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    “of the feminine species”

    Uh, do you want to explain to this guy what a species is, or do I have to?

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        Ladies wasn’t used in the Original Post.


        When playing a RPG of some sort, sometimes they give you the ability to reallocate all your talent points in a different way. Such as switching from melee focused to something magic oriented like a wizard or a witch. This is called a Respec, short for Re-specialization.


        Respec sounds very similar to Respect. The Original Post is about respecting women.

        I appreciate your interest in my comment, hope you have a nice day. Take care.

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      It’s everyone’s language, everyone can bully each other over it. The Brits added u to a bunch of words just to fuck with us…and then misspelled tire. Just last week heard an upper class indian with more British roots give a more Americanized indian man shit for spelling it tire rather than tyre, with zero knowledge of the history.

      On the whole I think English speakers are relatively polite about misunderstood words in person, even relatively racist asshats. But when you can’t read the accent, you default to your own culture and in that culture it’s pronounced to rhyme with tamales.

      • My brother in christ, the british spelling is the original.

        The reason you spell it differently was a conscious decision of your revolutionaries to differentiate themselves from the brits

        You used the same spelling before your independence.

        And how about “noone can bully” instead of “everyone can bully”?

        Just throwing tht in the room here.

        I won’t bully you for writing “recognise” just to assert your independence, you let us be us and everyone is happy, is tht a Deal?

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          No, it’s not, go learn history. Its a mix and match on both sides usually because spelling wasn’t standard anyway. Webster picked ones he liked, mostly to feel superior to Brits, Brits picked the opposite to feel superior to americans. We have the legacy accent, uk has the posh accent to sound different. We did simplify some words, Brits complexified others to be more posh.

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      If someone asks you to a define a women, chances are they never met one in real life.

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      As a man who likes fedoras, this stereotype offends me. Sadly, it’s an accurate description most of th etime.

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        Usually the Redditors wear the fedora without knowing how to pair it correctly with the rest of their outfits, so don’t worry, if you wear a nice attire and a fedora people won’t get you confused with the guy wearing an ahegao t-shirt two sizes too small and cargo shorts.

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      And I can hear it spoken with a lisp that you get when talking with a mouth full of prosthetics. Pfemales

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      Is female derogatory? I thought it was just a more scientific classification.

      Edit: I work at a large engineering and manufacturing company where some of our products need to take into consideration the difference between male and female anatomy. I just hear “male” and “female” systems discussed on a weekly basis so I think I might sometimes refer to men and women as “male” and “female” outside of work without giving it a second thought.

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        I thought it was just a more scientific classification.

        Scientifc classification by sex. Referring to others by their biological sex in a social context is weird and creepy. Even if you believe sex and gender are the same thing, it’s still weird to call people by their sex. “Hello, male human. Want to ingest some fried pieces of cow flesh tonight?”

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        If you are calling a woman “a female”, and aren’t a cop discussing a victim or a doctor writing a chart, then yes, it’s fucking derogatory.

        We’re not Ferengi.

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          Yep. A lot of incels seemingly are unfamiliar with scientific classification and try to use it in casual statements.

          Like, they sound real stupid trying to redirect it to be about science then saying phrases like “boobs and tits”.

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        Using scientific terminology in colloquial speech is weird and creepy in most contexts. Calling kids “juveniles” and women “females” carries certain connotations, most of them bad.

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        Using female as a noun (rather than as an adjective, such as in the phrase “female firefighter”, or any phrase of the format “female $noun”) is generally overly clinical and dehumanizing. Some people do it out of habit due to their profession-- usually researchers or soldiers-- but they usually say “males and females”, which while still weird isn’t the worst.

        The guys who say “men and females” are the ones you need to watch out for.

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        It’s not inherently derogatory, but it does hold a connotation if you refer to women as females particularly in contexts where you wouldn’t/don’t refer to men as males.

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        Yes, using scientific terminology can be derogatory. But in this case, acting like the opposite sex is a species on its own, classifying them as animals and slurring all women as hoes gave it away for me.

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        I thought it was just a more scientific classification.

        It’s a classification of sex like biological characteristics, like chromosomes, hormones, and reproductive organs.  Are you asking about that?

        Gender is a social construct. Just like race. Where you can be a Black person who is British. Or a Filipino American.

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    Meanwhile: males, dudes, guys, homies, fellas, bois, bros, lads, laddie, mates, geezers, chaps, gents, boss, hoss, cheif, buddy, pal, son, sonny, sonny boy, muchacho, hombre, old timer, Mac, Joe…

    “Yeah what’s up?”

    I don’t think we need to cancel Guys and Dolls just yet.

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        Which just so happens to be the perfect segue for me to pitch my proposal to make ‘cunt’ the de facto (gender neutral, naturally) pronoun/collective pronoun.

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        Honestly a lot of them start out as or still contextually imply “males” in the US, but can be used gender neutrally as well now too. Like “how you guys doing” vs “hanging out with the guys.”

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          It’s interesting isn’t it? “Guys” can include women, and can even be a group of only women, but you can’t talk about a single woman as a guy - “I snogged this gorgeous guy last night”.

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            Using “guys” for a group of only women works only in 2nd person. You can say “I love you guys!” to a group of women, but you can’t say “I was hanging out with the guys” when talking about the same group.

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    In most contexts, you’d just say…”people”.

    Or, if you’re actually trying to make a demographic-wide statement, like how women aren’t good at video games, you’d just say:

    “IGNORE ME, I AN A SEXIST MORON.”

    Basically, the meme isn’t much meant for the word choice, it’s how often incels have statements to make on half the population.

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    No, they want to be called LA class nuclear powered attack submarine.

    We’re in shit posting after all.

    Happy Xmas, ya filthy animal!