Seems your claim requires ignoring much regular English usage: it’s false.
presumably
That’s presuming an awful lot contrary to regular usage.
Regardless of motive, the act is the same: indiscriminately picking problems over females.
If everyone did that, females would be generally accepted as a dirty, toxic word.
Again: what good does that advance?
It’s thoughtless, self-destructive language policing.
Females does mean women or girls, and they wrote young.
It is logical to write men when boys are absent or not discussed.
Again: where’s the necessity for males?
The context doesn’t indicate offensive use of females, so picking over that word looks indiscriminate like the critic is stigmatizing the word itself.
Again: what good does that advance?
Not sure friend requests count as “looking” in that sense.
Young girls is a bit of a reach: young females could mean girls or young women where the age of the girl is unspecified.
Great job not answering the questions: a sign of real integrity.
Females does mean women or girls, and they wrote young
So OP is asking what’s wrong with young girls that they don’t accept friend requests from strange men, and your asking why people are pointing that out as a problem?
The comment mixes women & females so it doesn’t appear fixated on a word offensively.
When discussing complete sets, it symmetrically places words of a set together: “men, women” and “married, single”.
When not discussing complete sets, only the words needed appear: they write “single young female” without “single young male”, because there was no reason to write the latter—it’s not part of the topic.
The shift to females happens in a new sentence.
Again: explain the necessity for males.
Are you expecting everyone to write males for no reason whenever they write females (or the reverse)?
Do we need to do the same with married & single?
Are you claiming incomplete sets of words or asymmetry is offensive?
That shit would be exhausting.
Please explain the issue: otherwise, it looks like you’re simply picking over the noun female.
Is treating females like a dirty, toxic word advancing a good cause?
At least they don’t judge.
because people who use females will say men and females - presumably because referring to them as women humanizes them
Do you ignore all the instances they don’t?
Seems your claim requires ignoring much regular English usage: it’s false.
That’s presuming an awful lot contrary to regular usage.
Regardless of motive, the act is the same: indiscriminately picking problems over females. If everyone did that, females would be generally accepted as a dirty, toxic word. Again: what good does that advance?
It’s thoughtless, self-destructive language policing.
Did OP use “males” anywhere?
No, the writer in OP may not have needed to use males (men & boys). Explain the necessity for males.
Wouldn’t that imply then that he’s referring to women AND girls? Because he does explicitly say men in the post.
Females does mean women or girls, and they wrote young. It is logical to write men when boys are absent or not discussed. Again: where’s the necessity for males?
The context doesn’t indicate offensive use of females, so picking over that word looks indiscriminate like the critic is stigmatizing the word itself. Again: what good does that advance?
He’s looking for young girls then. I’m not sure that’s such a good thing, nor does it make his use of females any better.
Not sure friend requests count as “looking” in that sense. Young girls is a bit of a reach: young females could mean girls or young women where the age of the girl is unspecified.
Great job not answering the questions: a sign of real integrity.
So OP is asking what’s wrong with young girls that they don’t accept friend requests from strange men, and your asking why people are pointing that out as a problem?
Already answered: they wrote young females.
They wrote mutuals.
Nope: question clearly stated above about picking over a word.
You get points, though, for picking over the message instead of a word: notice females not mentioned. 👍
The fact that the use one form for one gender and a different form for another gender is exactly the issue.
What’s the logic there that makes it offensive?
The comment mixes women & females so it doesn’t appear fixated on a word offensively.
When discussing complete sets, it symmetrically places words of a set together: “men, women” and “married, single”.
When not discussing complete sets, only the words needed appear: they write “single young female” without “single young male”, because there was no reason to write the latter—it’s not part of the topic. The shift to females happens in a new sentence.
Again: explain the necessity for males. Are you expecting everyone to write males for no reason whenever they write females (or the reverse)? Do we need to do the same with married & single? Are you claiming incomplete sets of words or asymmetry is offensive?
That shit would be exhausting. Please explain the issue: otherwise, it looks like you’re simply picking over the noun female.
Not answering the question: great evasion. 💯
Female is not a noun *outside of a scientific context.
Yes, it is. It’s just offensive to refer to a person as such when it’s not in a scientific or formal context.
A non-scientific, informal context was given. Show us the offense there.
Singles communities, personals, classifieds, marketplaces offer abundant instances.
This is straight-up misguided language policing. Again, what good is served by treating female like a toxic, dirty word?
dictionary entry:
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