• StudSpud The Starchy@aussie.zoneOP
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    9 days ago

    Pet peeve: I loathe when people say “men and females”, or “I need a female perspective”, or “men have different X to females”.

    “Males and females/females and males” is fine.
    “Men and women/women and men” also fine.
    “Guys, gals, and non-binary pals” also fine, and it rhymes!

    Females when using men in the same sentence is fucking gross and icky.

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      8 days ago

      Anytime I hear a guy say females out of context I think of the ferengi.

      I use female a bit when discussing anatomy, but that’s the correct use imo. Eg, the female pelvis has a bigger hole in the floor for child birth, which is probably true of most mammals that have vaginal births.

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        9 days ago

        I don’t think it was stolen, it’s just sloppy workmanship. Some guy on the assembly line bunged everything together haphazardly, and at the end had an extra | left over and just shrugged and sent it out anyway. You should probably be grateful, some further down the assembly line got a whole bunch of extra X’s when he decided to whack a bunch of those leftover |'s together to get rid of them.