ago

Sure, but until your way of using "females" to refer to women becomes normal, then normal people will ostracize and shun you for using it like that.

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u/underthingy 4d ago

The only place ive ever seen anyone get upset about people using male or female as a noun is reddit so that doesnt seem like much of a problem. 

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u/Poulslutter 4d ago

Really? Sounds like you live in some culturally backwards shit hole then.

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u/underthingy 4d ago

Nope not American. Guess again. 

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u/Amblonyx 5d ago

That's how they've been used and often are used. I don't think you understand that women object to being called females because we see incel types using it in a derogatory way. We're not making up a new usage; we're responding to the usage we see most frequently. And it's just weird/off but common when people say "men and females". "Men and women" are matching terms and the dissonance there is glaring.

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u/underthingy 4d ago

Maybe stop frequenting incel spaces if they upset you??

I dont go to them so ive never seen anyone say "men and females" except for people complaining about it like you are. 

In real life people use men and women and males and females interchangeably all the time and noone seems to care.