AmidFuror

Then it must’ve worked.

I couldn’t imagine bringing a gaming device to a family Thanksgiving celebration and insisting on being able to use it instead of socializing with the people physically there.

Just put Gene in the washing pod right next door.

You know things are good in New Zealand when it’s a story that people were mean to a public figure online.

Now even printers aren’t vegan.

Can someone convert that to gerbil units?

That punchline was weak.

Awesome alliteration.

Sure, but pachyderms are a polyphyletic group that doesn’t match with genetics.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pachydermata

Elephants cluster with hyraxes, manatees, and dugongs.

Hippos are closer to whales, dolphins, and porpoises than any is to elephants.

Rhinos are closer to horses and tapirs than any is to hippos or elephants.

It’s not about the grammar. It’s the underlying mindset that might lead to specific word choices. If someone exclusively refers to women as bitches, that may be because they don’t hold much respect for women.

More subtly, if someone always refers to women as girls but rarely to men as boys, it could be telling us that they think of women as immature and less like fully formed adults.

For the word females, it’s more subtle again. It would be normal to refer to animals as male and female. For people we have the gender-specific terms man and woman. If you refer to women as females but not men as males, you may be revealing an underlying dehumanizing attitude. This is corroborated by what seems to be a common trope of incels calling women females.

Thanks for getting the reference.

Thanks. I’m not saying the poster is an incel. I’m just saying the objection to misuse of “female” has been primed by incels (and Ferengi). Without incels, there wouldn’t be such a knee jerk revulsion to it.

I have no idea what you’re trying to communicate, but I do understand the logical expression you used.

Ok. I somehow missed that. I scanned for other uses of “female” a few times but was blinded to the one right next to coworker.

Incel behavior includes using “female” as a noun when talking about women. Using “female” as an adjective is perfectly normal and common. It is fine to write “female coworker” instead of “coworker who is a woman.”

Some people are hypersensitive to wrongspeak.

What would happen if they crossed elephant and pig DNA?

Right. Currently the ways we avoid genetic disease are screening partners, screening IVF embryos, and in utero testing + abortion.

There’s no need to raise your voice.

That dog has no honor.

The first rule of Fight Chat is you can’t control Fight Chat.